On this edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, the second this week, host Eddie Goldman begins by discussing the ongoing 2006 World Championships of Wrestling and answering mail about boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, and mixed martial arts.

Next up is commentary on Thursday’s panel discussion in New York hosted by the National Sports Marketing Network (http://sportsmarketingnetwork.com) entitled “Mixed Martial Arts: Fighting its Way into the Mainstream.” Representing the MMA promotions were Michael Sakin, Vice President, Sales & Sponsorship of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Gareb Shamus, co-founder and CEO, International Fight League (http://ifl.tv). In particular, Sakin’s presentation, par for the course for the revisionist history being presented by the present owners and suits who run the UFC, is discussed, dissected, and decimated.

Following this panel discussion, we had a chance to speak with Gareb Shamus, and we have that interview for you right here on NO HOLDS BARRED.

The web page of USA Wrestling, TheMat.com, at http://themat.com, has set up a special section to cover the World Championships, at http://www.themat.com/specialevents/2006/worlds/default.php. The official event web site for the World Championships is at http://finish.whir.net.cn/Sports-center/english/index2.asp.

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 packed edition of NO HOLDS BARRED — the second this week — host Eddie Goldman conducts a series of interviews to preview the much-anticipated International Fight League (IFL) (http://ifl.tv) mixed martial arts card to be held this Saturday, September 23, at The Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, Ill. We also discuss some of the controversies and scandals raging in the combat sports.

Our main and lengthiest interview is with “The Fight Professor”, Stephen Quadros. Along with Bas Rutten, Stephen will handle the television broadcast duties for the IFL’s telecasts on Fox Sports Net, which return starting this Sunday, September 24. He is a longtime martial artist, announcer, actor, and musician. We preview Saturday’s IFL card, including both the team competition and the superfight between Pat Miletich and Renzo Gracie. We also discuss the prospects for the IFL as it begins to expand its operations both this year, which is its first, and next. Stephen also has his own web site, at http://StephenQuadros.com, and page on MySpace.com, at http://MySpace.com/StephenQuadros.

We speak with IFL fighter Rory Markham of Pat Miletich’s team, the Silverbacks, who faces Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Marcelo Dos Santos of Renzo Gracie’s Pitbulls in a welterweight fight, which is part of the IFL’s World Team Championships competition this Saturday. Markham has scored knockout victories in his first two IFL appearances. And we speak with IFL commissioner and co-founder Kurt Otto about how IFL is dealing with a controversy involving one fighter who had been scheduled to compete in this event in another team competition, Brian Ebersole of the Razorclaws. Both Markham and Otto were on an IFL media teleconference call.

On a more somber note, the use of steroids and other banned “performance-enhancing” substances has grown to near-epidemic proportions in the world of sports. Among those leading the fight against such dope-cheating is Richard Pound, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (http://www.wada-ama.org). Yet in mixed martial arts, boxing, and other professional combat sports, there still is no uniform policy for testing for doping, and no compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code. On an international media teleconference call last week, we speak with Richard Pound about these issues.

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

On this edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman speaks with Kevin Jackson, National Freestyle Coach for USA Wrestling and a former Olympic gold medalist and world champion freestyle wrestler, about the 2006 World Championships of Wrestling. This event takes place Sept. 26 through Oct. 1, 2006, in Guangzhou, China.

The web page of USA Wrestling, TheMat.com, at http://themat.com, has set up a special section to cover the World Championships, at http://www.themat.com/specialevents/2006/worlds/default.php. The official event web site for the World Championships is at http://finish.whir.net.cn/Sports-center/english/index2.asp.

We also expect to post another edition of NO HOLDS BARRED later this week.

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

On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman begins by discussing a number of disgraceful developments in the world of mixed martial arts.

The decline of technique and grappling, mediocre and worse fights on pay-per-view, another doping scandal, an allegation of another fixed fight, more fighters being stiffed by a promoter, and more disgraces and scandals are the targets this week. They also demonstrate why the once proud and valorous sport of mixed martial arts, formerly so honorably known as human chess, is devolving into what is now essentially human checkers.

At the same time, what should be one of the biggest and best boxing shows of the year takes place this coming Saturday, September 16, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, and on HBO Pay-Per-View in the U.S. The lead promoter for this card is Golden Boy Promotions.

In the main event, Mexican legend and WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera (62-4, 42 KOs) will fight a rematch with Rocky Juarez of Houston, Texas (25-2, 18 KOs). The last time both Barrera and Juarez fought, in May in Los Angeles, Barrera won a controversial split decision victory over Juarez. The outcome had first been announced as a draw, but then was changed to a win for Barrera, as the California commission said they had made a clerical error. Before that fight, Barrera had been expected by most to win handily. Now, hopefully, this will all be settled in the ring by these two warriors.

The two other major fights on this card and telecast also both promise spirited action, superior technique, and rugged competitiveness.

Argentina’s Jorge Barrios (46-2-1, 33 KOs), the colorful WBO 130-pound champion, will defend his belt against the undefeated Joan Guzman (25-0, 17 KOs) of the Dominican Republic. Both men are sluggers, although Guzman, nicknamed “Little Tyson”, has been developing into a boxer-puncher as well. But this is only Guzman’s second fight at this weight, so we shall see for which fighter size matters most.

The top fighter in the world at 122 pounds, WBC super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez (40-3, 29 KOs), will also defend his title against Jhonny Gonzalez (33-4, 28 KOs), the WBO bantamweight champion who is now moving up in weight. Both of these fighters, who each are from Mexico, have won most of their recent fights by knockout or TKO, so yet another intriguing battle is anticipated here.

As a preview of this loaded card, we spoke on a series of international media conference calls with Marco Antonio Barrera, Rocky Juarez, Golden Boy Promotions’ President Oscar De La Hoya, Jorge Barrios, Joan Guzman, Israel Vazquez, and Jhonny Gonzalez.

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

On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, we turn the tables a little bit.

When host Eddie Goldman was contacted by Eugene Robinson to be the subject of an interview for his forthcoming book on the combat sports, it was agreed that this interview would be recorded and also used on NO HOLDS BARRED. Eugene is an old colleague from the combat sports media who has also been spreading the word in some mainstream media outlets. Besides that, he has trained in the combat sports, is lead vocalist with the band Oxbow (http://theoxbow.com), and was on MySpace (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=3162086) even before Eddie.

This week we bring you, in two parts, this interview.

Eugene begins by asking Eddie how he became the combat sports journalist that he now is. The discussion then delves into his background, his love of wrestling, the history of combat sports in particular and sports in general, an assessment of the current state of various combat sports, culture, politics, and, of course, philosophy. This is a special show where some very critical questions are addressed in depth, and, as usual, the analysis is NO HOLDS BARRED.

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

On this week’s edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, we turn the tables a little bit.

When host Eddie Goldman was contacted by Eugene Robinson to be the subject of an interview for his forthcoming book on the combat sports, it was agreed that this interview would be recorded and also used on NO HOLDS BARRED. Eugene is an old colleague from the combat sports media who has also been spreading the word in some mainstream media outlets. Besides that, he has trained in the combat sports, is lead vocalist with the band Oxbow (http://theoxbow.com), and was on MySpace (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=3162086) even before Eddie.

This week we bring you, in two parts, this interview.

Eugene begins by asking Eddie how he became the combat sports journalist that he now is. The discussion then delves into his background, his love of wrestling, the history of combat sports in particular and sports in general, an assessment of the current state of various combat sports, culture, politics, and, of course, philosophy. This is a special show where some very critical questions are addressed in depth, and, as usual, the analysis is NO HOLDS BARRED.

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