Archive for April, 2006
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Nobuhiko Takada participated in a press briefing at Yamanashi university in Kofu on the 12th to announce the first “Pankration” team in the world. PRIDE hopes that by linking up with this team, they will be able to have some representation in future Olympic games.
Kawamata loses in court to Mijatovic
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today, a judge in Tokyo district court awarded a complete victory to power-agent Miro Mijatovic in his civil court case against Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 promoter, Seiya Kawamata. (Case background information here and here) Mijatovic sued to obtain a lien on any earnings that Kawamata wins in his civil court case against Nippon […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 14 (Tuesday Night Takedowns)
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006This week’s show features an interview with Sherdog’s Jake Rossen, talking about a brand new MMA print magazine called Real Fighter. Jake also talks about the direction of the Ultimate Fight Night shows, and the future of the IFL. Also, we talk with Fight Opinion writer Luke Nicholson about the direction and future of PRIDE, […]
UFC 59 ‘Reality Check – Preview and Analysis
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006By Al Yu Event Date: 04.15.06 Fight Card: Evan Tanner vs Justin Levens Thiago Alves vs Derrick Noble Jason Lambert vs Terry Martin Karo Parisyan vs Nick Thompson David Terrell vs Scott Smith Jeff Monson vs Marcio Cruz Nick Diaz vs Sean Sherk Tito Ortiz vs Forrest Griffin Andrei Arlovski vs Tim Sylvia Evan Tanner […]
Kawamata’s kamikaze attack
Monday, April 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold By no means is the end-all, be-all translation summary of the latest Shukan Gendai interview with Seiya Kawamata about the yakuza scandal rocking the fight industry in Japan. However, I was able to translate and gather some interesting details from the latest interview that really have people on edge. In the latest […]
Upcoming plans for HERO’s
Monday, April 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold If you’re a fan of the K-1-style MMA, today was a very interesting day. The promotion announced their plans for the next five months. More details to come soon. The 5/3 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I show features Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Kazuyuki Miyata and Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Katsuhiko Nagata. The […]
PRIDE on FSN TV special
Sunday, April 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Sunday night, Fox Sports Net aired a PRIDE TV special centered around the Bushido 10 show. It started off with a rap-themed intro video package, with Phil Baroni saying, “This is PRIDE, welcome to the show.” They debuted a new video graphics package. The annoying female announcer Lenny Hart did her […]
Insider hardball
Sunday, April 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold I just got the Shukan Gendai issue (released today) with the new yakuza article about K-1, DSE, and Kawamata. My first read of the article is that this is an important article, because it includes a flowchart (which I will try to recreate later if I can) that clearly links all the […]
Pancrase 4/9 Differ Ariake results
Sunday, April 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold Courtesy of Sports Navigator/Yahoo Japan: Middleweights: Ichiro Kanai defeated Moriyuki Yamada in R1 in 2 minutes, 11 seconds with a shoulder-hardening hold (similar to the one Aurelio used on Gomi at the Bushido show). Featherweights: Atsushi Yamamoto (KILLER BEE) defeated Takumi Murata in R2 in 1 minute, 37 seconds with a choke […]
Preview: Kawamata says Ishii was threatened
Saturday, April 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold 「＜ミスターＫï¼ï¼‘＞石井館長も暴力団ã«è„…ã•ã‚Œã¦ã„ãŸï¼ã€ ケイ・コンフィデンス・å·åˆèª 矢社長　 According to a tease for the next (upcoming) edition of Shukan Gendai, promoter Seiya Kawamata is going to talk to the magazine in-depth in regards to the various threats that former K-1 President Kazuyoshi Ishii received from the yakuza. We’ll find out (at least Kawamata’s story) where those threats were […]
Mayweather vs. Judah
Saturday, April 8th, 2006Photo credit: MSNBC web site How about that spectacle of a fight on Saturday night? KW at FightReport.net has more details.
Cagewarriors release Strike Force 5 bouts for free download
Saturday, April 8th, 2006By Mark Pickering After a successful Strike Force 5 show last month the Cagewarriors Fighting Championships have had numerous requests from its pan-European fanbase to see the action that went on inside the Skydome Arena on March 25th. Well thanks in part to their Production Company, Cagewarriors are proud to announce that 2 fights from […]
Killing a Gimmick~!
Friday, April 7th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson In 2000, and in 2003 the PRIDE GP Tournaments were special. They were events that didn’t happen everyday, and because of that, the intrigue to watch was higher than for your run-of-the-mill card. Fast forward to 2006. Since 2003, we’ve now had FOUR GP Tournaments in a little less than four years, […]
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