Submission Radio

The format is the institution. Where most MMA media runs on seven-minute soundbites, Submission Radio gives fighters the room to actually talk — hour-plus conversations where the guard comes down and the real stories surface. Champions, contenders, legends: everyone in the sport has sat down with these mics. The long format coaxes out the things short interviews miss — the candid admissions, the behind-the-scenes details, the moments that become news the next morning. When the biggest names in the sport keep coming back, it's because the show treats them right: knowledgeable hosts, real questions, no gotchas.

Rosolowski and Shkuratov are the engine, and their chemistry is the show's secret weapon. Two Aussie fans-turned-media who ask the probing questions the audience actually wants answered, and who know the sport deeply enough to follow a fighter wherever the conversation goes. The dynamic works because it's genuine — this is a show built by people who love MMA, for people who love MMA, and that sincerity is audible in every episode. They're complements, not clones, and the interviews are better for it.

The Australian perspective is the flavor. Covering a global sport from Down Under, Submission Radio brought an international eye to MMA media at a time when the conversation was overwhelmingly American — and in doing so, helped build the sport's profile across the region. As MMA exploded in Australia and New Zealand, with local heroes like Robert Whittaker, Alexander Volkanovski and Israel Adesanya becoming world champions, the show was right there, the established voice of the scene. The archive doubles as a record of that rise: Volkanovski appearing as a guest back in 2017, before the featherweight crown; the UFC Auckland specials built around Dan Hooker, Kai Kara-France and City Kickboxing's Eugene Bareman in 2020, capturing a regional MMA boom in real time.

The access is the proof of the concept. Episode after episode, the guest list reads like a hall-of-fame ballot: Roy Nelson and Tito Ortiz in the same week as a young Volkanovski; Ben Askren and Dan Hardy sitting for the long conversations; the post-fight breakdowns of era-defining cards — UFC 217, with Georges St-Pierre's stunning return against Michael Bisping and Rose Namajunas shocking Joanna Jedrzejczyk; the Mayweather-McGregor crossover spectacle; UFC 214's Cormier-Jones rematch. The show doesn't just cover the sport's biggest moments. It becomes part of how those moments are remembered.

The breaking-news moments are the scoops. Fight announcements, retirement revelations, the things fighters say at minute ninety that they wouldn't say at minute seven — Submission Radio's format produces genuine news, and the MMA world listens when these mics are hot. Being embedded with SB Nation's Bloody Elbow network during the show's peak years put that journalism in front of one of the sport's biggest audiences, and the cross-platform footprint — YouTube, iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, SoundCloud — made every episode findable wherever fight fans already were.

The international growth mirrored the sport's. As MMA went global, the show's audience followed, and the Australian hosts became global voices — the kind of media figures who get name-checked by the American press and invited onto other networks' shows. The archive is now a primary source for the sport's history: years of interviews, eras and champions preserved in long-form, MMA told by the people who made it. Future historians of the sport will find the 2010s and 2020s here, in these conversations.

The show has evolved, as long-running shows do. Recent years have seen new voices at the desk — Jed Meshew and Jimmy Smith fronting the "Morning After" live shows, reacting to the sport's chaos in real time, from Jon Jones headlines to UFC 317 fallout. The format adapts; the standard doesn't. Whether it's the classic sit-down interview or the live reaction show, the through-line is the same: depth, respect, and hours of real conversation.

The legacy is the bar. Every MMA interview show that followed is measured against the standard Submission Radio set — the depth, the respect, the willingness to let a fighter finish a thought. It proved that fight media could be serious without being stiff, fan-driven without being soft, and Australian without being provincial. For fight fans who want more than highlights, this is the deep end — the conversations that explain the sport's soul. The fighters tell the story. Submission Radio just gives them the mic.

For fight fans building their rotation, Submission Radio sits naturally alongside the sport's other essential voices — the analytical depth of Luke Thomas, the fighter-first storytelling of Michael Bisping's podcast, the breaking-news energy of the MMA hour. Together they map the whole sport; Submission Radio is the long-form soul at the center of it.