Ep 214 John Perretti MMA Pioneer Deep Dive
Former UFC Matchmaker John Perretti joins us in order to discuss the Contenders Grappling Event and its impact on modern Jiu Jitsu.
John Perretti addresses a lot of the rumors and backstage issues during his tenure with the UFC and does NOT sugarcoat what took place. Perretti is a man that has been scrubbed from the UFC's history books and in this interview you will find out why.
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John Perretti, a man that deserves to be in the UFC Hall of Fame
0:00 Lytes out intro
0:19 Joey Venti’s guest introduction
0:52 interview start
2:04 deciding to accept interviews
3:36 4th Black Belt under Gene LeBell
5:01 Gokor Chivichyan vs Bill Maeda
5:55 Pat Miletich UFC career
9:04 Rickson Gracie not wanting to fight
10:57 offering Royce Gracie $1 million to fight
11:50 training Igor Zinoviev
13:12 losing $200k on The contenders show
16:04 thoughts on the Lions Den
19:35 Vision for matchmaking
20:26 allowing wrestlers to wear shoes
24:11 jiu jitsu vs wrestling
28:04 Igor Zinoviev vs Murilo Bustamante cancelled bout
30:40 being critical of the UFC
33:26 thoughts on Chuck Liddell
36:04 quitting the UFC
37:17 Kevin Jackson vs Frank Shamrock
38:30 Frank Shamrock retiring to get out of contract
39:20 Richard Hamilton
41:40 thoughts on Jeff Osborne
42:09 promoter Jamie Lavine
43:53 Frederico Lapenda
44:55 Monte Cox
46:21 giving Wanderlei Silva his nickname “The Axe Murderer”
47:59 wrestler Bob Anderson
48:45 Ron van Clief story
51:55 Art Davie getting fired from UFC
1:00:18 Pedro Rizzo vs Dan Severn
1:03:47 predicting the UFC would stay around
1:06:22 UFC getting cancelled in New York
1:08:55 Dan Lambert backing money
1:10:57 promoter Dan Duva
1:12:58 John McCain shutting down MMA
1:17:05 UFC 15.5
1:23:27 finding out some fights were works
1:24:57 Matt Hume vs Erik Paulson
1:30:04 John Lewis helping purchase SEG sports
1:31:48 Rickson Gracie money issues
1:35:33 Tom Erikson story
1:37:53 Mark Coleman being upset
1:39:50 John McCarthy Mark Coleman fence grabbing issue
1:43:34 Tank Abbott vs Maurice Smith
1:47:06 James Wormy
1:48:15 David Isaacs
1:49:33 Bruce Beck
1:50:02 Kajas Cage Combat
1:51:00 Townsend Saunders vs Andre Pederneiras
1:53:33 Frank Shamrock vs Jeremy Horn
1:55:50 Matt Hume vs Kenny Monday
1:57:59 Kurt Angle doing commentary
2:00:53 extreme fighting cage current location
2:04:10 interview wrap up
2:08:32 outro/ final thoughts
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