Archive for 2006
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold First it was Hawaii, and then it was Iowa. Now, a new development in Iowa has State Rep. Paul Wilderdyke attempting to pass legislation to ban minors from seeing MMA shows. Wilderdyke is the same man who attempted last month to pass state legislation to ban amateurs from MMA competition, increase licensing […]
San Jose Arena show scores big
Saturday, March 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1 promoter Scott Coker promised big business, and he ended up delivering even better than he originally promised. Over 18,000 paid in the building on Friday night. Here is a list of links/reports: Observer (live report) Sherdog (official results) Associated Press (show report/review) Contra Costa Times (show report/review) San Jose Mercury News […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 10
Friday, March 10th, 2006Rob Sayers, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold recap the UFC 58 event from Las Vegas. In addition, we review the UFC vs. IFL court battle, the formation of the IFL as a league (including the fighters they’ve hired as coaches), and also an interview with Keegan Walsh of Fight Report. Keegan talks with Rob & […]
FightOpinion.com Top 25 Welterweights
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Jason Adams Pre-PRIDE 31 and UFC 58 rankings.
Weekly publications start talking – part two
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold In part one of this two-part post series, I posted a summary of a Weekly Taishu publication article about the recent yakuza arrests in Japan and the history of the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 event. It’s an event that will become a historical show if the police can prove that certain people involved […]
Weekly publications start talking
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Shukan (Weekly) Taishu, one of the various weekly Japanese publications, has published an article about the recent yakuza arrests in relation to the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 show. I read the Japanese article and at first glance, a picture of Antonio Inoki was shown along with the question about morals at Nippon TV […]
PRIDE’s worst nightmare
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Photo credit: Sports Nippon (newspaper) By Zach Arnold 19-year old Koki Kameda, Japan’s hottest boxer in terms of business, is going to make things very hard on DSE on May 5th. Kameda’s camp announced that his next fight will happen on 5/5 in Tokyo at Ariake Colosseum. The fight will likely be carried on live […]
UFC 58 Medical Suspensions
Thursday, March 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Nevada State Athletic Commission has just released the official results & medical suspensions from the UFC 58 show. Here is the PDF file. Suspensions of note: Rich Franklin is suspended until 9/1 (unless he gets clearance by a doctor), mandatory suspension until 5/4 David Loiseau is suspended until 5/4 Spencer Fisher […]
Bear Pit Japan in America
Thursday, March 9th, 2006[photopress:sano_and_josh_small.jpg,full,centered] Wednesday night was a very interesting night. Mr. Tetsuya Sano, who is an amateur Shoot Boxer (with a very good record), made the trip from Japan to Seattle to train at AMC Pankration. Mr. Sano is a representative of the Bear Pit Japan team, and I made sure that he took the opportunity to […]
Uno Injured. Replacement not yet named
Thursday, March 9th, 2006In a post on his MySpace, Rich “No Love” Clementi revealed that Caol Uno, his original opponent for the 3/15 Hero’s show has been injured and is unable to fight. It is not yet known who will replace Uno.
Phil Baroni back in the PRIDE ring
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE announced Yuki Kondo vs. Phil Baroni and Luiz Azeredo (Chute Boxe) vs. Joachim Hansen for their Bushido show on 4/2 at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Add these fights to the three matches already announced. Also scheduled to work the show is Dennis Kang, Ikuhisa Minowa, & Akihiro Gono. PRIDE boss Nobuyuki […]
Rich Franklin medical update
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold The UFC says he is out for 6-8 months due to a broken left hand. Question of the day: Do you classify this injury as just part of the game, or does the equipment that fighters use (i.e. gloves) need to be improved?
Bad news for Shogun
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Full Contact Fighter reports that medical tests reveal that Mauricio “Shogun” Rua’s elbow is fractured, and all ligaments in the elbow are ruptured. He is out for an estimated six months.
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