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Wednesday weekly rundown (3/19/08)
By Zach Arnold | March 19, 2008
- Todd Martin (CBS Sports): Jeff Blatnick sees MMA as viable career option for amateur wrestlers
- The Sun (UK): Cage Rage promoter Andy Geer says Sean Sherk should be banned for life from MMA
- The Seattle PI: Interview with Joe Lauzon
- The Canadian Press: Expect MMA sparks to fly when James Irvin and Houston Alexander meet
- The Canadian Press: Spencer Fisher pulls out of UFC fight because of shoulder injury
- Sherdog: Fedor never under contract to M-1
- MMA Mania: New Kimbo Slice video interview
- Full Contact Fighter (Audio): Interview with Joe Doerksen
- MMA Predictions: Notes from the Strikeforce Conference call
- Dave Meltzer: Frank vs. Ken Shamrock a no-go?
- MMA Analyst: Ken vs. Frank shouldn’t happen
- Steve Sievert: In UFC free-agent shuffle, loss of Tito Ortiz would sting most
- MMA Opinion: Exclusive DREAM debut event pictures
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Does Cage Rage even do drug testing?
Cage Rage started drug testing at their last event. Pro Elite made them do it. :p
“The guy sets a terrible example to the sport and to allow him to walk back in sets a worse one. It’s not how we would have handled the situation.”
Wasn’t it Cage Rage who brought in Vitor Belfort to fight, despite he being banned for a year for his drug violation?
^^^LOL. And that was in the middle of his suspension as well.
Gary Shaw on Frank Shamrock, responding to the claim that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world: “The best fighter in the world, hands down, bar none, is Frank Shamrock.”
LOL, I know that as a promoter you’ve got to exaggerate a bit to sell fights, but let’s not get carried away Mr. Shaw.
While it’s no doubt an exaggeration it’s no worse than tons of the ridiculous hyperbole that’s heard on every hype show and ppv for the UFC.
They referred to Frank Mir as “one of the most dominant HW’s of all time (before his accident).” [paraphrased]
In other news, after beating Bisping, Rashad is top 5 in the world @ 205.
Well, to be fair, before the accident, Mir was 8-1 and had just broken Tim Sylvia’s arm to become the UFC champ. He was looking pretty dominant back then and many thought he was the future of the division.
^ Yeah that is true, I’ll definitely concede that – but…I wouldn’t exactly call Wes Sims (x2), Tank and Traven the world’s best competition at the time either.
Either way, I think it’s safe to say promoters (and company men) are always going to be guilty to some extent of overhyping their fighters…I mean “promoter” kind of entails such duties.