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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006Rob Sayers, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold recap the PRIDE 31 show that took place on 2/26 at Saitama Super Arena. In addition, we preview the upcoming UFC 58 show and give our positives/negatives on the business direction of the company. In addition, we play some short audio clips from Sherdog’s post-match press conference interviews […]
Sakakibara: I hope to have Nishijima fight in May.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Rob Sayers In a recent interview on PrideFC.Com. DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara gave his own thoughts on the PRIDE 31 event, the post fight mele, and the upcoming open weight GP.
FightOpinion.com Top 25 Light Heavyweights
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Jason Adams There was plenty of reaction to the Top 25 Heavyweight list yesterday. Let’s keep it going with the Lightheavy’s. Keep in mind voting was prior to PRIDE 31.
Schwarzenegger criticized for appearance at MMA show
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Things just got more interesting for Friday’s Gracie Fighting Championships show in Ohio. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will make an appearance at Friday’s MMA event in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. And this has the usual suspects up in arms.
3 new matches added to HERO’s Budokan show
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006Hideo Tokoro vs. Yoshinori Ikeda (Kyokushin karate), Heath Herring vs. Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge, and Jerome Le Banner vs. Jimmy Ambriz were added to the HERO’s 3/15 Nippon Budokan show in Tokyo.
FightOpinion.com Top 25 Heavyweights
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006By Jason Adams FightOpinion.com has voted on the top 25 fighters at each weight class and I will release one a day between now and Saturday. First up is the Heavyweights.
Nogueira’s next match in PRIDE
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold whenever Sankei Sports has an article about someone in PRIDE wanting to face someone on an upcoming show, it’s important to at least pay attention to it because Sankei is the Fuji TV line of media (as in Fuji TV is the network paying PRIDE). You know some parts of these types […]
Japanese bloggers talk about future of fight business
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Some people in public may be afraid to use the “y” word in Japan, but it’s not stopping the various top Japanese MMA writers on the Internet from discussing the matter. Inside (and outside) the MMA business, last week’s yakuza arrests continue to draw attention and speculation about what else may be […]
Bonjasky cancelled from K-1 New Zealand show
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006K-1 announced that Remy Bonjasky has been cancelled from the 3/5 New Zealand show due to a left leg injury (sprained knee) he suffered in practice training on 2/26. Bonjasky’s replacement in the fight against Ray Sefo is now Frans Botha. 3/5 New Zealand card line-up.
They really didn’t mean to say this…
Monday, February 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Quote of the day (from MMA Ring Report’s PRIDE 31 preview) on Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura: Barnett might be larger but in his last fight (vs. Mirko Cro Cop) he demonstrated that he has the capacity to lose any fight. KazNak is like mecha-godzilla; created by Japanese scientists to battle whatever […]
Backlash in Hawaii
Monday, February 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sunday’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper has an article by Charles Memminger titled Ultimate fighting tax just extortion. Money quote from the article: And in exercising once again that strange sense of entitlement state bureaucrats feel to other people’s money, Rep. Chang has introduced an odious bill shaking down the neonate fight industry in […]
K-1 To Produce Eight International GP’s in 2006!
Sunday, February 26th, 2006Some interesting news as far as FEG/K-1’s future plans and events are concerned. Since 1993, for thirteen years, K-1 have always used their prestigious openweight World Grand Prix series as the centre stage for fighters around the world. Hundreds of fighters from around the world compete in events promoted by K-1’s regional fighting network, with […]
ACF 2/24 Denver results
Sunday, February 26th, 2006[photopress:JohnCronk.jpg,full,centered] Press Release AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTING ACF: GENESIS – Denver Coliseum in Denver, Colorado (2/24/2006) Main Event: Welterweight Title Bout John Cronk def. Heath Sims by Guillotine Choke, 2:46 of Round 1 Other results from the show…
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