In This Corner with Cyrus Fees

From the hardwood of the NBA to the cage! Former first round draft pick Royce White fought a battle against the NBA concerning mental health. Now, he’s ready to battle as a professional MMA fighter. Hear his story from the blacktops in Minnesota, incredible success at Iowa State University, the high of being drafted to the NBA and the low of being blackballed due to his mental health and unwilling...

In This Corner just got a LIL EVIL this episode! This week, we welcome the first ever UFC Lightweight Champion, JENS PULVER to the show. Jens sits down with Cyrus and covers a myriad of topics in this over 60 minute interview. We will dig into the tragic childhood of Jens and how wrestling was his savior. You'll hear how the MMA dream came about and some of the epic rivalries that followed. W...

Put the kids to bed and buckle up! JASON “MAYHEM” MILLER & “FELONY” CHARLES BENNETT on the same podcast is going to be a wild ride for everybody involved! UFC & Strikeforce veteran and the host of MTV’s Bully Beatdown, Jason “Mayhem” Miller has a reputation that precedes him... and he doesn’t disappoint. We dig into Mayhem’s thoughts on the pandemic, the real story behind the Bully Beatdow...

It’s our first non-traditional In This Corner episode with some famous  MMA fans from the entertainment world! First, the “Jet Ski King” from the Netflix superhit Tiger King series, James Garretson joins the podcast from the comforts of a STRIP CLUB. James talks about some controversial topics including Joe Exotic, why he’s not a snitch, and some of his favorite fighters and moments from MMA. Next...

When you talk UFC legends, it's hard to match the popularity of Tank Abbott and Don Frye! Both hard-nosed brawlers that became icons of the Golden Age of UFC. Both Tank and Don made a huge impact on the sport, but also crossed over to the colorful world of professional wrestling! We kick it off with Don "The Predator" Frye, a man that's known as much by his Magnum P.I. power mu...

Football, fighting, Hollywood... “The Beast” Bob Sapp has done it all!  Perhaps nobody made as much noise as Sapp in the 2000s. He upset K1 GOAT Ernesto Hoost twice, had some of the most viewed fights in history (true story!), and became the prestigious IWGP Heavyweight Champion with New Japan Pro Wrestling. We will talk his incredible journey, the deluge of criticism for his fights in the 2010s,...

Two former UFC & NWA Champions, icons of the UFC, and lifelong rivals; Ken Shamrock and Dan Severn each sat down with Cyrus and told stories from their legendary careers in MMA and professional wrestling. You'll hear both men's account of the controversial Brawl for All tournament in the WWE which went down in the summer of 1998 and culminated at WrestleMania XV. We will dive into th...

Conrad Thompson, host of the most successful wrestling podcasts in the industry, talks with Cyrus Fees about how the journey began and how he deals with living “the ultimate fan story.” A lifelong MMA and UFC fan, we talk about the fighters that he’s followed, why classic UFC was so fun to watch, and if there’s room for a MMA version of Starrcast. A TNA/Impact podcast, the future of Starrcast, his...

For our second episode, we catch up with an MMA legend, “The Smashing Machine” Mark Kerr. This MMA wunderkind took over the scene in the mid-90s, ran through back to back UFC Heavyweight Tournaments, and ended up in PRIDE FC at its peak. We talk to Mark about his incredible rise to greatness through amateur wrestling, ending up in the infamous Foxcatcher wrestling camp headed by John DuPont alongs...

In the first episode of In This Corner, Cyrus brings on the two participants of the most iconic fight in MMA & UFC history, "The American Psycho" Stephan Bonnar and Forrest Griffin. Stephan Bonnar is up first and we deep dive into how he's handled the COVID-19 pandemic in Las Vegas, to his first major fight in his MMA career in Brazil vs. former UFC light heavyweight champion Ly...