Combat Chat Podcast

Sarmad Jahanara, is a Root and Rebellion Muaythai veteran who recently is having  a crack at Kickboxing and tried to plant his flag in that world  by being one of the 8 men in the recent Prince promotions tournament. We talk about his varied amateur career in across a few combat sports and then delved into the 2 fights he had in the 8 man tournament.  Follow Sarmad https://www.instagram.com/samadj...

Elliot Compton returns and lays out what the whole experience was like last year fighting Nieky Holzken during the pandemic, plus the lengths ONE championship went to ensure their events are as Covid friendly as possible and the Hydration test for weight cutting. Elliot also talks about Team Compton moving locations and revamping their training structure to be bigger and better and we got over a l...

River Daz is a super accomplished fighter, capturing state and national titles but has also fought successfully on the biggest shows like Lion fights, Glory Kickboxing and Rebellion. We go over his beginnings at Hammer's Gym under Mark Castagnini all the way through his pro career to now. River also comments on the difference between fighting abroad with not much of a crowd compared to fighti...

Nugget is an iconic part of Australian Muaythai, he was a fighter that ended up creating the top tier fighter stable, NTG and is know for his head coaching role on the show "the challenger Muay thai". He also shaped the Australian Golden era through his promotion, Evolution. Nugget has a few things he has to voice about how new Promoters are going about running shows and how today's...

Sy Nadji reached out to us to talk about his plans with Rebellion Muaythai going forward and ultimately he has decided to give the promotion one more year with a few changes to it and see if the Muaythai community wants our sport to move forward and grow or if they just want to just keep the status quo. This will decide if we see Rebellion past 2021 and it's on the shoulders of the Australian...

Mark pease is the owner of Strikeforce gym that has produced elite caliber fighters since 1988 such as Aussie Golden era fighters Aaron "TS2" Leigh, Ben "Pixie" Burton to the current crop of rising talent in James Honey, Natalie "Viking" Pavlides and Jayden Eynaud. Mark dicusses his back ground starting in Zendokai karate and moving on to Muaythai, eventually his team...

Thumbnail Photograph by Victor T photography https://www.instagram.com/victort.photography/ Siam 2 Sydney put on a great show the other week which we got a chance to commentate on as well. We cover a few of the undercard amateur fights and the main card which consisted of NSW's first junior MTA state title, a WMC women's state, the Australian debut of Tu warren against the returning Sing...

The boys this week recap some of the fights on Muay Thai Grand Prix Australia's last fight show including the cracker main event for the WBC international title with George Mann vs David Pennimpede. Also they recap Hugh's experience going to watch Prince Promotions epic 8 man Tournament which ended up with Charlie Bubb taking home the $20K prize.  Support the show

Prince Bunjaku is the promoter of Prince Promotions who's aim is to given Kickboxing in Australia a platform for an resurgence. He has everyone in the nation talking about the stacked 8 Man tournament with a $20,000 prize for the winner. He has lined up for March 6th which include Charlie Bubb, Jayden Eynaud, Michael Badato, Cody Jameson, Nasar Kassab, Guy Coleman, Sarmad Jahanara and Daniel...

Darren "The Riddler" Reece is the owner of Riddler's  gym in Western Australia, it has one of the biggest muaythai fight teams nationally and he has produced Champions like his wife Caley Reece, Lloyd Dean, George Mann, Chris white, Tyler Hardcastle and Nicola Callander just to name a few. We get into his martial arts background starting in Zen do kai and moving onto training and fi...

First time in a while the boys have no guest, they breakdown down a few local cards coming up, starting with new NSW WBC promotion 1774 doing their maiden show with Yah boy Hugh is going to fight Jesse March, also talk about the 2 State title as well. One of the biggest prize pools for an Aussie combat sports tournament of recent memory is coming up in March, Prince promotions is running an 78kg 8...

Michael Corley is the Author of  Muay Thai Grit which tells his story of going through the ups and downs of a fighter from the USA trying to become a true Nak Muay. Michael is also the president of USA Muaythai and he goes into what steps Americans need to do to become real contenders on the world stage of the sport. Special thanks to Matt Lucas for getting us in touch with Michael Buy Muay Thai G...

George Mann is a Scottish born, Australian based Muay Thai fighter who after a lengthy career across the UK & Thailand fighting at Junior Middleweight recently stepped all the way up to Super Middleweight and immediately claimed the #4 spot in the WBC Muay Thai rankings.  Hugh sits down with George to talk about his career so far and announce his next exciting challenge - taking on perennial c...

This episode the combat crew talk to UK's Performance expert for Muaythai, Don Heatrick. Don share his unique stories learning and competing in Muaythai and also how he switch careers to the strength & conditioning field to fill the gap in fighters training regiments who work off the training models they see and do in Thailand. Don is all about train your sport first and foremost, while a...

This episode the combat crew talk to owner of Revolution gym in Phuket, Tim Fisher.  Tim has a vast amount of experience running gyms in Australia, Ireland and now lives in Thailand running one of the best camps International that host fighters that compete in all the major stadiums, Lion Fight in America and ONE championship. Tim talks about some of the positives and negatives of running a gym in...

Yah boys are back this week with another special guest, former Multiple world champion during the golden era of Australian  Kickboxing, Grant "The Bomber" Barker. Grant Talks about going from a Rugby player/kings cross bouncer to starting to train under one of Martial arts pioneer Mick Spinks that set him off on a journey to win a world title and how it felt after he achieved his goal an...

This episode yah boys had a great talk with Top Australian female Pro Muaythai fighter and owner of Martial Spirit gym in Victoria, Spring Sia. They learn about Spring's martial arts upbringing in Aikido and how she transitioned to Muaythai, also go over the transformation for her style with the help of some of her Aikido philosophies and also how she is trying to find that balance between li...

This episode the combat crew talk to Nugget's Thaiboxing gym OG, Ghot Seurnoi. He is a veteran of of Australia's Golden era muaythai promotion Evolution and fought on other great shows like Eruption, Warrior's way and China's EM legends. Ghot is making his return to the ring after a couple years off and talks about this mindset getting back into compared to earlier in his caree...

This episode the boys have back on  Siam 2 Sydney promoter, President of Muaythai NSW and own of PTJ gym, Andrew Parnham. They talk about the return of Muaythai in NSW through Andrew's Siam 2 Sydney Sessions event happening Nov 29th catch the live stream at www.siam2sydney.com/live the event itself took a lot of paperwork to get it approved by the state sports authority and will look very dif...

This episode the combat crew talk to ONE championship veteran Reece "Lightning" McLaren from Potential Unlimited Martial arts. Reece is an action type of fighter that is easy to see when he fights, he likes to play to the crowd and is always intent on finishing the fight instead of getting decisions. He talks about his mindset inside and outside the cage, how the opportunity came to figh...

This week the combat crew have on Published author, Podcast of On fighting in Thailand, Max muaythai Commentator and Social media Manager of Fairtex and Nak muay legends, Matt Lucas. He talks about his experiences in Thailand as someone who came originally for Train-cation purposes to eventually leading him to stay on and make a decent living being there and being a respected foreign figure in the...

This episode the combat crew split this one up into two parts. First part they are all together talking about the fights on ONE's Reign of Dynasties II and on part two yah boi Hugh talks about all the exciting fights on MTGP headlined by George Mann vs Chris Watts.  Follow us on: https://www.instagram.com/combatchatpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/combatchatpodcast  https://www.youtube.com/c...

Rob Cox is the owner of Kiatphontip gym, Muaythai photography/journal site: Muaythai Focus and pretty much the Foreign Ambassador of Muaythai in for a chat. Rob talks about his Martial arts beginning in the UK and how see Muaythai one day set him on a path that lead to him moving and living in Thailand and becoming a renown figure in the sport. He is also a commentator on Max Muaythai and a Judge...

This episode Co-promoter of Muaythai grand Prix and of Head MTA R&Js in WA Darius Doutch jumps on the podcast to talk about how he got into the fight promotion game with Gavin Fuller to lead one of Australia's consistently stellar Muaythai shows in one of the countries deepest talents pools, Western Australia. We break down most of the main card which is headed by guaranteed bangers line...

The Combat crew this week recap a few of the Australian combat sports athletes who went to battle over the last week. Josh Tonna took on the Legend Sam-A at ONE's Reign of Dynasties event, Reece McLaren took on Alexsi Toivonen on the same card and Craig Jones locked up with rising young gun Roberto Jimenez. They also look at a few fight events starting to pop up over Australia and reveal who...