Archive for January, 2006
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006Gryphon on his blog reports some rumors (in Japanese, via the infamous 2ch gossip Japanese message board system) regarding the relationship between New Japan & TV-Asahi. The rumors claim that TV-Asahi wants to discontinue airing NJ’s weekly television show. Here’s a more direct link (in Japanese). The reality of the situation for New Japan is […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 3
Thursday, January 19th, 2006The third edition of Fight Opinion Radio is now online and available to download. Here are your options for listening to the show: Broadband (MP3) | Dial-up/Streaming | YouSendIt (Download MP3 file) Or you can use the great flash player to listen to it streaming (without having to use an external program). Check it out […]
A birthday wish
Thursday, January 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today is my birthday. Which naturally means that it’s one of the few days in the calendar year in which I work on the Puroresu Power and Fight Opinion sites for less than 6 hours. Or at least I try to. Nonetheless, I do have a birthday wish that I would like […]
TV ratings battle
Thursday, January 19th, 2006Here they are: WWE RAW – 4.3 rating, UFC Ultimate Fight Night – 1.7 rating. That is strong. Very strong. Debate the implications in the comments section.
Why have gaijin wrestlers been heels in Japan? Sano’s Japanese Wrestling Column
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Mr. Tetsuya Sano Swimming Eye タイトルã®å•ã„ã‚’Zachã•ã‚“ã«ã•ã‚Œã¾ã—ãŸã®ã§ãã‚Œã«ã¤ã„ã¦ã®è‡ªåˆ†ãªã‚Šã®å›žç”を書ããŸã„ã¨æ€ã„ã¾ã™ã€‚ＵＦＣã®è©±é¡Œã‚‚一段è½ã—ã¾ã—ãŸã—ã“ã†ã„ã†ã®ã‚‚ã„ã„ã‹ãªï¼Ÿã¨ã€‚ The question (the title) of this post was made by Mr. Zach and I want to write my own answer for it. Did the topic of UFC complete it’s stage? ã¾ãšã“ã®å•ã„ã«ç”ãˆã‚‹ã«ã¯æ—¥æœ¬ã®ãƒ—ãƒãƒ¬ã‚¹ã®æ´å²ã‚’振り返らãªãã¦ã¯ãªã‚‰ãªã„。 First of all, it is necessary to look back at the history of pro-wrestling in Japan to […]
Upgrading the site
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006As fast as this site is growing, leave it up to the good folks at WordPress to decide to upgrade their system. I have managed to now integrate their new 2.0 system onto the conversational side of Fight Opinion, and needless to say it does operate a bit differently on the posting side. I will […]
MARS 2/4 Ariake Colosseum card
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold From GCM Communications (the company promoting the event): Takumi vs. Arai Kenji Yuji Hoshino vs. Yasunori Kanehara Hironaka Kuniyoshi vs. Ryan Schultz Takumi Yano vs. Rani Yahira Osami Shibuya vs. Thales Leites (Nova Uniao) Akitoshi Tamura vs. Ian Loveland (Team Quest) Mikko Rupponen vs. Antony Rea Eiji Mitsuoka vs. Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro […]
Team Quest mania
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s a recent string of Internet articles regarding Team Quest and Randy Couture. Enjoy. And post responses or other TQ press links/articles here. Question of the Day: Which fight club/team is the best organization right now? I’m not talking about PRIDE, K-1, UFC, etc. I’m talking about groups such as American Top […]
UFN3: My Thoughts
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006UFN3 was a good event, outof 8 fights, 1 went to the judges. I like that. Here’s a few of my thoughts on the fights we got to see. Chris Leben vs Jorge Rivera Leben came into this fight pretty much as an underdog and once again proved his critics wrong. He seems to get […]
UFC Plans California Debut
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006Alan Abrahamson in the Los Angeles Times reports on Tuesday that UFC will run an event in Anaheim, California on April 15th at the Arrowhead Pond arena (the same building used by the NHL team, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks). This confirms the initial rumors we discussed last week about UFC running Anaheim and not Los […]
The Carnival of UFN Reaction
Monday, January 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update on 1/17 at 9:00 PM EST This is going to turn into one huge, massive post of links. I will update this throughout the next day or two, as there should be a lot of opinions about Monday night’s UFC Ultimate Fight Night live event. MMA Opinion – Booking For Money […]
Live review of Ultimate Fight Night on Spike TV
Monday, January 16th, 2006By Rob Sayers & Zach Arnold This is where we will be doing live note-taking on UFC’s UFN special on Spike TV. Last-minute links to read before the show: Fight Blog – Ultimate Fight Night live MMA Opinion – The Big Announcement~!~! Wrestling Press Box – Ultimate Fight Night 3 Preview No Holds Barred – […]
Weigh-in results for UFN3
Monday, January 16th, 2006Inside Fighting is reporting that all fighters managed to make weight on their first attempt. Official Weights: Tim Sylvia (263) vs. Assuerio Silva (236) James Irvin (204) vs. Stephan Bonnar (205) Drew Fickett (169.5) vs. Josh Burkman (170.5) Chris Leben (185.5) vs. Jorge Rivera (184) vs Melvin Guillard (168) vs. Josh Neer (170) Duane “Bang†[…]
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