Archive for November, 2006
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Friday, November 17th, 2006Use this link if the image doesn’t load fully for you Comment from Zach: Only WWE.com could find a way to have the phrases Big Dick Johnson and Let’s Go to Prison on their news page when talking about PRIDE. The Underground Forum and Sherdog threads about this developing story. By Stephan Marceau This is […]
Link-o-rama
Thursday, November 16th, 2006Fox Sports: Hughes/GSP UFC 65 – Match of the Year? and more GSP interview quotes with Dave Doyle Ivan Trembow: How TNA’s prime time wrestling show will compete with UFC ratings on Spike TV UFC HP: Vera on the Verge of a Breakthrough Houston Chronicle: Jeff Monson prepared for last shot Houston Chronicle: Matt Hughes […]
PRIDE Otoko Matsuri 2006
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Fighters announced today (who will participate on the 12/31 Saitama Super Arena show): Emelianenko Fedor, Mark Hunt, Mirko Cro Cop, Josh Barnett, Vanderlei Silva, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Hidehiko Yoshida, Kazuyuki Fujita, Takanori Gomi, Mauricio Shogun, and Dan Henderson. Tickets go on sale this Sunday starting at 10 AM.
BoDog humiliates PRIDE VP
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold On this week’s edition of BodogFight TV (download the 215 MB QuickTime video here), the promotion decided to humiliate PRIDE VP Sotaro Shinoda. And they weren’t secretive about it, either.
UFC 65: Analysis and predictions
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006By Stephan Marceau The Bad Intentions card is pretty exciting — two title bouts, and also a very interesting Frank Mir vs. Brandon Vera fight.
Wednesday media links
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Updated throughout the day.
Tuesday news wire
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006This post last updated at 12:07 AM EST. A lot of news stories and articles today. Take 5-10 minutes out of your busy schedule to read the various links and analysis. Then come back here and write your feedback. Hint: Dana White responds to the new Showtime deal with JD Penn. Update: The TUF Finale […]
November 18: It’s time for GSP to shine
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006By Tom Bones If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it hundreds of times during the last six months. Georges St. Pierre is a different fighter now than he was in 2004 when he lost to Matt Hughes. Back then, the 23-year-old rising star was star struck, competing against his idol on the biggest mixed […]
Monday news round-up
Monday, November 13th, 2006Lots of various rumors, stories, and news items of interest to everyone. Including Fedor news. Video of Werdum vs. Aleksander from the 2H2H event. The top story is a report on Boxing Talk claiming that Showtime is going to work with JD Penn (of Rumble on the Rock fame) to produce MMA events on the […]
Quick IFL & PRIDE thoughts
Sunday, November 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s an odd headline (one of those stories with a “make of it what you will” warning) from Burning Spirit… All the entries for Yuji Shimada’s online blog are gone. Mr. Full (of Burning Spirit) speculates that either Shimada stopped the blog because he didn’t have the time to keep it updated […]
UFC Fight Night post-show open thread
Saturday, November 11th, 2006Have at it. Anything related to Saturday’s night event. Bad judging? Dana drunk? More thoughts: Here, here and here. Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): Cote loses Middleweight battle in UFC TV show’s finale Fight Report has some great short clips from the event. Houston Chronicle: Has the Ultimate Fighter lost its punch?
Angle and Lesnar in HEROs?
Saturday, November 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Comments on Two interesting reports. First, Mike Sawyer in an audio interview at F4W Online reported that Brock Lesnar is scheduled to make his MMA debut for the HERO’s promotion in February. The show is apparently set for Las Vegas. That same month, UFC has their Super Bowl weekend event in early […]
Open thread: Holyfield fight
Friday, November 10th, 2006Comments on Reviews: Fight Report | Reuters | Associated Press And then there was Wladimir Klitschko knocking out Calvin Brock on Saturday night.
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