Stronghold Podcast with Lukas Leasure
The Stronghold Podcast is a Martial Arts podcast hosted by pro MMA fighter, BJJ black belt, and owner of Stronghold MMA, Lukas Leasure. The podcast is hosted from Singapore and includes conversations with professional fighters, coaches, and interesting people within the martial arts community. The podcast also includes regular breakdowns of ONE champiosnhip and UFC events, and has an emphasis on Asian MMA. We sit down with other fighters, coaches, students, and people within the Martial arts scene and discuss all things MMA and the role of martial arts in a modern society. Also sometimes we drink and talk smack. I hope you enjoy.
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Episodes
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
This is Episode 1 the Stronghold Podcast: Fight talk. In this segment i will break down all the big martial arts events and news including: ONE, the UFC, boxing, and grappling. In this episode I discuss ONE: Edge of Greatness, the controversial decision in the Ting vs Khan fight, Wilder's brutal KO of Luis Ortiz, Floyd Mayweather working with the UFC, Brown Pinas, and Ben Askren retiring. If you like this segment, give me a like, share, comment, or subscribe.
Thursday Nov 21, 2019
Thursday Nov 21, 2019
Maher Aseeri is a life-long martial artist, BJJ Brown belt and knee-injury connoisseur. In his spare time he works as an electronics engineer at a medical startup, and helps organize those Grapple Asia tournaments that keep popping up every few months. He will occasionally referee at said tournaments, but only because someone has to...Like, Share, Subscribe, and Enjoy.
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
James Kwan is a PhD in chemical engineering, a professor at Nanyang Technological University, and a BJJ brown belt. Gregg Speirs is a brewmaster and brewer for Trouble brewing co. In this podcast we discuss suffering in training, the path of mastery and becoming an expert in your field, and get into a little brewing. We were drinking 7% IPAs so this one got a little sloppy by the end...enjoy
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Alvin Ang is a Singaporean amateur MMA fighter, and the founder of the Singapore BJJ open. In this episode we discuss the UFC in Singapore, whether the IBJJF should update their rules, whether Angela Lee's suplex was illegal or not, and if she should be stripped of her title, and Alvin's viral facebook post about 'fake' bjj ranks...enjoy
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Major Overall is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, former ONE championship fighter, and the owner and head coach of Team Highlight Reel based out of Singapore. In this episode we talk about training together, cornering each other for fights, Lethwei, unqualified instructors, and tell funny stories of us hanging out...oh and we drank about 20 beers...enjoy
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Matt Pellino is an MMA coach and fighter. Matt has coached all across South East Asia including in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. He's also the former IMMAF Malaysia head coach, and the former host for Malaysian Invasion.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
In this episode of the Podcast Coach Luke sits down with his wife Charmaine. She is a co owner of Stronghold MMA, a coach, and a BJJ purple belt. They discuss training together and creating the #wifebeatingchronicles. The hashtag is just a joke everyone, relax and enjoy.
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Ron Ng is a Singaporean national MMA champion, an amateur Muay Thai fighter, and a BJJ purple belt. He is the Singapore fighting Championship lightweight champion and a martial arts coach. He's also a black man trapped in a yellow man's body. Enjoy the podcast. Skeet Skeet!
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Ali Abdulrazak is an Iraqi/American MMA fighter, and coach. He's a 4 stripe brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and a member of the Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood. Ali served as a guest instructor at Stronghold MMA. He's had 200+ grappling matches, had several amateur MMA fights, and trains in Vermont and at Tristar with Firas Zahabi in Montreal, Canada. You can find Ali @princealibabamma on instagram. We discuss many topics including women training martial arts, egos in training, finding the flow state, and exposing fake martial arts. Hope you Enjoy
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Stephen Langdown is a former professional fighter for ONE championship and owner of Slingshot FC out of Singapore. Stephen was one of the first professional fighters coach Luke began training when he moved to Singapore. In this episode we discuss fighting in One championship, weight cutting, BJ Penn, teammates fighting each other, and we break down one of the biggest MMA events of the year...enjoy