Archive for February, 2007
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007I hope your Valentine’s Day went better than it did for this guy. I shouldn’t say this guy, because the guy happens to be the head of a very strong yakuza group in Japan. Not a fun time for any of the fight groups in Japan right now. Joe Rogan goes to war with comedian […]
Wednesday link-o-rama
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007YouTube users, be careful. From the IFL’s MySpace bulletin on Tuesday: If you go to Ticketmaster and put in the code BOGO you can get two tickets for the price of one to the Atlanta IFL fights on Feb 23rd. The Houston Chronicle: Premiere of Elite XC falls to UFC repeat in ratings battle MMA […]
Tuesday news review
Monday, February 12th, 2007Today’s red meat article comes to us from The Sunderland Today in the UK, which is titled Doctor’s warning to ultimate fighters. It’s full of the political correctness and nanny-state politics you’ve come to love. Also, there are many a Japanese women likely crying at the news of Masato marrying Shin Yazawa.
Monday media review
Monday, February 12th, 2007Enjoy violence w/ some Japanese commentary. A new poll question has been added to the right side of the page. Results from our last site poll: Who should buy PRIDE? UFC (Zuffa LLC) – 43% No one should – 34% Ed Fishman – 24% Onto today’s headlines.
How high can the UFC rise?
Sunday, February 11th, 2007By Tomer Chen It’s simply amazing: a product which, five years ago, was on the verge of collapse due to ever increasing expenses as well as not being able to run in a number of prime markets suddenly became in the last two years one of the biggest businesses to shift itself from ‘Dog’ status […]
Sunday fight headlines
Sunday, February 11th, 2007The Deseret News: How the Sydney Olympics changed wrestler Rulon Gardner’s life (key line in the article is that PRIDE keeps calling him with offers to fight Fedor at $500,000 USD) Observer: Reader challenges Eddie Goldman in regards to the ‘ground rule’ in effect at the Elite XC show The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: MMA is not […]
Elite XC 2/10 Southaven, MS
Saturday, February 10th, 2007This is the open post for everyone who is watching tonight’s event. ProElite.com will be airing their undercard fights (starting at 7 PM EST) on their web site, but the catch is that you have to sign up for an account first. The main card will air on Showtime in America and The Fight Network […]
Saturday news round-up
Saturday, February 10th, 2007Top story of the day (outside of Elite XC’s debut show) is that Sven Bean’s Ring of Fire promotion has signed a deal with HDNet to air all of its MMA shows. Onto today’s headlines. Multichannel News: Ultimate Fighter – Dana White took on boxing and pro-wrestling KG: At the balance of a very lousy […]
Michigan looks to ban all MMA
Friday, February 9th, 2007The headline says it all. The worst fears of those who did not want to see Toughman linked to MMA may be coming true. While ‘ultimate fighting’ is already prohibited in Michigan, this new action seeks to eliminate amateur MMA fights and any boxing promoters who are using modified boxing fights to slip MMA bouts […]
Friday media links – round two
Friday, February 9th, 2007Too much news today, so two posts. There is a new Chinese MMA blog called China Combat that you should keep your eyes on. At least, bookmark it’s RSS feed. Also, Komikazee has a new radio show up that has full audio coverage of the IFL event that happened last week in Houston. If that […]
Friday media coverage
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Red meat week here at Fight Opinion. Here’s some red meat for site readers. Bugly Blog: F.O. Radio panel not as entertaining as Sherdog’s radio team. Tasty. He clearly must not be talking about me. An update to something I mentioned on the radio show about Bruce Buffer’s continuous blunders as UFC ring announcer. Yes, […]
Thursday media topics
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Despite a report (and claim by UFC) stating that UFC is preparing to run in the state of New Jersey, information provided to us claims otherwise. The New Jersey State Athletic Control board has supposedly not been contacted with any request to hold dates, get a venue permit, or approve matches for a UFC event […]
PRIDE notes
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007MMA Weekly reports that PRIDE will air their next Japanese show live in the US on PPV. (Ed. — I’ve done PBP before of PRIDE shows. The last Bushido show, 11/3/06 Yokohama Arena, lasted 6 hours. It started from 11 PM-12 AM PST. Nobody in large numbers is staying up this late to watch a […]
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