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505: THE BEST THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES

Boxing needs to celebrate the smaller guys more. Inoue and Donaire are showing the way for the rest of boxing to follow and hopefully those bigger weight categories amend their attitudes accordingly. We review the weekends boxing and look ahead…

504: NEARLY THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW

For 24 minutes we got a punch perfect performance from Leon Edwards but one thing is for sure in MMA, never rule out Nate Diaz. All that hard work was undone by 60 seconds of Nate Diaz being Nate Diaz…

503: PONCE UPON A TYNE

Congratulations to Jeremias Ponce who put in a sensational performance in Newcastle to beat home town favourite Lewis Ritson in good style. Referee Steve Gray though, is the man we are all talking about on todays show. This weeks see’s…

501: BOXING? PAUL, THE OTHER ONE!

We have absolutely no problem what so ever with the greatest boxer of his generation taking part in what he classes as a legalised bank robbery. How that ‘bank robbery’ is sold to the fans is where our concern begins.…

500: TUF ENOUGH

Quiet week this week with there being no fights to review but there is a new season of TUF getting under way. Volkanovski vs Ortega is a tremendous fight but will the build up make compelling TV viewing? We also…

499: FLASH BANG WALLOP

Age is nothing but a number! The ‘Filipino Flash’ Nonito Donaire, at 38 years of age, rolled back the years to put serious manners on Nordine Oubaali and become the WBC Bantamweight world champion.  A truly tremendous performance from him…

498: NOT JUST A BANGER

What performances from Rob Font and Carla Esparza at the weekend. Font put on a clinic against former world champion Cody Garbrandt whilst Carla Esparza went full savage in her big to regain UFC gold which is surely the opportunity…

497: TAYLOR MADE

This is what boxing is supposed to look like! When the best fight the best, beautiful brutality occurs and Taylor vs Ramirez lived up to and then exceeded all our expectations. We talk through the whole week as Josh Taylor…

496: CHARLIE BIG POTATOES

Charles Oliveira is the new lightweight world champion. 28 fights into his UFC career, the Brazilian got the job done, but had to show a huge set of spuds to survive an onslaught in the first round against Michael Chandler.…