Archive for July, 2006
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006By Stephan Marceau ECC 3 (Extreme Cage Combat) is coming up this July 22nd in Halifax. Nabil Khatib will be facing Neil Berry from Alberta and Grandmaison will be facing TJ Grant who is from Nova Scotia. The main event is Jason Macdonald vs Fritz Paul. The last show in Moncton, New Brunswick drew 2500 […]
PRIDE 9/10 Saitama
Thursday, July 13th, 2006The promotion announced Mirko Cro Cop vs. Vanderlei Silva and Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira as the semi-finals of the open-weight GP tournament, which take place on 9/10 at Saitama Super Arena.
K-1 Revenge 2006
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Update: K-1 announced on Friday that Bobby Ologun would participate on the 7/30 Sapporo show. 7/30 Sapporo, Makomanai Ice Arena card line-up: Akebono vs. Choi Hong-Man Remy Bonjasky vs. Mighty Mo Glaube Feitosa vs. Musashi Peter Aerts vs. Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge Poul Slowinski vs. Tatsufumi Tomihira Bjorn Bregy vs. Tsuyoshi Nakasako Yusuke Fujimoto vs. […]
UFC 61 medical suspensions
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Information courtesy of the Nevada State Athletic Commission PDF filing: Andrei Arlovski suspended until 9/7, Tim Sylvia suspended until he is cleared by a doctor Ken Shamrock suspended until 8/8 Josh Burkman suspended until 1/5/07 (nasal fracture & big right toe injury) unless a doctor clears him, Josh Neer suspended until 8/23 Dan Christison suspended […]
IFL on Rogers Sportsnet
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson Fight Report has a story on the IFL signing a television deal with Rogers Sportsnet, out of CANADA~!, to air their originally aired programming from FSN. This is an interesting move for both parties. Obviously the IFL has expanded their reach, but its interesting for Rogers Sportsnet which doesn’t air a lot […]
Interview with Sam Stout
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Stephan Marceau A short and interesting interview, post defeat for Sam. He has the right attitude and is learning from his defeat, hopefully he will progress from there. Meanwhile it has been reported that Kenny Florian turned down a title fight against Sherk at UFC 62 (August 26). It used to be nobody would […]
Shukan Playboy: The bubble is bursting
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold This week’s edition of Shukan Playboy has a four-page spread titled who killed martial art movement? in English next to Japanese text asking what killed the Japanese kakutougi (MMA) boom. It’s a fairly complete article in terms of writing, with numerous sportswriters being quoted and all the facts being accurate. The main […]
Boston Globe article on UFC
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Jeff Thaler responds. Ron Borges, one of the more famous mainstream media boxing writers, attended the UFC 61 show and filed a report in the Boston Globe newspaper. (A second article by Borges can be found here.) For those who have been frustrated about the way the media covers the “transformation” […]
Being dealt a bad hand
Monday, July 10th, 2006There are wire reports today that state that American legislators are going to attempt to stop the flow of money to offshore companies that provide online gambling services to American citizens. The LA Times reports has more on this story. If such legislation is passed, it would deal a blow to people who are involved […]
PRIDE vs. UFC heading toward all-out war
Monday, July 10th, 2006By Stephan Marceau I didn’t make this title up, this comes from this article on the PRIDE web site. Well, if you missed Saturday’s UFC, the big news, Wanderlei Silva is to fight Chuck Liddell! Apparently Chuck has been asking for this matchup. So, I wasn’t exactly sure why Wanderlei Silva was wearing a Pride […]
Josh Barnett comments
Monday, July 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here are some comments that PRIDE heavyweight fighter Josh Barnett gave to me in a brief Q & A session.
Sapp – “I was betrayed by K-1”
Sunday, July 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold Bob Sapp held a press conference on Monday morning (Nikkan Sports report here with comments from Sapp’s lawyer, Michael Connette) at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Sapp told the press that he did not run away from fighting and that he wanted the fans to know the truth. He went […]
Potholes in Kings’ Road
Sunday, July 9th, 2006By Dave Ditch Four pro wrestlers have made headlines so far this month, and all of them have one thing in common: tours of All Japan Pro-Wrestling. Kenta Kobashi was trained there, debuted there, and became a top star there. He was first lauded as one of the best wrestlers in the world during the […]
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