On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman goes it alone to broach a series of topics which are usually too hot for most in the combat sports in general and the mixed martial arts in particular to address.

Among the issues discussed are racism and white supremacy, especially in mixed martial arts; whether or not UFC is a major league of mixed martial arts in terms of the quality of its shows; and the continued silence by many about the allegations in the Japanese media about the ties between Pride and the yakuza, the Japanese mob.

Also, NO HOLDS BARRED is available through iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&s=143441.

The show is in MP3 format, so may take some time to download.

The NO HOLDS BARRED theme song is called “The Heist”, by musician Ian Carpenter (http://iancarpenter.com/).

NO HOLDS BARRED is free to listen to and is sponsored by:

Chinchek Sports Wear (http://chinchek.com/), your online store for mixed martial arts, boxing, and kickboxing clothing, including shirts, fight shorts, hoodies, hats, and more. Wear what the pros like Frank Shamrock, Chris Lytle, and Ron Waterman wear.

BJJMart.com (http://bjjmart.com/), your premier source for all Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gear, videos, books, and much more.

King of the Cage (http://kingofthecage.com/), the number one cage fighting promotion on the planet.

Thanks, Eddie Goldman

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On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman speaks with former University of Oklahoma wrestler John Nix, who is helping run an event this weekend featuring the newest style of wrestling conducted under the auspices of USA Wrestling and FILA, the international wrestling federation.

That style is beach wrestling, and, to the surprise of some, it is starting to catch on with many veteran and novice wrestlers alike.

This event is the Oklahoma Southern Sand National Beach Wrestling Championship. It will be held this Sat., August 26, from 10 AM to 6 PM CDT, at 71st and Riverside in the Tulsa Riverside Parks at the beach volleyball court on the Arkansas River, all in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Our guest, a longtime educator, also does much other essential work with young people, and especially those from the Black, poor, and working class communities in Tulsa. He is co-owner of the non-profit organization Molding Men, which, as he has written online, “formed in 2004 to promote the sport of wrestling and for the purpose of providing Tulsa, Oklahoma youth, with summer employment and educational experiences that build on their individual strengths and incorporate youth development principles.” Molding Men also runs the Pin King Youth Wrestling Club, which is affiliated with USA Wrestling, and which trains over 30 young athletes mainly from the predominantly Black and poor North Side of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This beach wrestling event as well as the rest of these most admirable activities are well-explained on several web pages.

The Oklahoma Beach Wrestling page is at http://www.okbeachwrestling.com/.

The Oklahoma Beach Wrestling blog is at http://okbeachwrestling.blogspot.com/.

The Oklahoma Beach Wrestling profile on MySpace is at http://www.myspace.com/okbeachwrestling.

Make sure to check out all these pages, bookmark them, and do whatever you can to assist these efforts.

Also, NO HOLDS BARRED is available through iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&s=143441.

The show is in MP3 format, so may take some time to download.

The NO HOLDS BARRED theme song is called “The Heist”, by musician Ian Carpenter (http://iancarpenter.com/).

NO HOLDS BARRED is free to listen to and is sponsored by:

Chinchek Sports Wear (http://chinchek.com/), your online store for mixed martial arts, boxing, and kickboxing clothing, including shirts, fight shorts, hoodies, hats, and more. Wear what the pros like Frank Shamrock, Chris Lytle, and Ron Waterman wear.

BJJMart.com (http://bjjmart.com/), your premier source for all Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gear, videos, books, and much more.

King of the Cage (http://kingofthecage.com/), the number one cage fighting promotion on the planet.

Thanks, Eddie Goldman

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http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/nhbnews

There are those in the world of mixed martial arts (MMA) who have asserted for some time that MMA is a safer sport than boxing. There are those in the world of boxing and elsewhere who have asserted that MMA is inherently so dangerous that it should be banned. Until now, there has been scant scientific research if any to back up either proposition.

A major start to using science, research, and reason to examine the issue of safety and injuries in the combat sports has been taken with the recent publication of the study “Incidence of Injury in Professional Mixed Martial Arts Competitions”. The findings in this study appear in the July 2006 edition of the “Journal of Sports Science and Medicine”, which is a special issue devoted entirely to the combat sports.

The study was conducted by Gregory H. Bledsoe, Edbert B. Hsu, Jurek George Grabowski, Justin D. Brill and Guohua Li. The lead author, Dr. Bledsoe, is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He also knows something of the combat sports first-hand, as he has been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the past three years.

The study relied on data compiled from all professional MMA matches in the state of Nevada from September 2001 until December 2004, a total of 171 matches in all. Its results may surprise you, no matter what your take on these issues.

The table of contents and links to the abstracts, full text, and PDF versions of all articles in this issue can be seen at http://jssm.org/content_cssi1.php.

For the study on injuries in MMA, the abstract is at
http://jssm.org/combat/1/18/v5combat-18abst.php.

The full text is at
http://jssm.org/combat/1/18/v5combat-18text.php.

The full article, including tables, in a PDF file is at http://jssm.org/combat/1/18/v5combat-18.pdf.

On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman, speaks with Gregory Bledsoe about this important study and its findings.

Dr. Bledsoe can be contacted by e-mail at gbledso1@mac.com and gbledso1@jhmi.edu .

Also, NO HOLDS BARRED is available through iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&s=143441.

The show is in MP3 format, so may take some time to download.

The NO HOLDS BARRED theme song is called “The Heist”, by musician Ian Carpenter (http://iancarpenter.com/).

NO HOLDS BARRED is free to listen to and is sponsored by:

Chinchek Sports Wear (http://chinchek.com/), your online store for mixed martial arts, boxing, and kickboxing clothing, including shirts, fight shorts, hoodies, hats, and more. Wear what the pros like Frank Shamrock, Chris Lytle, and Ron Waterman wear.

BJJMart.com (http://bjjmart.com/), your premier source for all Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gear, videos, books, and much more.

King of the Cage (http://kingofthecage.com/), the number one cage fighting promotion on the planet.

Thanks, Eddie Goldman

http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/

http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/nhbnews

Rodney King once famously asked, “Why can’t we all get along?” Hank Williams Jr. amended that a bit to inquire, “Why can’t we all get a longneck?” Either way, these sentiments are useful to approaching the often-feuding worlds of boxing and mixed martial arts.

On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman, who lives in both these worlds, discusses boxing and mixed martial arts.

We speak with two critics of mixed martial arts who are primarily from the world of boxing, Jim Lampley of HBO and Thomas Hauser of SecondsOut.com (http://secondsout.com). They state their opinions, which are both discussed and also analyzed for some of their positive and negative points.

We also speak with former light heavyweight boxing champion Jose Torres about what he is doing today.

And we speak with hip-hop entrepreneur Damon Dash about why he has recently entered the world of boxing on the promotional side.

Also, NO HOLDS BARRED is available through iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&s=143441.

The show is in MP3 format, so may take some time to download.

The NO HOLDS BARRED theme song is called “The Heist”, by musician Ian Carpenter (http://iancarpenter.com/).

NO HOLDS BARRED is free to listen to and is sponsored by:

Chinchek Sports Wear (http://chinchek.com/), your online store for mixed martial arts, boxing, and kickboxing clothing, including shirts, fight shorts, hoodies, hats, and more. Wear what the pros like Frank Shamrock, Chris Lytle, and Ron Waterman wear.

BJJMart.com (http://bjjmart.com/), your premier source for all Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gear, videos, books, and much more.

King of the Cage (http://kingofthecage.com/), the number one cage fighting promotion on the planet.

Thanks, Eddie Goldman

http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/

http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/nhbnews

The full version of the theme song for NO HOLDS BARRED with Eddie Goldman, “The Heist” by Ian Carpenter, can be heard here.

On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman reintroduces the show’s theme song, “The Heist”, by musician Ian Carpenter (http://iancarpenter.com/). This was the original theme song when NO HOLDS BARRED was featured on the eYada.com Internet talk radio network.

Then Eddie discusses the latest disgraceful round of dope cheats getting caught in the world of sports, and the recent article called “Drugs in sport: Let’s treat them like wrestling”by Des Kelly of the Daily Mail in the UK (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/othersports.html?in_article_id=398557&in_page_id=1781/). Eddie also calls for the anti-doping procedures in the combat sports to be governed by the World Anti-Doping Code (http://www.wada-ama.org/en/dynamic.ch2?pageCategory.id=582).

Also, NO HOLDS BARRED is now available through iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&s=143441.

The show is in MP3 format, so may take some time to download.

NO HOLDS BARRED is free to listen to and is sponsored by:

Chinchek Sports Wear (http://chinchek.com/), your online store for mixed martial arts, boxing, and kickboxing clothing, including shirts, fight shorts, hoodies, hats, and more. Wear what the pros like Frank Shamrock, Chris Lytle, and Ron Waterman wear.

BJJMart.com (http://bjjmart.com/), your premier source for all Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gear, videos, books, and much more.

King of the Cage (http://kingofthecage.com/), the number one cage fighting promotion on the planet.

Thanks, Eddie Goldman

http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/

http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/nhbnews