MMA History Podcast

Send a text Gray Maynard joins the LytesOut team for a look back at his standout fighting career. 0:00Intro  2:45 Gray Maynard Beginnings 4:40 Rashad Evans  5:35 Working with BJ Penn  6:55 Shawn Tompkins  7:36 Fighting Evan Dunham  10:12 Joshua Powell - Pro Debut  11:50 WEF Brent Weedman  14:50 Jamie Lavine WEF  16:08 Almost Fighting Aoki 18:00 St Edwards Wrestling  22:05 The Ultimate Fighter  23:...

Send a text Old School. If there  was a picture in the dictionary next to the words "Old School" it very well may have a picture of Dave Menne next to it. In this incredible interview with the UFC's first  middleweight champion, we talk only about the early days of Dave's career. The fact is, he had close to fifty fights in the 1990's alone. We asked him about fights we th...

Send a text #ChrisLytle #MMAHistory #Pancrase This Special 50th LytesOut Podcast we feature none other than our own 50 Fight Club member Chris Lytle; we discuss his early days within the #Pancrase organization and the many ups and downs associated with fighting in Japan in the 1990's. 0:00 Podcast intro 2:33 Guest intro 4:01 Interview start 4:59 Early undocumented fights 12:59 Chris Lytle vs...

Send a text The "Diesel" joe Riggs is still out there going strong, and he took time off to stop by and talk to the #LytesOut crew. Where do we start with this #FiftyFightClub member? We start off talking his time on the big show. 0:00:00 Intro  0:04:29 Joe Riggs Start  0:06:30 NHB to MMA  0:07:20 Combat Sports Beginnings 0:09:05 Street Fighting  0:09.40 Almost Fighting Mark Coleman  0:1...

Send a text #MMAHistory #ChrisLytle #LytesOut The LytesOut Podcast had  chance to nab Chicago fighting legend Shonie Carter - live!!! That's right, out very own MMA Detective Mike Davis, another Chicago native, sat down for a one on one with "Mr. International." Shonie probably qualified for the #FiftyFightClub while we were still in the 1990's and here, Mike takes Shonie down...

Send a text Legendary Manager/Promoter Monte Cox stopped by the #LOP again to talk about some of the early Extreme Challenge events that he ran. Our intention was to do a handful of shows here but after more than two hours we had covered just three events -  Extreme Challenge 5 - APR 18, 1997,  Waterloo, Iowa Extreme Challenge 20 - AUG 22, 1998 Davenport, Iowa Extreme Challenge 21 - OCT 17, 1998,...

Send a text Gabe Ruediger was a household MMA name for all the wrong reasons after his appearance on the Ultimate Fighter. Don't let that story fool you, Ruediger is a serious, lifelong martial artist and he is here on the#lytesOut Podcast to talk about it all. 0:00 Podcast intro 0:19 Guest Intro, interview start 2:20 Gabe Ruediger vs Sam Wells at WEC 5 8:02 Gabe's martial arts backgroun...

Send a text Nam Phan UFC Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 45 / #ufc   Nam Phan made a name for himself in the UFC in the lightweight and featherweight division. Phan, a native of Southern California, was known as a crowd pleaser and his bouts with Leonard Garcia helped but the smaller weight classes on the map. Get to know Nam Phan right here on the  0:00 Podcast intro 0:19 Interview start  0:37 Martial...

Send a text Canada's Sam Stout stopped by the #LOP for round 2 as we spend time going over Stout's UFC career. We already covered the years fighting for TKO in Canada and his arrival in the UFC but we ran out of time. Here, Stout returns to finish his #LOP #DEEPDIVE by talking about his years on fighting's biggest stage. 0:00- Mike and Miguel Intro  2:30- Chris and Sam join 4:40- UF...

Send a text "The Dentist" Josh Neer joined Chris Lytle and company to talk about his UFC career. Neer is a member of the #FiftyFightClub as he has dozens of fights in what we here on the#LOP call the Independent or Midwest Grind. We will have to save that for another day as Neer's UFC career is what our fans requested to hear about. #FiftyFightClub member Josh Neer joined the #Lytes...

Send a text The "Big Cat" Tom Erikson made his fighting debut in 1996 at the tail end of a decorated wrestling career. Erikson was a wrestling coach at Purdue while he fought in "No Holds Barred" and the school in Northern Indiana became a hotbed for fighters. Erikson fought in Brazil, Japan and the United States in events that didn't require gloves and had virtually no ru...

Send a text Just a few short weeks ago, UFC and MMA fans finished watching another come from behind victory from "The Damage" Darren Elkins as he defeated Darrick Minner at the UFC on ESPN 27 event July 24th. Here, Elkins sat down with the #LytesOut crew for a career review, up to and including the Minner fight. Elkins has 2 fights left on his UFC contract and isn't ready to call it...

Send a text Yves Edwards joined the LytesOut team for a #FiftyFightClub #DEEPDIVE. Edwards, originally from the Bahamas, moved to Texas where he started into the Mixed Martial Arts while in his teens. Edwards fought early and often and he quickly established himself as one of the top lightweights in the world. Unfortunately, the UFC scrapped the lightweight division for several years and Edwards w...

Send a text Britain's Brad "One Punch" Pickett is a UFC veteran with a penchant for slugfests, and here he joins Chris Lytle and the #LytesOut team for a #DEEPDIVE looking at his career in MMA before he made the big show. Pickett came up fighting in English events such as Cage Rage and we go through it all with "One Punch." Check it out... 0:00:00 Start  0:02:22 Brad Picke...

Send a text This is Chael Sonnen - bombastic and bigger than life, but this is also Chael Sonnen like you've never seen him before. The Bad Guy, Chael Sonnen visited with Chris Lytle and company for an in-depth interview that takes us back through the early years of his storied career. 0:00 Intro 10:00 Chael Sonnen enters 11:30 Ben Hailey Vs Chael Sonnen 12:45 Meeting Pedro Sauer 13:35 Street...

Send a text Jon Fitch stopped by the #LytesOut Podcast to discuss his career.  Fitch was one of the top five welterweights in the world when he fought for the UFC, Bellator and World Series of Fighting.  But his road to the top was not easy nor was it a straight trajectory. Here, Mike Davis and Chris Lytle take Jon Fitch from his initiation into the sport while he was wrestling at Purdue Universit...

Send a text ERYK ANDERS Before UFC Career DEEPDIVE  UFC middleweight Eryk Anders stopped by the #LOP to talk about his career. Anders won a College Football National Championship with the Alabama Crimson Tide in his college years and he played a season in the NFL before transitioning over to the one on one sport of MMA. Anders paid his dues in the fight game, fighting more than twenty amateur bout...

Send a text Name the 1990's NHB fighter that fought on the first of John Perretti's Battlecade events, the first of Monte Cox's Extreme Challenge and the first of Indiana's legendary HOOKnSHOOT shows? If you answered Gary Myers, you would be correct. We found Gary Myers in his Indiana home, looking great and ready to talk fights. Myers, a tried and true wrestler his whole life,...

Send a text Former MMA Fighter Travis Fulton made the news in early July 2021. Apparently, he committed suicide  while in police custody. He had accepted a guilty plea that would have seen him do 18 years for charges including child pornography.  In this clip, four MMA veterans who have known Travis Fulton since the 90's got together to talk on the #LytesOut Podcast. Manager/Promoter Monte Co...

Send a text The #LytesOut Podcast sat down with Spencer Fisher for a traditional #DEEPDIVE. Few fighters have earned the title "crowd pleaser" like Fisher did during his decade long career. Since his retirement, Spencer's name also comes up from time to time around the subject of PTSD and head trauma. We are happy to say we found Spencer looking good and ready to talk fights! We app...

Send a text hil Baroni - Last Interview Before Murder - Episode 31 / #ufc   Phil Baroni, the "New York Bad Ass" sat down with the #LOP for a #DEEPDIVE interview. we found Phil in shape, getting back to his roots in the NY area and off-camera, calling out boxer J'Leon Love for a boxing match. We go back through Phil's start in the toughman circuit to his stellar rise in MMA. We...

Send a text The #LytesOut Team is back with another #DEEPDIVE with UFC stand-out Sam Stout. Our first #DEEPDIVE with a fighter from North of the Border, Stout fought in the UFC from March of 2006 to his retirement In August of 2015. "Hands of Stone" collected 8 UFC "fighter" bonuses during his career and he fought during the heyday of Canadian MMA. In Part 1, we focus a great d...

Send a text Rob Kahn is a BJJ black belt under the legendary Royce Gracie. Chris Lytle and Mike Davis of the #LytesOut Podcast take Rob Kahn deep in an interview where we go long! As one of the first five black belts in America under Royce, Khan was there for much of the early days of JJ in the States. A wealth of knowledge, Kahn has gone on to be one of the foremost teachers and tacticians in JJ,...

Send a text Talk about paying your dues. Travis Wiuff has an official record of exactly 100 fights and that doesn't count any of the fights he had coming up in Minnesota's "B" circuit. Known for his quiet nature, Wiuff rarely gives three hour interviews, but we got him!  We couldn't really cover his career fight by fight but we did hit a lot of the major bouts of his caree...

Send a text Mark Godbeer Bare Knuckle & MMA Career - Ep 27 / #ufc   Something different here at the #LOP as Mark Godbeer is active and competing - this savage has been sidelined for a while to to Covid and bad luck, but we are ready to see him swing. Mark Godbeer knows a thing or two about fighting - the British heavyweight is a UFC and Bellator veteran who has logged close to 20 MMA fights on...