Pull No Punches Podcast 06 – Zak Ottow Breaks Down Dominick Cruz’s Commentary

Your hosts Shak Mahjouri & former UFC fighter, Kajan Johnson are here each week on Saturday’s at 2pm CST as “MMA’s most colorful and entertaining personalities”. They will present you an hour of MMA content, varying from fighter interv…

Your hosts Shak Mahjouri & former UFC fighter, Kajan Johnson are here each week on Saturday’s at 2pm CST as “MMA’s most colorful and entertaining personalities”. They will present you an hour of MMA content, varying from fighter interviews to discussions on current MMA Topics. Shak, along with BE’s consummate interviewer, Nick Baldwin, will also host a “post-show” starting halfway through the podcast.

Your hosts Shak Mahjouri & former UFC fighter, Kajan Johnson are here each week on Saturday’s at 2pm CST as “MMA’s most colorful and entertaining personalities”. They will present you an hour of MMA content, varying from fighter interviews to discussions on current MMA Topics. Shak, along with BE’s consummate interviewer, Nick Baldwin, will also host a “post-show” starting halfway through the podcast.

This week on the show, Zak Ottow stops by the PNP podcast ahead of his fight with Alex Morono at UFC Wichita. He opens up about the tension between his gym and Roufussport, Ottow’s somewhat controversial win over Dwight Grant, his late start in MMA, and his criticism of some UFC commentators.

Segments can be found as follows:

0:55 – Zak Ottow on having a full training camp

2:05 – Zak Ottow’s weigh cut

5:56 – Is power lifting in MMA a good thing?

9:28 – Zak Ottow on his late start in MMA

13:30 – Zak and Kajan on stance switching

16:55 – Zak Ottow on his somewhat controversial win over Dwight Grant

20:34 – Zak Ottow’s criticism for UFC commentators

23:28 – Zak Ottow on his gym’s beef with Roufusport

26:10 – Do you like Dominick Cruz’s commentary?

29:10 – Zak Ottow predicts his fight at UFC Wichita

30:38 – Post-show with Nick Baldwin and Vicente Luque (edited)

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*timestamps reflect times on the VIDEO podcasts, so may be a few seconds off on the audio broadcasts due to the audio podcast intro. Intro/Outro music of the Audio production has been provided by OxBow, starring Eugene S. Robinson.