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. Shak, along with BE’s consummate interviewer, Nick Baldwin, will also host a “post-show” starting halfway through the podcast.
This week on the show, Firas Zahabi, Head Coach of The Tristar Gym, makes a rare appearance on the Pull No Punches Podcast. Tristar, which is a top mixed martial arts training camp located in Le Triangle Borough in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is notably known for training fighters like GSP, Jon Jones, Mickey Gall, Rory MacDonald, Kenny Florian, Miguel Torres, Robert Whittaker, John Makdessi, Francis Carmont, Alex Garcia, Olivier Aubin-Mercier, Joseph Duffy, Elias Theodorou and Vitor Belfort, to name a few.
The Tristar head coach breaks down Georges St-Pierre’s retirement, Rory MacDonald’s training, drama at Tristar, how far prospect Mandel Nallo can go, and Khabib Nurmagomedov’s protest against a play in Dagastan.
Segments can be found as follows:
1:15 - When did Firas learn about GSP’s retirement?
2:00 - What led to GSP’s retirement?
3:05 - What would it take for GSP to fight again?
5:00 - Firas on champions who don’t defend their titles regularly
6:53 - What does retirement mean in MMA?
7:50 - Firas on Rory MacDonald
11:13 - How Firas manages such a famous gym
16:40 - Why Firas won’t shout out his prospects
18:30 - Firas says Mandel Nallo beats Michael Page
20:25 - Firas breaks down Khabib Nurmagomedov’s protest against “filth” play in Dagestan
26:10 - Firas is selling TimTams (The massager, not the chocolate biscuits)
31:19 - Firas says GSP’s retirement is not a negotiation ploy
32:35 - Post Show w/ Nick Baldwin
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*timestamps reflect times on the VIDEO podcasts, so may be a few seconds off on the audio broadcasts due to the audio podcast intro. Intro/Outro music of the Audio production has been provided by OxBow, starring Eugene S. Robinson.
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