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Friday, August 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold CP (Canadian Press) reports that UFC is now postponing plans for a fight in November between Chuck Liddell and Vanderlei Silva. This news comes one month after Dana White announced on PPV (in Las Vegas) that Silva would fight Liddell. He cited problems in dealing with the Japan-based Pride Fighting Championships that […]
Big talk, little interest
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Consider this an opinion piece, if you liked to be warned in advance. For the last week or so, I’ve seen reports online about comments PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara has been making about how his guys would beat the UFC fighters. UFC, to their credit, has literally said nothing about any sort […]
Mario “Sukata” Neto out of UFC 63
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Mark Pickering UFC bound Mario “Sukata†Neto who was due to face former Cage Rage Heavyweight Champion Tengiz Tedoradze this Saturday at Ultimate Force 3 in Doncaster, England has been forced to withdraw through injury. The Brazilian heavyweight who sports a 9-3-0 record broke a rib in training today, confining him to 6 weeks […]
K-1 & Lesnar in Las Vegas
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion has a show this weekend at the Bellagio Hotel, and Brock Lesnar is expected to appear at a press conference to announce his participation in an MMA match for HERO’s. 8/12 Vegas card line-up here. I know that there were several other promotions interested in his services, including one group […]
Updated K-1 9/4 Ariake Colosseum card
Wednesday, August 9th, 20069/4 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum: Kazuya Yasuhiro vs. Andy Ologun Genki Sudo vs. TBA Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Hiroki Shishido Hiroshiki Ishii vs. Ian Schaffa Hiroyuki Maeda vs. Remigijus Morkevicius Drago vs. Naoki Samukawa TATSUJI vs. Mike Zambidis HAYATO vs. Artur Kyshenko Takayuki Kohiruimaki vs. Andy Souwer Yoshihiro Sato vs. Albert Kraus
Brandon Vera vs Frank Mir at UFC 65
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006By Stephan Marceau Updated the title to reflect the confirmation that this is now scheduled for UFC 65. Originally Brandon Vera’ site is the one that misled me to think it was at 62, the site has subsequently been updated to reflect that the fight is scheduled for UFC 65 That seems rather fast for […]
Techno Goliath versus The Paparazzi
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Digital Chosun has a report (in Japanese) about comments recently made by Choi Hong-Man. Hong-Man went on a SBS variety TV show (South Korean) on Monday and talked about being followed by the paparazzi. He told a story about how a Japanese magazine took a snapshot of him and a woman at […]
PRIDE’s new big signing
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Yeo Jong-Hoon (long-time correspondent) reports that Lee Tae Hyun (born on 1/17/1976, 196 cm, 138 kg) announced at a press conference today that he would fight in PRIDE. (Sports Navigator report here). Nobuyuki Sakakibara & Nobuhiko Takada were present at the media briefing. Tae Hyun is considered one of the great Ssirum […]
Tank vs. Buentello
Monday, August 7th, 2006It appears that letting Paul Buentello become a free agent may not pay off for UFC. Tank Abbott vs. Paul Buentello has been booked for the next Scott Coker Strikeforce show on October 7th in Fresno, California at the SaveMart Center. Can this match sell 10,000 tickets?
Resolution between Mirko & PRIDE?
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Vecernji List reports (translated on Sherdog) that a resolution between PRIDE & Mirko Cro Cop may have been reached. The dispute between Mirko and PRIDE involved money, more specifically whether or not he would get paid fight money for two fights if he won his first fight against Vanderlei Silva and then […]
HERO’s admits misjudgement
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last week turned out to be bittersweet for Tokyo Broadcasting System, which televised both the Koki Kameda fight (that drew monster ratings) and the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show, featuring the debut of Kazushi Sakuraba in the K-1 MMA ring. Both of those fights had controversy, but there was another fight on […]
2H2H – PRIDE & HONOR Card
Sunday, August 6th, 2006By Mark Pickering Holland’s Too Hot Too Handle (2H2H) promotion have announced the fight card for PRIDE & HONOR on November 12th at the Ahoy’ Rotterdam. The card presented in conjunction with PRIDE will be the organisation’s sixth event at the Rotterdam venue and will feature 12 international bouts. PRIDE & HONOR is set to […]
Bushido 8/26 updated card line-up
Sunday, August 6th, 20068/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall (4 PM) Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Cristiano Marcello (Chute Boxe) Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Luciano Azevedo Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Eric “Butterbean” Esch Jeff Curran vs. Hioki Hatsu Shin’ya Aoki vs. Jason Black Gilbert Melendez vs. Nobuhiro Obiya Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Chris Brennan Welterweight Tournament: Denis Kang vs. Amar Suloev Welterweight Tournament: […]
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