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Monday afternoon media news & notes
By Zach Arnold | June 18, 2007
Relson Gracie addresses the reports on Royce Gracie failing a CSAC-administered drug test.
Results from the latest Spirit MC show in South Korea.
The IFL has moved their September event from the LA Forum to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida on September 20th.
This is truly an embarassing press release for this specific quote:
The personable, popular, charming and charismatic EliteXC star will work alongside Todd Keneley and “$kala,” aka Jared Shaw, who will call the action of a terrific undercard streamed live on ProElite.com, a respected, rapidly growing Internet destination for the MMA community.
Onto today’s headlines.
- Fightlinker: Things getting rocky for TKO & Stephane Patry
- Grapple Monkey: Gina Carano haiku
- Bloody Elbow: World leaders and martial arts
- The Worldlink: Coos Bay, Oregon city council to hold hearing on regulating MMA
- NBC Sports: UFC legend Ken Shamrock says he’s nearing return to Octagon
- The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (WI): Pulling no punches – pros avoid toughman events while village considers ban
- MMA Weekly: One-on-One with Gina Carano
- The LA Times: Stakes are high for Nate Diaz and Manny Gamburyan
- The Houston Chronicle: Frank Shamrock, Phil Baroni take off the gloves
- The Quad Cities Online: QC Silverbacks earn final IFL
playoff spot - The Albany Times-Union (NY): Fame has its upside (article on Jeff Blatnick)
- PR Leap: Randy Couture to be honored at 2007 Masters Hall of Fame
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1. IFL shoudl not be going to FL. That specific location is already worn thin.
2. Ken Shamrock vs. Michael Bisping is being rumored for UFC 75. In a weird way, I like this fight. I think Bisping will win, but it is a fantastic way to get him even more over in the UK. I will admit that this is an easier fight for him, but he is early enough in his career that they can do that. Plus, the big rumor is that after this fight he is moving down to Middleweight. A division he could actually be a threat at.
Gah, am I annoyed by the IFL going to Florida. Thats twice in a row that I’ve planned on going to one of their shows only to have it moved to a different location.
Ken Shamrock?
Um, o.k.
Bisping will wipe the ring with him.
Bisping is getting the Franklin treatment. Obviously Ken can’t say no to another payday. Stop offering him fights. The UFC is beating a dead horse.
Ken will get dropped by another phantom punch.
“1. IFL shoudl not be going to FL. That specific location is already worn thin.”
Sounds 100 times better than the LA Forum. Nice to see them realize that smaller buildings is the way to go.
One more walkover for Bisping will be one too many. Hamill would be so much better. But I also am intrigued by the prospect of Bisping – Shamrock, just for name and novelty value.
Strange move by the IFL. It only makes sense if they’re doing a good rating in Southern Florida. If they’re smart they’ll book Kimbo on that card.
You’re going to have The Anacondas vs either the Pitbulls or Silverbacks (I think Pitbulls). So you have no team that is local and none of the athletes from any of those teams are from Florida. They’ve never run a show from there before and have likely never heavily promoted the area.
If they’re pulling in a strong local rating and think they can pack the building with a hot crowd this makes sense. They need a good crowd for the championship. Why not just run the Grand Olympic Auditorium in LA? You can get 3,000 people or so in there.
Kimbo in the IFL. That would be hilarious.
I have to agree that the move to FL is smarter than doing the forum (though the Forum is in my backyard and I was definitly looking forward to the finals). The show in Vegas was nice because the smaller venue made it look packed. Down side was some idiot forgot to put a mic under the ring so there was no noise for any of the slams or punches and that basically made the whole crowd quiet. But when the Scorpions and the Lions tangled the hometown crowd came alive and it ended up being a pretty good show. IFL definilty needs to stick to small venues as it looks pathetic when using a giant place like the Forum and then onlyusing half of it.
As for th Olympic suggestion…its an awesome venue but do u know how much it is to run there? I use to help run some indy wrestling feds and my god the Olympic aud is one of the MOST expensive places in Cali, and for the size its just not worth it. Literally single handidly sunk ECW and XPW back in the day…ah the memories.
I just had the misfortune of watching “Bad Blood: Jens Pulver vs BJ Penn”
It was trash. I couldn’t watch past 10 or 15 minutes.
(A lame show on SpikeTV with Dana White, Randy Couture, Joe Rogan all raving about how Jens and BJ don’t like each other)
CSAC CLARIFIES ROYCE GRACIE DRUG TES
[“A normal person could have a level of 2 ng/mL of Nandrolone that the human body could potentially produce and an athlete that has just completed rigorous physical exercise could have a level of 6 ng/mL…
Both samples provided by Mr. Gracie had a level of over 50 ng/mL and we were informed that the level itself was so elevated that it would not register on the laboratory’s calibrator.”]
Royce is finished.
“1. IFL shoudl not be going to FL. That specific location is already worn thin.”
Anything is better than running the Forum.
I hate that Florida location, the fans remind me too much too much of the inbred retards who goto the FSU football games.
Worst fans in the freaking world.
Just a thought, maybe IFL pulled out of the Forum in part because they didn’t want to be the next installment of Armando Garcia Runs Wild.