New England MMA from inside the room.
The Room Podcast covers New England combat sports from inside a cramped, lived-in room where sound checks, fight posters, drums, and side chatter are part of the texture. Its strongest lane is local MMA: Cage Titans recaps, Combat FC previews, fighter catch-ups, and scene gossip delivered with blunt familiarity.
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The Room Podcast is built around New England MMA, but it rarely moves in a straight line. Episodes open like a live hang: someone checks the sound, someone comments on the room, and the conversation warms up before the card talk lands. The show’s world is local and specific. Cage Titans comes up often, especially its events, venues, crowds, fighters, and post-fight fallout. Combat FC also sits in the mix, with attention to regional matchups and the camps around them. The room itself matters too. Drum kits, posters, microphones, cramped layouts, and new recording setups become part of the show’s identity rather than background details. Steve Domenico and Tommy Shahood bring the rhythm of longtime scene regulars catching up after another gap between episodes. Short breaks turn into jokes about consistency. Life updates sit beside fight talk without much ceremony. One minute the conversation is about daughters, concerts, elections, travel nerves, or a crooked poster; the next it is about packed venues, streams, bets, and which fighters made a room loud. That looseness gives the show its texture. It is not a clean studio panel or a tightly scripted combat sports program. It is closer to a local fight-night backroom where everyone knows the names, remembers who fought where, and still wants to talk through the card in full. Guests add to that embedded feeling, from Mike Polvere on Cage Titans to Shaun Shubert of Red Seal Martial Arts Co. and familiar fight-scene names like Richie Santiago, Brendon Boates, Jake Hixenbaugh, Jon Piersma, and Andy Kurzontkowski. The discussion is often blunt and casual. It can be funny, distracted, sentimental, or sharp within the same stretch. For fans who follow New England MMA beyond headlines, that is the draw: the show captures the relationships, venues, personalities, and week-to-week mood around the regional fight circuit. Its appeal depends on proximity. The closer someone is to Cage Titans, Combat FC, Plymouth Memorial Hall, and the local names moving through those cards, the more the room feels like familiar territory.
Made for: Best for fans of New England MMA who follow Cage Titans, Combat FC, regional fighters, local venues, and scene-level conversation. It also suits listeners who prefer relaxed, personality-heavy sports talk over polished national coverage.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is proximity: it sounds like part of the regional fight community, not commentary from above it. The casual room setup, recurring local names, and lived-in venue talk give it a grounded New England MMA identity.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, personality-driven Combat FC 8 discussion packed with fighter, camp and card talk.
Combat FC 8 sets the agenda for this loose, lively tour of New England's fight scene. The hosts bounce among fighters, camps, posters and a highlight reel, reacting as they go. Mike Jolica's return gives the episode some welcome continuity after his interview the previous week.
A loose return to The Room frames Cage Titans 69 through venue feel, distance, and local fight-show identity.
The Room Podcast comes back from a long break with a loose, lived-in reset, starting in a new establishment before settling into Cage Titans 69.
A hot Cage Titans night turns into a candid local MMA conversation about bets, loyalties, and a crowd that stayed loud.
Local MMA comes back into focus through a loose, lived-in conversation with Tommy, with Cage Titans holding the center. He recalls a packed, overheated night where the crowd stayed loud through the main fights, the sold-out room carried betting interest, and Andrew Valdina and…
Steve Domenico and Tommy Shahood reunite on The Room Podcast after a two-month hiatus.
Hosts Steve and Tommy return to 'The Room Podcast' after a two-month hiatus, broadcasting from a new home studio.
Two hosts return from a break to discuss personal updates and the show's new setup in a Rhode Island house.
The hosts discuss recent sports events and briefly touch on the presidential election results.
The Room Podcast covers New England MMA cards, including NEFF fights that ended in seven to twelve seconds and Cage Titans 67’s Jay Perrin main event.
Steve and Tommy return to The Room Podcast after a two-month break and shift from personal updates into a recap of Cage Titans 66.
The Room Podcast interviews 4-0 MMA fighter Andrew Valdina about his return to Cage Titans 65 after roughly a year away from competition.
The Room Podcast features Sean Schubert of Red Seal Martial Arts and Princeton discussing professional Muay Thai, coaching, and Princeton’s first fight at Cage Titans.
The Room Podcast hosts Tommy Shayhood and Steve Domenico interview Ross Levine about Karate Combat, his martial-arts development, coaching, and upcoming middleweight title defense.
Host Steve Domenico recaps Cage Titans 64 with New England MMA play-by-play voice Jeff Clark, who singles out Jonathan Piersma's opening head kick and Slippery Pete's front choke.
Erica Valentin, the only woman on the Cage Titans 64 card, says her takedowns and grappling beat a taekwondo-trained opponent whose kicks she expected from "right off the gate." She argues two of her six amateur losses, to Tatiana Santos and Brianna Sargent, should have been wins, and says she later stopped Sargent by TKO in January.
Amanda-Jo Basturk, a 36-year-old medically retired Marine, previews her fourth amateur MMA fight at Full Contact Promotions' Rage in the Cage 24 against Shannon Rowe.
A live weekly podcast covering New England sports and entertainment, with casual conversation and guest interviews.
A live weekly podcast covering New England sports and entertainment, with a focus on MMA and local fighters.