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There was a time where Jossh Thomson was in the conversation for the #1 lightweight in the world... and then the UFC dumped the weight class... Thomson takes us through his early career all the way to the UFC fight with Yves Edwards. Josh never pulled punches before and he isn't about to start.
0:00 Podcast intro
0:19 Guest intro, interview start 1:36 "Weighing In" podcast
10:26 Josh's martial arts background
13:41 Undocumented fights
15:00 Training with Trevor
Prangley
16:11 Fighting with dial-up
Internet
20:09 Josh Thomson vs
Brandon Shuey at ISFS 1
23:07 Josh Thomson vs Karl
Zamora at ISFS 2
24:43 Wrestling and fighting
26:06 Early days of AKA
28:54 Mike Kyle
30:30 Josh Thomson vs Justin
Curtiss
36:32 Josh Thomson vs Kajan
Johnson at NASFI
37:57 Josh Thomson vs Jason
Abaïian at Bushido 1
39:31 Frank Shamrock
41:20 "Crazy" Bob Cook
43:11 Discussion about coaches and managers
47:57 Josh Thomson vs Victor
Estrada at GVT
49:29 Beef with Dennis
Hallman
52:14 More Bob Cook
55:57 "The Punk"
59:02 More Dennis Hallman
1:01:08 Josh Thomson vs
Norifumi Yamamoto at IFC 16
1:07:47 Josh Thomson vs
Doug Evans at NSFC
1:09:28 Josh Thomson vs Rob
McCullough at WFA 3
1:17:00 Training camps
1:18:38 Parents' views on fighting
1:20:31 UFC opportunity and
Frank Shamrock
1:23:16 Josh Thomson vs
Gerald Strebendt at UFC 44
1:30:40 Josh Thomson vs
Hermes Franca at UFC 46
1:34:42 Josh Thomson vs Yves
Edwards at UFC 49
1:39:50 UFC abolishes 155 lbs.
division until 2006
1:46:07 Gray Maynard and Khabib Nurmagomedov
1:47:37 Thoughts on sparring
1:51:31 Concussions
1:53:37 Life after fighting
1:59:33 Psilocybin
2:01:21 Trevor Prangley vs
Denis Kang
2:02:35 Interview wrap up
2:03:57 Closing thoughts
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