The MMA Depressed-Us Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comAfter just two events this year, the UFC is taking a little break, so our creak team of analysts is driving us down a highway of despair with some last minute replacements that didn’t pass muster. These gents all valiantly stepped up to save the day, only to lose in disappointing fashion,

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comIt’s 2025 now, officially time to leave 2024 in the rearview mirror. Or is it? Our crack team of analysts have decided to give the gift of fights, and they’re giving some of the worst fights of the year. Why? Because they know you’ve all been naughty and probably should’ve gotten coa

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comFor this off-week, we’re treating you with a watch-through of the future masterpiece that is The Curse of the Clown Motel. Zane, Connor and Phil are traveling to the “World-Famous Clown Motel” where Randy Couture and Tobin Bell lead the cast. “Guests check in but they don’t check o

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comYou guys and gals are in for a real treat this episode, some of our finest work watching terrible fights so you don’t have to. It’s only Zane and Connor, as Phil was off stocking up on coal. Today’s triumvirate of terrible features some truly awful contests. Consider yourself forewarne

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comTony Ferguson’s career plummet has concerned fans for years, but perhaps it’s his “champ shit” mindset that confounds everyone the most. Or maybe it’s a complete misunderstanding of his place in the MMA space. Another point of consternation for most analysts is the inability to cha

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comAnother off-week from UFC, another great episode of our terrific trio suffering through horrendous fights so you don’t have to. They really do love us. This time around, we get a quartet of miserable contests from none other than our reigning middleweight champion. The king of looking gass

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comSince this is an off-week for the UFC, you already know what that means—another hilarious episode of The MMA Depressed-us. With the retirements of both Andrei Arlovski and Michelle Waterson-Gomez, the boys figured this would be the perfect subject matter for today’s show. There’s no be

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comRoad House was the Little Engine that Could back in 1989, when it became a cult classic. “Pain don’t hurt” became the motto of every wannabe macho man on the planet. And then it got rebooted. They replaced the perfectly cast Patrick Swayze with a too-quick-witted Jake Gyllenhaal and ga

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comPhew! We haven’t had one of these in nearly three months. The UFC’s schedule has been absolutely insane, but now that we have this small break in their dismal Apex programming, we figured we’d bring you something to make you feel right at home. THREE MORE DISMAL FIGHTS! Because that’

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.comWe’re barely into the new year and UFC has already left us high and dry just two weeks after returning from a month-long drought. But lucky for you, our terrific trio are here to get you through this week with a re-watch of three godawful title fights. If the Apex were a thing back in the