Today’s chalkboard (4/14/08)
By Zach Arnold | May 14, 2008 | Print This
- Fox Sports: Tito Ortiz — ‘I plan on fighting for three more years’
- Fox Sports: IFL is seeking buyers for the troubled league
- Sherdog: IFL changes while seeking a future
- Fight Hype: Christopher Bell — ‘What’s really the big deal about steroids?’
- Setanta Sports (UK): Keith Jardine - legend slayer
- The Calgary Sun: Workout with MMA fighter proves a humbling experience
- The Sun (UK): Wayne McCullough believes David Haye can make an impact in MMA when he hangs up his boxing gloves
- Five Ounces of Pain: Gina Carano on ESPN’s E-60 show
- MMA Predictions: Gina Carano and Kaitlin Young speak on upcoming bout
- Fighter’s Only Magazine (UK): Dan Hardy talks to FO about UFC deal
- MMA Payout: More details on ESPN MMA show
- Fightmetric: BJ Penn is ridiculous
- ADCC News: Ryan Schultz talks IFL, SportFight, and Team Quest
- MMA Analyst: TUF season 8 - combination of rants best describes TUF’s woes
- MMA Opinion: The Forest from the Trees
- USA Today: Jeff Monson Q & A
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Interested in Mayhem vs. Sakuraba?
By Zach Arnold | May 13, 2008 | Print This
DREAM 4 is set for June 15th at Yokohama Arena. Any desire to see Mayhem Miller vs. Kazushi Sakuraba in a fight? The claimed paid attendance for DREAM 3 at Saitama Super Arena on the 11th was 21,789.
- USA Today: Interview with Josh Barnett
- PR: Nonprofit organizes May 15th run in Vegas to raise funds for US soldiers in financial crisis
- News Long Island: Randy Couture to appear at Xtreme Couture in Centereach Long Island
- Charles Jay: Sizing up UFC 84 - betting heavy on Lightweights and Light Heavyweights
- Bloody Elbow: UFC’s television future
- AOL Fanhouse: Mark Cuban’s HDNet has work to do on production quality of MMA broadcasts
- IGN: What will the other MMA game look like?
- News Channel 7 (SC): Bill would allow ‘ultimate fighting’ in South Carolina
- The Las Vegas Review-Journal: TUF coaching gig gives Frank Mir chance at Ultimate goal - heavyweight title shot awaits after TV show
- All Media Scotland: MMA hits Cannes
- The Philadelphia Daily Inquirer: ‘Iron Ring’ is more circus than serious
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‘Redbelt’ draws mostly positive mainstream media reviews
By Zach Arnold | May 11, 2008 | Print This
- Total MMA: DREAM 3 live results
- The Seattle PI: Ivan Salaverry’s last stand?
- BC Local News (Canada): Fighting against MMA
- Penn Live (Entertainment): ‘Redbelt’ is an oddly intriguing Mamet mix
- The Denton Record-Chronicle (TX): Finding the art of fighting
- The Ventura County Star: Meeting Kimbo Slice
- The LA Times: On the mat with David Mamet
- The Edmonton Sun: Notes from MFC 16 event
- TKO Xtreme: MFC 16: Anger Management results
- The North County Times (CA): Jesse Taylor has sights on winning UFC contract
- The American Chronicle: MMA - trend or fad?
- Globe & Mail (Canada): GSP’s love life makes headlines
- MVN: Kimbo Slice - the man who is going to kill MMA
- MMA Junkie: Matt Hughes wants to prove his time hasn’t passed
- 411 Mania: Interview with Jens Pulver
- IGN: Randy Couture and David Mamet interview
- Bloody Elbow: What would 30% look like?
- MMA Analyst: HCF dies; who’s next and why?
- MMA Madness: Dan Henderson — what’s next?
- Jared Barnes: Interview with Yves Edwards (w/ audio)
- Charles Jay: UFC on Forbes is a big deal — but how big a deal is the UFC?
- MMA Opinion: Will a documentary steal MMA viewership?
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DREAM 3 ordered card line-up
By Zach Arnold | May 10, 2008 | Print This
- Featherweights: Takeshi Yamazaki vs. Shoji Maruyama
- Middleweight GP: Jason Miller vs. Katsuyori Shibata
- Middleweight GP: Melvin Manhoef vs. Kim Dae Won
- Lightweights: Daisuke Nakamura vs. Jung Bu-Kyung
- DREAM Welterweight contender’s match: Nick Diaz vs. Katsuya Inoue
- Lightweight GP: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Buscape
- Lightweight GP: Joachim Hansen vs. Eddie Alvarez
- Lightweight GP: Kaoru Uno vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida
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Adrenaline MMA
By Zach Arnold | May 7, 2008 | Print This
Their web site is here. Their debut event is on June 14th at the Sears Centre in the Chicago area. Matches announced for the debut show include:
- Jeff Monson vs. Mike Russow
- Terry Martin vs. Daiju Takase
- Brian Gassaway vs. Tony Fryklund
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(Dis)organized chaos with Cro Cop
By Zach Arnold | May 7, 2008 | Print This
There are plenty of rumors that Mirko Cro Cop will face Jerome Le Banner or Sergey Kharitonov at a future DREAM event. Well, maybe that won’t happen after all.
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Report: Mark Dion files lawsuit against Brandon Vera
By Zach Arnold | May 7, 2008 | Print This
When we interviewed Mark Dion recently on Fight Opinion Radio, we asked him a lot of questions relating to his arbitration case against Brandon Vera. Included in the laundry list of questions were questions regarding the way Dana White behaves when it comes to doing business.
Well, according to Adam Swift, Mark Dion has plenty of complaints when it comes to doing business with UFC:
The complaint closely follows the contours of the arbitration proceedings, except for the inclusion of Zuffa, White, and Silva for allegedly interfering with Dion’s management contract with Vera. Specifically the complaint alleges that Zuffa and its officials encouraged Vera to breach his contract with Dion and provided him with confidential emails to use in that effort.
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Matt Serra goes to Albany
By Zach Arnold | May 6, 2008 | Print This
Well, it’s not exactly Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but Matt Serra is getting plenty of ink in various broadsheets for appearing in Albany (New York’s state capital) on Tuesday to lobby on behalf of MMA regulation in the state.
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Not much news happening…
By Zach Arnold | May 6, 2008 | Print This
If anyone can find me an RSS feed for the articles Josh Gross writes on SI, I’ll add it to our page.
The one ‘interesting’ story of the day is Matt Lindland reportedly threatening to file a lawsuit against the ex-wife of politician Bob Packwood.
- Sports Illustrated: While the UFC dodges worry, EXC isn’t as lucky
- Charles Jay: UFC 86 - who is for real?
- Daily Star (UK): Chris Leben - caged fighter
- Canadian Press: Herschel Walker wants to put together an MMA stable to challenge UFC fighters
- 411 Mania: Drew “The Massacre” McFedries
- SI: Nick Diaz pulled off DREAM card
- The Sun (UK): Mandy Moore dating GSP?
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Media notes: Steve Sievert
By Zach Arnold | May 5, 2008 | Print This
Steve Sievert, who covered MMA for The Houston Chronicle, has left the newspaper and is now with MMA Junkie. Replacing Steve at the Chronicle is Jared Barnes.
I can’t say enough good things about Steve and his writing ability.
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Today’s chalkboard (5/5/08)
By Zach Arnold | May 4, 2008 | Print This
I’m not dead, but mainstream media coverage of MMA sure has been the past couple of weeks. I expect that to dramatically change in the next week, as we will see the heat-up for Sherk vs. Penn and also the upcoming EXC show at the end of this month.
Onto today’s headlines.
- The South Florida Sun-Sentinel: UFC champions Antonio Nogueira, Anderson Silva partnering on fight academy in downtown Miami
- The Toronto Sun: 18-year old Gavin Clark fighting for MMA glory
- The South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Parents advocate their kids involvement in MMA and are not concerned about too much violence
- The Boston Herald: Joe Lauzon rolls with punches
- MMA Junkie: MMA wagering - beating closing lines
- The LA Times: UFC targets show for Latino audience
- Bloody Elbow: Affliction fumbles again
- Seattle PI: Breakdown of Sean Sherk vs. BJ Penn fight coming up
- Setanta Sports (UK): The Prodigy’s got no bottle - Sean Sherk
- The Dayton Daily News (Ohio): First impressions crucial to EXC’s debut on CBS
- The Fall River Herald-News (MA): Head to the library, not the dojo
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Today’s chalkboard (5/1/08)
By Zach Arnold | May 1, 2008 | Print This
- Reuters: CBS honcho rips network’s extreme fight plan
- Bloody Elbow: EXC on CBS - ‘not socially responsible’
- Sherdog: Chris Leben turns himself in
- New York Newsday: Rights for UFC sought for bigger market in NY
- Ben Fowlkes: Mac Danzig - reality star or professional athlete?
- AOL Fanhouse: Sherk, Penn pass drug tests, but ‘there’s more drug usage in MMA than boxing’
- The Sun (UK): Tito Ortiz Q & A
- The Canadian Press: ‘Redbelt’ is an oddly intriguing MMA film by David Mamet
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Chaos with DREAM
By Zach Arnold | April 29, 2008 | Print This
Too long to translate, but the summary is that between fighters like Masakatsu Funaki losing and Kiyoshi Tamura suffering a finger injury, everything is in a state of flux right now with both DREAM GP tournaments. In other words, expect some past fighters (like JZ Calvan) to be possibly re-booked as replacements in the tournament format.
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