No Holds Barred with Eddie Goldman
160 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNo Holds Barred with Eddie Goldman, who is widely known as the "conscience of combat sports", discusses the combat sports and martial arts, including boxing and various types of wrestling. It is called No Holds Barred because the show is dedicated only to telling the truth.
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No Holds Barred: Anthony Joshua, Wladimir Klitschko, Eddie Hearn, Kristal Hart, Bob Carson
February 02, 2017 00:00 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Anthony Joshua, Wladimir Klitschko, Eddie Hearn, Kristal Hart, and Bob Carson at the January 31 press conference at Madison Square Garden for the April 29 fight between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko. The 27-year-old Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs), who holds the IBF heavyweight belt, will face the veteran former champion Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs), who will be 41 at the time of the fight, at the 90,000-seat Wembley Stadi...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti on Meryl Streep, MMA, and Art
January 28, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. Mixed martial arts was drawn into a recent controversy involving Meryl Streep, who John Perretti regards as "the best living actress we have." On January 8, 2017, Streep was presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement during the Golden Globes awards TV show. ...
No Holds Barred: Is 2017 the Year of Anthony Joshua?
January 18, 2017 00:00 - 27 minutes - 37.1 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses whether 2017 will be the year that IBF heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) becomes the most popular boxer in the world and the best known since Muhammad Ali. Joshua's next fight is April 29 against former champion Wladimir Klitschko, at London's historic Wembley Stadium. We also discuss some parallels between Joshua's rise to prominence and Muhammad Ali's, the anti-Muslim bigotry Joshua has faced, Joshua's ...
No Holds Barred: McLaren Report on Russian State-Sponsored Doping in Sport Part II
December 10, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman presents the audio from the teleconference of the December 9 London press conference with Professor Richard H. McLaren, law professor at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) enlisted Prof. McLaren to lead the investigation and to issue a report about media reports of state-sponsored doping in Russia in sport. This is the second and final part of that report, and was made public Fri...
No Holds Barred: Balogun Ojetade on Dec. 11 Youth Survival Open House
December 07, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Balogun Ojetade, the founder, director, and master instructor of the Afrikan Martial Arts Institute, and co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute (USPI). They will be hosting a Youth Survival Open House event Sunday, December 11, at the Northwest Atlanta Library at Scott's Crossing, 2489 Perry Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia 30318. It aims to start to teach survival tips and practical survival training ...
No Holds Barred: Declan Hill on Kickbacks, Coverups, and the Criminal Network of Sports Doping
November 27, 2016 00:00 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with investigative journalist, academic, and expert on match-fixing in international sports, Declan Hill. There never is a shortage of topics to be discussed involving corruption, scandals, match-fixing, and doping in sports, but our discussion took place in the midst of revelations about an even worse series of allegations about kickbacks and coverups of doping. Based on extensive research conducted by the French dail...
No Holds Barred: Rob Maysey on Ali Act for MMA and Growth of MMAFA
September 11, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Rob Maysey of the Mixed Martial Arts Fighters Association (MMAFA). We spoke with him by phone Friday. Among the many activities of the MMAFA is the fight to expand the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 2000 and enacted then, to cover all professional combat sports, including MMA. You can view and sign the online petition to expand the Muhammad Ali Act here. The rebellion of fighters aga...
No Holds Barred: IOC and Russia, World Champions of Sport Corruption
July 25, 2016 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow Russian athletes to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics, which start August 5, despite unimpeachable evidence of Russia having a massive state-sponsored doping program. In light of this historic scandal, and the failure of the IOC to take appropriate measures, we officially crown both the IOC and Russia as the world champions of sport corruption. Also disc...
No Holds Barred: McLaren Report on Russian State-Sponsored Doping in Sport
July 18, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 94.9 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman presents the audio from Monday's teleconference of the Toronto press conference with Professor Richard H. McLaren, law professor at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) enlisted Prof. McLaren to lead the investigation and to issue a report about media reports of state-sponsored doping in Russia in sport. The 103-page Independent McLaren Investigation Report was also made public Mond...
No Holds Barred: The Greatest
June 05, 2016 00:00 - 34 minutes - 48 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the life and times of "The Greatest", Muhammad Ali, who passed away Friday, June 3, at the age of 74. Discussed are how Ali was in essence a man of his times, how he transcended boxing and all sports in a way that has not been seen before or since, the historical context in which he developed as a person and as a boxer, his ties with Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, his relationship to the Black Liberation Movement, ...
No Holds Barred: How Amorality Is Helping Kill World Sport
May 28, 2016 00:00 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the ballooning series of scandals and crises in world sport and the combat sports, including doping in pro and amateur boxing, the state-sponsored doping program in Russia, the Rio Olympics debacle, the Minnesota wrestling Xanax scandal, and more. Highlighted is the need to combat not only each instance of corruption and the structures which allow and profit from such outrages, but also the common win-at-all-cost amora...
No Holds Barred: Is Anthony Joshua Boxing's Next Superstar?
May 08, 2016 00:00 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with boxers Anthony Joshua and Dominic Breazeale, and Stephen Espinoza, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Showtime Sports, and Eddie Hearn, President of Matchroom Sports, about the June 25 Joshua-Breazeale fight and the future of boxing and the heavyweight division. The fight between the IBF champ Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) and the challenger Breazeale (17-0, 15 KOs) headlines a card at The O2 in London, which will...
No Holds Barred Tenth Anniversary: Dr. Margaret Goodman on Boxing, MMA, and Doping
April 19, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Dr. Margaret Goodman, a neurologist, the former chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and the president and board chairman of VADA, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association. This is another in a series of discussions celebrating the tenth anniversary of this No Holds Barred podcast, which began in March 2006. These interviews will focus both on the legacy and issues rais...
No Holds Barred Tenth Anniversary: Jens Sejer Andersen on Corruption and Elite vs. Grassroots Sport
April 04, 2016 00:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Jens Sejer Andersen, the international director of Play the Game. This is another in a series of discussions celebrating the tenth anniversary of this No Holds Barred podcast, which began in March 2006. These interviews will focus both on the legacy and issues raised over the years on this show, as well as contemporary issues and the future of the combat sports and martial arts. We spoke with Jens Sejer Andersen b...
No Holds Barred Tenth Anniversary: John Perretti on MMA and Grappling
March 31, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. This is another in a series of discussions celebrating the tenth anniversary of this No Holds Barred podcast, which began in March 2006. These interviews will focus both on the legacy and issues raised over the years on this show, as well as contemporary issues and the future ...
No Holds Barred: How to Unstrangle College Wrestling
March 28, 2016 00:00 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman offers a number of key proposals to unstrangle the stagnant sport of college wrestling and make it culturally relevant in America. Among the topics discussed are: the drop in TV ratings for the NCAA Div. I Wrestling Championships from 2015 to 2016; how there are few fans of college wrestling as a sport apart from the fans of each individual school; why college wrestling must be positioned as the anti-football sport, which is mu...
No Holds Barred Tenth Anniversary: Kevin Jackson on Iowa State Wrestling and NCAA Championships
March 12, 2016 18:29 - 43 minutes - 60 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Kevin Jackson, the Olympic gold medalist and two-time world champion freestyle wrestler, who is the head wrestling coach for the legendary Iowa State Cyclones. This is another in a series of discussions celebrating the tenth anniversary of this No Holds Barred podcast, which began in March 2006. These interviews will focus both on the legacy and issues raised over the years on this show, as well as contemporary iss...
No Holds Barred Tenth Anniversary: Mike Chapman
March 09, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with wrestling historian and author Mike Chapman. This is the first in a series of discussions celebrating the tenth anniversary of this No Holds Barred podcast, which began in March 2006. These interviews will focus both on the legacy and issues raised over the years on this show, as well as contemporary issues and the future of the combat sports and martial arts. We spoke with Mike Chapman by phone Tuesday. The spor...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti on the Life and Death of Kevin Randleman
February 16, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. Our focus was the untimely passing of the two-time NCAA wrestling champion and former UFC heavyweight champion Kevin Randleman, who passed away February 11 at the age of 44. John Perretti was the UFC matchmaker for most of his fights there and during his title reign. We spoke...
No Holds Barred: Eddie Goldman and Bob Carson on the Legacy of Manny Yarbrough
December 24, 2015 18:01 - 1 hour - 98.9 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Bob Carson, the host of Carson's Corner. Our topic was the life and legacy of the sumo wrestler and martial artist Manny Yarbrough, who passed away at age 51 a few days ago. A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise funds to transport his body from Virginia, where he lived, to New Jersey, where his mother lives, and to assist his family. The page is here. We spoke with Bob Carson by Skype Wednesday. Much...
No Holds Barred: On 'Concussion' Film, Bennet Omalu Foundation, and Contact Sports
December 19, 2015 19:26 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the new film "Concussion", a dramatization of the battles of Dr. Bennet Omalu to bring to public attention the connections between head trauma, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and NFL football. In this film, Dr. Omalu is very ably played by Will Smith. This stunning film, which is a must-see, premieres in the U.S. December 25. Everybody in America, and everwhere else when it comes out, should see this film. Dr. Omal...
No Holds Barred: The Olympics on the Road to Ruin
December 11, 2015 00:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the increasing number of grave crises and scandals facing the International Olympic Committee (IOC), its sports federations, and the Olympic movement in general. This week many of these were highlighted in a 192-page report issued by the World Cup and Olympics Popular Committee of Rio de Janeiro, also known as the Comité Popular. This was the fourth such report issued by this group since 2012 in their series known as ...
No Holds Barred: What Do They Know of the Combat Sports?
November 22, 2015 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MB(Photo credit: Tom Hogan - Hoganphotos/Roc Nation Sports/Golden Boy Promotions) On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses some of the issues around Saturday's unanimous decision victory by Canelo Alvarez over Miguel Cotto, the formation of the Pro Wrestling League in India which will air real wrestling matches on national TV there, how American wrestling needs more competent people to run it, why wrestling does not automatically teach positive values, how we ...
No Holds Barred: Michiel Thomas and Yuhei Ogawa on 'Game Face'
November 17, 2015 23:50 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Michiel Thomas and Yuhei Ogawa, the executive producers of the documentary film "Game Face". This documentary chronicles the coming out of two LGBT athletes: Fallon Fox, who is the first openly transgender MMA fighter, and Terrence Clemens, who came out as openly gay during his college basketball career. We spoke with Michiel Thomas and Yuhei Ogawa Monday in New York at a showing of "Game Face" as part of DOC NYC, which is A...
No Holds Barred: Wallid Ismail on Rizin and Jungle Fight
October 20, 2015 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with MMA and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend Wallid Ismail, who is the founder of the Brazilian MMA promotion Jungle Fight Championship. Jungle Fight 82 takes place Saturday, October 24, 2015, in Clube Sírio in São Paulo, Brazil. The main event is Ciro "Bad Boy" Rodrigues vs. Eric "Parrudo" Barbosa. Jungle Fight shows are televised on the Band broadcast network in Brazil and ESPN Deportes in the U.S. Beyond Brazil, Jungle Fight is gai...
No Holds Barred: Jens Sejer Andersen on Global Sport: Reform or Revolution?
October 08, 2015 19:33 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Jens Sejer Andersen, the international director of Play the Game. The 2015 Play the Game conference, which is held every two years, will take place October 25-29 at the Marselis Aarhus Hotel in Aarhus, Denmark. This year's conference will be held amidst an ever-growing list of scandals in world sport, the arrest of numerous top figures in many popular sports, and mounting popular opposition in many countries to ho...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti on A Life Of Concussions
October 06, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MB(Photo of Adrien Broner and Khabib Allakhverdiev by Stephanie Trapp/Showtime. Photo of Lucas Matthysse and Viktor Postol by Tom Hogan/Golden Boy Promotions.) On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. We spoke with him by Skype Tuesday Japan time (Monday New York time). John Perretti's fighting career mainly focused...
No Holds Barred: Ricardo Liborio, ADCC Stars Superfight Champion
September 18, 2015 00:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and grappling legend Ricardo Liborio, who is the co-founder and head instructor of American Top Team. Now at age 48, he competed in the ADCC Stars Superfight on August 29 at the 2015 ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship, which was held August 29-30 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship is the most important and prestigious grappling tournament in the world,...
No Holds Barred: Steve Nelson and the Unified Shoot Wrestling Federation (USWF)
July 31, 2015 07:10 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman reposts an interview with Steve Nelson, who fought in and ran the Unified Shoot Wrestling Federation (USWF) in the 1990s in Amarillo, Texas. This organization, which was one of the most successful local promotions of its time, held fights under what were called shootfighting rules, with only open hand strikes allowed, but with all submissions as well as kicks and knees permitted. It was thus a mixture of catch wrestling and MM...
No Holds Barred: Luis Ciraiz on Catch Wrestling, Grappling, BJJ, and MMA
July 12, 2015 07:13 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with catch wrestler Luis Ciraiz. Based in Guatemala, he has been visiting North America the past few weeks on a catch wrestling and grappling tour. He won a championship in the master's division at the NAGA U.S. Open Championship on July 4 in Winter Park, Florida, USA. Then he traveled to Mike Martelle's Grizzly Gym in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to hold a seminar on July 11 as well as a small catch wrestling tournament. We spoke ...
No Holds Barred: King Mo on Bellator MMA Dynamite, PBC and Boxing, and Black Lives Matter
June 28, 2015 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Bellator MMA and American Top Team fighter "King" Mo Lawal. He will be returning to action on the Bellator MMA: Dynamite!!! card Saturday, September 19, in a four-man, one-night light heavyweight tournament to determine Bellator's number one contender in this division. The other fighters in this tournament are former Bellator champion Emanuel Newton, Linton Vassell, and 2008 NCAA Div. I wrestling champion ...
No Holds Barred: Declan Hill on the FIFA Scandal and the Need for a World Anti-Corruption Agency for Sport
June 05, 2015 00:00 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with investigative journalist, academic, and expert on match-fixing in international football, Declan Hill. We have just seen the arrests on corruption charges of numerous top officials of FIFA, the international governing of football, the world's most popular sport, which is known as soccer in North America and elsewhere. More arrests and indictments are expected, all of which has led to the resignation of FIFA preside...
No Holds Barred: Fallon Fox on 'Game Face' Documentary
May 28, 2015 21:34 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with MMA fighter Fallon Fox. The first openly transgender MMA fighter, she is the subject, along with openly gay college basketball player Terrence Lamar Clemens, of a new documentary "Game Face". Directed by Michiel Thomas, this film documents the inspiring coming out stories of these athletes. We spoke with Fallon Fox by phone Thursday. "'Game Face' is a documentary about LGBTQ athletes, what happens to th...
No Holds Barred: Some Thoughts on My Birthday
March 22, 2015 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman, who is celebrating his birthday on Sunday, March 22, offers some thoughts and observations on the state of sports in general and the combat sports in particular. Discussed are the growing concern with head trauma and concussions; why retirement is not an option for him; the many problems facing wrestling and grappling events; the need to understand the world as a whole in order to understand the sports world; and much more. Th...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti on the Life of Phyllis Lee
February 06, 2015 00:00 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. Our main subject was a sad one, the passing of one of the true pioneers in the sport once known as no-holds-barred fighting (NHB) and now known as mixed martial arts, Phyllis Lee. But we also used this occasion to celebrate her remarkable life. Coming from a background as a p...
No Holds Barred: A Tribute to Phyllis Lee, the First Lady of NHB
January 25, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 93.1 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman presents a tribute to one of the true pioneers in the sport once known as no-holds-barred fighting (NHB) and now known as mixed martial arts, Phyllis Lee. Coming from a background as a pro wrestler, she was one of the first fight managers in the earliest days of MMA, representing numerous fighters including Dan Severn, Ron Waterman, Gary Myers, Chris Lytle, Nathan Marquardt, Shane Carwin, Carlos Condit, and many others. Besides getting ...
No Holds Barred: Akil Patterson on Diversity and Inclusion in the Wrestling Family
January 09, 2015 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with LGBT sports advocate, former Terrapin Wrestling Club director, and a member of USA Wrestling's diversity committee, Akil Patterson. We spoke with him by phone Wednesday. Although he had been a top college football player, he was also a wrestler and a wrestling coach. "I'm a wrestler at heart," he said. Akil identifies himself as a Black, gay, Christian male. We thus focused on the issues of overcoming homophobia and transp...
No Holds Barred: Carlos Newton on Fighters' Lawsuit vs. UFC
December 25, 2014 00:00 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with MMA pioneer and fighter Carlos Newton. He is one of the many people working with those who have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) alleging illegal market monopolization. This lawsuit was filed December 16 by fighters Cung Le, Nate Quarry, and Jon Fitch, who seek "to represent a class of similarly situated current and former UFC professional combatants". A virtually identical lawsui...
No Holds Barred: News Conference Announces MMA Fighters' Lawsuit vs. UFC
December 16, 2014 00:00 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman presents the complete audio from the news conference held Tuesday, December 16, in San Jose, California, announcing a class-action lawsuit by three current and former MMA fighters against the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) alleging illegal market monopolization. We expect to cover this more in depth shortly. Here is the official news release announcing this suit: Mixed Martial Arts Fighters File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Ultim...
No Holds Barred: Malcolm X and the Martial Arts and Combat Sports
May 18, 2014 00:00 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman reposts a commentary from May 2013 about the legacy of Malcolm X and its meaning for the martial arts and combat sports. Plus, added is a new introduction which discusses Malcolm X's emphasis on continuing to learn, adapt, and change, and how this applies to the martial arts and combat sports, especially for the reviving sport of catch wrestling and for those sports which produce repetitive head trauma and brain injuries. On M...
No Holds Barred: Dr. Michael Hutchison on Head Trauma in MMA
May 03, 2014 23:04 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Dr. Michael Hutchison of the University of Toronto Concussion Program. A research associate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Dr. Hutchison is also the lead author of a study, published in March 2014 in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, called "Head Trauma in Mixed Martial Arts". The purpose of this study was "(1) To determine the incidence, risk factors, and characteristics o...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti on Our 1000th Show
April 09, 2014 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. This is the 1000th show for No Holds Barred as a podcast, and we used this occasion to discuss the past, present, and future of the combat sports. We spoke with John Perretti, who is in Kyoto, Japan, by Skype Wednesday (Tuesday, New York time). "You've done a magnif...
No Holds Barred: Carlin Yetts on Wrestling and Grappling at 2014 Gay Games
January 06, 2014 19:49 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with wrestling coach Carlin Yetts. He is very busy in the sport of wrestling, serving as head wrestling coach of the Cbus Wrestling Club in Columbus, Ohio, as well as wrestling coach for Dodge Knights Wrestling, a recreational youth program also in Columbus. On the international level, he is a board member of the Federation of Gay Games, which every four years organizes the Gay Games, an international sporting and cultural event...
No Holds Barred: Dr. Sherry Wulkan on Transgender Athletes, Concussions, and Combat Sports
January 01, 2014 00:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Dr. Sherry Wulkan, who is the Medical Chair of the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC), the lead MMA and muay Thai physician of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, and the Medical Director of Long Island Sports Care Group Inc. in Bayport, New York. In 2012, Dr. Wulkan presented the policy proposal to the Association of Boxing Commissions on transgender fighters, which was based on what had already been a...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti Counters the Amnesia and Deceit on MMA History
November 05, 2013 23:22 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with the ex-pugilist, lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. With the 20th anniversary of the formation of the UFC, a lot of rubbish is being put out. We spoke with John Perretti by phone Tuesday to counter that. "20 years ago something occurred," he said. "A little kid in his pajamas got to wrestle a bunch of...
No Holds Barred: Ahati Kilindi Iyi and the African Fighting Sciences
July 31, 2013 00:39 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Ahati Kilindi Iyi, a martial arts legend and the head instructor and technical advisor of the TaMerrian Institute. Although as a youth he had a background in both wrestling and amateur boxing - his father was a boxer - Kilindi Iyi soon became attracted to the martial arts. This coincided with the rise of the Black Power movement, and growing up in the oft-rebellious Detroit area, he began to study the origins of the ...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti On Why He Has Moved On
July 21, 2013 18:46 - 1 hour - 108 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with the ex-pugilist, lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, JohnPerretti. Despite having come up with the term "mixed martial arts" and being a pioneer and one of the founders of modern MMA, John Perretti is no longer involved in the sport. Nor does he even watch it, either on TV or live, although he does sometimes keep up w...
No Holds Barred: Billy Robinson and Jake Shannon at East Coast Certified Catch Wrestler Training Camp
June 17, 2013 16:55 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with catch wrestling legend Billy Robinson and Jake Shannon of Scientific Wrestling. They were the lead instructors at the East Coast Certified Catch Wrestler Training Camp 2013, which was held June 15-16 in Englishtown, New Jersey. We spoke with both Billy Robinson and Jake Shannon right at the conclusion of this camp on Sunday. "I'm trying to open the minds of people about how good catch-as-catch-can wrestling is," said Billy ...
No Holds Barred: Nathan Hatton on His Book 'Rugged Game' and the History of Catch Wrestling
May 06, 2013 20:43 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with Nathan Hatton. He is the author of the new book about catch wrestling history entitled "Rugged Game: Community, Culture and Wrestling at the Lakehead to 1933". Dr. Hatton, who describes himself as a recreational wrestler, will be teaching history at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, starting this fall. This book details the rich history of both amateur and professional wrestling from the late 1800s to 19...
No Holds Barred: John Perretti on His Pioneering 1997 Grappling Event, The Contenders
December 03, 2012 02:14 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBOn this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again speaks with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. On October 11, 1997, before the major no-gi grappling championships of today, John Perretti was the main organizer of a pioneering grappling event known simply as "The Contenders". The format was a seven-match card, held in Sioux City, Iowa, pitting a team of various martial ...