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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006By Jason Adams Keep in mind this voting was done prior to the recent PRIDE and UFC but here are the top 25 as voted by several FightOpinion writers:
Bushido 4/2 Ariake Colosseum card line-up
Monday, March 6th, 2006Three matches announced so far: Takanori Gomi vs. Marcus Aurelio Dan Henderson vs. Kazuo Misaki Masakazu Imanari vs. Jens Pulver An interesting storyling going into this card line-up is that Henderson is also scheduled for the 5/5 Osaka Dome open-weight tournament show.
UFC 58 reviews
Monday, March 6th, 2006Dr. J, Fight Report, and CP writer Neil Davidson have reviews of the show. Meanwhile, UFC’s new “rival” (the IFL) has issued a press release about their new company.
Schilt loses in New Zealand
Sunday, March 5th, 2006On Sunday, K-1 drew 8,800 paid at Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand for their Oceania GP tournament show. On an interesting side note, WWE also ran shows on the island this weekend. Here are the 3/5 New Zealand results, plus a show review. The promotion spent two days of press coverage on the Badr […]
Open thread – next Fight Opinion Radio show
Sunday, March 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold I have a feeling we are going to be seeing a lot of positive and negative reaction in regards to what happened on the UFC 58 card re: judges’ decisions. That would be easy material for us to cover on our radio show, but I suspect that every other show is going […]
Coker: We may break US attendance records
Sunday, March 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1 US promoter Scott Coker, quoted in today’s excellent San Jose Mercury News article written by Mark Purdy, claims that over 12,500 tickets have been sold for the Frank Shamrock vs. Cesar Gracie MMA event at the HP Pavilion (San Jose Arena). “We are past the 12,500 mark in tickets sales right […]
UFC 58 – Review
Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Rob Sayers Tonight with a belly full of Amber Boch and wings, I sat down at the Hooters in Jackson, MS to watch UFC 58: USA: Vs Canada. I was actually surprised by the number of people who showed up to watch the event. Tonight was a testament to the growing popularity of MMA.
California politics & MMA
Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did not attend the Gracie Fighting Championships show on Friday night in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. He took a lot of heat for his image being used on promotional posters for the event. Here is some of the criticism that Schwarzenegger has been dealing with. Today, […]
Fox Sports: UFC may TKO boxing’s audience
Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold Charles Jay has an article on Fox Sports that discusses Dana White’s courting of the boxing media and the response he has been getting so far from members of the American press. The article is part of a 3-article series (here and here) by Fox Sports writers on UFC & MMA. The […]
UFC 58 Predictions
Friday, March 3rd, 2006Huy Nguyen, Fight Report, Dr. J, and Performify have excellent previews for Saturday night’s event. Meanwhile, Dana White spent Thursday in a Las Vegas court room, as the UFC & IFL are in a legal dispute.
Mark Hunt interview by the PRIDE office
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Expect an English version to be uploaded on the PRIDE site shortly. Hunt talks about the upcoming open-weight tournament show on 5/5 at the Osaka Dome. In the Japanese interview, he is asked for his thoughts about Fedor, Nogueira, Mirko, and Barnett participating in the tournament and who he would like to […]
New defense tactic – blame Inoki
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold The Japanese fight industry is still in shock over last week’s arrests of three yakuza members of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime family. A fourth person is a fugitive and an arrest warrant has been issued. A lot of people were awaiting the reaction from the weekly tabloids regarding this story, but it […]
Schwarzenegger not appearing at Gracie event?
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006[photopress:arnold_kgo.gif,full,centered] Screen capture from KGO home page By Zach Arnold Update: The San Jose Mercury News claims that Arnold will travel to Ohio. After receiving political heat for a scheduled appearance at the Gracie Fighting Championships show in Columbus, Ohio on Friday, Schwarzenegger has now cancelled the scheduled appearance. This conflicts with a Sacramento Bee […]
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