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Ep 313 The Fall of EF Battlecade - John Perretti 

John Perretti, Battlecade: Extreme Fighting creator/matchmaker & former
UFC matchmaker.
Deep dive into the promotion's last event via Extreme Fighting 4 (Des Moines, March 28, 1997): 
It featured Olympic gold medalists
Kenny Monday & Kevin Jackson on one card, along with epic clashes like Paul Jones vs.Eric Paulson and a mid-show power outage, we talk about Gracie hesitancy on certain matchups (including near-misses with big money offers), Bas Rutten bad blood, and John's take on grappler-to-striker limits.
Raw, firsthand history from the source.

0:00 MMA history podcast intro  
0:32 Joey Venti’s guest introduction 
0:57 interview start 
2:19 Extreme fighting 4 in Iowa 
3:20 budget for Extreme fighting 4 
4:09 Ralph Gracie vs Eugenio Tadeu rumor 
6:28 allegedly matchmaking Brazilians to lose fights 
7:40 training Igor Zinoviev to fight Royce Gracie 
9:47 Bas Rutten altercation with Rickson Gracie 
11:55 Roster of fighters at Extreme Fighting 4
12:50 power outage during event 
14:14 Allan Goes vs Todd Bjornethun
18:14 Gary Myers vs Tommy Glanville 
19:38 Paul Jones vs Erik Paulson 
21:22 Kevin Jackson vs John Lober 
22:37 creating modern MMA
25:12 Extreme fighting changing how you viewed the sport 
26:13 thoughts on Joe Moreira 
30:06 John Lober personal issues
32:12 Matt Hume vs Pat Miletich
35:44 financial issues coming into event 
37:18 Kenny Monday vs John Lewis 
43:47 John Donehue reffing all 4 events 
44:43 Maurice Smith vs Kazunari Murakami
51:24 altercation with Ken Shamrock in lobby 
56:18 drug issues at the Lions den 
58:13 matchmaking fights in the UFC 
1:02:05 realizing Extreme fighting is finished 
1:05:15 Igor Zinoviev injured out of extreme fighting 
1:05:38 receiving a call to work for the UFC
1:10:02 Art Davie’s letter to congress to ban MMA 
1:11:41 plugs/ promotions 
1:12:42 interview wrap up 
1:24:19 outro/ closing thoughts

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