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Sunday & Monday is media fun-day
By Zach Arnold | October 29, 2006
Consider this an open post to talk about any stories MMA-related you see in the media or just anything in general MMA-related you want to talk about.
Look at the prices on Ticketmaster for tickets for UFC’s TUF 4 Finale show. $175-$495 USD per ticket.
Sunday and Monday headlines can be read in full-post view.
- Las Vegas Sun: Both UFC owners (the Fertitta brothers) have surgery for knee injuries
- UFC HP: TUF Finale card line-up (11/11)
- Vallejo Times Herald: Jon Fitch profile interview/article (real good article)
- Gryphon: Kid Yamamoto wrestling in New York
- Radio Jamaica: 20-year old man arrested for Trevor Berbick’s murder
- Vallejo Times Herald: Ultimate Fighting gaining popularity
- SLAM! Sports: Punch, Kick, triumph (Bas Rutten interview)
- Bradenton Herald: Newspaper writer claims the IFL doesn’t have a real network TV deal
- North Jersey Media Group: A league of their own (IFL) (this is a great article, talking about how the IFL will get onto the American stock market through a reverse merger)
- Sherdog forums: Argument – Chris Dolman was more influential than Royce Gracie in MMA (this is a fun thread to read)
- Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): Vancouver fighter (Denis Kang) mourns fiancee, prepares to go after PRIDE title
- KGW Newschannel 8: IFL returns to Portland on Thursday
- St. Paul Pioneer Press: Student, survivor, soft-spoken fighter (profile piece on Roger Huerta)
- UFC HP: Press release for Liddell vs. Ortiz II 12/30 Las Vegas show
Topics: All Topics, IFL, Media, MMA, UFC, Zach Arnold | 9 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback |
That IFL editoral in the Herald reads like something a dopey college kid slopped together 20 minutes before the deadline. Really don’t think he’s actually claiming they don’t have a TV deal, I think the Herald needed some filler, and he stumbled onto the IFL’s webpage.
(I’m testing tags here for the first time – apologies if it doesn’t work)
Many new fights announced for UFC TUFinale 4
JThue – just use normal HTML coding (a href, blockquote, etc.) and it should work fine.
Yeah, how desparate is that newspaper for content?
If you gave crayons to inmates at the funny farm you’d get something more coherent.
Hahaha, that Chris Dolman Thread is some funny shit…
Thanks Zach 🙂
Re: KID… Well this isn’t getting confusing at all :S Could it be that he has simply been offered a ton of money from K-1 to take a 3 month pause from his wrestling-training to prepare for- and fight on NYE?!? Or is there any chance his “fight” on NYE could in fact be an amateur wrestling match? I’m intrigued.
Wow I’m surprised to see Jackson on the finale after the way Dana reacted on the show. I was also surprised to see the Smith-Sell and Ray-McCarthy fights. I would think it would make more sense to pit the strikers in Ray and Smith and the grapplers in Sell and McCarthy against each other.
Nikkan Sports had an article (here it is) that indicated that Kid was “positive” about working on the Dynamite show.
The more interesting part of the card is not seeing Jackson back, but that Rich Clementi and Din Thomas dropped back down to 155.