Podcast: Shields, Struve, Boetsch

Live radio returned to The Sherdog Radio Network Monday with new episodes of "Beatdown" and "The Savage Dog Show"

Jack Encarnacao and Jon Luther returned to The Sherdog Radio Network Monday for another edition "Beatdown." Joining them was UFC welterweight Jake Shields.

The former Strikeforce and EliteXC champion joined Jack and Jon to talk about his upcoming match at UFC 144 agaisnt Yoshihiro Akiyama. The Shooto veteran talked about coming off of a pair of losses and what he feels he needs to do to defeat "Sexyama." The Cesar Gracie product also touched on his last loss to Jake Ellenberger and if he felt he should have taken the fight so close to the death of his father Jack.

Jeff Sherwood and I returned to The Sherdog Radio Network Monday for another edition of "The Savage Dog Show." Joining them were UFC fighters Stefan Struve and Tim Boetsch,

Stefan Struve will find himself in the co-main event Wednesday night in Omaha on the UFC's UFC on Fuel “Ellenberger vs. Sanchez” card. The Dutchman faces Dave Herman in a heavyweight tilt. Struve talks about the fight at hand and where he wants to go in the UFC's heavyweight division.

Tim Boetsch will cross the Pacific for his bout with Yushin Okami on February 25th for the UFC's UFC 144 card. Boetsch talks about his third fight at the middleweight division, where he feels his strengths lie against Okami, and what it will be like to fight in "The Land of the Rising Sun."

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