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Friday-Saturday media outpost of links
By Zach Arnold | October 20, 2006
Ed Fishman (Photo credit: Burning Spirit)
- North Jersey Media Group: Mike Tyson’s promoter confirms that he will do a boxing match in Macau for PRIDE’s 12/31 New Year’s Eve event
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: Murder-for-hire plot alleged (man with ties to bodybuilder Craig Titus charged)
- Las Vegas Review-Journal Base pay for Fedor’s 10/21 Vegas fight is $100,000 (can balloon to $1 million USD with win)
- Caitseth: Picture gallery of PRIDE in Las Vegas (here and here)
- YouTube: Frank Shamrock challenges Dana White
- MMA Weekly: PRIDE US weigh-in results
- UFC HP: Four hours of UFC knockouts on Spike TV Saturday night
- The Sweet Science: Is the Rocky road boxing’s only path to redemption?
- Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): PRIDE comes to UFC’s Las Vegas backyard this weekend
- USA Today: Mike Tyson bores crowd in return to ring
- Boxing Scene: Tyson happy with exhibition, fans are not
- Fight Report: Tyson’s sparring match
- Las Vegas Sun: TAKE FIVE: PRIDE Fighting Championships
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: U.S. foe Coleman sees little weakness in Russian champion
- Observer: More information on PRIDE Las Vegas ticket sales
Even though actual ticket sales are good, there is a caveat to them. Most of the ticket brokers (who purchased the original tickets to resell them late at a higher price) have tons left at this point. In addition, there are a lot of comps around Las Vegas for the empties as the place is set up for around 14,000, plus the sponsoring casinos made significant ticket buys and they are passing them out as well.
- Main page: PRIDE’s main Las Vegas show sponsor
- Calgary Sun: All about PRIDE
- 13th Round: Cung Le – From refugee to superstar
- Dublin Death Patrol: Kevin Randleman will use “DDP For Life” as his theme song at PRIDE event
- The Spoctagon: Predictions and preview of PRIDE 10/21 Las Vegas event
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Two interesting things in the Las Vegas Sun article. One, Dana White says regarding the Pride show, “I’m not going to counter it,” which seems odd given that a four-hour block of UFC Knockouts is scheduled to run on Spike TV head-to-head with the Pride USA PPV. Two, Ed Fishman is referred to as “the president of Pride USA,” which is the first time I’ve seen that wording used.
I wonder if Ed fully realizes the scope of what he is getting into. Quite a big situation.
If the match between Shamrocks manager and Dana(blaf) White happens, and Dana loses what does Frank stand to gain? Not that i think it’ll ever happen but even if Dana loses he wins by “being a man and standing up to the challange” Doesn’t sound like a well thought out wager.
With the exception of the main event looking like a squash on paper, IMO, the rest of the Pride FC Las Vegas card doesn’t look that bad. Although, I also think that Pride FC and UFC won’t go head-to-head as rival promotions. The world is a big place, and IMO, UFC has the US, and Pride FC has Japan. UFC battling Pride FC IMO, would be like Hustle battling the WWE for sports entertainment supremacy.
Speaking of WWE, has anyone picked up this Wrestlemania like vibe in Pride FC with Mike Tyson fighting on their New Years Eve show from a different location. Granted, I know Pride is only doing this because Tyson can’t work in Japan, but still, the concept of running a show from two or three locations just reminds me of Wrestlemania 2 and 3.
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