It's Thursday and the Three Amigos Podcast is finally ready for your listening pleasure. We're a little late this week due to some minor technical difficulties, but we're here with a great show for you all. Our guests this week are Michael Bisping, Luke Rockhold and George Lockhart. Due to some unfortunate audio glitches with Luke Rockhold's connection during our interview with him, some heavy editing was required to bring the volume levels up and take some harsh static out. Hopefully, I have done a good enough job to present you all with a reasonably listenable segment.
Here is a summary of each interview segment, complete with time stamps for your convenience. As always, we hope you enjoy listening to the show as much as we enjoyed recording it. We will have a bonus Media Blitz edition later today available for our listeners featuring Sherdog's Jordan Breen and Bleacher Report's Jeremy Botter, so keep a lookout for that one.
The fourth installment of the Weight List (segment starts at the 15:00 mark of the audio) features our own Iain Kidd and top nutritionist, George Lockhart fielding questions on weight cutting, hydration and nutrition. Topics this week are: oral re-hydration vs. IV re-hydration, safe percentages of body weight to cut, and the benefits of coconut oil. If you have a question you'd like to submit to The Wait List Mailbag, please e-mail iain@threeamigospodcast.com or shoot him a tweet @iainkidd. You can also drop your question off on our Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/threeamigospodcast
UFC middleweight star, Michael Bisping (interview starts at the 40:00 mark of the audio) discusses his recent comments on Anderson Silva and change of heart on fighting him in the near future, whether or not there's a real epidemic of PED use in the sport, how Vitor Belfort permanently disfigured him, how effective USADA can be at keeping tabs on the UFC fighter roster, his recent elbow surgery and rehab/recovery process, being the most called out fighter in the UFC, who he thinks will win between Rockhold and Weidman, stern advice for Tim Kennedy and much, much more.
UFC Number 1 middleweight contender, Luke Rockhold (interview starts at the 1:18:15 mark of the audio) discusses Vitor Belfort's recent interview dodge, his elevated testosterone results from UFC 152, USADA's efficacy, Weidman's slow speed punching, thoughts on Nick Diaz' NAC issues, whether he'd consider moving up to 205, his hiring of Dan Leith and George Lockhart to help manage his weight cutting, his unorthodox jiu-jitsu and more.
The hosts discuss current events with topics including a look back at UFC Ireland, Bellator 144, the issues Bellator is having with their ratings, Glory being removed from Spike TV, a tally of the weekly pick/predictions standings (yep, Stephie is still leading), Shamorck/Angle rumors and more.
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