Combat Chat Podcast

After a huge weekend of of fights, there's a lot to get through this week: Round 1 (00:01:17) - An update following Hugh's fight against Victor Teixeira and what's next Round 2 (00:05:16) - Your questions answered, including why is it so hard to maintain an Australian Muay Thai Ranking system and some of my favourite tournaments of all time.  Round 3 (00:22:23) - RWS Recap, Nuenglan...

A special episode this week, Sam Cassidy stops by to catch up.  Sammy has been a guest on the show before (catch up here https://tinyurl.com/8vkevbpp), since then he's taken on the role of head striking coach at Southside MMA where he's added MMA Striking to his coaching repertoire and worked with athletes from the UFC, PFL, ONE Championship and more. Hugh and Sammy chat about what'...

A little bit of everything this week from scoring controversies to world-firsts in Thailand.  Round 1 - Hugh Recaps the results from Saturday night's Muay Thai League event and why MTL is an emerging powerhouse promotion.  Round 2 - After an action packed event, some controversies and talking points remain about judges decisions.  Round 3 - Khunsueklek is back! After an upset of the year KO i...

After a busy weekend of fights including one from your host, we are back in the studio to tackle this week's big topics over 5 action packed rounds.  - ROUND 1: Breaking down Hugh's on again, off again short notice fight, and why it pays to stay ready while training in Thailand.  - ROUND 2: Your questions answered, including a discussion on what UFC at the Sphere could mean for the wider...

It was a big weekend for Muay Thai all over the world with the final round of the Rajadamnern World Series Welterweight Group Stage as well as One Championship continuing their move into the United States.  This week we dive into an in depth recap of the deciding RWS welterweight bouts and the match ups we have to look forward to moving in to the finals, as well as talking through all the action f...

Tomorrow, live from the Melbourne Pavilion, Australia's premier Muay Thai Promotion returns with an exciting new concept. "Road to Rajadamnern" will be a full day Muay Thai festival showcasing fights, food and culture with 4 marquee bouts seeing athletes compete for the chance to perform at the world's oldest Muay Thai stadium.  In this episode we preview the 4 main bouts: - Ka...

It's been a minute! Welcome to the new and improved Combat Chat Podcast. While we've been away, Hugh moved to live and train full time in Thailand and has been fighting regularly, as well as commentating for WLF and RWS.  From here on out we're back better than ever, with a brand new format. For the first show back, a quick catch up on Thailand so far and a preview of what's in...

This week Hugh talks repeat guest, Sy Nadji of Rebellion Muay thai. They go over some of Rebellions historical moments, why Sy steered away from having titles on his show for a long title until changing that very recently and also the 70kg 8-man tournament he has in store for his next show that includes everyone's favourite ginger...wait, sorry it's not Nathan jones, it's Hugh. Foll...

This week we got a bunch of questions from instagram and answered as many with could within the hour. loads of great stuff was covered from the Aus amateur scene compared to internationally, best gyums in NSW to what is Hugh's actual day job. plus loads more, if you have any questions we also would love to hear them and answer them on the podcast or Instagram live Follow us on: https://www.in...

This week we had the pleasure of getting Bryony Soden on the podcast. She is the current WBC Featherweight aus champ and also WBC ranked number 4 in the world and fresh off a IFMA campaign where she captured the bronze medal in Thailand. She talks about the impact strength training has had for her fight career so far and investing in help with her nutrition and enlisting a boxing coach to improve...

⚔️Hit that like and subscribe button⚔️ This week we have Dori Duncan in to chat, she has had a stellar run in 2022 and looking to step up a level to the challenge of Erin Harbringer at Eruption Muaythai next week. Dori talks bout being Thai and what it means to do the sport for herself, also we got lot in to the the mental prep side of things and how she outsources parts of her training to give dr...

This week Hugh dials in Josh McCulloch for guest duties. He talks about how a School lab accident almost stopped him from ever getting the ring and start his fight career, training in Tamworth where combat sports isn't a big sector and grow under the tutelage of Scott of Chaffey's Martial arts. Also we get the first news drop of who his opponent will be for 1774 Muaythai series for the A...

It's been a few weeks, but we are back and with a guest. We had current WMC Aus champion on Cody Jameson from NSW. He talks about his upbringing with his mother who was a victim of Domestic Abuse and how Muay thai/combat sports gave him a positive path to keep him out of trouble. also we go over his recent trip to thailand training out of Sanfmorakot and fighting on Fairtex Fight promotions,...

Salt fight series is a new MMA promotion in Torquay, Regional Victoria run by Matt and his partner (business) WIll Sheils. They are providing a family friendly event for amateurs and pro mma athletes to jump and get to not only experience a promotion that cares for the fighters but also in enjoy the beautiful area of Torquay. We also cover the fights of 1774 which Matt commentated, Shane cornered...

This week we connect with Hugh and Shane over the interwebs to talk shop about the fantastic all female card on the recent Muay Thai League promotion crowning two new WBC Aus champions in Devina Martin and Zoe Putorak. Also we go over recent guest Cruz Briggs about his Nai Khanom Tom challenger title win over Alexi Petroulias and another guest in Issac Tomlinson getting his 3rd WBS state title str...

This week Shane gets to chat to WBC Nai Khanom Tom champion Cruz Briggs from Sydney. We talk about his fight of the year with Jonothan Aiulu, Fighting in k1 against Phillip Kimura, capturing the Nai Khanom Tom title from Henry Lee for KO of the year contender and his upcoming match to defend his title against veteran Alexi Petroulias on Hardcore promotions Feb 11th in Melbourne.  Photos by  https:...

This week we had the pleasure of Chris of the hilarious  instagram channel of TEEP! Muay Thai. Chris talks about how he first went viral, how he and his wife co-ordinate making videos and how he keeps getting his inspiration for continually making Muay Thai content. Also we dig into his next venture of building his youtube channel and how fighters need to use social media more to market themselves...

This week we had Nakia wright on talking about her fast rising Muaythai Promotion: Muay Thai League. It's a unique promotion that regular holds all female cards called:  A league of their own. Nakia is providing a platform for female muaythai fighters to be the total showcase and grow the female participation rate in the sport. Follow Nakia, her promoter and her gym here: https://www.instagra...

this week we got Brandon Spain of Spain's gym on the podcast. Brandon talks about growing up in the fight game with his Dad (Leon Spain) fighting since he was 7 yrs old and how he has 60+ fights at the age of 23 with experience at IFMA (Gold medalist), K1-WGP , Eruption 4-man, Pro boxing and much more! Follow Brandon here: https://www.instagram.com/__spainy__/ Follow us on: https://www.instag...

We are starting off 2023 with a solo episode! We talk about the exciting new classes format Muaythai NSW is going use this year, we also take a brief look at some of the promotions that are putting on shows in February across Australia and finally we go over how ONE, RWS and Fairtex fight promotions are shaping a new genre of Muaythai that is gaining traction and bringing in new viewers to the spo...

This week Hugh and Shane are back in studio and go over the recent AUS Muaythai awards for 2022. Check them out on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aus.muaythai/ Support the show

This week we got to talking with WMC international titleholder, Chadd Collins. He has a WBC world title bid on Rebellion Muay thai's next show in a few weeks against Yod I.Q PK Saenchai gym. We delve into Chadd's fighting origin story from starting at his Dad's property gym to living in Thailand under Sangtiennoi Muaythai, then shifting to Revolution gym and  to coming back to QLD t...

This week we talk to Current WBC Aus titleholder and is someone who is lined up for Rebellion 27  as the co-main WBC world title bout, Joanne "The Lioness" La. She Trains out of 8 Blades with Dom and Boy, she is also a co-founder of JS muaythai with Somsurat which trains all females and provides them a fun setting for women to train and learn the art. We go over a host of different topic...

This week Hugh is riding solo but has a guest in Joshua Day of Perth's Three Lions gym. He is a Submarine technician and he goes into managing training while doing deployments in the subs with limiting training room and resources, he also talks about his transition out of fighting and the important of mindset not only for fighting but for life. Follow Josh and Three lions here here: https://w...

This week Hugh was away at nationals cornering, so we called in the big guns for co-hosting duties and brought in Ibby from PTJ muaythai fresh off him capturing the WBC aus title from Van Phan on Hardcore Promotions. We talked about his Muaythai origin story which took him from Lebanon to Sydney linking up with Andrew Parnham and the rest is history. Also we go over his mindset to fighting, S&...