Southpaw

We sit down with retired professional fighter, former academic, classical musician, and now sports doctor Rosi Sexton to discuss multidisciplinary thinking, learning how to learn, mixed martial arts, sports rehab, economics, logic, game theory, prisoner's dilemma, and politics. It's a crash course in everything. If you like the stuff we're putting out, support Southpaw on Patreon:  https://ww...

The following program is rated mature, it contains strong language, listener discretion is advised 😉 We brought in extreme martial artist, memer, teacher, cartoonist, and YouTuber Emon Rashid (Vloshry) to discuss anime, manga, memes, video games, Reddit, and YouTube. Things discussed: Dragon Ball Z, Team Four Star, Dragon Ball Abridged, Teppu, KSKM, Holyland, Hajime no Ippo, Rwby, Bleach, Kenichi...

For those of you who are nerds of the game, and like to understand the intricacies of MMA prizefighting, allow Sam and Paul to break down every minutiae in greater detail than the actual length of the fight! Where we finally answer, what happens when 52 blocks meets wing-chun hand trapping? A whole lot. And when we say a whole lot, we mean a whole lot of cool visuals, but not a whole lot in actual...

In this episode, we sit down with One Championship fighter Savannah Em and her coach Justen Hamilton to discuss women's MMA, MMA tactics & strategies, sociology of sport, gender studies, Dragon Ball Z, and Seinfeld. If you like the stuff we're putting out, support Southpaw on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod You can find Southpaw on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/so...

We look at the crap underneath the crap of comedy, Internet culture, podcasting, combat sports, and politics w/ Robbie Goodwin If you like the stuff we're putting out, support Southpaw on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod You can find Southpaw on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/southpawpod/  and on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Southpawpod You can also find Sam...

On this episode, we have Jerry Liu from Fight Commentary Breakdowns. It's a fun one as we dive deep into the world of YouTube, Facebook, data collecting, online privacy, BJJ culture, the new ESPN/ UFC deal, Greg Hardy in the UFC, and fight studies of Henry Cejudo vs. TJ Dillashaw, and Donald Cerrone vs. Alex Hernandez. And if you like the stuff we're putting out, support Southpaw on Patreon: ...

We covered so much in this informative episode, we're just going to explain it via bullet points: Being a D1 wrestler, BJJ'er, and an academic during late stage capitalism Meritocracy AKA doing everything right and still being fucked Problems of health care and how one medical emergency can upend your whole life Dangers of post-concussion syndrome (and how little we still know about the brain) Mag...

Cejudo vs. Dillashaw, Mayweather vs. Nasukawa, Mighty Mouse, Hajime no Ippo, Dragon Ball, and MMA Internet Intellectualism with David Christian of The Modern Martial Artist . This is not your grandfather's MMA podcast. If you like the stuff we're putting out, support Southpaw on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod You can find Southpaw on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/southpawpod/ an...

This episode is jam-packed and might be worth listening to more than once, and definitely worth sharing with your friends. We cover environmentalism, biocultural diversity, traditional knowledge, human rights, stewardship, martial arts, economics, and many other topics with environmental lawyer Sanjay Kabir Bavikatte. If you'd like to help us with the costs of running the show, please sponsor Sout...

Have you been confused by the whole Jon Jones steroids controversy and the UFC changing venue for him? So were we. And in trying to get to the bottom of this, we see that it's not just about Jon Jones but really about how the UFC treats fighters. We previously used Chris Weidman in the previous episode (24 – Is the UFC Killing Fighters like Chris Weidman?) as one example of how fighters are treate...

*Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod Breaking down the career of Chris Weidman, and answering: Was he hype, a has-been, or a victim of the system? And really, it's all three. He came in at the right time to beat Anderson Silva. His style matched up just right to do what Dan Henderson, Travis Lutter, and Chael Sonnen almost did but couldn't, which was to dethrone the king. Bu...

UFC 232, Slavoj Žižek, Noam Chomsky, Richard D. Wolff, & Ralph Nader—you know, just a typical UFC postshow Today we sat down with MMA writer Elias Cepeda to discuss UFC 232 but ended up discussing every important topic worth discussing because it all still connects to MMA. I kid you not, this is the most WOKE UFC postshow you will ever listen to. A must for every MMA fan, and a must for every...

This is probably our most serious and important episode as we discuss Fair Fight with martial arts instructor Mary Stevens. Fair Fight is an organization that empowers and educates vulnerable girls in India, many of whom have been rescued from child prostitution. We also discuss the broken educational system in the US and UK. Then Mary explains to us what she considers to be a well-rounded martial...

Dan Hooker vs Edson Barboza: What the hell was Dan Hooker doing, calling out Edson Barboza. It seemed like bad style match-up on paper, but we were curious if Hooker was seeing something we weren't. Nope. It was a bad style match-up. Kevin Lee vs. Al Iaquinta: Lee has been calling for a rematch with Iaquinta and, man, does Iaquinta have Kevin Lee's number. PLUS a postshow breakdown of episode 20 w...

Everyone has political opinions these days, but after you listen to this episode, you'll actually know what you're talking about. Sam and Paul grill former LA Times columnist Tom Petruno and get to the bottom of how the economy works, what's been going on in politics, what do people mean by Fed and interest rates, how the US government spends more than it taxes, and how places like Ohio turned to...

Man... if you love MMA striking, or if you're an up-and-coming MMA fighter, this is the episode for you. We saw one just brutal and fun opening fight with Thiago Santos (who is in Sam's opinion, the most exciting fighter in the UFC) vs. Jimi Manuwa (a one-punch knockout artist with a glass chin). The first round was amazing. Then you saw striking clinics from Valentina Shevchenko over Joanna Jedrz...

Sit back, relax, as we educate your ears with many of the reasons why people can't think good, and other stuff, too. (Who needs college when you got Sam & Paul? Amirite?)

In this episode, we're joined by David Christian of The Modern Martial Artist YouTube channel. We have a long and winding discussion into his background, how he makes such scientific combat sport breakdowns, what MMA could learn from traditional martial arts, using film school for YouTube, making YouTube a career... but this isn't an interview. We bring on guests to discuss topics, to look at the...

We sit down with former MMA fighter (Bellator & Affliction) Albert Rios and discuss the early days of MMA (before it was legal). We discuss how the original pioneers went into it with no promises of a future or a career, and how a lot of them were just street fighters. Then we discuss what training was like before super camps and all the BJJ and kickboxing schools became widespread, how fighte...

We go deep down the rabbit hole to discuss Gen Z, Libertarian, Hollywood, AP econ, hustle-porn struggles with actress, speaker, and teen financial guru Rachel Fox. Along the way, Paul and Sam share their own generational struggles, Sam discusses his first job, Paul shares prison stories, we discuss Rachel playing the bad child on Desperate Housewives , why school wasn't for her, what socially libe...

In this episode, we're joined by writer, producer, and professional podcast guest Evan Susser. His most recent work is Fist Fight , starring Charlie Day and Ice Cube. He's also attached to Wedding Crashers 2 , Sonic the Hedgehog , and The Jetsons . But in our opinions, his most important work was being involved in a Funny or Die short with "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. We discuss the magic of movie storyte...

Our very first guest! Jonathan Cooke from the Screen Verdict podcast. We break down what makes Marvel movies good, what makes DC movies bad, and we also dig into all the subsets of the Marvel and DC cinematic universes. Then Jonathan uses MMA to explain what makes Zack Snyder good, what makes him bad, and what Batgirl would be like if Wes Anderson directed it. Sam explains how he lost friends beca...

What happens when you put two fighters who are all offense and no defense? An epic fight. And that's what happened with Korean Zombie in the main event against Yair Rodriguez. And also Donald Cerrone fought Mike Perry, which looked a lot like an early Royce Gracie fight. We dissect what fighters need to work on between fights, how important is having the right camp, and the importance of timing in...

On this episode, Paul takes the lead as he gives us his dissertation on how certain politicians are very similar to MMA fighters, or maybe it's the other way, certain MMA fighters are similar to certain politicians. We also delve into the differences between training to fight and violence. Hopefully, this dissertation will be good enough for Paul to get into grad school...

Daniel Cormier becomes the first double UFC champion to have defended both belts; Derrick Lewis has knock knees which makes him easy to takedown; Jacare has a bit more gas than Chris Weidman who tends to look great in round one and then fades; then great new prospects in Israel Adesanya and Karl Roberson, and the failings of veterans like Sijara Eubanks, Ben Saunders, and Lando Vannata. We bring y...