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Holding Hands and Throwing Fists
In Season 9 - Episode 18 of our podcast, we cover UFC 290's highlights, stylish outfits, Robbie Lawler's retirement, DDP's win, and Dan Hooker's victory. Join us as we discuss the interim belt and share your dream vacation with an MMA personality! #HHTF #Season9Episode18 #UFC290 #MMA #RobbieLawler #DDP #DanHooker #VacationWithFighter
Podcast Episode Summary: HHTF Season 9 - Episode 16 In this episode, we give a shoutout to Renzo Gracie Academy and provide a recap of our podcast. We discuss the positive and light side of MMA and combat sports, inside jokes, and our target episode length. We also cover UFC 289 highlights, including Charles Oliveria's win and Benny's loss. Amanda's retirement, memorable moments, and upcoming UFC, Bellator, and PFL events are discussed. We briefly touch on MMA fashion and fighter salaries. Keep holding hands and throwing fists! Tune in now!
She doesn't finish a story and we spend more time talking about rock music than fighting. It's definitely an episode! #MMA #MixedMartialArts #UFC #Fight #MartialArts #BJJ #Boxing #MuayThai #Wrestling #Kickboxing #Judo #Karate #MMAFighter #FightNight #CageFighting
Last Saturday's UFC card had impressive knockouts from Bryan Battle, Carlos Ulberg, Matt Brown, Ian Garry, and Jailton Almeida. Matt Brown tied the record for UFC knockouts, and Shailee Lipp's tragic passing was commemorated. Exciting upcoming fights in UFC and boxing. Allergies discussed, but keep fighting! #MMA #MMAFighters #UFC #FightNight #MixedMartialArts #MMACommunity #Octagon #Knockouts #Submission #FightLife #MMATraining #FightLikeAGirl
Recap of HHTF Season 9, Episode 12: UFC 288 featured several fighters who won, including Khaos Williams, Kennedy Nzechukwu, and Charles Jourdain. Yan Xiaonan knocked out Jessica Andrade, and Aljamain Sterling beat Cejudo. Merab Dvalishvili had a memorable moment with Sean O'Malley's jacket. Mark Zuckerberg won a jiu-jitsu tournament. This week's upcoming UFC card looks promising. Hold Hands and Throw Fists as necessary!!! #MMA, #UFC, #MartialArts, #FightNight, #MMACommunity, #MixedMartialArts, #MMAFans, #UFCFightNight, #UFCFighter, #BJJ, #MuayThai, #Boxing, #MMAFashion
BKFC was lit with Eddie Alvarez and Chad Mendes goin' at it. Conor McGregor was there givin' tips, and Mike Perry made his mark by bashin' Luke Rockhold's mouth. UFC 288 previewed with some dope fights, and the Knicks lost the first round, but still got a chance. #MMA #UFC #MixedMartialArts #FightNight #FightIsland #Championship #KO #Submission #Octagon #MMACommunity #MMAFighter #MMATraining #UFCFightNight #UFCChampion #UFCFighter #UFCGym #UFCPerformanceInstitute #UFCFitness #UFCFan #UFCCommunity
What's up everyone?! This week is going to be a quick one! We can categorize it as a special kind of episode called “NOT MUCH GOING ON AND WE DON'T CARE BUT HERE'S AN EPISODE ANYWAY” We talk: Tank v. Ryan Garcia MMA Fashion We ride for Team Sanko
What a great series of Season 9 Episode 9! We recap some Bellator and UFC from last week and what to expect this week. We also give you a recap of all our 'No Fighting's' from Season 9!
What's up everyone? In this week's episode, we're on vacation, so we're kicking it, while recapping UFC in Miami and describing our perfect beach day.
In this episode we talk about how the UFC/WWE are both awful and deserve each other, Bellator had an event, we preview UFC 287 in Miami and recap the first episode of the new season of Survivor!
3-6-9 Damn you fine! In a special first for Holding Hands, we do a pre-show, live show and post-show for UFC 286 in which Leon Edwards retained his belt against Kamaru Usman. Let us know if you like this format while we continue to iterate on our HHTF classics like MMA Fashion & new segments like NO FIGHTING!
UFC 285 was a great card with a nasty look because Jon Jones was on it. Assholes Live Forever since JJ, Dana and Conor were all there and no one seemed to have a problem with it.
This week we talk about Bellator Dublin winners, MMA Fashion, 3 different Good Guy Alerts, are super excited for UFC 285 and NO FIGHTING devolves into fighting!!!
This is a good one! Episode 123!!! We got selected to buy tickets to go to the Olympics in Paris 2024, Henry Cejudo is going to fight our boy Aljo, we almost got on a plane to fly to Bellator Dublin as we were driving by JFK and we rewatched Shrek for NO FIGHTING!
In this episode, we talk about how the UFC have been BAD BOYS lately, what's up for this week, Good Guy Alert, MMA Fashion (including Fedor's Sweater callout) and we add a sound byte to our new segment NO FIGHTING.
WE'RE BACK!!! We took some time off during the holidays when things in combat sports slowed down for a bit - but now things are already in full swing! In this episode, we talk about the positives of the most recent Bellator event and introduce our new segment for the new season....NO FIGHTING!
We just recorded the season finale with Season 8 Episode 12. A talks about the 2022 Robbery Review and G talks about looking forward to 2023! #mma #ufc #Bellator #fight #bjj #fighting #combatsports #fashion
In this episode, ya boy does a deep dive on UFC in Orlando and ya girl does a deep dive on the James Krause gambling scandal. We also have merch! Go to www.holdinghandsandthrowingfists.com to purchase using promo code BOOBOO. We also talk quite a few MMA BEEFs in this week's episode...and I think we're going to start a war with another couple's podcast. #ufc #mma #gambling #beef #fighting
THE PFL SPECIAL!!! We had our first FIELD TRIP attending the PFL 2022 Championships Live in MSG!!! We had a great time and look forward to doing it again. Do you want to join us?
George was sick, but his brain is broke and is describing with great difficulty how much he enjoyed watching fights, alone and sick. We're both excited for PFL this week - for the first real official HOLDING HANDS FIELD TRIP to the HULU THEATRE @ MADISON SQUARE GARDEN!
George previews a packed, but lackluster week in MMA while being pretty lackluster himself, while Anna figures out what is needed to become a MMA Referree!
Three years in and we're still talking about UFC in MSG. This episode we do a deep dive on the history of the Strawweight division and one of our favorite fighter's journey, Jared Gordon!!! I feel mad I didn't mention I was shirtless all episode, so here we are.
In this week's episode (Season 8 Episode 6), Anna gives a recap of the great Frankie Edgar's career and George goes on a rant on why the UFC needs to abandon its pay structure because it is affecting the health of fighters. #HHTF
We recorded a weird ass episode on an iPhone in Minneapolis for UFC 280 while we were next to the Vice Presidential Motorcade after a Puerto Rican Staten Island Wedding in Minnesota. Listen to it, if you can find it!
We do a deep dive into the unified rules and scoring of MMA!
In a slow week in MMA, we do some deep dives on what it was like to be a UFC while the pandemic was beginning and an intro to the history of Women's MMA.
George did nothing but watch ADCC all weekend and A**a talks about Bellator in Dublin coming up this weekend! The duo also sort of asks for opinions on merch, but then takes it back because she has all the opinions. Have fun everyone!
Welcome back everyone! We're really excited to be adopting a new format in Season 8, where we both share a singular opinion about the world of Mixed Martial Arts in depth (but still under 20 mins).
That's a wrap on Season 7 and we bring it back to basics on the Holding Hands and Throwing Fists Podcast. We talk about MMA Fashion, MMA BOO BOOs and MMA GOOD GUY!!! See you next season.
Anna's back from the Hamptons! We talk how sad we were to see Dom Cruz lose, but how happy we were to see Chito win along with a whole bunch of other fun stuff. We can't wait for the PPV this weekend between Usman and Edwards, but not sure if we're going to be awake to justify paying it.
Anna's with her mom and brother in the Long Island and George is at home trying to solocast. Turns out not to be as cool as it sounds and hopefully next episode is going to be better!
Introducing the newest makeshift segment of the week - the Quick Fire Top 7! Anna's mom still hates the podcast, but likes fighting more and more. Matt Steam Rolla keeps getting cooler in our books! And George wrote notes 2 weeks in a row!
We're back from another vacation. George was a super Debby Downer at UFC Fight Night in Long Island, UFC Fight Night in London had awesome moments and we watched it while driving to Long Island and UFC 277 this weekend is looking pretty pretty good. Last call reminder that we're planning on getting the cheapest tickets available for PFL at MSG on August 5th. Hit is up if you're interested! Love you guys - good to be back!
George is shirtless and we do a Top 1 - pretty good episode for not caring all that much! Let us know if you want to go to Hulu theater for PFL!
George made the notes this week and things got wild! A pretty fun one if I may say so myself.
We have LIVE interviews recapping last week's UFC 274 and we preview fights that we're excited for in June and July of this year!
This is a big fight week! Do Bronx vs. Gaethje, THUG ROSE! and Canelo all fighting and we talk to our friends about it.
NEW SEASON ALERT! Bellator had 2 events and we watched neither of them. We're excited for Rob Font vs. Chito Vera as well as Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano and George talks about Justin Gaetjhe too much. Also, do we talk about the end of Holding Hands & Throwing Fists? Tune in to check out
THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING! We made it to 100 Episodes! This episode we recap UFC 273 and Top Friends as Fighters.
SEASON FINALE - Season 6 - Episode 18 by Holding Hands and Throwing Fists
This week we recap the fun, craziness that was UFC Fight Night London!
In this episode we hit you with some MMA Beef, Kevin Holland to the rescue and yet another new segment, he looks like my brother (Khalil Rountree edition).
This was a fun one! We recap multiple wrestlefucks from this weekend, a Conor-esque MMA Boo Boo, Gambling is Bad and Good Guy Alert!
In this week's episode - we recap the fun Bellator Dublin show, Islam Makhachev making George lose money by how good he is, TBS - getting promoted in the octagon after not using jiu jitsu, MMA BOO BOO eye edition, MMA BEEF, Ukrainian fighters and Cain Velasquez almost killed a guy.
We're going on vacation ya'll. Does anyone ever read these style descriptions? If you see it - text me or tweet @holdinghandsandthrowingfists the codeword BEAR.
We're 2/3rds of the way through the season! We recap last week's UFC 271 with Israel, Tai & Jared all winning! Also we sing some Spice Girls, talk about Casey King Oneil trolling JoJo Calderwood and this upcoming week's lame fights. We're brought to you by ourselves and no one else!
This is a great episode! Sean Strickland won, Bruce Buffer looked great in a classic blazer, broken elbow in MMA BOO BOOs and we also add in some Winter Olympics and 90 Day Fiance talk!