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Monday, October 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold What an exhausting last week that was if you were an MMA or professional wrestling fan. Oversaturation of good and bad programming, indeed. But don’t worry, relive some of the good, the bad, and ugly highlights from the week that was in the fight industry.
Updated Bushido 11/5 Yokohama Arena card line-up
Sunday, October 15th, 2006In no specific match order. Welterweight GP: Akihiro Gono vs. Denis Kang Welterweight GP: Kazuo Misaki vs. Paulo Filho Welterweight GP Reserve Match: Gegard Mousasi vs. Hector Lombard Lightweight Title Match: Takanori Gomi vs. Marcus Aurelio Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Mike Barton Shin’ya Aoki vs. Gilbert Melendez Nobuhiro Obiya vs. Luis Buscape Murilo Bustamante vs. Yoon […]
Sunday newspaper review
Sunday, October 15th, 2006Update: Mark Pickering reports that K-1 is trying to book retired boxer Vitali Klitschko. Lots of UFC coverage. Lots. This will be updated throughout the day. If you click to read this in full-post view, you will see that we have added a poll question that anyone can vote on. Please vote. Yahoo Japan HP: […]
UFC 64: Unstoppable
Saturday, October 14th, 2006By Erin Bucknell For additional coverage of this event, check out Dave Doyle at FoxSports.com. Spencer Fisher vs. Dan Lauzon Spencer has some very interesting entrance music. Very, umm, subdued. Wow, Lauzon’s a bit of a youngen isn’t he? “The Upgradeâ€? Wow that’s worse than “The Athlete.†(Ed. — At least he didn’t call himself […]
Superstar Seminar in the UK
Saturday, October 14th, 2006By Mark Pickering As the UFC looks to make in roads in the European market ahead of their British expansion, a superstar seminar featuring light-heavyweight king Chuck Liddell and an abundance of Ultimate Fighter alumni has been arranged for February 10th and 11th at the Liverpool Olympia, England.
Fight Opinion goes to the movies
Saturday, October 14th, 2006OK, not really. We just find a lot of mass media article links about John Cena’s new movie, The Marine, and let you read them. You’re going to want to, for sure. I am daring you, Erin, to go see this movie and give us your thoughts. For that matter, anyone reading this who has […]
Sensational Saturday media round-up
Saturday, October 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Donate to FightOpinion.com This week has been insane for media coverage. Click the full-post view to read today’s links. Please give us feedback to the various media stories. We want to read your opinions.
All is not good in UFC land
Friday, October 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold With people reflecting upon the success of UFC’s 3.1 rating for Ken vs. Tito III, the obvious question asked by everyone was whether or not that rating meant that UFC would be able to create new fans that would watch their other programming. The first test was Thursday’s Ultimate Fighter show, which […]
The Friday MMA media marathon
Friday, October 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Donate to FightOpinion.com Update: The one big media story today are the rumors/reports (here and here) that Mirko Cro Cop has undergone surgery and will not fight on New Year’s Eve for PRIDE. I think this is the direct link to the newspaper report. If you use an RSS reader (or service […]
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 9
Thursday, October 12th, 2006By Erin Bucknell Well keeping the teams as is seems kinda pointless what with only Travis surviving from his team. Though I must say for the most part I’m definitely more of a MoJo fan, simply so I can have Serra’s “Hamma-Fist!!!†to snark at. “Mollywobâ€? And it’s another wierdass Shonie-ism. Matt Hughes randomly shows […]
Thursday media link-o-rama
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Time to take a deep breath (hopefully the news cycle slows down). If you have any MMA news-related media links you would like to contribute to this article, post them in the comments section. We’re definitely looking for fresh links, especially from the various blogs. You can see all of today’s links in full-post view. […]
Ken vs. Tito III draws huge ratings
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006Spike TV press release says that Tuesday night’s event from Florida drew a 3.1 rating cable, and also beat the Oakland A’s vs. Detroit Tigers game that aired on FOX in the male 18-34 year old demographic. Ratings breakdown here. “Last night was a turning point for the UFC. This will further drive the evolution […]
Response to UFC & WWE article
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold The comments and mail in regards to Luke Nicholson’s article were voluminous. I generally agree with his position and the tone of his article. I also view his article not as just an American wrestling fan, but as a Japanese wrestling fan. The history that has transpired in Japan does somewhat translate […]
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