Combat Chat Podcast

This episode the fella recap and breakdown the action of a some of the brutal offerings the UFC has given us as the first live sport during COVID. They breakdown down Justin Gaethje putting a stop to Tony Ferguson's 12 fight win streak and set himself up as number 1 contender to Khabib. Henry Cejudo being the first man to stop Dominic Cruz and Cruz being extra salty about the ref's stoppage. Lastly, they look at Glover Teixeira's prolonged beating of Anthony smith and use all three fights to look at when should fights be stopped in MMA.

This episode the fellas talk to Canberra's Muay U gym's owner, Kieran Walsh. They touched on many topics, like: Kieran starting up his own gym after his competitive fight days were over from a debilitating condition in his wrists, WBC's back story of getting involved in Muaythai, is strength and conditioning prioritised to highly over technical training, getting a to live long time dream of going to Japan for fighting through one of his students and having fighters on the big stage of ONE championship.

This episode the fellas have on Rockhampton's Snake Pit Gym's owner Torin "The Taipan" O'Brien. Torin hasn't had the most conventional fight career so far fromafter a few fight he rented out a space to train himself with no coach and go on fight shows to still taking up fights with top ranked opponents under circumstances that most people could not handle as well as he did, he has gathered a few of the most insane stories we ever hear in the combat sports community. All his stories though have the message of his love of Muaythai and how it has provided him a constant positive outlook that no matter what life throws at you, there is always a way to pull through and grow for these experiences.

This episode the fellas discuss the question asked by one of their listeners, Jake Davis. The question was "What do you think about guys with a couple of fights teaching others to fight?" The guys talked about the question is a few different ways taking things into consideration like is competitive exp really that important, the person's training age, their base knowledge of knowing how to teach in different ways and the types of people you'll come across to training in a gym. It's a good listen for those aspiring to be a coach one day.

This Episode the fellas have Zoe Putorak of Phoenix gym in Canberra on the podcast to talk to her starting Muaythai at a young age to become a mutliple WMC national champ and a Gold Medalist at the IFMA games in 2019. They also talk to Zoe about her helping mentor some of the newer fighters on the Phoenix team coming up and how teammates have to keep each other accountable if you want to be the best and how she has spend her time in lockdown but is now back into training.