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The Wednesday blotter
By Zach Arnold | November 21, 2006
- MMA HQ: Who’s next for GSP?
- Maxboxing: Why promoter Gary Shaw must be thinking MMA is better than boxing more and more as each day passes
- MMA California: Strikeforce Triple Threat FSN Countdown show review
- Gong Kakutougi interview with PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara (via Burning Spirit): 12/31 Saitama Super Arena show will have an “All-Star Theme” to it, Mirko Cro Cop will fight a “new face” on the show, Vanderlei Silva will defend the Middleweight title on 2/24 in Las Vegas, PRIDE will run 5 US shows & 1 ~ 2 other foreign shows & 6 Japanese shows in 2007, and the Bushido name may be used for marketing some of the foreign events.
- The Montreal Gazette: He’s Montreal’s smiling ring assassin
- The Calaveras Enterprise: Jake Shields tapped out for first time in career
- The Baltimore Sun: Saturday night at the bar (big crowds show up to watch UFC 65)
- Cage Rage: 12/9 London event card line-up
- Bodog Fight: 12/2 Vancouver event card line-up
- Fox Sports: Dave Doyle’s UFC 65 observations/notes
- MMA California: Strikeforce preview show premieres on FSN Bay Area TV
- Broadcast Newsroom: The Media Group’s involvement is supporting BodogFight
- Journal de Montreal (French language): Claim that Georges St. Pierre made $500,000 USD total (w/ bonuses) in his fight with Matt Hughes (and also received a Hummer SUV from UFC management, along with the claim that there were 15,300 fans at UFC 65 in Arco Arena)
- UFC Junkie (a good site): Estimated UFC 65 fighter salary figures
The Journal de Montreal article (if someone can help with the translation) is probably the most interesting of the articles in terms of news value.
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http://www.rds.ca/combats/chroniques/217667.html
GSP also wrote an article in french for the french canadian version of ESPN.
He talks about the joy of winning, his mom, a week or 2 of vacationing in Aruba and a possible UFC in Montréal in May. Saying that Dana wants to do it and is trying.
The general gist is what you have in the headline. According to Le Journal, The Saint-Isidore Athlete received very close to $500,000 including bonuses, and reportedly received a van and a Hummer (no model on that, hope it’s an H2, the H3 looks like a glorified Jeep Cherokee). It also reports 15,600 people at Arco.
I haven’t seen the officially released gate figures from the CSAC to compare that with, but it is my understanding that Arco holds 17,317 for Basketball’s Sacremento Kings games. I have no idea how an octagon setup would alter that number if it would at all.
A word to the wise. Le Journal du Montreal is not known for it’s fact checking. The Montreal Gazzette or Le Droit would be a far better information source. However, it does not appear that either paper reported these numbers (or the event much at all).
I was going to go to this Cage Rage but my mate I was going with is going Skiing instead 🙁
They’ve swapped Buzz Berry for Tengiz Tedoradze (against Cabbage). Tedoradze is so much better than Berry… at least he looks better – I’ve never seen someone with a more rediculous stance than Berry in all of MMA. He’s the true defininition of rock em sock em robots – his head literally never moves 😛
Anyway, another good card. No monster fights but lots of good fighters. I guess Zelg vs Weir is fight of the night.
Arco does hold about that, and while there would be more seats available for MMA as opposed to basketball, there were four largish sections on the second level that were blocked off for the big screens. All in all, I’d say that the 15,600 number isn’t at all unreasonable.
I have provided a full translation of the “Journal of Montreal” article on my blog for those interested. I didnt want to create another topic here just for that article.
Haven’t seen this mentioned here: Dave Meltzer reports in WO that The World Fighter is screwed BECAUSE they were gambling on getting a Showtime deal, so now that Rumble Entertaniment got it instead, World Fighter is in financial trouble.
Pride foreign shows? Is it going to be like that crappy european pride thing or the REAL DEAL (pun intended)?