Archive for March, 2006
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold I have a feeling we are going to be seeing a lot of positive and negative reaction in regards to what happened on the UFC 58 card re: judges’ decisions. That would be easy material for us to cover on our radio show, but I suspect that every other show is going […]
Coker: We may break US attendance records
Sunday, March 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1 US promoter Scott Coker, quoted in today’s excellent San Jose Mercury News article written by Mark Purdy, claims that over 12,500 tickets have been sold for the Frank Shamrock vs. Cesar Gracie MMA event at the HP Pavilion (San Jose Arena). “We are past the 12,500 mark in tickets sales right […]
UFC 58 – Review
Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Rob Sayers Tonight with a belly full of Amber Boch and wings, I sat down at the Hooters in Jackson, MS to watch UFC 58: USA: Vs Canada. I was actually surprised by the number of people who showed up to watch the event. Tonight was a testament to the growing popularity of MMA.
California politics & MMA
Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did not attend the Gracie Fighting Championships show on Friday night in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. He took a lot of heat for his image being used on promotional posters for the event. Here is some of the criticism that Schwarzenegger has been dealing with. Today, […]
Fox Sports: UFC may TKO boxing’s audience
Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold Charles Jay has an article on Fox Sports that discusses Dana White’s courting of the boxing media and the response he has been getting so far from members of the American press. The article is part of a 3-article series (here and here) by Fox Sports writers on UFC & MMA. The […]
UFC 58 Predictions
Friday, March 3rd, 2006Huy Nguyen, Fight Report, Dr. J, and Performify have excellent previews for Saturday night’s event. Meanwhile, Dana White spent Thursday in a Las Vegas court room, as the UFC & IFL are in a legal dispute.
Mark Hunt interview by the PRIDE office
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Expect an English version to be uploaded on the PRIDE site shortly. Hunt talks about the upcoming open-weight tournament show on 5/5 at the Osaka Dome. In the Japanese interview, he is asked for his thoughts about Fedor, Nogueira, Mirko, and Barnett participating in the tournament and who he would like to […]
New defense tactic – blame Inoki
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold The Japanese fight industry is still in shock over last week’s arrests of three yakuza members of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime family. A fourth person is a fugitive and an arrest warrant has been issued. A lot of people were awaiting the reaction from the weekly tabloids regarding this story, but it […]
Schwarzenegger not appearing at Gracie event?
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006[photopress:arnold_kgo.gif,full,centered] Screen capture from KGO home page By Zach Arnold Update: The San Jose Mercury News claims that Arnold will travel to Ohio. After receiving political heat for a scheduled appearance at the Gracie Fighting Championships show in Columbus, Ohio on Friday, Schwarzenegger has now cancelled the scheduled appearance. This conflicts with a Sacramento Bee […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 9
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006Rob Sayers, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold recap the PRIDE 31 show that took place on 2/26 at Saitama Super Arena. In addition, we preview the upcoming UFC 58 show and give our positives/negatives on the business direction of the company. In addition, we play some short audio clips from Sherdog’s post-match press conference interviews […]
Sakakibara: I hope to have Nishijima fight in May.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Rob Sayers In a recent interview on PrideFC.Com. DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara gave his own thoughts on the PRIDE 31 event, the post fight mele, and the upcoming open weight GP.
FightOpinion.com Top 25 Light Heavyweights
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Jason Adams There was plenty of reaction to the Top 25 Heavyweight list yesterday. Let’s keep it going with the Lightheavy’s. Keep in mind voting was prior to PRIDE 31.
Schwarzenegger criticized for appearance at MMA show
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Things just got more interesting for Friday’s Gracie Fighting Championships show in Ohio. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will make an appearance at Friday’s MMA event in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. And this has the usual suspects up in arms.
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