Archive for July, 2006
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The last 24 hours, MMA boards have been buzzing about comments that Mirko Cro Cop reportedly made in an interview regarding his future in fighting (specifically where he will fight). Read his comments here. In short, he said the following (I cleaned up the grammar): JL: You have mentioned on many occasions […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Wednesday, July 19th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) Network – Tokyo Broadcasting System Card line-up: Light Heavyweight Tournament: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kin Tai Ei (Seido Kaikan) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Shungo Oyama vs. Rodrigo Gracie Light Heavyweight Tournament: Carlos Newton vs. Melvin Manhoef Kin Tai Ei fought in […]
WFA ‘King of the Streets’ – Preview and Analysis
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006By Al Yu Event Date: 07.22.06 Location: The Forum (Los Angeles, California) Fight Card: Antonio McKee vs Adam Arredondo Jorge Oliveira vs Marvin Eastman Rob McCullough vs Harris Sarmiento Jason Miller vs Lodune Sincaid Ivan Salaverry vs Art Santore Ricco Rodriguez vs Ron Waterman Lyoto Machida vs Vernon White Bas Rutten vs Kimo Leopoldo Quinton […]
Gendai: Gackt associated with DSE owner
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold This week’s edition of Shukan Gendai has a top story in their magazine, claiming that popular Japanese music artist Gackt (through the office he is employed with) is associated with Mr. I (Ishizaka), the alleged yakuza owner of PRIDE who is rumoredly hiding in South Korea. In short, attaching the name of […]
WFA aims for pro-wrestling fans
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006WFA President Jeremy Lappen comments: “Pro wrestling’s audience is waning,” Lappen said. “I think boxing’s audience is waning. I think those people are still out there. They’re just looking for something else to watch. I think what they’re going to watch is this.” The fighters don’t seem to mind the extra attention and appear more […]
PRIDE 8/26 Bushido GP card
Tuesday, July 18th, 20068/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall card line-up: Kazuo Misaki vs. Dan Henderson Akihiro Gono vs. Gegard Mousasi Ryo Chonan vs. Paulo Filho Denis Kang vs. Amar Suloev
UFC 62 card firming up
Monday, July 17th, 2006By Stephan Marceau So far the card has: Chuck Liddell Vs. Renato “Babalu” Sobral Can Babalu withstand Chucks kicks and hits? Can he take down Chuck long enough to take care of him? I’m looking forward to this rematch. The UFC clearly thinks that Chuck will win easily to then face Wanderlei Silva. Chuck should […]
Update on ECC 3 show
Monday, July 17th, 2006The Chronicle Herald newspaper (in Halifax) reports that ECC 3 promoter Peter Martell wants elbow strikes (similar to what you see in UFC) to be allowed. Suffice to say, the local media in Halifax is taking this request as Martell trying to add blood and violence to the event.
Stupid human tricks
Sunday, July 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold In the past few weeks, we’ve heard promos from both Kurt Angle (WWE) and Rhyno (TNA – video of his open challenge here) talking about how they would accept any challengers from a 4-sided, 6-sided, or 8-sided ring. This, of course, has set off a fury on MMA boards and has pro-wrestling […]
What mainstream media coverage looks like
Sunday, July 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold I looked around for a media report to see if Mike Kyle appeared at the Boise (Idaho) MMA show on Saturday night (and he didn’t), and what I found was this article reviewing the show. Actually, it was more or less commentary disguised as actual coverage of the show (and negative). The […]
Developing revisionist history
Friday, July 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Friday, Josh Gross wrote an article on Sherdog titled Liddell vs. Silva: Why now? talking about the upcoming co-promotional matchmaking between PRIDE & UFC. The PRIDE source Gross quotes (and doesn’t dispute in the article) is engaged in amazing spin-doctoring, to the point that you start laughing at the claims being […]
The return of Mike Kyle?
Friday, July 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update (8 PM EST): FredEttish in the comments section notes that Kyle has been pulled off the Idaho card. The awareness raised by MMA fans to the athletic commission apparently worked. This Saturday night in Idaho, there will be a big MMA event taking place at Qwest Arena with an expected full […]
Ian “The Machine” Freeman Statement
Thursday, July 13th, 2006By Mark Pickering Ian ‘The Machine’ Freeman: To leave my career and have a loss at the end of it is more than I can handle. Known as The Machine, I take no prisoners and to leave a great record with a poor loss, I would not live up to my name. I have just […]
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