Bloody Elbow Presents

Episode 21 Paulie Malignaggi craters combat sports discourse o a new low in Artem Lobov spat - 2:05 Tito Ortiz basically admits Oscar De La Hoya is shockingly not a good MMA promoter - 11:34 Fight-bookings: JDS-Ngannou moved to ESPN main event, Hardy vs. Adams at UFC San Antonio, Arlovski vs. Rothwell 2 at UFC San Antonio - 19:02 Victor’s Regional MMA Round-up: What regional-level MMA is on this week? - 34:31 UFC Rochester Recap - 41:19 Victor: Ladd, Oliveira, Luque, ACJ, Lee (3-2) Stephie:...

Zane Simon, Connor Ruebusch, and Phil Mackenzie of http://BloodyElbow.com are back once again and watching the worst fights they can find. This week they're focusing their attention at the career high/low-lights of PRIDE/DREAM/Strikeforce/Bellator veteran James Thompson with Rob Broughton vs. James Thompson at Cage Rage 17, Mariusz Pudzianowski vs. James Thompson at KSW 17, and Bobby Lashley vs. James Thompson at Super Fight League 3. Broughton vs. Thompson:...

Join your host, the indubitable Alexei Auld, author of “7 Secret Sources of Inspiration: A Snappy Guide for Creative Procrastinators”, and his guests, the great Kid Nate, Bloody Elbow General Manager and the creator of The Let it Roll Podcast, and of course rounding out the team we have the infamous Eugene S. Robinson, from ozy.com, the OZY CONFIDENTIAL PODCAST and author of “Fight, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You Would Get Your Ass Kicked for...

The Show Money crew is Paul the economist, Jason the lawyer, and John the Bloody Elbow MMA financial analyst, and the man who knows about everyone and everything in the history of MMA. In today’s episode, the guys discuss the UFC’s recent PPV buys under ESPN+ exclusivity as well as the news that its revenues declined and debt was restructured. There are rumors Endeavor may buy Premier Boxing Champions (PBC). How would that even work and what might Endeavor do with it? We close the show with...

Episode 20 Should Rashad Evans really be a UFC hall-of-fame fighter? - 3:07 Tyron Woodley out of Robbie Lawler rematch, everyone wants a piece of Lawler - 17:02 Vicente Luque calls out The Ponz for UFC Uruguay - 23:31 Jessica Aguilar, Jordan Rinaldi released by UFC - 27:28 Dominic Breazeale gets clearly KO’d by Deontay Wilder, still argues the fight was stopped early - 33:28 Social Media Roundup - 37:32 Tyson Fury throwing that shade on Twitter...

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson of ozy.com and author of “Fight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking” and host of the newly released OZY CONFIDENTIAL podcast, and co-host John S. Nash is back, the financials analyst of our Show Money Podcast, aka: the man who knows everything there is to know about the history of MMA. Eugene and...

Zane Simon & Eddie Mercado are here to breakdown tonight’s event; the guys are here with hot takes, possible next fights, as well as reactions to the overall event. On the 18th of May, 2019, the UFC put on their UFC Fight Night 152/UFC on ESPN+ 10 event brought to us from Rochester, New York. The main attraction featured a Welterweight Bout between former Lightweight Champion, Rafael dos Anjos, and former Interim Lightweight Title contender, Kevin Lee. RDA came into this fight with a 28-11-0...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returned tonight, Saturday, May 18th, 2019, with some decent bouts worth catching. Our main event featured a Welterweight Bout between Former Lightweight Champion, Rafael dos Anjos, and the Former Interim Title Contender, Kevin Lee. Antônio Carlos Júnior vs Ian Heinisch battled it out in a Middleweight match up for our co-main event; with Vicente Luque, Megan Anderson, Davi Ramos, and a trilogy fight between Nik Lentz & Charles Oliveira rounding out...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns tonight, Saturday, May 18th, 2019, with some decent bouts worth catching. Our main event features a Welterweight battle between Former Lightweight standouts, Rafael dos Anjos and Kevin Lee. The card as a whole doesn’t have a lot of name value, but there are many intriguing bouts scheduled to take place on the main card that have a high possibility of ending with a finish. Antônio Carlos Júnior vs Ian Heinisch will battle it out in a...

Your hosts Shak Mahjouri & former UFC fighter, Kajan Johnson are here each week on Saturday’s at 2pm CST as “MMA’s most colorful and entertaining personalities”. They will present you an hour of MMA content, varying from fighter interviews to discussions on current MMA Topics. This week on the show, Cody Stamann joined the "Pull No Punches" podcast. The bantamweight fighter touches on his quick recovery from a seemingly severe injury vs. Aljamain Sterling, how he got into yoga to meet women,...

Episode 20 Jon Jones admits he doesn’t want to fight Daniel Cormier at heavyweight, because it’s his “greatest chance of losing” - 2:34 BJ Penn says the desire to compete is still there even after another loss - 9:30 Neil Magny pulled from UFC Rochester, reveals he failed USADA drug test - 19:33 Fight bookings round-up: Holloway-Edgar (240), Carmouche-Modafferi (UFC San Antonio), Montano vs. McMann, Calvillo vs. Souza, Elkins vs. Hall (UFC Sacramento) - 27:23 UFC 237 Recap - 40:25 Victor:...

Zane Simon & Connor Ruebusch of http://BloodyElbow.com return to breakdown the undercard fights from this Saturday's, May 18th, UFC on ESPN+ 10 event from Rochester, NY - with Prelims starting at 5PM/2PM ETPT, with the Main Card culminating at 8PM/5PM ETPT. The guys have picks and odds for every fight on the prelims card. The guys will go through the undercard starting with the featured prelim bout and move their way on down to Julio Arce vs Julian Erosa in the prelims opener. In our...

Zane Simon & Connor Ruebusch welcome their first guest to the show, none-other-than former color commentator, Jimmy Smith, to help breakdown this Saturday's, May 18th, UFC on ESPN+ 10 event from Rochester, NY with Prelims starting at 5PM/2PM ET/PT, with the Main Card culminating at 8PM/5PM ET/PT. The main attraction features Welterweight Bout between former Lightweight Champion, Rafael dos Anjos, and former Interim Lightweight Title contender, Kevin Lee. RDA comes at this fight with a...

Join your host, the indubitable Alexei Auld, author of “7 Secret Sources of Inspiration: A Snappy Guide for Creative Procrastinators”, and his guests, the great Kid Nate, Bloody Elbow General Manager and the creator of The Let it Roll Podcast, and of course rounding out the team we have the infamous Eugene S. Robinson, from ozy.com, the OZY CONFIDENTIAL PODCAST and author of “Fight, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You Would Get Your Ass Kicked for...

Episode 19 Fallout from UFC 237 - Rose Namajunas possibly retiring, Anderson Silva’s latest injury, BJ Penn and Lil’ Nog to the glue factory - 3:21 Nate Diaz vs. Anthony Pettis agreed for UFC 241 - 19:35 Donald Cerrone vs. Tony Ferguson set for UFC 238 - 24:08 Errol Spence Jr vs. Shawn Porter targeted for PBC on FOX, NOT PPV - 28:11 RIP Harold Lederman - 34:02 Social media round-up - 38:30 Conor McGregor goes in tweet-then-delete mode for Aldo, Penn...

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson of ozy.com and author of “Fight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking” and host of the newly released OZY CONFIDENTIAL podcast, and co-host John S. Nash is back, the financials analyst of our Show Money Podcast, aka: the man who knows everything there is to know about the history of MMA. Eugene and...

Zane Simon & Eddie Mercado are here to breakdown tonight’s event; the guys are here with hot takes, possible next fights, as well as reactions to the overall event. On the 11th of May, 2019, the UFC put on their UFC 237 PPV event brought to us from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The card featured a Strawweight Title Fight between ‘Thug’ Rose Namajunas, with a record of 8-3-0 — against Jéssica “Bate Estaca” (aka: ‘Pile Driver’) Andrade, with a longer 19-6-0 record. They were both coming off of...

Brawling for the World Strawweight Title, on a three-fight winning streak, ‘Thug’ Rose Namajunas, the “Current Best Female Strawweight” defending her title, whose last loss was to Karolina Kowalkiewicz at UFC 201 on the 30th of August, way back in 2016, she now has a 8-3-0 record. ‘Thug’ Rose hasn’t fought since April of 2018 when she defeated Joanna Jedrzejczyk for the second consecutive time and defended the UFC Women’s Strawweight Championship, but she will make her second attempt at...

Brawling for the World Strawweight Title, on a 3-fight winning streak, ‘Thug’ Rose Namajunas, the “Current Best Female Strawweight” defending her title, whose last loss was to Karolina Kowalkiewicz at UFC 201 on the 30th of Aug., way back in 2016, she now has a 8-3-0 record. ‘Thug’ Rose hasn’t fought since April of '18 when she defeated Joanna Jedrzejczyk for the 2nd consecutive time & defended the UFC Women’s Strawweight Championship, but she will make her 2nd attempt at defending that...

Your hosts Shak Mahjouri & former UFC fighter, Kajan Johnson are here each week on Saturday’s at 2pm CST as “MMA’s most colorful and entertaining personalities”. They will present you an hour of MMA content, varying from fighter interviews to discussions on current MMA Topics. This week on the show, UFC legend Chris Leben touches down on the “Pull No Punches” podcast. “The Crippler” opens up about how he made amends with his “Ultimate Fighter” cast mate Bobby Southworth, and confirms his...