The Room Podcast

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.