MMA History Podcast

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...

Send a text #WaltHarris #UFC #UFCHistory UFC Heavyweight Walt Harris hooked up with Chris Lytle and the #LOP crew on the road for this #DEEPDIVE interview. Harris, an Alabama native, has more than 20 fights that are not on his official record as he made his way up the ranks on the "B" circuit. Still active, we expect Big Ticket back on the #LytesOut Podcast in the future, but we don&apos...

Send a text Nick Thompson Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 25 / #ufc   Nick Thompson started his journey in Wisconsin. Nick Thompson takes us through his fights and travel that ended up allowing him to be an attorney Now a practicing attorney, veteran MMA'er Nick Thompson logged more than fifty fights during his MMA career. Operating in the middleweight and welterweight division, Nick Thompson fough...

Send a text Mike Brown MMA Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 24 / #ufc   Michael Thomas Brown is best known nowadays as one of the lead trainers at Florida's American Top Team, but here at the LOP we remember the rugged Mike Brown who captured WEC gold before the UFC adopted the featherweight class. Mike Brown has seen it all in MMA in his career that now spans more than two decades. We spent an hour...

Send a text Chris Lytle and Mike Davis sat down with American Top Team's "Conan" Silveira for one of their signature "Deep Dive" interviews. "Conan" is one of the lead coach's for ATT and he has been there since the very beginning. Looking back at his MMA career, Silveira took part in historic fights back in the early days of MMA. Talk about a person who has...

Send a text Chris Lytle and his #LytesOut crew are on hallowed MMA ground for this one as UFC founder Art Davie visited for one of our patented #DEEPDIVE interviews. One of the founders and creators of the Ultimate Fighting Championships, Art takes us through the hectic months prior to UFC 1 on November 12, 1993. A lot of thought went into the modern "Kumite." Davie studied other attempt...

Send a text Veteran MMA fighter and coach Brian Geraghty sat down with the #LytesOut Podcast for more than two hours to talk fights and look back at his twelve year MMA career.  Best known for his appearance on the UFC's "The Ultimate Fighter" TV show and as a member of Dave Strasser's Freestyle Academy in Wisconsin, Geraghty had a bit of a nomad's streak as well, and his...

Send a text The #LytesOut Podcast recently caught up with Brazilian fighting legend Johil DeOliviera. DeOliveira is now fifty two, but he still looks terrific and he was happy to give his first full length interview to an English audience. Like in the mid-1990's when he fought in Brazil's rugged Vale Tudo circuit, DeOliveira still proudly carries the flag of Budokan Luta Livre. We go thr...

Send a text Carlo Prater MMA Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 19 / #ufc   Carlo Prater fought his first MMA fight in the late 1990's while he was in his teens. More than two decades later, this MMA veteran still embraces the grind. We caught up with Carlo Prater at his home in Brasilia, Brasil where he continues to train and look for fights. At the #LOP we knew Carlo's unique background (He is...

Send a text Chris Lytle and the boys are back with another of their "old school" interviews as they interview America Top Team's Alex Davis.  You want to talk about a guy who has seen it all in the world of MMA? Alex Davis was there at the inception of the now prolific American Top Team and there are few roles Davis has not filled - Translator, Manager, Trainer and life-coach are ju...

Send a text MMA and UFC veteran Steve Berger joins Chris Lytle's #LytesOutPodcast for another classic "deep dive" interview. A full account of Berger's career including unsanctioned and unrecorded fights puts him at well over fifty fights. That makes for a lot of stories as Berger fought many of his era's top guns with limited sponsorship and support.  Meet Steve Berger, o...

Send a text eff Monson MMA Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 16 / #ufc   Jeff Monson has trained at the worlds greatest gyms. In this interview Jeff Monson opens up with brutal honesty about pivotal moments his career  The Lytes Out Podcast has another huge interview with a member of our Fifty Fight Club. With more than 80 MMA fights and hundreds of grappling matches, Jeff "The Snowman" Monson i...

Send a text Manager Monte Cox DEEPDIVE - Episode 15 / #ufc  Monte Cox made a name for himself as one of the sports best managers, Monte Cox has also promoted over 300 MMA events. In this interview we give a a good introduction to Monte Cox contributions within the sport of Mixed Martial arts. MMA veteran Chris Lytle and his team tackle a big fish in this "deep dive" interview - legendary...

Send a text Keith Wisniewski Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 14 / #ufc   Chris Lytle and his Lytes Out Podcast team have veteran slugger Keith Wisniewski in for another old school interview. Keith Wisniewski is a member of the Fifty Fight Club, reserved for MMA fighters who have been around the block a few times. He fought his first fight at the age of fifteen and was actively competing against whoever...

Send a text Toby Imada burst onto the early MMA scene with his fights at Neutral Grounds in the late 1990's and his participation in the Abu Dhabi Combat Club's first Submission Wrestling World Championship in 1998. For the better part of the next two decades, Imada marched to the beat of his own drum, taking fights against many of the world's top fighters in a variety of weight cla...

Send a text Fred Ettish UFC 2 DEEPDIVE - Episode 12 / #ufc   The UFC 2 event in Denver, Colorado on March 11th, 1994 gets classified as ancient history nowadays. The event is recalled as "the night of elbows" for the sheer violence of many of the finishes. In this #LOP "deep dive" interview, we speak with Fred Ettish, one of the participants. Fred Ettish entered the tournament...

Send a text Promoter Tom Atencio DEEPDIVE - Episode 11 / #ufc   Chris Lytle and his Lytes Out Podcast team interview Tom Atencio. Atencio's "Affliction" line of shirts made the company one of the major sponsors of combat sports over a decade ago. Tom Atencio was the promoter for two landmark MMA shows that still rank among the biggest events in history. Check out our deep dive inter...

Send a text Some of us follow a path less traveled... and then there are guys like MMA artist Ryan Bow, who blaze a trail all their own. Chris Lytle and his #LytesOut team interview Ryan Bow in another "deep dive" interview. Bow moved to Japan at the age of seventeen as a Judo competitor and it was there that he found SHOOTO and MMA fighting. He has not looked back since. Meet Ryan Bow,...

Send a text Brian Ebersole Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 10 / #ufc   Veteran MMA slugger Brian Ebersole sports a record of 51-18-1-1 on the Sherdog database, and he has more fights than that. Brian Ebersole has lived in Australia where he is part of a vibrant MMA scene "down under" for more than a decade, so you can say he has seen it all on to two continents. Chris Lytle and his team bring...

Send a text Dennis Hallman Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 8 / #ufc   MMA pioneer Dennis Hallman recently joined Chris Lytle and company for a "deep dive" of close to two hours. Dennis Hallman doesn't just have fifty fights, he has recorded more than 50 wins in a career that started in 1996 and went on until 2015. He owns two signature wins over UFC hall of famer Matt Hughes and he compet...

Send a text Nick Nutter Hammer House DEEPDIVE - Episode 7 / #ufc   Hammer House fighter Nick Nutter has about as interesting a 7 fight resume in the early days of NHB. At the LOP, we figured we could get a full one hour interview from Nick Nutter. Well, once Nick Nutter got started, we couldn't stop! Hammer House leader Mark Coleman and his sidekick Kevin Randleman were both known for handlin...

Send a text No Holds Barred, Pancrase, MMA and UFC - Aaron Riley has done it all in a career that started in the 1990's when Aaron Riley was still in his teens. Aaron Riley joins the LOP for a "deep dive" interview that takes us through Aaron Riley long career. Aaron Riley started out fighting at sixteen, with permission and encouragement from his mom. The rest is history - please s...

Send a text Chris Lytle and his #LytesOut Podcast team of Mike Davis and Miguel Iturrate get together for another of their interview series, this time with MMA pioneer Paul Varelans. Varelans list of opponents reads like an early who's who of "NHB" history as he has faced the likes of "Tank" Abbott, Marco Ruas, Igor Vovchanchin, Mark Kerr and Carlos Barreto just to name a...

Send a text Jeremy Horn Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 4 / #ufc  Chris Lytle is an old school fighter, and here at the #LytesOut Podcast, we started our #FiftyFightClub to commemorate the hardcore veterans of the sport. Well, how old school is Jeremy Horn? Jeremy had FIFTY fights by the first half of 2000 by the official record, and the truth is, this guy had fifty fights in the 90's! We go long o...

Send a text Oleg Taktarov Career DEEPDIVE - Episode 3 / #ufc Chris Lytle and his Lytes Out team are off on another "deep dive" interview. NHB and UFC legend Oleg Taktarov joins us to talk about his storied career and fight history in general. Oleg Taktarov made his UFC debut at UFC 5, and he is the UFC 6 tournament winner. Oleg Taktarov was on vacation in Mexico when he joined us, and he...