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Wednesday media mania
By Zach Arnold | January 17, 2007
I have seen it all now. Today, I learned that when I link to reports in the broadsheets and blogs, I’m simply doing it to steal traffic away from those sites. Seriously.
Information overload. I expect you to read all the stories. To reward you, here’s a teaser: Sankei Sports says that PRIDE is trying to book Emelianenko Fedor vs. Rulon Gardner as the main event of their 2/24 Las Vegas show. How about that Japanese support for Silva vs. Henderson as the main event? Plus, The Fight Network reports that Joachim Hansen wants to fight in America.
And Randy Couture’s wife is bored by Tim Sylvia. Hardcore.
Here are the results of thee 2006 Ground & Pound MMA awards.
Watching the Warrior Nation show on MSNBC, I found some humorous spots on the show with Erin Toughill. Urijah Faber cut a great promo about why he hates American fight fans. In addition, it was funny to watch the Cache Creek Casino crowd completely turn on Toughill, who didn’t understand why the audience was treating her like a heel.
- Fox Sports: Here we go again (it’s about boxing’s reaction to UFC on HBO)
- Television Week: Fox Networks enter MMA ring
- The Ottawa Sun: Farmer Brown has a fighting chance
- The Los Angeles: A mixed reaction to machismo (read this for sure)
- UFC Mania: Chuck Liddell’s fight gloves draw a bid of $11,000 USD on eBay
- Sherdog: California athletic commission approves the use of a ring for MMA
- CVTA: Cage Force announces two tournaments for 2007 in Japan
- Crookston Daily Times (Minnesota): ‘Crookston Fighting Challenge’ organizers hope for a sellout
- Norfolk Eastern Daily Press (UK): By day teacher, by night cage fighter
- Prime Newswire: Boondoogle Sports Network selected as an advertising partner to promote the ‘Art of War’ event
- The Honolulu Advertiser: Niko Vitale climbs back into ring Saturday
- The New York Press: Gracie under pressure
- The Rockford Register Star: Get your fill of MMA battles this Friday
- 15 Rounds: WEC announces final bouts for 1/20 Las Vegas event
- The Pacific Daily News (Guam): Outdoor MMA event may feature 15 fights
- MMA California: IFL in Reno on 6/16
- MMA HQ: Joe Stevenson vs. Kaoru Uno at UFC 68
- UFC HP: This week on Inside the UFC
- The Calgary Sun: UFC name Mirko Cro Cop’s first opponent
- The Record Courier: West Coast Martial Arts students (Nevada) test for black belts
- The Houston Chronicle: New IFL TV deal falls short
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Great to see Uno back in the UFC, i’ve been waiting quite some time for that. Hopefully that means that there’s some sort of working agreement between the UFC and K-1, since he fought for them the last few years. It wouldn’t be that bad an idea for them to send Akiyama over and have him “redeem himself” by facing a few americans…
Now if only Genki hadn’t called it quits…
Uno vs. Stevenson is a very good fight. I am a big fan of Uno’s. The UFC is definitely testing Stevenson. Giving him Mishima & Uno in back-to-back fights is no easy task.
Ha, Mrs. Randy obviously has good taste.
Sherdog’s Brazilian Notebook feature also confirms that Thiago Tavares has been signed by the UFC, which isn’t too shabby. Pretty good prospect.
What weight does he compete at? He looks smaller in the picture on Sherdog.
The UFC should really sign Joachim Hansen. He has an exciting style, speaks English, and despite his loss to Aoki, it still Top 10 in the world. Plus, he has a win over Takanori Gomi. you combine him with Sherk, Penn, Stevenson, Uno, Franca, Fisher, & Griffin, and this division has gotten loaded really quickly. Wait until TUF5 comes on. It will only stack the division even more.
Tavares fights at 155. His first opponent may be Naoyuki Kotani, though that’s far from official, and hopefully not true, since Kotani is garbage.
I hope we don’t have to see Randy vs Tito 2. The first fight was monumental due to Randy surprising most people and taking the title, but it was a definite snoozefest with no rewatch value.
If Randy loses to Tim, I think you’ll see Randy/Tito II and Randy/Ken those are two wins for Randy. If QJ is the champ at that point you’ll get Randy/QJ that will be his 4 fights.
If he beats Tim you’ll get Randy/Cro Cop. If that doesn’t end his career but assuming he loses I think you still get Randy/Tito II and Randy/Ken.
This is somewhat of an aside, but can we please stop saying Randy retired. He hasn’t even been gone a year. A lot of guys take 11 months off between fights for various reasons. Whether you say “I’m retiring” or not I think there needs to be a certain amount of time say at least 18 months or 2 years before you can be “retired”. Randy just took a break. Bas Rutten however came back from retirement this summer.
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Fedor vs Rulon Gardner? Bring it on, I’d love to see that match. Rulon really took the fight to Yoshida, and it always made me wonder why he didn’t keep fighting in MMA. He showed a lot of talent.
Zeppelin: Supposedly Gardner said that he wasn’t interested in doing more MMA, but my guess would be that we simply didn’t see him since his fight against Yoshida due to the hefty pricetag that comes with him. It was rumored that he got something between 600k and 1 mio $ for Shockwave 2004, which is really a shitload of cash…