Episodes

PLEASE LIKE, SHARE, AND SUBSCRIBE! Brandan and Santino talk UFC FIGHT NIGHT: Max Holloway vs Yair Rodriguez. They break down the keys to victory for both and discuss the betting options on the card. In addition to the bets on...

UFC 268: Colby Covington challenges Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight belt. In the comain event, Weili Zhang rematches Rose Namajunas and before rhat, we see Michael Chandler vs Justin Gaethje! Have a watch/listen to this...

UFC 267 Abu Dhabi: Jan Blachowicz vs Glover Teixeira and Petr Yan vs Cory Sandhagen this Saturday night: MMA Predictions, Bets and Breakdowns with Santino DeFranco and Brandan Olivas. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! CHAPTERS: 0:00...

UFC Fight Night Vegas: Costa vs Vetorri--Bets, Breakdowns, and Fight Predictions. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! (and share us too!) Instagram: @brandanolivas @santinodefranco This was a hard one for us to get up, betters! All th...

UFC Fight Night 40: Ladd vs Dumont--Bets, Breakdowns, and Fight Predictions. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Last week betting extraordinaire, Brandan Olivas, and world champion MMA coach, Santino DeFranco made a killing on bets, and a lot of viewers reached out and said they did too. Watch their full b…

IG: @brandanolivas IG: @santinodefranco World champion MMA coach, Santino DeFranco, and MMA sports betting extraordinaire, Brandan Olivas break down the smart betting picks for UFC fight night: Dern vs Rodriquez. See what fights Santino and Brandan think will be good bets as they break down the odd…

UFC Fight Night: Johnny Walker vs Thiago Santos | MMA Bets and Breakdowns World champion MMA coach, Santino DeFranco, and MMA sports betting extraordinaire, Brandan Olivas break down Johnny Walker vs Thiago Santos and offer o...

Follow on IG: @santinodefranco Nick Diaz is back. Brian Ortega and Alex Volkanovski fight for a title. And fans are allowed at full capacity in Las Vegas! UFC 266 is a great card from top to bottom with a lot of fights worth betting on too. Come join us as we break down the fights we are interested…

Running is the single most important thing a fighter can do besides technical skills training. Ive coached too many fighters at every level of the sport of MMA to sit by and let fighters get in the cage without a regular runn...

Kamuela and Santino are back and talking MMA after a long hiatus due to the Covid craziness! It's great to be back in the studio and recording again! The duo starts out talking about Santino's upcoming trip to Abu Dhabi's Fight Island, where Santino will be cornering Tracy Cortez and the Korean Zom…

Don't miss this episode with Kamuela and Santino--it may be the very best episode yet. The dynamic duo talk about the UFC fights in Jacksonville, and all of the controversial stoppages (and non-stoppages) as well as the judging and how the dynamic of fight week was completely different due to the C…

Here's part two of our Corona Virus lockdown podcast. Kamuela and I talk our fight picks for the card in Jacksonville, FL. If you want to hear more on training during lockdown and how the gym industry has been decimated by th...

It's been a while since we recorded a podcast! Covid-19 has made me busier than ever with having to train fighters during the lockdown, but I managed to get one in as UFC 249 approaches. Kamuela and I talk about how impactful...

Jordan Johnson joins me on this episode of Santino's World of MMA. Jordan was an Illinois state champion and University of Iowa wrestler under Tom and Terry Brands before he transitioned to MMA, where he went 4-0 in the UFC before signing with the PFL, where he was the runner up in the $1 million l…

Santino and Kamuela talk about the upcoming fight between GOAT Jon Jones and Dominick Reyes. Does Reyes athleticism give him the extra "it factor" needed to dethrone one of the best to ever step in the cage, or will Jones sav...

Kamuela and Santino are back after a few weeks off for the holiday break. In the premiere of season two, they talk about their own MMA awards for 2019, which includes fight of the year, knockout of the year, the Gary Goodridg...

World champion MMA trainer (trainer of Henry Cejudo, Tracy Cortez, Jordan Johnson, and more), Santino DeFranco, and rising MMA prospect, Kamuela Kirk talk about the most stacked MMA card of the year, complete with three title...

One of the UFC's newest signings, Tracy Cortez, comes to the studio where she talks about her UFC debut in Sao Paulo, being a woman in a man's sport, and how she built her social media empire before ever stepping foot into th...

The hype was real at UFC 244 when Jorge Masvidal took on Nate Diaz for the Baddest Mo' Fo on the planet title. Kamuela Kirk and I discuss the fights, the stoppage, the belt, and whether the new Popeye's chicken sandwich lives...

Ketamine Clinic director, Sonny Diaz, comes in to talk about how his clinic uses the hallucinogenic, Ketamine, to help people with a variety of disorders: PTSD, Pain Management, Depression, Anxiety and more. We talk about how...

Pro MMA fighter, Kamuela Kirk, joins MMA coach, Santino DeFranco, to discuss the last few UFC cards--breaking down Israel Adesenya, Kron Gracie vs Cub Swanson, Dan Hooker vs Al Iaquinta, Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs Michelle Waterso...

Author Josh Rosenblatt was not a fighter. He was a writer and pacifist who didn't think MMA fighting was for him--until he fell in love with it. Josh joins Santino's World where he talks about his new book "Why We Fight" where he (an "everyday guy") decides to train for and fight in a sanctioned MM…

On this episode of Santino's World, I break down the second part of the upcoming Bellator Featherweight tournament. We have Pitbull vs Juan Archuleta, Darrion Caldwell vs Henry Corrales, AJ Mckee vs Georgi Karakanian and Saul...

UFC Destined (TV Show) producer, Joe Botazzi, joins Santino's World for the day to discuss the behind the scenes inner-workings of producing a hit TV show for ESPN, and his favorite (and most emotional) parts of following fig...