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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC Austin wasn’t just great on paper, it was absolutely marvelous in practice. With finishes galore, including slam knockouts, there was a lot to love with this card. And Arman Tsarukyan’s violent finish of Beneil Dariush was positively scary. But nothing was scarier than watching Jalin Turner knock Bobby...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Austin, Texas will set the stage for this weekend’s UFC Fight Night with the Moody Center hosting the event. And, if you hadn’t noticed, this is a damned good card, but we know why that is. Say it with us, fam, because it’s not at the Apex! However, there is a caveat: Arman Tsarukyan, Bobby Green and Kelvi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Miesha Tate is certainly a longtime veteran of the sport and some even call her a pioneer. To see her relegated to the prelims just seems so incongruous and out of place. But, after the disappointing losses she’s taken, perhaps being in the featured prelim is just what the doctor ordered—taking the pressur...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Well, after a week off from UFC weekend content, we’re back to the grind. We’ve got a very nice event this weekend in UFC Austin, so we selected a quartet of contests that we feel are the most important ones. Here’s the bouts we predicted: Bloody Elbow is fighting for the sport, the fighters and the fans....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Eddie Mercado is back with another great fighter interview, this time with the Wheaties box poster boy, Anthony “Showtime” Pettis, who is planning an unexpected turn for the future. Find out which former UFC champion will be facing him in the Karate Combat arena. Hear his thoughts on PFL and a lot more. Bl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com With no UFC until December 2nd, the boys are back with another depressing watch of three fights. The focal point of the show is foul play (fights with lots of fouls). Pretty ingenious considering we’re about to enter the foulest holiday of them all. We’ve even got a Faux Phil since real Phil was unavailabl...

FREE EPISODE ALERT!! FREE EPISODE ALERT!! FREE EPISODE ALERT!! A lot has happened since our last episode so we tried to cram it all in a neat package. First, we went over the absolutely phenomenal cards that were Bellator 301 and UFC Vegas 82. Bellator saw two new champions crowned but never let on that the PFL purchase revelation was just two days away. They kept their secret in the most impenetr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC Vegas 82 looked miserable on paper, and is often the case with Apex cards, the event delivered a lot of action in practice. That still doesn’t exonerate the promotion of phoning it in with Apex cards. At least they’re consistent, though. Fans are all but guaranteed fights from deep within the roster’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Let’s face it, friends, UFC Vegas 82 is a miserable card, as most Apex events are. Zane Simon certainly picked the right week to go on vacation, so that he could be spared of this nothingburger of a card. But never fear, fans of sanctioned violence, the boys have a brand new episode of The MMA Depressed-us...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com You read that headline right, folks. Conor McGregor, who was expected to headline UFC 300 (never official, though) is no longer on the card according to his longtime coach John Kavanagh. In an interview with Ariel Helwani, Kavanagh revealed the UFC was the decider in this latest delay of McGregor’s return...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC 295 is a damned good card, all the way through. Are there fights you can pass on and not feel bad about? Sure, but the majority of these contests are solid as a rock and look like they’re barnburners just looking for a place to happen. Bloody Elbow is fighting for the sport, the fighters and the fans....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Woohoo! We’ve got a terrific main card and the boys are here to tell you all about it. As the title suggests, Jiri Prochazka is back and taking on an equally dynamic athlete with not much mind for anything but violence in Alex Pereira. And it’s for the belt! We. Are. Happy. Bloody Elbow is fighting for the...

We’ve got a special episode today, a preview of the last Grand Sumo tournament of the year, the Kyushu basho, with Bloody Elbow’s Tim Bissell. We go through quite a few topics, which I’ll list below, but if you require more in-depth analysis, Tim has a great feature that you can check out here . Bloody Elbow is fighting for the sport, the fighters and the fans. If you share our mission, please con...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Last week, big news hit combat sports media circles. Well, actually two things happened: * The UFC’s appeal to the antitrust case was denied by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals * The release of every UFC athlete payout from 2011-2016 That release of the athlete payouts gave John Nash and Anton Tabuena pl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com The boys are back in town! The boys are back in town! And they’ve got a brand new episode! This week features intense discussion on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denying the UFC’s appeal in the antitrust case. From important dates to the standard operating procedures of the courts and how the next ser...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com After being absolutely ravaged by late cancellations and replacements, UFC Sao Paulo saw a mixed bag of results. Eduarda Moura announced herself to fans in a big way with her sensational debut and Vitor Petrino might have rearranged Modestas Bukauskas’ memories with the crushing left he hit the 29-year-old...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com That’s right, Elves Brener will be back in action against Kaynan Kruschewsky, the late replacement for Esteban Ribovics. Will the Elves keep his winning streak intact? And we cannot overlook the intriguing pairing of Angie Hill and Denise Gomes. Denise is riding a two-fight win streak and Angie is coming o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Yesterday, news broke that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the UFC’s appeal to the antitrust lawsuit, so of course we had to record in the dead of night to bring our listeners all the details. John explains all the upcoming dates the honorable Judge Boulware has set forth and what happens next. B...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Phew! We’ve got 13 fights to look forward to Saturday and you know what? They’re pretty good. You can probably guess why, though. It’s right there in the title, UFC Sao Paulo…as in not at the Apex. Are all the fights great? Nope. But a good many of them are, and that’s a decent way to set the table after a...

We had a special guest drop in this week, TUF 30 winner Juliana Miller gave us 20 minutes of her time to discuss the surgery that’s taking her out competition until sometime next Spring, the external sponsors she’s managed to acquire, training at Sikjitsu and more. I had toyed with the idea of making this our bonus content, and in the episode, that is what you’ll hear, but in practice, I am making...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Francis Ngannou’s boxing debut was nothing short of incredible, and even though he didn’t get his arm raised in victory, many in the combat sports world felt he DID do enough to get the nod, but the judges instead scored it in favor of reigning lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. The tally would see “T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Eddie Mercado has been interviewing fighters for years and he does a darned good job too. This week, he was able to sit down with UFC veteran fighter-turned broadcast team member Din Thomas. Din answered lots of questions, mainly about things he’d change about the sport if he could. It’s a great episode th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Yep, the title says it all. We think Fury-Ngannou will not be competitive. Is there really any other sane way to look at this? The training footage Ngannou released over the last several weeks has not been encouraging, to say the least. Is Tyson Fury even training for this fight? Bloody Elbow is fighting f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Two Bunkers in one week! What’s going on? Did we hit the podcast lottery? The answer is yes, you did. Let us explain why we gave you two episodes this week. Bloody Elbow is fighting for the sport, the fighters and the fans. If you share our mission, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today. It’s no...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com This week, Nate opens up the MMA Bunker for one of his patented tête-à-têtes, this time with Icon Sport founder T Jay Thompson. Thompson reminisced on what those early days were like in Hawaii as one of the first promotions in the sport not named UFC. He also discussed the downfall of fighters that were on...