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Archive for 2006

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Fighters vs. Promoters

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

By Zach Arnold When I created the PPH (Puroresu Power Hour) radio show three years ago, Dr. Keith Lipinski was a matchmaker/booker for guests. Ever since the show started, he and the PPH have had a great relationship in terms of getting interviews with the UFC promotion. We’ve had Dana White on for a few […]

ACF 2/24 Denver card line-up

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Press release Genesis is the debut event of American Championship Fighting (ACF), a new mixed martial arts promotion based in Denver, Colorado. ACF: Genesis is scheduled for this Friday night, February 24, at the historic Denver Coliseum. All tickets are $29.00 and are available at all Front Range King Soopers locations, by calling 866-464-2626 or […]

Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 8 (The Mutiny)

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

PRIDE 31 takes place this weekend at Saitama Super Arena, and Zach Arnold has a one-on-one interview with Josh Barnett in Los Angeles, California. Barnett is preparing for his open-weight fight against heavy underdog Kazuhiro Nakamura. In addition, a brand new set of hosts on the Fight Opinion radio show. The eighth edition of Fight […]

PRIDE 31 match order

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Here’s the match order for the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena card: Pedro Rizzo vs. Roman Zentsov Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Yoon Dong Sik John Olav Einemo vs. Fabricio Werdum Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Mario Sperry Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Kiyoshi Tamura Mauricio Shogun vs. Mark Coleman […]

Cage or ring?

Monday, February 20th, 2006

By Zach Arnold Eric Fredericks at PNW MMA has brought up the issue about whether or not MMA promoters should be using a cage or a pro-wrestling ring. Read his argument here. I’ve been anticipating (and dreading) the pro-cage argument for some time. Here is a link to an article I wrote on June 18, […]

Horror story in Kawasaki

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

By Zach Arnold Expect this story (via Livedoor News) to pick up some attention in Japan. A 24-year old man in Kawasaki city was arrested for killing his 22-year old wife after applying an arm-lock on her. According to police statements, the man was emulating some of his favorite MMA moves that he saw from […]

A hard sell

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Yosuke Nishijima had a meeting with the press on Sunday at the Takada Dojo in Tokyo. This was to push his upcoming fight against Mark Hunt on the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena show. In this photo, Nishijima is trying to show off a choke sleeper hold on Kazushi Sakuraba. Nishijima claimed that his training in […]

K-1’s “Cinderella Boy” loses

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Hideo Tokoro, nicknamed “Cinderella Boy” by K-1, lost in the main event of ZST’s Differ Ariake show in Tokyo on Saturday night. He was KO’d in the second round by Lithuanian fighter Erikas Petraitis. The semi-main event saw Naoyuki Kotani & Darius Skliaudys go to a draw. Remigijus Morkevicius defeated Wataru Inatsu (U-FILE camp) in […]

The legal battle in Hawaii continues

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

By Zach Arnold There’s good news and bad news, according to a report in Saturday’s edition of The Honolulu Advertiser. Writer Treena Shapiro notes that legislation to try to cripple MMA in Hawaii has been stalled: A prohibition on mixed martial arts fighting is also essentially dead for the year, as is a bill that […]

Toughman promoter: We’re safer than MMA

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

By Zach Arnold The battle between promoters for the two industries continues. The Rockford Register Star has an article on the upcoming King of the Cage show promoted by Monte Cox in Moline, Illinois. However, the newspaper’s author manages to somehow bring Toughman into the discussion. The topic? Getting athletic commissions to regulate their respective […]

Next week’s guest: Josh Barnett

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Next week on Fight Opinion radio, we interview Josh Barnett for the show. Post your questions here (if you have any you want to submit and have me ask of him). Serious questions only.

True Blue Blues: Was TNA Right to Punish Austin Aries & Roderick Strong

Friday, February 17th, 2006

By Sheldon Goldberg One of the hot topics in wrestling this week is TNA’s decision to punish Austin Aries and Roderick Strong for defying TNA’s request to fly to Florida early for their last pay per view and miss the Ring of Honor show for which they had already been booked. Just reading this story […]

Shooto 2/17 Yoyogi event

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Results here. Gryphon has more notes on the event. Top Japanese female fighter Megumi Fujii won her fight on today’s event. She has super charisma. A total babyface. Click on the picture to check out her blog.

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