The Todd Atkins Show

Gregorio Calvillo is the owner of Southern California based meal prep company called The Knockout Bakery. He specializes in meals and also knockout jar cheesecakes. In this episode we talk about his background, introduction to Martial Arts and his Knockout Bakery concept. 

In this episode I talk with Sean Wheelock and Art Davie regarding Campbell's McLaren's claims that he started the UFC. Over the years I and others have seen Campbell make these claims and I had been meaning to do a show on this to refute those lies. I had talked to Sean about this in the past and I am glad we had the opportunity to do this show with Art Davie to set the record straight. Sean also...

Adam Guerra is the owner of Guerra's House of Warriors in Alvin Texas. He has been around since the early days of the internet MMA community of The Underground Form that was created by Kirik Jenness. Adam and I have known each other for a number of years and I was able to have him at my home in 2021 when I returned to the mainland United States from Hawaii. In this episode we talk with one of his...

Brittany Carreno is the host of “Brawling Babes with Brittany” podcast. She also does some announcing and promotional work in the MMA space. In this episode we talk about her podcast and some of the projects she is working on.

Dania Cruz returns to talk about her title fight in Fury FC.

In this episode the Mike Davis, Miguel Iturrate and I discuss the Darrick Minner and TJ Dillashaw controversies in the UFC and their connection to MMA gambling. 

In this episode Oklahoma State Wrestling Champion Shea Conley returns to discuss his win over Josh Anderson at Xtreme Fight Night in Tulsa and more.

Trap Gambino is a polarizing personality with assets in combat sports and entertainment industry. Gambino has been featured in numerous films, music videos and TV shows as well as made appearances on The Dr. Phil Show and Divorce Court. After his MMA debut in 2021, Trap Gambino plans on pursuing a career in combat sports as his main focus in 2022! In this interview we talked about what it was like...

Katie Perez is a 3-4 Professional Fighter in the Combate Global Promotion fighting out of North Carolina. In this episode we discusses her last two fights in Combate and the challenges of standards and consistency. Katie is always one of the more insightful people that I have interviewed. 

Making his amateur debut at LFA 1, Elijah Johns has become one of LFA’s most known featherweights. Now a 9-2 professional fighter, Johns says he’s ironed out nearly every aspect of the sport, even the fight before the fight. I first saw him compete in person at LFA 138 in Shawnee Oklahoma and he was easily the most impressive fighter on the card. Elijah fought 2017 Greco Roman World Champion World...

The Deadly Art of Survival Magazine focuses on Martial Arts Instructors who have gone unnoticed most of their careers. Our goal is to be bring more awareness to our Martial Arts legends, instructors, and students. We strive to promote the culture of Martial Arts, as well as support the well-being of others. A portion of our magazine sales goes towards Angelslive.org. Angelslive inc. is a Non-...

This is part 3 of a 3 part series I did surrounding the Tenshin Nasukawa vs Takeru Segawa fight that took place at Tokyo Dome on June 19, 2022. Nobuyuki Sakakibara (RIZIN CEO), a general producer, has stated that it is a neutral event regardless of the organization such as RISE ( Tenshin Nasukawa ) or K-1 ( Takeru ). After the event, K-1 president Kazuyoshi Ishii revealed that over 500,000 PPV wer...

This is part 2 of a 3 part series I did surrounding the Tenshin Nasukawa vs Takeru Segawa fight that took place at Tokyo Dome on June 19, 2022. Nobuyuki Sakakibara (RIZIN CEO), a general producer, has stated that it is a neutral event regardless of the organization such as RISE ( Tenshin Nasukawa ) or K-1 ( Takeru ). After the event, K-1 president Kazuyoshi Ishii revealed that over 500,000 PPV wer...

This is part 1 of a 3 part series I did surrounding the Tenshin Nasukawa vs Takeru Segawa fight that took place at Tokyo Dome on June 19, 2022. Nobuyuki Sakakibara (RIZIN CEO), a general producer, has stated that it is a neutral event regardless of the organization such as RISE ( Tenshin Nasukawa ) or K-1 ( Takeru ). After the event, K-1 president Kazuyoshi Ishii revealed that over 500,000 PPV wer...

Bobby Southworth was born in Madison, Wisconsin and was adopted when he was six weeks old. Southworth has three sisters. He grew up in Santa Cruz, California playing football and basketball, surfing and doing track. After graduating from Soquel High School , Bobby continued to Cabrillo College and yet UC Davis , playing basketball in all of them. His initial interest towards martial arts sparked a...

Johnny Walls was a behind the scenes guy in the MMA community who was responsible for the first ever live streamed MMA event. He also spent a number of years working with controversial MMA figure Jamie Levine. In this episode we talk about his expertise in internet engineering that impacted MMA history and his times with Jamie Levine. We also discuss the time that he took down the UFC's website du...

Alexandre Franca "Pequeno" Nogueira is a Brazilian Luta Livre fighter and the former Shooto Lightweight Champion. I first saw him compete against Noburu Asahi in 1998 at the age of 20. He won the Shooto Lightweight Championship one year later by choking out Asahi again. He would go 12-2 in Shooto before leaving the organization to compete in K-1 Heroes. Nogueira is legendary for his ten finger gui...

Ivan "Mighty" Robinson (born February 27, 1971 in Philadelphia) is a boxer who has compiled a record of 36-12-2 (12 KOs) since becoming a professional in 1992. He challenged once for the IBF lightweight title in 1996.  Born and raised in Philadelphia, Robinson began boxing from an early age. Robinson had a stellar amateur career and was a National Amateur Champion.  Robinson had been a L...

Robert Lucarelli was a competitor in UFC 2. He lost to Orlando Weit in the first round. The fight was not originally shown on the VHS tape. All that was shown was a replay of Weit escaping the headlock and finishing Lucarelli with a kick to the head following with some elbows. In this episode we talk with Robert about that experience. Later we are joined by UFC creator Art Davie to talk about more...

 Xaria Bloom has been involved with a number of MMA promotions in her home of New York. She has done commentary on shows like Flex Fight and has also done work as a ring girl. In this episode we talk about her work in the MMA industry, her "Outside the Box" podcast platform and what some of her interests are in MMA going forward. We also talk about how training in Martial Arts has impacted he...

Wushu World Champion and MIMMA Women’s Champion Jihin Radzuan is one of the first female martial artists to emerge from Malaysia. Her first exposure to martial arts was a brief stint training in Silat when she was 6 years old, but her life would change when she saw a Korean reality show featuring a professional female martial artist named Song Ka Yeon. Radzuan instantly knew that following in Song...

This is an interview I did with Blake Perry after his won over Makoa Cooper in Bellator on Oahu. This was a big win for Blake as his opponent comes from a very well known fighting family on Oahu and was making his debut in Bellator at the Neal Blaisdell Center. In this interview Blake and I discussed some of the things we had in common as we were both stationed on Oahu. We also discussed his early...

Dr. Richard Mak, DPT, is a Physical Therapist in New York City whose main objective is equipping his patients with the essential tools to care for their bodies proactively. He specializes in chronic lower back pain with special emphasis on the Mckenzie Method, sports-related injuries, post surgical rehabilitation, postural re-education and tendonitis injuries. Dr. Mak helps his patients surpa...

Sean Daughtery competed in UFC 1 against Scott Morris. Until recently Sean was the youngest fighter in UFC history having started at age 18. In this interview we discuss the early UFC's, Sean's training with Stipe Miocic in Cleveland Ohio and much more.

Luka Dziubyna is a documentary filmmaker who made a film called “After the Cage” that featured a variety of well know fighters from Michigan and Iowa. Luka is from Poland so we also discussed the war in Ukraine a bit.