Fighting Matters
Fighting fascism and the far-right in combat sports like MMA and BJJ.
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Latest Episodes
Why did UFC BJJ let Mikey compete with a staph infection?
In this episode of the Fighting Matters podcast, Steve Kwan is joined by Jeff Shaw of Bellingham BJJ, Mike Mahaffey of Old Bastard BJJ, and Dr. Clayton Green, a board-certified dermatologist and BJJ practitioner. They get into what happened at ...
How Jiu-Jitsu Survives the AI Era
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Steve Kwan is joined again by Dr. David Riedman: 17-year jiu-jitsu practitioner, MIT-trained data analyst, and PhD researcher whose dissertation focused on measuring the accuracy of large language model outp...
A Man Broke Into My Apartment at 4 AM (feat. Andrea Tang)
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Steve Kwan is joined by Andrea Tang: novelist, brown belt at District Martial Arts, and host of BJJ Today on the BJJ Mental Models Premium Network. Three years ago, a serial home invader broke into Andrea's ...