This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking another break, just a month after its last one, because of Memorial Day. Not that we’re complaining, just making note of the situation. Our analysts are without their man across the pond, though. Phil is likely battling crime or doing some other civic duty that aids and benefits the public, but Zane and Connor have done a swell job of com…...
May 22, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com UFC is taking a little break after its 314th numbered event—a PPV that took place in Miami with the president and several members of his cabinet sitting cageside—so our crack team of analysts (just Zane and Connor this week) are here to provide plenty of laughs and even some thoughtful conversation as they courageously trudge through three miserable fig…...
Apr 17, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com After 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, no doubt making several parental units question their place in th…...
Jan 23, 2025•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com It’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 coal under your Christmas tree. To remedy Santa’s clear mistake, the coal …...
Jan 02, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com For 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 out” graces the movie poster and calls to memory an old pesticide commerc…...
Dec 27, 2024•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com You 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 forewarned. UFC 307 wasn’t a terrible card for the most part. Yes, we loved Pe…...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Tony 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 change his game. Whatever the case may be, his downfall is illustrated in the…...
Nov 28, 2024•40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Another 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 gassed until he’s won is in four separate stinkers, and we’re here to…...
Aug 29, 2024•23 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Since 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 better way to kick off your 4th of July festivities than with a triple …...
Jul 04, 2024•26 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Road 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 gave the role of the big bad to UFC superstar Conor McGregor and made a…...
May 23, 2024•36 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Phew! 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’s exactly what you needed in your life. MMA Vivisection & 6th Round is a…...
Apr 18, 2024•30 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com We’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 good old days, we’re certain this is where these three fights wou…...
Jan 25, 2024•59 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com 2023 was a pretty wild year. The very first day saw UFC president Dana White slap his wife on camera and that kind of set the tone for the rest of the year. One thing that never changes is the sport’s ability to provide some of the greatest fights, and alternately, some of the worst. That’s why we’re here, to provide you with an unbiased (or maybe compl…...
Jan 04, 2024•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Mojave Diamonds won’t be taking the awards season by storm, but it is an unintentional comedic gem. The acting is awful, the dialogue is ridiculous, the action is brawlic and the vibe is as cringe as one would imagine when met with a cast that features Chael Sonnen, Donald Cerrone and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. Bloody Elbow is fighting for the sport, the…...
Dec 28, 2023•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Mauricio “Shogun” Rua made his name in PRIDE and cemented it in the UFC with a style that was crowd-pleasing in both promotions. Fights with Rampage Jackson and Dan Henderson are what fans immediately call up to memory, but you could really go through his record and see a veritable cornucopia of names going as far back as 2003 when he faced Evangelista …...
Dec 21, 2023•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com With no UFC until December 2nd, the boys are back with another depressing watch of three fights. The focal point of the show is foul play (fights with lots of fouls). Pretty ingenious considering we’re about to enter the foulest holiday of them all. We’ve even got a Faux Phil since real Phil was unavailable for recording. Let’s take a look at the fights…...
Nov 23, 2023•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Let’s face it, friends, UFC Vegas 82 is a miserable card, as most Apex events are. Zane Simon certainly picked the right week to go on vacation, so that he could be spared of this nothingburger of a card. But never fear, fans of sanctioned violence, the boys have a brand new episode of The MMA Depressed-us and it’s a hoot! Bloody Elbow is fighting for th…...
Nov 16, 2023•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Yep, the title says it all. We think Fury-Ngannou will not be competitive. Is there really any other sane way to look at this? The training footage Ngannou released over the last several weeks has not been encouraging, to say the least. Is Tyson Fury even training for this fight? Bloody Elbow is fighting for the sport, the fighters and the fans. If you …...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com “A young man trapped in his apartment with a swarm of creatures outside his door must find a way to survive the night and escape from apartment 213.” That’s the synopsis IMDB gave this movie starring Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. Watch along with us as we try to make heads or tails of whatever this movie is trying to achieve. Spoiler alert, the movie makes n…...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 23 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com The MMA Depressed-us returns for Ep. 76 Are you ready for some torturously bad fights, fellow MMA masochists? We have made some changes to the Bloody Elbow Podcast Network Production Schedule , and have decided for now, this will be our last 'non-event week' of podcast coverage. But don't panic... The MMA Depressed-us gang are safe. Because we plan to event…...
May 25, 2023•12 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com Another non-UFC week in the books means another week with the MMA Depressed-us back in action. The advent of our sudden sub-stack plans may have killed my Patreon idea (it just didn’t feel right), but we did have a few more viewer requests to work with, and one especially struck a chord, watching the UFC career of Drew McFedries. For those that don’t rem…...
Mar 30, 2023•10 min
One moment they’re here, the next they’re gone. The UFC returned from their holiday hiatus with a pair of shows to open 2023, and have promptly disappeared again—leaving us out here twisting in the breeze. As a result, we’ve had no other option than to get back on our bullshit. This time around, we’re remembering some of MMA’s most famed/notorious/one-dimensional guard grapplers. The men who loved to dive for kneebars and heel hooks and got lit up like a Christmas tree when that didn’t work. To ...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 22 min
The final week of the holiday UFC hiatus is upon us. Which means one more episode of the MMA Depressed-us before the world’s largest MMA promotion launches back into their breakneck schedule. This time around, we’re taking a look at some of the many high profile cases of former teammates and training partners facing off inside the Octagon. Our journey starts with one of the most legendary training partner beefs in UFC history, all the way back at UFC 145 in 2012, when recently crowned champion J...
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 46 min
