The Conor McGregor comeback is gross
In this episode of Fighting Matters, co-hosts Jesse Walker and Mike Mahaffey take on Conor McGregor's UFC comeback and the media tour selling it: a man found civilly liable for sexual assault, platfor...
27 Kesä 56min
An honest UFC Freedom 250 critique
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Steve Kwan is joined by Jesse Walker of Rough Hands BJJ to talk about the fallout from UFC Freedom 250, the fight card staged on the White House lawn for America's...
19 Kesä 1h 7min
The UFC Freedom 250 debacle
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Jeff Shaw is joined by Jesse Walker, Mike Mahaffey, and Stephan Kesting to take apart UFC Freedom 250, the card being staged on the White House South Lawn on June ...
12 Kesä 51min
Anti-Trans Hate Is a UFC Marketing Strategy
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Steve Kwan talks with Mike Mahaffey of Old Bastard BJJ about the trans hate pouring out of combat sports, and the fighters who have figured out it pays. They start...
8 Kesä 1h
Why did UFC BJJ let Mikey compete with a staph infection?
In this episode of the Fighting Matters podcast, Steve Kwan is joined by Jeff Shaw of Bellingham BJJ, Mike Mahaffey of Old Bastard BJJ, and Dr. Clayton Green, a board-certified dermatologist and BJJ p...
26 Touko 1h 1min
How Jiu-Jitsu Survives the AI Era
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Steve Kwan is joined again by Dr. David Riedman: 17-year jiu-jitsu practitioner, MIT-trained data analyst, and PhD researcher whose dissertation focused on measuri...
21 Touko 1h 34min
A Man Broke Into My Apartment at 4 AM (feat. Andrea Tang)
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Steve Kwan is joined by Andrea Tang: novelist, brown belt at District Martial Arts, and host of BJJ Today on the BJJ Mental Models Premium Network. Three years ago...
14 Touko 59min
How YOU Can Clean Up Jiu-Jitsu
After yet another sexual abuse case in the BJJ community, the Fighting Matters crew works through a question every grappler eventually has to answer: "What can I, as just a student, actually do about ...
5 Touko 1h 3min
