• John Perretti The Contenders Deep Dive

  • Apr 1 2024
  • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
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John Perretti The Contenders Deep Dive

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  • Ep 214 John Perretti MMA Pioneer Deep Dive

    Former UFC Matchmaker John Perretti joins us in order to discuss the Contenders Grappling Event and its impact on modern Jiu Jitsu.

    John Perretti addresses a lot of the rumors and backstage issues during his tenure with the UFC and does NOT sugarcoat what took place. Perretti is a man that has been scrubbed from the UFC's history books and in this interview you will find out why.

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    0:00 Lytes out intro


    0:19 Joey Venti’s guest introduction

    0:52 interview start

    2:04 deciding to accept interviews

    3:36 4th Black Belt under Gene LeBell


    5:01 Gokor Chivichyan vs Bill Maeda

    5:55 Pat Miletich UFC career

    9:04 Rickson Gracie not wanting to fight

    10:57 offering Royce Gracie $1 million to fight

    11:50 training Igor Zinoviev

    13:12 losing $200k on The contenders show

    16:04 thoughts on the Lions Den

    19:35 Vision for matchmaking

    20:26 allowing wrestlers to wear shoes

    24:11 jiu jitsu vs wrestling

    28:04 Igor Zinoviev vs Murilo Bustamante cancelled bout

    30:40 being critical of the UFC

    33:26 thoughts on Chuck Liddell

    36:04 quitting the UFC

    37:17 Kevin Jackson vs Frank Shamrock

    38:30 Frank Shamrock retiring to get out of contract

    39:20 Richard Hamilton

    41:40 thoughts on Jeff Osborne

    42:09 promoter Jamie Lavine

    43:53 Frederico Lapenda

    44:55 Monte Cox

    46:21 giving Wanderlei Silva his nickname “The Axe Murderer”

    47:59 wrestler Bob Anderson

    48:45 Ron van Clief story

    51:55 Art Davie getting fired from UFC

    1:00:18 Pedro Rizzo vs Dan Severn

    1:03:47 predicting the UFC would stay around

    1:06:22 UFC getting cancelled in New York

    1:08:55 Dan Lambert backing money

    1:10:57 promoter Dan Duva

    1:12:58 John McCain shutting down MMA

    1:17:05 UFC 15.5

    1:23:27 finding out some fights were works

    1:24:57 Matt Hume vs Erik Paulson

    1:30:04 John Lewis helping purchase SEG sports

    1:31:48 Rickson Gracie money issues

    1:35:33 Tom Erikson story

    1:37:53 Mark Coleman being upset

    1:39:50 John McCarthy Mark Coleman fence grabbing issue

    1:43:34 Tank Abbott vs Maurice Smith

    1:47:06 James Wormy

    1:48:15 David Isaacs

    1:49:33 Bruce Beck

    1:50:02 Kajas Cage Combat

    1:51:00 Townsend Saunders vs Andre Pederneiras

    1:53:33 Frank Shamrock vs Jeremy Horn

    1:55:50 Matt Hume vs Kenny Monday

    1:57:59 Kurt Angle doing commentary

    2:00:53 extreme fighting cage current location

    2:04:10 interview wrap up

    2:08:32 outro/ final thoughts




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