Josh Mercer

Josh is a journalist based in Broken Hill, working for 7 Spencer Gulf News. He loves all things Sports and Pop Culture.

Outback Journo: Welcome to Broken Hill

Welcome to the first of my new posts about my new job and the town I now live. If you haven’t been to my website before, hi, my name is Josh Mercer, but you can call me Merce. It’s been just over a month since I moved to Broken Hill from Canberra for my new […]

By Josh Mercer

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

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The Miz: WWE’s Company man

Over the course of his career, Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin has done what the WWE have asked of him and done it smile on his face. He may as well change his middle name to ‘WWE” or ‘Titan Sports’. There are two examples’ reasons why ‘The Miz’ is a company man and one from about […]

By Josh Mercer

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

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Fearing for the future

It’s nearly 9:30 pm and as I just sit down to write, I almost decided that I wasn’t going to a blog post today. Now, I won’t be doing some amazing ’30 blog posts in 30 days’ or anything like that, I am just trying to get in the groove of writing again so that […]

By Josh Mercer

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

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Wanting to be the Aussie Bill Simmons

I often set loft goal and have high expectations for myself, what can I say I am a dreamer. Over the years I have wanted to be some many things in my life, from a pro wrestler to an MMA fighter to an actor (my dream was crushed in year 10 when I missed out […]

By Josh Mercer

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020

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Why I’m considering the Carnivore Diet

One Wednesday night in 2018, I was invited out to have a few drinks with some friends from work. This was a big deal for us, we had all spoken about going for a drink but due to usually working at the same time we had never been able to have a relaxing beer. It […]

By Josh Mercer

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020

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How I f@#ked up my return to MMA writing

Hey peeps and welcome to blog number three. I’m happy that I am keeping to my and that I have been able to do three blog posts in a row, I know that I should be easy, but I have struggled for consistency in the past and doing three blog posts in a row is […]

By Josh Mercer

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020

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Back to Normal

Hey everyone and welcome to blog number two! Thank you to the one person who viewed yesterday’s blog, I really appreciate it. I have been trying to work out what to write for today and I have decided to keep it simple instead of trying to dive into something that is really deep […]

By Josh Mercer

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020

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Don’t call it a Comeback….. Actually, that’s exactly what it is

It has been a while between blog posts for me, the last one I wrote was way back in August 2018 and well, I think that it’s time to start again. Before the world shut down I had just started writing for a rugby league website called Nothing But League, covering Sydney Roosters […]

By Josh Mercer

June 11, 2020June 12, 2020

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Mercer’s Mondayitis

Happy Monday Peeps and welcome to another edition of Mercer’s Mondayitis. Before I launch into a few topics from the world of sport I just want to say how good was the weekend? A few of the bottom teams in both the AFL and NRL really put it all on the line and there were […]

By Josh Mercer

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018

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Mercer’s Mondayitis

Welcome to week four of my Mondayitis blog peeps, I hope that you enjoying it so far. I have been really enjoying writing again and posting on my blog consistently, it’s something that I haven’t been able to do but I am really starting to see the benefits again. So with that little bit […]

By Josh Mercer

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018