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Today on Southpaw we have YouTuber Super Eyepatch Wolf otherwise known as John Walsh. We cover the gamut from anime, pro wrestling, martial arts, racism, Vegeta, and the YouTube rabbit hole. Hobbies create communities, they're also a lot of fun. That's an important takeaway when the goal is solidarity.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity...

We cover Usman vs. Masvidal, Volkanovski vs. Holloway, Yan vs. Aldo, and Andrade vs. Namajunas.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce the show but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Join Team Southpaw on Patreon: https:...

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When we started this series on fighters with late career surges, the first person we thought of was Michael Bisping; because he proved, a little improvement and one hell of a year can take you from gatekeeper to champion.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do y...

We speak with baseball historian and author of " The Hall Ball" Ralph Carhart about his project to find all the MLB Hall of Famers, unionizing baseball, and the history of Negro League Baseball.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce the show bu...

Poirier vs. Hooker is why we love MMA.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce the show but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Join Team Southpaw on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod   You can find Southpa...

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We are joined by historian Dr. James Robinson to discuss the parallel histories of the worker sports movement and socialism. At one time, there were millions of socialists across Europe and the US. Worker/People Olympics were bigger than the actual Olympics. The generation before the Baby Boomers are portrayed as simple country folk rather than as they were, politically aware immigrants who helped...

Analyzing Josh Emmett vs. Shane Burgos as well as analyzing the hegemonic and incentivized masculine culture of the UFC.  Related to this topic:  56 – The Invisible Hand of MMA Face Punching   52 – The Hidden Ethics of Combat Sports   The Mitchell Paradox or For the Love and Hate of Fighting   We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solid...

This is our Leftist/antiracist case for listening to both shows, especially if you have never trained in martial arts.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce the show but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Join Team Sout...

Sam recently received a message from Brittany Wong, a senior reporter at Huffpost asking him to give his thoughts on the “roof Korean” memes showing armed Koreans on rooftops. The message of the meme was to say every race has the right to arm themselves and use force against supposed “Black” invaders. Essentially becoming avatars for white supremacy. This is Sam's response in its entirety.  H...

We are joined by author and martial artist John Vercher to discuss his book Three-Fifths , what it means to pass in a racial context, the history of the One-Drop and Three-Fifths rules, the often overlooked spectrum of white supremacy, and then we talk about John's new book which is centered around the world of MMA.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your s...

We talk with martial arts trainer Jacky about their queer self-defense project that offers free self-defense and MMA classes to the queer and trans community. We also discuss how Brazilian jiu-jitsu is similar to but also different from such activities as parkour and skateboarding. We also dive into the challenges and benefits of starting your own training collective as a novice. Lastly, we discus...

We talk to MMA analyst Ed Gallo from Bloody Elbow and The Fight Site to discuss breaking into MMA media, learning to analyze fights, MMA as a path to Left politics, and international wresting.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce the show but...

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Some impromptu thoughts on the rebellion.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce the show but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Join Team Southpaw on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod   You can find Sout...

This was Tyron Woodley's first fight back since his lopsided title loss to Kamaru Usman. A surging Gilbert Burns showed the defeat to Usman wasn't a fluke but more about a winning formula against Woodley.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce t...

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As a nice break from the pandemic, storyteller and creator Sapphire Sandalo is on the show to tell us some of her favorite spooky stories, about how collecting scary stories from the Philippines made her more aware of colonization and its lasting effects on the psyche, being a YouTuber and creator, and what she's doing differently for her new show "Stories With Sapphire." We also explore the feedb...

In this dense episode, we speak with MMA pioneer, grappling legend, and political radical Jeff 'The Snowman' Monson. Unlike what you might expect, Jeff's politics didn't come from reading theory but rather as a direct result from his accomplishments in wrestling and combat sports, as well as his years in social work. He was like many Americans, in a bubble. Through his work and especially through...

Strawweight is a division that has no counterpart in men's MMA. This is why this has become the most competitive and iconic division in all of women's MMA. Today we discuss the instant classic that was Claudia Gadelha vs. Angela Hill and how this fight helped both of their careers.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw wit...

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We discuss the weirdness that was UFC 249 and how the UFC is a microcosm of the weirdness that is America. America is MMA, which makes this podcast now more poignant than ever.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw without you and your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce the show but you also get acc...

How can we as teachers, participants, and allies help to build a more inclusive gym and ultimately a more inclusive world? We talk to self-defense and behavioral health trainer Tylar Zinn about training trainers in inclusion and trauma care. This episode is meant to serve as a guide, so please refer back to it and share it with your communities. The outline for this training is available for free...