James "The Colossus" Thompson - Still Fighting

London Real

Brian Rose

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🗓️ 10 February 2013

⏱️ 102 minutes

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MMA Fighter James "The Colossus" Thompson talks about his epic bouts in the Pride Fighting Championship in Japan and EliteXC in the U.S.A., why Bob Sapp is currently on a "Tapout Tour", his very real struggle with a gambling addiction, and how his podcast, Blog, book writing and movie projects have reinvigorated his spirit.

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0:00.0	MMA and UFC Week has begun. I am Brian Rose. Yes, this is London Real and today we welcome James Thompson who is an
0:09.1	MMA fighter who's been around for over 10 years. He's fought in Pride Fighting Championships in Japan.
0:15.4	He's fought in Elite Extreme Fighting.
0:17.9	He's fought in Cage Rage in the UK.
0:20.1	If you look at his CV of people fought, it is everyone from Bob sap to Kimbo Slice to you name it.
0:29.2	Now if you're not an MMA fan, that's okay because getting inside the Colossus's head an
0:35.0	mama fan that's okay because getting inside the Colossus's head is an interesting experience in itself.
0:37.0	This man has his own podcast, he has his own blog, he shoots movies, he's writing a book about himself, and he's got a really big personality
0:46.6	and really honest about things that happened in his life from being defeated by a bad call with Kimbo Slice to his gambling addiction
0:56.9	to just coming back and really making peace with the world.
1:00.0	So very excited to drop this episode.
1:03.0	We could have kept talking for three hours.
1:06.0	But we had to cut it off at some point.
1:09.0	We'll definitely have James back on the show.
1:11.0	Coming up, we have the journalist Gareth Davies and he had a great
1:17.1	sit down with us we're really going to get into his head and get his thoughts
1:20.1	about the UFC and MMA as a worldwide phenomenon.
1:25.0	And then of course, the following week,
1:27.0	we've got some more people from the UFC as well.
1:29.0	So very excited about this.
1:31.0	If you are traditionally not a fan of the fighting arts I
1:34.0	implore you to stay tuned in just from a personality point of view and even a
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