Combat Chat Podcast

This episode the combat crew devle into recapping the action of ONE's last card a few weeks ago because they didn't have a chance to talk about it. Polaris ran a Quintet style ruleset in their latest Submission grappling event. They analyst the superb game of Israel Adesanya as he smashed through Costa with superior positioning and nullifying Costa's ability to have any offence time...

Josh Tonna is the #1 ranked ONE Championship Straw weight contender who will challenge reigning champion Sam-A Gaiyanghadao on October 9th. Josh joins us alongside his trainer Kieran Walsh to talk us through his career thus far, the impact mental training has had on his overall game and preparations for the fight of his life. Josh Tonna: @timebombtonna   Kieran Walsh: @kieranmuayu Muay U Gym: @mua...

The Combat Crew have Carlos Thiedeke from Mexico on again to talk about the current situation in Mexico and their Covid problems leaving 1 in 3 gyms shutting down, Carlos work hours down to 10% from pre-Covid and little to no federal/sate government assistance and himself getting hit hard with Covid. Yet, he is still staying positive, training people to the capacity he is allowed and reminding eve...

This episode the combat crew recap ONE championship's Muaythai/Kickboxing fights: Supergirl vs Lopez, Superlek vs Khaled and Pongsiri vs Clancy. After the recaps the boys get on the topic of Muaythai clinching prowess in MMA and how some gyms have a severe lack of understanding and unwillingness to train Muaythai clinching. Lastly, they get into banter about weird fights that had lots of hype...

This episode the Combat crew finally have a chance to recap the ONE Muaythai tourney that consisted of Saempetch, Rodlek, Kulabdam and Sangmanee. Also how Wondergirl and Yodkaikaw Fairtex are great to watch. They then go on a rant about how nothing has been done by NSW government or at least them consulting the combat sports industry on a pathway of getting fight shows back on the card, while all...

This episode the combat crew catch up with WBC Muaythai's top 3 light heavyweight in the world, Charlie "The smiling Assassin" Bubb of Razor Muaythai in NSW. We talk to him about his first Muaythai experience being a ring setup in a motorbike shops carpark to now being world ranked beating most of Australia's best across multiple weight classes. On the subject of weight, Charli...

This episode the Combat crew get to talking to former 2008 Beijing Olympian and owner of Beyond Grappling Club in Canberra and master Judoka Matt D'Aquino. His outlines a few fun stories from his time going into the 2008 Beijing games and just missing the 2012 London Games to now getting back into competing just for the sheer love of the grind of a tough match. Matt is also an author you can...

This episode is split into two sections as the guys cannot get together on the weekend, so we have Shane and Trent looking back on the MMA action of ONE: No Surender 2 and UFC 252 Miocic vs Cormier 3. Then we have Hugh dissect the muaythai action that was on No surrender 2 and looking at the stacked card of the amazing namely ONE card: No Surrender 3 Support the show

This episode the combat crew recap of ONE's first event since Covid hit, No Surrender in Bangkok. It eventually turns into a scoring and perception discussion on the Yodsanklai vs Petchmorakot fight and how good is Rodtang in the ONE format. they also go over Garry Tonon's and Vagner Rocha's performances in WNO and that evolves into a look into what is more important winning or be e...

This episode the combat crew breaks down ONE's first card since global lockdown, headed by Rotang vs Petchdam and Petchmorakot vs Yodsanklai it looks to be a stacked card  but not overly long. The boys also look at Eddie Bravo's new event, Jiu-Jitsu Overtime. Which is takes the same idea of the overtime section of EBI and made it into a tournament. Finally they look into the old boys Mik...

This Episode the fellas have Zoe Putorak of Phoenix gym in Canberra on the podcast to talk to her starting Muaythai at a young age to become a mutliple WMC national champ and a Gold Medalist at the IFMA games in 2019. They also talk to Zoe about her helping mentor some of the newer fighters on the Phoenix team coming up and how teammates have to keep each other accountable if you want to be the be...

This episode the Combat Chat crew go over updates on some fight shows going forward in Australia and others that look in dire straits. Glory's situation clarified by Kickboxing insider K1 Anoop, also they go in UFC's fight island matches and the new clothing line deal made public for 2021 with fight brand Venum. Support the show

The Combat Chat crew look at Glory's recent action of filing for bankruptcy and breakdown when they first came about, their constant push to break into the American market and a few speculations why Glory couldn't grow a it's fanbase despite having a solid roster of fighters. They also look at a few big promoters recently exit using Rajadamnern to host their shows and UFC 251 fight...

This episode the fellas have a chat to Elliot "the Dragon" Compton and talk about his life in martial arts, from starting at 4 yr olds training (and still training) under his father, to fighting in Thailand, to caged Muaythai champion in Australia and now the first Aussie to sign and register a win in ONE championship. We also talk about how he is now doing motivational speaking for trou...

This episode the fellas had a chat with owner of Nova Martial arts in Newcastle Rod Staader. Rod has pretty much done it all, competing in Muaythai, Boxing, MMA and Submission grappling and has produced a stellar team of fighters with guys like Matt Sullivan, Nathan Jones and Niam Stephens to name a few. They talk about coaching philosophies for Muay thai and MMA, How Rod when from competing in Mu...

This episode the fellas recapped UFC's Woodley vs Burns and then went into some fantasy match making for the Welterweight division. Also they looked at ONE's recent signings for their 70kg super series Muaythai and Kickboxing stables and shared how epic this division is and the match ups that can be made within it. Support the show

This episode the fella recap and breakdown the action of a some of the brutal offerings the UFC has given us as the first live sport during COVID. They breakdown down Justin Gaethje putting a stop to Tony Ferguson's 12 fight win streak and set himself up as  number 1 contender to Khabib. Henry Cejudo being the first man to stop Dominic Cruz and Cruz being extra salty about the ref's stop...

This episode the fellas talk to Canberra's Muay U gym's owner, Kieran Walsh. They touched on many topics, like: Kieran starting up his own gym after his competitive fight days were over from a debilitating condition in his wrists, WBC's back story of getting involved in Muaythai, is strength and conditioning prioritised to highly over technical training, getting a to live long time...

This episode the fellas have on Rockhampton's Snake Pit Gym's owner Torin "The Taipan" O'Brien. Torin hasn't had the most conventional fight career so far fromafter a few fight he  rented out a space to train himself with no coach and go on fight shows to still taking up fights with top ranked opponents under circumstances that most people could not handle as well as...

This episode the fellas discuss the question asked by one of their listeners, Jake Davis. The question was "What do you think about guys with a couple of fights teaching others to fight?" The guys talked about the question is a few different ways taking things into consideration like is competitive exp really that important, the person's training age, their base knowledge of knowing...

This episode the fellas delve into their individual backgrounds in martial arts, their experiences in competing and how it shaped them into the coaches they are today Support the show

This episode the fellas pick a fighter each that they think in their primes would still be competitive amongst the elites of today's combat sports. We dive into the styles and careers or Pernell Whitaker, Georges St Pierre and Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukarn. Support the show

This episode the fellas call in remotely and talk about how to do some sort of training since gyms and parks are closed, also how it is good to time work on your mentality of approaching life balance and they go in on Dana white trying to save Ferguson vs Khabib for a 5th time. Support the show

This episode the fellas get a call in from Boxing works owner in California and the US national team's head Muaythai coach Bryan Popejoy. They talk about his background from fighter to coach, how he evolved his coaching style and his love of Golden era Muaythai. Support the show

This episode the fellas are not in self isolation yet, but test the waters out on podcasting remotely this week. They talk about the shut down of Combat sports in NSW and the effects all over Australia from the toilet paper shortages to gyms feeling the brunt of members cancelling. We do ask in this time of need that if you are financially able to keep your gym going by paying memberships even at...