Archive for February, 2006
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006Yosuke Nishijima had a meeting with the press on Sunday at the Takada Dojo in Tokyo. This was to push his upcoming fight against Mark Hunt on the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena show. In this photo, Nishijima is trying to show off a choke sleeper hold on Kazushi Sakuraba. Nishijima claimed that his training in […]
K-1’s “Cinderella Boy” loses
Saturday, February 18th, 2006Hideo Tokoro, nicknamed “Cinderella Boy” by K-1, lost in the main event of ZST’s Differ Ariake show in Tokyo on Saturday night. He was KO’d in the second round by Lithuanian fighter Erikas Petraitis. The semi-main event saw Naoyuki Kotani & Darius Skliaudys go to a draw. Remigijus Morkevicius defeated Wataru Inatsu (U-FILE camp) in […]
The legal battle in Hawaii continues
Saturday, February 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold There’s good news and bad news, according to a report in Saturday’s edition of The Honolulu Advertiser. Writer Treena Shapiro notes that legislation to try to cripple MMA in Hawaii has been stalled: A prohibition on mixed martial arts fighting is also essentially dead for the year, as is a bill that […]
Toughman promoter: We’re safer than MMA
Saturday, February 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold The battle between promoters for the two industries continues. The Rockford Register Star has an article on the upcoming King of the Cage show promoted by Monte Cox in Moline, Illinois. However, the newspaper’s author manages to somehow bring Toughman into the discussion. The topic? Getting athletic commissions to regulate their respective […]
Next week’s guest: Josh Barnett
Friday, February 17th, 2006Next week on Fight Opinion radio, we interview Josh Barnett for the show. Post your questions here (if you have any you want to submit and have me ask of him). Serious questions only.
True Blue Blues: Was TNA Right to Punish Austin Aries & Roderick Strong
Friday, February 17th, 2006By Sheldon Goldberg One of the hot topics in wrestling this week is TNA’s decision to punish Austin Aries and Roderick Strong for defying TNA’s request to fly to Florida early for their last pay per view and miss the Ring of Honor show for which they had already been booked. Just reading this story […]
Shooto 2/17 Yoyogi event
Friday, February 17th, 2006Results here. Gryphon has more notes on the event. Top Japanese female fighter Megumi Fujii won her fight on today’s event. She has super charisma. A total babyface. Click on the picture to check out her blog.
MMA print magazines
Friday, February 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Jason Gatties has a report about a new print-magazine publication about MMA in March. Money quote from the press release: Editor in Chief Mike Carlson says that Real Fighter will deliver the in-depth, journalistic coverage of professional MMA that’s currently lacking in the marketplace. “The Internet has done a great job covering […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 7
Thursday, February 16th, 2006UFC 57 was one of the highest-grossing shows produced by Zuffa LLC in the company’s history. This week, we break down the UFC 57 payscale numbers (according to the Nevada State Athletic Commission) and debate whether or not the fighters should have been paid more. In addition, Adam Summers & Mike Sempervive discuss the Winky […]
5 matches announced for HERO’s 3/15 Budokan show
Thursday, February 16th, 2006The 3/15 HERO’s Nippon Budokan show in Tokyo will have a “Japan vs. The World” theme. 5 matches have been announced for the card: Genki Sudo vs. Ole Laursen (Denmark/Kickboxing) Kaoru Uno vs. Rich Clementi Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Karim Ibrahim Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Ivan Menjivar Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Kim Min-Soo Update: Two more fights announced […]
Crippling MMA in Hawaii?
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Honolulu Advertiser has an important update regarding Hawaii’s state legislature attempting to change the rules for promoting MMA on the island. The newspaper reports on a new bill that promoters and fighters say will devastate the local MMA scene: HB3223, passed out of the state House Tourism and Culture Committee yesterday, […]
More trouble for Bobby
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold Just when you thought the Bobby Ologun situation with his boss at R & A Promotions was resolved, Tokyo Metropolitan Police have now landed their judgment on Bobby. And it’s not good news for him.
UFC: Leaving Home
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson After UFC 57, and the rumoured early sellout of UFC 59 in Anaheim, I started thinking that maybe UFC should start running some shows outside of Las Vegas. With the increasing exposure UFC is provided on SpikeTV, coupled with the recent coverage by a couple mainstream outlets (Sports Illustrated, and TheScore [in […]
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