Bowks Talking Bouts #15: Tyrell Fortune

I had decorated amateur wrestler and 3-0 Bellator heavyweight Tyrell Fortune on the show.   We discussed how he started wrestling in third grade through an after school kids program (0:42), His start in mixed martial arts training with the Blackzilians (1:38), the stress and adrenaline of mma fighting causing him to drop close to thirty pounds…

Bowks Talking Bouts #13: Manny David

It was great to catch up with former co-host Manny David. We talked about battle rap, what the future holds for the women’s strawweight and men’s flyweight divisions, me possibly being the Alex Jones of MMA pundits, comparing the UFC flyweights to WWE’s Raw Cruiserweight division, things getting massively shaken up for the top middleweights, The…

Bowks Talking Bouts #6: Jesse from KEN Mode Gets Into The Art Of Calling People “Daddy”, Recording With The Man Who Cut Nirvana’s “In Utero”, What’s In His Current Rig, and So Much More!

I caught up over the phone with Jesse from KEN Mode. We got into the band’s recent EP “Nerve”, the evolution of the band’s sound over the years into more of a noise rock centric sound, being in a band with his brother, live full band recordings done off the floor as opposed to isolating…