The MMA Depressed-Us Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com We are here this week to celebrate the worst picks from UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev, UFC 303, and UFC 306. There’s a lot to unpack with these dismal offerings, and our trio of doom didn’t let us down with their razor-sharp wit and scathing commentary. Let’s take a look at the fights they chose...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com We are here this week to celebrate the worst picks from UFC 219, the TUF 22 finale, and UFC 171. That’s quite a spread to choose from, but our team didn’t let us down, plumbing the deep, dark depths of the boredom pool to come up with three contests that are sure to put anyone who dares to watch them witho...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com We are here this week to celebrate the legacy of Sean Strickland—and by “legacy”, I mean the ties that bind him to fight nights at the Apex and occasionally on the road events. Yes, yes, I know he’s headlined a PPV here and there, but it seems that wick has burned its way down the candle into the dregs. To...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com We are finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, guys & gals. Next week, you’ll be getting a certified Vivisection—no filler! If you missed our last episode , the guys broke down the first half of their 2025’s Worst , so you should definitely have a listen. This week, our crack team of an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is in week 562—at least it feels that way—of their extremely long winter break. If you missed our last episode , the guys watched another laughable MMA movie called Cagefighter: Worlds Collide , so you should definitely have a listen. This week, our crack team of analysts are all here to give you a loo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is in week three of their long break, and the team at The MMA Depressed-us has outdone themselves. If you missed our last episode , the guys gave a dandy review of a supernatural Randy Couture movie about a fallen angel, so you should definitely have a listen. This week, our analysts are all here to gi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is in week two of their long break, and fans are getting restless, but don’t worry, the team at The MMA Depressed-us has you covered. If you missed our last episode , the guys gave a fine roasting of fighters that missed their retirement moments, so you should definitely have a listen. This week, our a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking another break, this time in preparation for their Paramount Plus debut. It’s a long one, too—January 24th is when they come back to action with UFC 324: Pimblett vs. Gaethje. If you missed our last episode , the guys gave a fine roasting of Paddy’s career trajectory, so you should definitely...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking another break, this time for Thanksgiving week. Our analysts are all here to give you a turkey roast in response to the announcement that Paddy Pimblett will face Justin Gaethje for the lightweight interim belt at UFC 324. The news comes after undisputed champ Ilia Topuria announced he wouldn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking another break, and this time, it seems it’s just so they can rest from all their promotional and matchmaking heavy lifting (said that with so much snark I almost passed out). Our analysts are all here to give you a rousing blend of apathy, disdain, and unadulterated boredom. This week’s awful...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking another break, this time for Labor Day. Our analysts are all here to give you a rousing blend of snark, disdain, and unadulterated apathy. This week’s awful fights is the triumvirate of heavyweight hopefuls. The fights come from UFC on ESPN+ 9, UFC Fight Night 82: Hendricks vs. Thompson, and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking another break, this time for Independence Day. Our analysts are all together again, though, and that is what counts. Phil being out for the last two of these left Zane and Connor to their own devices and they got up to all sorts of mischief without our staunch Brit to keep them in line—and by...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking another break, just a month after its last one, because of Memorial Day. Not that we’re complaining, just making note of the situation. Our analysts are without their man across the pond, though. Phil is likely battling crime or doing some other civic duty that aids and benefits the public, b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking a little break after its 314th numbered event—a PPV that took place in Miami with the president and several members of his cabinet sitting cageside—so our crack team of analysts (just Zane and Connor this week) are here to provide plenty of laughs and even some thoughtful conversation as they...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com After just two events this year, the UFC is taking a little break, so our creak team of analysts is driving us down a highway of despair with some last minute replacements that didn’t pass muster. These gents all valiantly stepped up to save the day, only to lose in disappointing fashion, no doubt making s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com It’s 2025 now, officially time to leave 2024 in the rearview mirror. Or is it? Our crack team of analysts have decided to give the gift of fights, and they’re giving some of the worst fights of the year. Why? Because they know you’ve all been naughty and probably should’ve gotten coal under your Christmas...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com For this off-week, we’re treating you with a watch-through of the future masterpiece that is The Curse of the Clown Motel. Zane, Connor and Phil are traveling to the “World-Famous Clown Motel” where Randy Couture and Tobin Bell lead the cast. “Guests check in but they don’t check out” graces the movie post...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com You guys and gals are in for a real treat this episode, some of our finest work watching terrible fights so you don’t have to. It’s only Zane and Connor, as Phil was off stocking up on coal. Today’s triumvirate of terrible features some truly awful contests. Consider yourself forewarned. UFC 307 wasn’t a t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Tony Ferguson’s career plummet has concerned fans for years, but perhaps it’s his “champ shit” mindset that confounds everyone the most. Or maybe it’s a complete misunderstanding of his place in the MMA space. Another point of consternation for most analysts is the inability to change his game. Whatever th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Another off-week from UFC, another great episode of our terrific trio suffering through horrendous fights so you don’t have to. They really do love us. This time around, we get a quartet of miserable contests from none other than our reigning middleweight champion. The king of looking gassed until he’s won...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Since this is an off-week for the UFC, you already know what that means—another hilarious episode of The MMA Depressed-us. With the retirements of both Andrei Arlovski and Michelle Waterson-Gomez, the boys figured this would be the perfect subject matter for today’s show. There’s no better way to kick off...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Road House was the Little Engine that Could back in 1989, when it became a cult classic. “Pain don’t hurt” became the motto of every wannabe macho man on the planet. And then it got rebooted. They replaced the perfectly cast Patrick Swayze with a too-quick-witted Jake Gyllenhaal and gave the role of the bi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Phew! We haven’t had one of these in nearly three months. The UFC’s schedule has been absolutely insane, but now that we have this small break in their dismal Apex programming, we figured we’d bring you something to make you feel right at home. THREE MORE DISMAL FIGHTS! Because that’s exactly what you need...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com We’re barely into the new year and UFC has already left us high and dry just two weeks after returning from a month-long drought. But lucky for you, our terrific trio are here to get you through this week with a re-watch of three godawful title fights. If the Apex were a thing back in the good old days, we...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com 2023 was a pretty wild year. The very first day saw UFC president Dana White slap his wife on camera and that kind of set the tone for the rest of the year. One thing that never changes is the sport’s ability to provide some of the greatest fights, and alternately, some of the worst. That’s why we’re here,...