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Friday, February 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Jason Gatties has a report about a new print-magazine publication about MMA in March. Money quote from the press release: Editor in Chief Mike Carlson says that Real Fighter will deliver the in-depth, journalistic coverage of professional MMA that’s currently lacking in the marketplace. “The Internet has done a great job covering […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 7
Thursday, February 16th, 2006UFC 57 was one of the highest-grossing shows produced by Zuffa LLC in the company’s history. This week, we break down the UFC 57 payscale numbers (according to the Nevada State Athletic Commission) and debate whether or not the fighters should have been paid more. In addition, Adam Summers & Mike Sempervive discuss the Winky […]
5 matches announced for HERO’s 3/15 Budokan show
Thursday, February 16th, 2006The 3/15 HERO’s Nippon Budokan show in Tokyo will have a “Japan vs. The World” theme. 5 matches have been announced for the card: Genki Sudo vs. Ole Laursen (Denmark/Kickboxing) Kaoru Uno vs. Rich Clementi Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Karim Ibrahim Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Ivan Menjivar Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Kim Min-Soo Update: Two more fights announced […]
Crippling MMA in Hawaii?
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Honolulu Advertiser has an important update regarding Hawaii’s state legislature attempting to change the rules for promoting MMA on the island. The newspaper reports on a new bill that promoters and fighters say will devastate the local MMA scene: HB3223, passed out of the state House Tourism and Culture Committee yesterday, […]
More trouble for Bobby
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold Just when you thought the Bobby Ologun situation with his boss at R & A Promotions was resolved, Tokyo Metropolitan Police have now landed their judgment on Bobby. And it’s not good news for him.
UFC: Leaving Home
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson After UFC 57, and the rumoured early sellout of UFC 59 in Anaheim, I started thinking that maybe UFC should start running some shows outside of Las Vegas. With the increasing exposure UFC is provided on SpikeTV, coupled with the recent coverage by a couple mainstream outlets (Sports Illustrated, and TheScore [in […]
Interview with Yuki Nakai
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006Sherdog has posted an interview with Yuki Nakai. For those who don’t remember, Nakai took second place in the 1995 Japan Vale Tudo where he lost to Rickson Gracie. This is also the event documented in the movie Choke. Nakai has been instrumental in bringing BJJ to Japan and currently runs several dojos.
Iowa’s MMA scene faces challenges
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Des Moines Register newspaper this morning reports that there is an effort to deregulate the MMA industry in the state of Iowa. Furthermore, legislation is being created to outlaw amateurs from fighting in MMA, and also legislation to have fighters pay an annual $1,000 license fee. In addition to Iowa, Hawaii […]
Boxing: Japan’s next golden child
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold One of the things that often dominates coverage of MMA & pro-wrestling on slow days in the “battle” section of newspapers is boxing. 19-year old Koki Kameda (9-0, ranked #8 by the WBC in the 112-pound Flyweight division) was scheduled to face Edgar Sosa of Mexico on 3/8 in Tokyo at Ryogoku […]
Nogueira’s future in PRIDE
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold In a recent interview in Brazil, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira was asked about what his future in DSE would be. He was asked specifically what his future after the Kiyoshi Tamura fight would be, and what he thought the best creative direction would be for him. His response was very interesting.
Japan, America, Pro-Wrestling & Mass Media
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006Why Japanese wrestling promotions have it easy compared to the US, and how promotions can grow with technology By David Ditch There’s no business quite like the professional wrestling business. Beyond aspects like the content of shows, kayfabe, a thorough lack of established practices and an inability to unionize, wrestling also has a unique situation […]
MMA Weekly loses top writer
Monday, February 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Ken Pishna, accomplished MMA writer (and his wife is a photographer, too) and mainstay at MMA Weekly, has left that web site. Ken is now the director of MMA relations for the American Championship Fighting group (based out of Denver, Colorado). For informational purposes, I am posting the first PR release for […]
Media Survival 101 – Part 1
Sunday, February 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold If you’ve noticed, the amount of “big” MMA web sites in terms of media coverage is smaller than you would suspect. As the Internet boom continues, more and more smaller sites are starting to pop up. However, it seems that the information in the industry is consolidated to such a small base […]
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