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Ep 313 The Fall of EF Battlecade - John Perretti

John Perretti, Battlecade: Extreme Fighting creator/matchmaker & former
UFC matchmaker.
Deep dive into the promotion's last event via Extreme Fighting 4 (Des Moines, March 28, 1997):
It featured Olympic gold medalists
Kenny Monday & Kevin Jackson on one card, along with epic clashes like Paul Jones vs.Eric Paulson and a mid-show power outage, we talk about Gracie hesitancy on certain matchups (including near-misses with big money offers), Bas Rutten bad blood, and John's take on grappler-to-striker limits.
Raw, firsthand history from the source.

0:00 MMA history podcast intro
0:32 Joey Venti’s guest introduction
0:57 interview start
2:19 Extreme fighting 4 in Iowa
3:20 budget for Extreme fighting 4
4:09 Ralph Gracie vs Eugenio Tadeu rumor
6:28 allegedly matchmaking Brazilians to lose fights
7:40 training Igor Zinoviev to fight Royce Gracie
9:47 Bas Rutten altercation with Rickson Gracie
11:55 Roster of fighters at Extreme Fighting 4
12:50 power outage during event
14:14 Allan Goes vs Todd Bjornethun
18:14 Gary Myers vs Tommy Glanville
19:38 Paul Jones vs Erik Paulson
21:22 Kevin Jackson vs John Lober
22:37 creating modern MMA
25:12 Extreme fighting changing how you viewed the sport
26:13 thoughts on Joe Moreira
30:06 John Lober personal issues
32:12 Matt Hume vs Pat Miletich
35:44 financial issues coming into event
37:18 Kenny Monday vs John Lewis
43:47 John Donehue reffing all 4 events
44:43 Maurice Smith vs Kazunari Murakami
51:24 altercation with Ken Shamrock in lobby
56:18 drug issues at the Lions den
58:13 matchmaking fights in the UFC
1:02:05 realizing Extreme fighting is finished
1:05:15 Igor Zinoviev injured out of extreme fighting
1:05:38 receiving a call to work for the UFC
1:10:02 Art Davie’s letter to congress to ban MMA
1:11:41 plugs/ promotions
1:12:42 interview wrap up
1:24:19 outro/ closing thoughts

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