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Tuesday, February 6th, 200722 articles linked to.
Fight Opinion Radio #40: Big happenings
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Add us as your MySpace friend. Potential sponsors (web sites, fighters, teams, companies) – if you want to have ads on our show (paid or barter), e-mail us immediately. We’ll keep this short. We have a lot of content in our three-hour show. We have a lot of guests, including Mac Danzig, Sean Salmon, Jordan […]
Tuesday media mania
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Nevada State Athletic Commission: Injury report for UFC 67 show WSB TV: Atlanta boxer O’Neil Bell arrested for ax attack Mac Danzig: PRIDE wanted me to do a pro-wrestling style promo Mainichi Daily News: 3 shooting incidents in Tokyo believed related to killing of gang boss (story update here) MMA HQ: Heath Herring returns at […]
Monday news and notes
Monday, February 5th, 2007Red meat time. OK, maybe not. K-1 had a show today at Ariake Colosseum that completely flew under the radar. Only interesting headline was both Albert Kraus and Takayuki Kohiruimaki losing.
Can UFC control their message in Japan?
Sunday, February 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold To try to understand the Japanese politics of the fight game, you have to remember a lot of names and faces. As alluded to on the site last night, Ken Imai (who is Mirko Cro Cop’s PRIDE agent) showed up in Las Vegas for Mirko’s UFC debut against Eddie Sanchez. It is […]
Purses or: How the fighters get paid
Sunday, February 4th, 2007By: Tomer Chen One of the biggest topics of discussion throughout the hardcore MMA fan base tends to be the topic of ‘How much did _________ get paid for his last fight?’. After all, as a sports fan, one wants to imagine the glory and the riches that sports players and fighters receive for doing […]
UFC friendly to PRIDE
Sunday, February 4th, 2007By Stephan Marceau Ed. — The popular Game & MMA Japanese blog has picked up on Stephan’s Fight Opinion posting about UFC being friendly to PRIDE. I knew this UFC 67 would be a turning moment for the UFC, I’ve even called it a “coming of ages”, which some people though was exagerated. I did […]
Sunday special report
Sunday, February 4th, 2007There is a lot of news.
UFC 67: All or Nothing Recap
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007By Erin Bucknell Ed. — The Japanese media is already taking notice of Mirko coming to the Octagon with the PRIDE theme. And the Japanese person standing next to Mirko in the Octagon after the fight appeared to be Ken Imai, who is his Japanese agent in PRIDE. — Zach Hmm, the Gladiator seems a […]
UFC 67 all-purpose post
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Anything and everything reader-wise goes here. Problems ordering UFC 67 in HD? Any and/or all complaints or compliments go here. If you want to do running PBP of the event, knock yourselves out. Event reports: F4W | Observer | Sherdog | UFC Junkie
K-1 Unveils Reality TV Show
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007By Mark Pickering K-1’s parent company, Fight Entertainment Group, has unveiled plans to launch a reality television programme aimed at discovering and developing fighters in Japan. The concept, premiered in the first instalment of the hugely successful Ultimate Fighter series, has been adapted by an abundance of markets including Berlin-based MAX Fighters organisation, and American […]
Saturday super links
Friday, February 2nd, 2007On Friday night, I saw several MySpace bulletins from fighters who are claiming that the Utah state legislature is trying to attempt to pass a bill that would curtail or ban MMA in the state. Does anyone have more informaton on this story (as to whether its true or not)? Onto today’s headlines.
Travis Lutter fails to make weight.
Friday, February 2nd, 2007By Luke Nicholson According to f4wonline.com, Travis Lutter has failed to make weight for his Middleweight Title match against Anderson Silva. The fight will now be three rounds, and won’t be for the MW Championship. The fallout here. This is stunning. One would think that with a few months worth of notice that the fight […]
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