Rory Markham Career Deep Dive Ep 169
Rory Markham burst onto the MMA scene by his incredible performances within the now defunct IFL. Rory Markham's career had a lot of highlights as well as times were he needed to pick himself up and brush the dust off. Rory Markham durability and grit quickly made him one of Pat Miletich favorite students, this interview tracks Markham's journey so that we the listener can understand why.
Rory Markham Career Deep Dive Ep 169
0:00 Podcast intro
0:19 Interview start
1:43 Martial arts background
5:04 Traumatic loss of a friend
11:50 Street fight stories
17:44 Miletich FS tryouts
26:50 Tuesday Night Fights
29:36 Making the cut, overcoming self doubt
31:41 Learning from Coach
Steve Rusk
33:51 Rory Markham vs John
Bulger at EC 54
35:55 Rory Markham vs Kurt
Illeman at EC 55
37:12 Overcoming self doubt again
39:32 Matt Lindland vs Tony
Fryklund at ROTR 5
40:51 Rory Markham vs Trevor
Garrett at XFO 10
42:12 Rory Markham vs James
Warfield at XFO 3
47:53 Rory Markham vs Victor
Moreno at EC 61
51:31 Ryan McGivern
53:59 Signing with the IFL
55:37 Rory Markham vs Mike
Pyle at IFL 1
1:09:57 Sparring with Josh
Neer
1:13:30 IFL poster boy
1:18:30 Rory Markham vs Brad
Blackburn at IFL 2
1:21:03 Rory Markham vs
Marcelo Azevedo at IFL 4
1:25:12 Matt Hughes
1:27:10 Matt Hughes vs Brock
Lesnar story
1:29:50 Joe Jordan
1:31:19 Ben Uker
1:34:29 Janice Dickinson incident
1:40:00 Rory Markham vs Keith Wisniewski at IFL 5
1:42:40 Sponsors
1:45:55 Hard times
1:49:27 Point fighting
1:50:41 Bad weight cut at UFC
95
1:55:27 Rory Markham vs Dan
Hardy at UFC 95
1:57:32 In good favor with the
UFC
1:59:38 Nate and Nick Diaz
2:02:45 Interview wrap up
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