Pull No Punches 05 - Liz Carmouche Turns Down Nude Sports Illustrated Shoot: ‘I have to answer to my son’
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 Shakiel ‘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 show will always be in a video format for your viewing pleasure on our YouTube channel, as well as seen on our Bloody Elbow facebook page.
This week on the show, Liz Carmouche opens up about turning down the Sports Illustrated nude magazine shoot, saying “I have to answer to my son.” Carmouche also talks about how CBD has positively impacted her day-to-day life and possibly her brain health. The UFC fighter also expresses her frustrations with UFC matchmaking, her upcoming fight at UFC Prague, other fighters’ lack of disciplines, growing up in Okinawa, Japan and the horrifying comments she has received online.
Kajan and Shak wonder if UFC 234 damages Israel Adesanya’s aura, and whether or not people still care about the Grammys or Oscars. Then, Shak and Nick Baldwin co-host the post-show, which covers an Adesanya vs. Silva recap, Kelvin Gastelum’s UFC 234 shenanigans and a UFC Phoenix preview.
Segments can be found as follows:
1:45 -- Liz Carmouche on growing up in Japan
4:25 -- Liz Carmouche on UFC’s matchmaking
8:15 -- Liz Carmouche on weight cutting as a woman
11:45 -- Liz Carmouche on CBD in MMA
17:30 -- Liz Carmouche on sex appeal in MMA
20:30 -- Did UFC 234 damage Israel Adesanya’s aura?
23:10 -- Do people still care about the Grammys and Oscars?
26:26 -- Liz Carmouche on Internet trolls and haters
29:25 -- Post-show start
30:32 -- Adesanya vs. Silva recap
37:40 -- Kelvin Gastelum’s UFC 234 shenanigans
48:40 -- UFC Phoenix preview
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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.