PRIDE
« Previous EntriesIn response to former manager, Mirko Cro Cop digs a deeper hole
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013The battle of words between Mirko Cro Cop and his former manager, Miro Mijatovic, is escalating.
Post-PRIDE five years later: What happened to the main players?
Monday, March 26th, 2012Five years later, the Japanese fight scene is burnt to a crisp after PRIDE’s demise.
Miro Mijatovic: The yakuza’s contract to kill him & PRIDE’s execution
Sunday, March 4th, 2012Miro Mijatovic comments on how PRIDE was politically destroyed.
Miro Mijatovic: Fedor, Mirko, and PRIDE yakuza’s loaded pistols
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Part two of Miro Mijatovic’s interview on Spike TV about the PRIDE scandal.
Miro Mijatovic: The PRIDE yakuza ownership war in Nov. 2003
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Miro Mijatovic, former agent of Fedor & Mirko Cro Cop, says that there was a war brewing between different rival gang factions to control who owned PRIDE.
A miserable Winter for non-UFC Japanese MMA power brokers
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012UFC ran Saitama Super Arena without a hitch. And nobody was there to stop them. Why was that so?
UFC Japan: A wonderful show & a pyrrhic victory?
Sunday, February 26th, 2012A balanced look at the fallout from the UFC Japan 2012 event at Saitama Super Arena.
Mike Fagan: The fifth anniversary of PRIDE 33
Friday, February 24th, 2012Mike Fagan talks about an event that took place five years ago… an event that became a PRIDE classic.
Open discussion: MMA Uncensored Live (Spike) on PRIDE scandal
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012Spike debuts its new MMA talk show tonight, MMA Uncensored Live, at 11 PM EST/PST. The infamous PRIDE scandal will be discussed.
Antonio Inoki’s shadow war on NYE
Saturday, December 24th, 2011There’s a lot of symbolism with the 2011 Inoki NYE MMA card, both for historical & futuristic purposes.
Safe to issue K-1 their Last Rites?
Sunday, October 16th, 2011Things continue to get shakier for K-1. On its death bed?
Chael Sonnen: “They found me guilty for taking a legal substance (testosterone)”
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Chael Sonnen expounds upon his trials & tribulations regarding his come back to the UFC after the California State Athletic Commission went after him over the way he used & disclosed TRT (testosterone) usage.
Comparing Fedor to Sakuraba and why Fedor is MMA’s all-time most divisive fighter
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011Jordan Breen says that Fedor and Sakuraba now find themselves in a similar space, historically-speaking, in the MMA landscape.
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