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Archive for January, 2006

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Quarter Hour New Years Eve ratings

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

The numbers are starting to come in for certain fights in regards to which fights drew the highest ratings on New Year’s Eve in Japan on TV. Oricon has a report about the numbers. Oricon reports that the Naoya Ogawa vs. Hidehiko Yoshida fight at 9:30 PM on Fuji TV drew a 27.7% rating, which […]

Layout of postings

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

The system we are currently using allows us to either display the full text of each post or I can program a snippet of code which only shows an excerpt (quick summary) of text from each post. Which format would you like to see me implement here? Post thoughts in the comments section. I would […]

Fight Opinion Hour

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

The debut of the Fight Opinion radio network starts in a couple of days. We will have a definite newsmaker (guest) on the show. The shows will be kept to a smaller time limit due to us not having sponsorship. We will work on sponsors and other business deals over the course of this site’s […]

Trouble in Paradise

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Gryphon reports that Dokonjonosuke Mishima is out of DSE/DEEP and that Masanori Suda is likely gone from Shooto. I can assure you that this isn’t the first that you will hear of fighters rejecting the politics of this circle of promoters. 2006 is going to be an interesting year if you can keep up and […]

Latest from Tanigawa & Sakakibara

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Gryphon has links to recent interviews with Tanigawa (K-1 producer) & Sakakibara (DSE boss). Here is my translation of some of the information from Sakakibara’s interview: Sakakibara stated that Mirko caught a cold (had the flu) before he left Croatia to arrive in Japan to fight Mark Hunt. Sakakibara also claims Mirko hurt his ankle […]

Fight Opinion Survey

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

We’re still relatively new in terms of this web site, so I wanted to take this time to thank everyone who has supported us so far with the project. I would like everyone to do me a favor and respond to this posting by giving us some survey answers in the comments section of this […]

A look into a WWE Booking Contract

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

For most of the thousands of wrestlers, working the school gyms, guard armories, fairground expo halls, and anywhere else a ring can be set up and admission charged, the WWE booking contract is the holy grail. It means you’ve reached the top of your game. What does one have written in it?

PRIDE US PPV version of 12/31 Saitama event

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

In quick discussions that I’ve had with Adam Summers and Dr. Keith Lipinski, both men told me that the US version of the PRIDE show was heavily edited. To the point that several fights were not shown at all, period. In Japan, those who saw the PRIDE show on free TV ended up seeing most […]

I think why did PRIDE beat K-1

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

this is news source(Japanese) PRIDE:15.3%  K-1:14.8% と言う訳で男祭り(8時~)は15.3%、Dynamite!は14.8%と僅差で男祭りが勝利!! 正直この結果は意外でしたね。 Otoko Matsuri won by a little difference! Honestly, this result was unexpected. 番組としてのまとまりはDynamite!!の方が上って書きましたし実際視聴率ではDynamite!!が上回るだろうと思っていました。(I thought Dynamite is better than PRIDE as Tv show,not as fight event so,I thought K-1 beated PRIDE in Tv rating war…) と言うのが須藤×KIDがやっていた時間にはすでに男祭りは時間を持て余して再放送に入っていましたし (Fuji tv broadcasted replay when TBS broadcasted Sudo-san vs KID-san) この時間帯でDynamite!!が大きくリードするんじゃないかなと。 ただ、それ以上に曙×ボビーのグダグダ感が響いてしまったようですね。 […]

New Year’s Eve war: TV Ratings

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan is starting to release the TV ratings for the New Year’s Eve war from Japan. Tokushima Shimbun (newspaper) reports that the Kohaku (Red & White) Music Festival on NHK drew ratings of 35.4% (Part 1) and 42.9% (Part 2), which signals an increase from last year’s all-time record low ratings. […]

TV ratings war

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Just to notify everyone, Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan will release the initial ratings for both the K-1 & PRIDE 12/31 shows on Monday afternoon (1/2) Japanese time (late Sunday evening 1/1 American time). Per usual, I will get the information as fast as possible and break down the information released.

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