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Matt Souza

CrossFit commentator and panelist, host of "Souza's Show" and recurring voice on The Sevan Podcast covering CrossFit Games news

Aug 15, 2026

17:35
Off you go.
17:35
M- I mean, no.
17:36
I mean, I, I agree with, uh, James' sentiment and with what Seth said.
17:40
I think if you think just objectively at wins, it has to be Brute.
17:43
They're not very loud as maybe some of the other, uh, brands are, but they're just silently, like, doing their thing, and clearly Matt, uh, Torres has just a whole entire [laughs] stable full of champions over there.
17:55
Um, in terms of, like, marketability and media and everything else that would encompass, like, you have to put Mayhem into that conversation.
18:04
I think so many of the gyms use even Mayhem programming, like the affiliate programming, that that's probably the dominant program in terms of, like, the everyday CrossFitter- ...

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30:34
Off you go.
46:46
It's usually the forearms you can tell if people are in good shape
46:49
... and he's swimming on a, a sailboat in wherever the heck they were, some place foreign with no mosquitoes.
46:55
And, um, it's like, so you still see a lot of that stuff from him, and it's hard to look at that now with how much, uh, CrossFit has grown, right? Not only in people, like more people participating in it, but, like, if you would've rewind to 2012, or I mean 2002, and were like, "Hey, in a few years here you're gonna have these, like, a regional thing, and all of these guys or girls are gonna show up and they're gonna snatch more than anybody can right now period, and more people are even gonna know what a snatch is than they, than, than they do now," like, it would be hard to guess that the fitness level would rise that way.
47:36
So then to kind of look at it with that lens now and be like, "Well, how fit is Greg?" Or, "Could he have done this or that?" I don't know if that's exactly a fair, like, assessment or judgment at this time.

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59:26
[laughs]
59:26
Right? And, uh, clearly they changed venues.
59:30
Like, they did a bunch of stuff at the Games.
59:32
So now that that's behind us, now that you have somebody like Bruce in, we still don't really know how the investments go into the Games, like what that looks like behind the scenes, but he does have a preexisting relationship with Dave.
Mike TenaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
81:50
gossip as we head into final resolution by texting tna
81:53
did anybody actually use that tna texting service and if they did are they still on a watch list um probably i need to know all the late breaking news from tna let me text let me text i'm a rube to 6734

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90:23
Matt, do you have anything to plug?
90:26
Uh, besides backbone things, you can find me on the extreme three-way dance over on the North South connection where much like TNA, we're watching ECW and it's slowly killing me and Jenny in this case.
90:37
So, uh, check that out on the, uh, the North South connection.
90:42
And, uh, everything else I do is right here on the backbone.
90:45
So listen to that stuff.
90:47
All right.

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