It's Thursday afternoon and that means another great episode of the Three Amigos Podcast is up for your listening pleasure. This week we have Glory heavyweight champion, Rico Verhoeven, new UFC signee, Mike Jackson and the latest installment of the Weight List with leading weight management specialist, George Lockhart and our own Iain Kidd.
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.
In the 13th installment of the Weight List (segment begins at the 19:35 mark of the audio), George Lockhart and Iain Kidd discuss:
-Information on the "detox" trend
-Best food or food combinations for healing/recovering from injury
-Cris Cyborg's recent declaration that she will stay at 145 for the duration of her career
If you have a question you'd like to submit to The Weight 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
GLORY heavyweight champion, Rico Verhoeven (interview starts at the 54:05 mark of the audio), discusses:
-2016 goals
-Thoughts on SPIKE TV's lack of promotional interest in GLORY
-If Bellator/Viacom have made any contract offer to him for their proposed kickboxing promotion
-Thoughts on Alistair Overeem's recent fight with Junior dos Santos
-Thoughts on Peter Aerts' performance at RIZIN
-If he'd ever give consideration to a fight with Fedor at this early stage of his MMA career
-If he'd be interested in using a movement coach
-His work with heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury
-Working with the Paradigm management group
-Upcoming entertainment projects (movies, TV)
-How he came by such high level sponsor opportunities (Adidas, VDG Auto Service)
-Movie, Music and food chat
Here's Rico Verhoeven's latest recreation of a scene from JCVD's movie (4:13 mark), The Shepherd:
Newly signed UFC welterweight Mike Jackson (interview starts at the 1:33:05 mark of the audio) sits in with the Amigos to discuss:
-Upcoming UFC 196 bout with Mickey Gall
-If he ever thought of fighting under a pseudonym
-How he came to be selected for the Mickey Gall fight
-Thoughts on possibly not having the same opportunity as Gall (CM Punk fight) if he wins
-Thoughts on recent reffing and judging issues
-If Deontay Wilder is the answer to restoring boxing's heavyweight division to its former glory
-Thoughts on the Florian Fiasco
-If covering MMA as a journalist gives him unique insight when fighting
-movie, music, foodie chat
Here's Mike doing some interview work with fellow Texan and UFC fighter, Sage Northcutt:
The latest Master Debater installment focuses on Ronda Rousey and if she should focus on her acting career exclusively, or her MMA career exclusively. That segment begins at the 43:45 mark of the audio.
The hosts discuss:
-UFC Boston
-Favorite moments from the card
-Questionable officiating and scoring
-The predicament Anthony Pettis finds himself in with a second straight loss
-Kenny Florian's plagiarism
-BJ Penn returning to action
-Belfort/Jacare fight announcement
-Weekly fight prediction standings
-Making our fantasy UFC 200 card
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