Mike Pickston

Mike Pickston

614: THE LION QUEEN

Amanda Nunes proved that lightening doesn’t strike twice after all by mauling Julinna Pena at UFC 277 to reclaim her bantamweight crown. Brandon Moreno also reclaimed gold in the flyweight division by stealing the soul of Kai Kara-France, whilst Derrick…

613: WAR ON THE SHORE

Cruiserweight’s Chris Billam-Smith and Isaac Chamberlain do like to be beside the seaside, producing one of the best fights you’ll see this year down near the shore in Bournemouth.  Their 12-round slugfest was mesmerizing and whilst it was The Gentleman…

612: POWERFUL PADDY

A repeat of March was always going to be hard but UFC London, the July edition, gave us so many talking points, hence an extra long podcast. Tom Aspinall suffered a horrible injury in the main event which lasted only…

611: TOP OF THE BILL

Summer is here so it looks like boxing has taken a little bit of a break with there only being one real fight of note to actually review this week.   Theres a bit of boxing news to get stuck…

610: SHOULDERING THE BLAME

An unfortunate ending to the main event but on the whole a stellar card with plenty to talk about. Brian Ortega pops his shoulder handing victory to Yair Rodriguez whilst Shane Burgos vs Charles Jourdain gets us talking about scoring…

609: FORTUNA FAVOURS THE BRAVE

Ryan Garcia returned to the ring in sensational fashion at the weekend defeating Javier Fortuna and then rocking the microphone calling for a showdown with Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis.  In the UK the copper box was the destination for a few…

608: FIZZY RASCAL

The light weight division is red hot as you know with countless talented fighters making their way up the rankings. Is Rafael Fiziev the best of the new breed?   We discuss his magnificent performance against former  champion Rafael Dos…

607: DING DONG DEL

A good old fashioned Saturday night slobber knocker is what we had dished up at the O2 arena, where Derek Chisora had his hand raised in a split decision over Kubrat Pulev. We pick the bones out of a very…

606: ALEXANDER THE GREATEST

July 2022. The best fighter on the planet in any weight division is Alexander Volkanovski. The performance he gave in the third and final fight against Max Holloway confirms the fact, and now he has earned the right for a…

605: NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE

Joe Joyce’s ability to take punches clean in the face is super human.  How hard can he get it hit and keep on moving forwards has now become a theme for his fights. Can anyone hit him hard enough to…