Archive for March, 2007
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Monday, March 12th, 2007A very sad story reported in The Arizona Republic notes that a 29-year old man (later identified as UFC fighter Gilbert Aldana) drowned in a waterskiing accident. News broke about this on various MMA message boards, but there was no confirmation until Monday morning about Aldana’s death. More coverage here, here, here, and here.
Monday Torture Rack: Why you like ultimate fighting
Monday, March 12th, 2007Andy Kaufman talked about Memphis pro-wrestling fans the same way American media outlets talk about MMA fans today Another article about MMA’s increasing popularity… Public Torture — Preparing the Audience: We also have the rise in popularity of Ultimate Fighting in the past few years. People will always pay to see two people beating on […]
Meet Joe Schoenmann
Sunday, March 11th, 2007By Zach Arnold On Sunday, Las Vegas Sun writer Joe Schoenmann wrote what easily could be the most detestable article about MMA in the mainstream media for the year 2007. Schoenmann’s article, titled Evolution or Devolution?, featured as many baseless and/or conspiracy-laden arguments against the popularity of MMA in America as you could possibly read […]
Building A Fighter
Sunday, March 11th, 2007By: Luke Nicholson Rashad Evans beat Sean Salmon via brutal KO on January 25th at the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida. The show ended up drawing a 1.7 cable rating on Spike TV. It was a showcase fight for Rashad, who had been brought along slowly by Dana White and Joe Silva to eventually be […]
Sunday headlines – TUF 5 fighters displayed
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Sadaharu Tanigawa announced at a press conference today that an announcement would be made at the end of March in regards to HERO’s running an event in California later this year. The rumor is that the first event will happen in the middle of June. If there is anyone out here reading this that keeps […]
Red meat Saturday
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Fun video of the day – a young Akira Maeda vs. Giant Haystacks I lead off today’s news update with two interesting links. First, in honor of our beloved PizzaChef, I found this just for you. Second, there is an article at Boxing Scene titled The Great Debate – Boxing vs. MMA. I want you […]
Friday media funhouse
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Heat. Nuclear heat. I have no idea why the feeds for the radio show are not updating, but I will try to work on it today. Download our newest show here directly rather than wait for the feeds to update. It’s a good show. I give you read meat for what was a slow Friday […]
Deconstructing Jerry Millen
Thursday, March 8th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sam Caplan at CBS Sportsline had an interview with Jerry Millen that just screams for a counter-response. I’ll highlight some of what Millen said in the interview and respond to his claims.
Thursday MMA headlines
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Be afraid, Carlos Mencia Today, I issue a decree stating that if you have an MMA-related web site or blog you want to promote, promote it in the comments section. More importantly, if it has an RSS feed, post a link. I want to add more sites to my daily news gathering cycle.
Fight Opinion Radio #42: Power brokers
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007We are back after a long break to catch up on a ton of hot MMA news topics. Expect some controversy coming out of this show. Our two big guests this week are Jeremy Lappen (former WFA boss, now working for Elite XC) and Jimmy Greninger of Soldier Fight Gear. Jeremy talks about his role […]
Wednesday hot topics
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007The top story today in Japanese media circles and also in the US wrestling press is the death of Bad News Allen (Allen Coage, who more famously worked as Bad News Brown in the then-WWF). Coage worked a pretty famous Judo Jacket match against Seiji Sakaguchi in New Japan Pro-Wrestling during the time that Inoki […]
It’s true, it’s damn true
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007ESPN is reporting that Kurt Angle, famous pro-wrestler who wants to fight everyone in MMA, is allegedly on a client list for Applied Pharmacy, which the Feds allege is connected to an online steroids purchasing investigation. Here’s the original SI article. More details at PW Torch and at the Observer. Also true is famous Boston […]
Tuesday MMA media notes
Monday, March 5th, 2007Enson Inoue talks about PRIDE Lots of content today. See it in full-page view.
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