Here we go! Our first ever Japanese Kickboxing Special, join
@the3els
and
@JDillaThaKilla
as they welcome
@F______Dolphin
to the podcast as our professor of JKick.
Tune in to hear about five of the top 15 P4P kickboxers in the world on one of the best cards in years!
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Our first ever special guest appearance!
@InnerGMMA
joins us to talk everything from the fight game, to business, mindset for life, and his budding comedy skit career!
Link Below👇👇
Announcment! We have joined the CST Network and our first episode for them is out! For UFC 300 week we have the first of 3 big episodes this week, this one on the prelims, though it's not really the exact prelims you expect. Enjoy Val's extremely cringey intro!
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In the main event, high school wrestling standout and LFA champion Kegan Gennrich defends his LW title against former Rutgers wrestler and powerhouse Richie Lewis. This fight could easily be on the contender series for a UFC contract. Two great wrestlers and mixed martial artists
UFC 300 Main Card Episode is LIVE!!!
We break down and rate the top 6 fights on UFC 300 (not Nickal/Brundage) and with the help of CST we will have some fire artwork each week for our episodes, with our rating shown.
This is one of our better episodes too, imo.
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This weekend is one of the most loaded weekends in global MMA we have had in a while!! This thread will detail the best fights of the weekend and what to look out for across the globe👊🏼🧵
Our new logo is HERE! Thanks so much to Faceless for making it, check out his work!
We have a few more things in the works to just improve the production value of the show. Working with CST enables us to make the show that much better with this help from graphic designers, etc.
UFC 303 Podcast Episode is LIVE: "Theseus' Ship As A UFC PPV"
We break down, make picks, and rate all fourteen fights on the card, though we only spend about 5 seconds on the one HW fight.
Tune in later today for a live show breaking down the non-UFC fights this week.
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Pick, rating, and analysis for all fourteen fights on UFC 301, a card we consider to be far better than most think it is.
UFC 301 Is Pretty Alright
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New Episode is LIVE for UFC Vegas 93 and PFL 4. We spend most of the pod on Taira vs Perez and the rest of the UFC card, before jumping over to PFL, which is tonight.
Enjoy! ⏬Link Below⏬
New Special Guest episode is LIVE! We interview Cage Titans FC president Mike Polvere ahead of Cage Titans 64 to talk about what its like to run a regional MMA promotion.
Interesting topics include: methods for promoting & behind the scenes fight week schedule
⏬Link Below⏬
New Episode is Live!! We discuss UFC St Louis, a pretty fun card with a shambolic main event. Tune in for your morning commute or you will spill coffee on yourself!
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Podcast is up!! We go over Edson Barboza vs Lerone Murphy in the UFC, Bellator: Paris featuring Patchy Mix vs 'Tiger' Magomedov 2 and Cedric Doumbe vs Jaleel Willis, and the first undisputed heavyweight boxing title fight in 25 years, Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk.
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New Episode is Live!
We spend about only half the time talking UFC, as PFL+ONE are more interesting this week. Tune in for a rundown of every fight & fighter we find interesting in the world of combat this week! Dylan is into PFL, Val is team ONE Friday Fights.
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Our UFC 302 Episode is up!! We break down every fight on the upcoming PPV, and rate each one to come up with a composite rating for the full card.
Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy Dylan's smooth music stylings on your way to work with our best intro ever.
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Our UFC 300 main card episode is our new biggest episode ever! Appreciate everyone who tuned in, and about half of people listened to basically the full episode, which is great audience retention.
Maybe soon we will crack triple digits with an episode.
Our new episode is out! Join us to be frustrated with the state of MMA and heavyweight main events as we try to enjoy the genuinely good fights that are going down this week! We rate every fight on UFC Vegas 87 and surprise, surprise, its one of our lowest rated ever.
Episode👇👇
It’s fight week for
@InnerGmma
again! He takes on Jake Hadley in his home city of St Louis this weekend on May 11th. in February, we had Charles on as a guest for an awesome episode following his win over Azat Maksum. Check it out if you haven’t, and watch his upcoming fight👊🏼
OKAY, FIXED, IMA TRY THIS AGAIN!
New episode out! Join our frustration w/the state of MMA & HW main events as we try to enjoy the actually good fights going down this week! We rate each fight on UFC Vegas 87 and surprise, surprise, among our lowest rated ever. Also; ONE 166:
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Women's Flyweight is GOOD Now?!?
Tune in as Val and Dylan break down UFC Atlantic City and the best women's fight night main event in quite some time between Fiorot and Blanchfield, as well as a solid undercard.
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Our first ever special guest appearance!
@InnerGMMA
joins us to talk everything from the fight game, to business, mindset for life, and his budding comedy skit career!
Link Below👇👇
This week we broke the episode into two parts. Here is part 1, exclusively for UFC 299's prelims, and its still long as fuck because there are several fights worth talking about.
Also: our first ever semi-heated (not really serious tho) argument!
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Hey guys! Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the existence of CageCraft podcast. We just wanted to take a second to thank everyone who has supported us and listened over the last year. We started as just three guys chattin mma, and it’s grown more than we imagined (1/2)
T-15 MINUTES until we go LIVE on this very Twitter account for the first time ever, breaking down today's great PFL 5 card...with maybe a touch of Bellator too.
Cagecraft 37 is live, its an off week essentially, so this is what can fairly be characterized as two mini pods, a solo preview of UFC Vegas 91 and a recap of the Olympic Wrestling Trials.
See you in full force next week for 301.
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Also our UFC Saudi Arabia episode is LIVE! Khamzat's injury curse tried to strike at us by herniating a disk in Dylan's back, but he soldiers thru to record this episode for all the Saudi money we are def earning.
Analysis of Whittaker/Aliskerov, Volkov/Pavlovich, etc
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New episode is LIVE
We discuss our depression regarding the anti-climax of the anti-trust lawsuit against the UFC, and then reluctantly discuss another Apex Card
UFC card got a 5.7 rating but it has a sneaky good 5-fight stretch
Also Bellator, RIZIN, Polaris, NCAA Wrestling
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Gonna be real: our last episode sucked. We recorded it over three separate days as we all had super busy weeks, and we weren't all on each recording. This week will be just two of us all episode, but it'll be way better
The Cagies Award Show for MMA in 2023 is live!
Listen as we hand out 22 awards to fighters across the world of mixed martials before we dive into 2024's first UFC card later this week.
As we’ve had ample opportunities to discuss the light heavyweight division in recent months,
@JDillaThaKilla
gives his take on the state of the division as a whole, and UFC 300’s Rakić vs Procházka matchup. This is how it unfolded:
Val and Dylan are gonna go live soon with a secret special guest (
@bbharrymac
) to talk PFL 6, ACA 177, ONE Friday Fight 68, Estrada/Bam, and any other fights we feel like talking.
Expect us within the hour!
We are about to release our episode discussing
#UFCSaudiArabia
, and unfortunately we didn’t have time to cover the very good PFL card this afternoon, so
@dsk_mma
and
@the3els
will be going live from the CageCraft account at 11am/2pm est to talk about the PFL card. Tune in!
What did you think about the latest episode?
Comments? Disagree about a fight pick/take? What do you like/dislike abt the show, how can we improve?
Lemme know all that, comment below, I'll debate or chat or otherwise take ur comments into consideration
The episode for UFC Vegas 84 is LIVE! Link below
We've always rated each fight card we dissect, but now we will be posting our proprietary SmartFormula results alongside the podcasts.
The full
#UFCVegas84
card, and each fight from bottom to top, rated /10
The ratings and episode for
#UFC297
are out!
The prelims are weaker than most PPVs, but two great main card fights bring the total up to a 6.3, or a D-.
Just Val and Dylan this week on the pod, as we also discuss some recent breaking news items.
Pod Link Below👇
Episode for
#UFC298
is out! One of our longest episodes as there's several high quality fights to discuss (on the main card, at least). Highest rated card of the year with our completely objective and not-bullshit formula.
Men are At Work this week, babyyyy
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Newest episode is up! This UFC Apex card with four middleweight main card fights may be shit, but its less shit than last week, earning a 5.66 on our card rating formula. Link to the pod below ⏬⏬⏬
Also: WNO, LFA, Oktagon
#UFCVegas86
@combateglobal
ONE is back with one of their flagship cards. Action Packed in multiple sports, this event has been marred by the massive weight and hydration misses. Liam Harrison is no longer fighting, and ONE star Rodtang missed weight by 6 pounds for his fight with Denis Puric, among others
We will ALSO have a video version on the
@CSTodayNews
YouTube channel soon. Working with CST just enables us to bring better content so we're excited about the future.
Podcast is up! Part two for this week, UFC 299 main card discussion and ratings as well as PFL Europe, mainly just Baki vs Doumbe. Another long one, but with great discussion so strap in and enjoy!
Episode below ⏬⏬
Thanks for checking it out, give us a follow
@CagecraftPod
, and make sure you keep an eye out for episodes coming soon, we’ll be back next week previewing the weekends action as normal. Cheers and happy fight watching!
Our ep for
#ONE165
is up! Mainly discuss Takeru vs Superlek but also some of the freakshow fights on this card...and some genuinely good fights like Ruotolo vs Langaker, Sittichai vs Marat AGAIN, and Tonon vs Nyguyen
@combateglobal
Also on the card, Japanese K-1 star Masaaki Noiri takes on Sitsongpeenong, Denice Zamboanga returns on a two fight win streak, Japanese WMMA star Itsuki Hirata takes on Brazilian Victoria Souza, Muay Thai prodigy Johan Ghazali returns, and Adrian Lee makes his mma debut
Highest rated fights on UFC Vegas 84:
Ricky Simon vs Mario Bautista: 10/10
Farid Basharat vs Taylor Lapilus: 9/10
Joshua Van vs Felipe Bunes: 8/10
Lowest rated fights:
Jean Silva vs Westin Wilson: 1/10
Andre Arlovski vs Waldo Cortes-Acosta: 1/10
Episode 3 is live! We get into a card featuring five of the best pound-4-pound fighters in the world including the P4P
#1
, Alex Volkanovski, ft Robbie Lawler's retirement.
Debut of our quality rankings for each fight /10.
#UFC290