No Holds Barred With Eddie Goldman

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti. This is the 1000th show for No Holds Barred as a podcast, and we used this occasion to discuss the past, present, and future of the combat sports. We spoke with John Perretti, who is in Kyoto, Japan, by Skype Wednesday (Tuesday, New York time). "You've done a magnificent job, and there's nobody more informed than you. And we disagree not very frequently. Congratulations," he said. We mainly focused on not only what has gone wrong over the past two decades and more in the combat sports, but what must be done right in the present and future. That, of course, led us directly into a discussion of the prospects for various styles of grappling and wrestling to succeed as popular spectator sports. Referring to his landmark, if financially unsuccessful, grappling show in October 1997 called "The Co