Pull No Punches Podcast – 01: Eryk Anders Believes He Beat Elias Theodorou at UFC 231

Bloody Elbow offers you this all new podcast, brought to you by your new host: Shak Mahjouri and his co-host, former UFC Fighter: Kajan Johnson. Shak and BE’s consummate interviewer Nick Baldwin will also host a “post-show” starting halfwa…

Bloody Elbow offers you this all new podcast, brought to you by your new host: Shak Mahjouri and his co-host, former UFC Fighter: Kajan Johnson. Shak and BE’s consummate interviewer Nick Baldwin will also host a “post-show” starting halfway through the podcast. This week’s guest: Eryk Anders.

Bloody Elbow offers you our all new podcast, PULL NO PUNCHES, brought to you by your new host: Shakiel “Shak” Mahjouri and his co-host, former UFC Fighter: Kajan Johnson. Shak along with BE’s consummate interviewer, Nick Baldwin, will also host a “post-show” starting halfway through the podcast.

They are bringing us this podcast from a different platform, so they are technically on Episode 65, but for our purposes, this is the inaugural BE Presents Episode 1, which we hope you will enjoy. Each week on Saturday’s at 2pm CST, they will present you an hour of MMA content, varying from fighter interviews to discussions on current MMA Topics. This show will always be in a video format on our BE Presents YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure, and an audio version will be available on our BE Presents SoundCloud and iTunes channels, as well.

This week, Eryk Anders drops in to dish on his beef with Drake and explain why he believes he beat Elias Theodorou at UFC 231. He and the hosts also talk about the transition from traditional sports to MMA and dissect the social media chaos in the UFC’s lightweight division.

2:28 — Eryk Anders Beef with Drake
3:35 — Eryk Anders’ crazy amateur career
9:32 — What is the best traditional sports base for MMA?
14:30 — Losing a split decision to Elias Theodorou at UFC 231
18:50 — Advice for fighters transitioning from football
20:40 — Chaos in the UFC’s lightweight division
28:52 — Post show w/ Nick Baldwin

As always, if you enjoyed our show, give us a “REC” here on BE, or a “like” and a share over on our SoundCloud, YouTube or iTunes channels – whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice. While you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe to Bloody Elbow Presents. That way you’ll always be the first to get all of BE’s daily MMA offerings.

You can follow the guys at: Shak – @ThisisShak, Kajan – @IamRagin, Nick – @NickBaldwinMMA, and follow the pages for the @PNPShow on twitter, Instagram, or facebook. Plus, you can watch for articles from Shak and Nick right here on Bloody Elbow as well.

*Intro/Outro music for the audio broadcast on SoundCloud has been provided by OxBow, starring Eugene S. Robinson.