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Wednesday MMA media round-up
By Zach Arnold | October 11, 2006
Hint: A massive amount of mainstream media coverage for UFC.
And check out the link to Rick Telander’s column in the Chicago Sun-Times. Yes, another one of the “old guard” of sports writers (from Chicago) who was a boxing supporter and isn’t supportive of UFC’s rise as a sport.
Maybe Telander is in competition with Jay Mariotti to see which guy can draw the most cheap heat at the Sun-Times.
- Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): Ortiz-Shamrock 3: More of the same as Ortiz wins The Final Chapter
- Houston Chronicle: Ortiz pounds Shamrock into retirement
- UFC HP: Ortiz retires Shamrock with first round TKO
- Daily Sports: Possibility of J.Z. Calvan vs. Masato for K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome show
- Long Beach Press-Telegram: Ortiz tees off on Shamrock
- Boxing Scene: Ortiz demolishes Shamrock in trilogy bout
- Sherdog: Tito Ortiz & Ken Shamrock post-fight video clips
- The Calgary Sun: Shamrock anything but lucky in loss to Ortiz
- The Oregonian: Local area fighters lose in at UFC: The Final Chapter
- Miami Herald: Ortiz defeats Shamrock to earn title shot; Shamrock retires
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Ortiz sends Shamrock to mat, retirement
- Boston Herald: Ortiz unlucky for Shamrock
- Hall of Fame Magazine: The World’s Most Dangerous Hall of Famer (coverage of early UFC and Shamrock)
- Honolulu Advertiser: Kendall Grove – Ultimate Fighting winner
- 570 News (Canada): Jason MacDonald – PRISON GUARD
- MMA Ring News: IFL championship to held at Mohegan Sun on 12/29
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They guy has a point about the endless eye gouges and cut grinding from Matt Hamill on display last night. Thats not going to win over a boxing writer.
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