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Friday update: Heat-up for Lindland vs. Fedor
By Zach Arnold | April 12, 2007
Pawel Nastula is training with Mirko Cro Cop.
Satoru Kitaoka submitted Fabricio “Pitbull” Monteiro at today’s DEEP Korakuen Hall event to earn a spot in the PRIDE Lightweight GP tournament (starting on 5/20 at Saitama Super Arena). Also at the DEEP event, Murilo Bustamante defeated Ryuta Sakurai by KO in 3’50 of R1. On the undercard, Joe Doerksen defeated Kim Dae Won in R1 at the 3’35 mark with a triangle choke.
Ohio event promoter Corey Fischer is promoting Cliff “Twin Tyson” Couser for an upcoming MMA event. Couser fought in the past for K-1. If you recognize the name Corey Fischer, it’s because he used to be associated with Toughman boss Art Dore. Fischer also was named by an Ohio Athletic Commission watchdog group a few years ago for using professional fighters in amateur Toughman events (including MMA fighter Forrest Petz).
Onto today’s headlines.
- UFC Mania: Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation not releasing UFC 69 salary information
- The Canadian Press: Matt Lindland faces hard-hitting Fedor in Bodog’s Clash of the Nations
- Gambling 911: Is the Bodog.com web site taking bets for fights on the BodogFight Russia show?
- Fox Sports: Lindland ready for big challenge
- The Boston Herald: Joe Lauzon talks about Week 2 of The Ultimate Fighter
- The St. Petersburg Times: Monstah Lobstah enjoying time in limelight
- The LA Times: Bob Arum ‘will copy UFC telecast’ format for Saturday boxing show
- The Chambersburg Public Opinion: Mike Felix will enter Indiana swinging
- The Sonoma Index Tribune (California): Sonoma alum Joe Abouata in Gladiator Challenge this Saturday
- The Biloxi Sun Herald (Mississippi): Caged and enraged, ‘Blood and Sand’ at MS Coast Coliseum this Saturday
- The Colorado Springs Gazette: IFL, wrestling ally
- The Wilmington News Journal (Delaware): Former Delawarean Din Thomas mixes hip-hop style with a mean right cross
- Fight Report: The Clock is ticking for Larry Merchant
- Locust Star: BodogFight – did Calvin Ayre make a huge mistake?
- CBS Sportsline: Interview with Brock Lesnar
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Go Lindland!
Melvin tested positive for coke?
http://www.thefightnetwork.com/news_detail.php?nid=3622
Also…the Zuffa myth continued on the Tito vs Dana special.
Tito Ortiz became the first light heavyweight champ by beating Wanderlei Silva at UFC 25?
No, he won the middleweight title that was vacated by Frank Shamrock after Frank he went into semi retirement.
The title was renamed LHW after the Zuffa purchase.
A little too late for boxing to change its format. It has already lost most of its fans….
Boxing still has plenty of its fans. Its PPV numbers last year was still very good just not as good as the UFC’s. The sport has declined but for me thats mainly down to a weak HW division. It doesnt matter how good the other divisions are, boxing needs a stong HW division!! However the sport isnt in crisis as some seem to think and the numbers for Oscar v Mayweather will be off the charts!!
Any of Matt Lindland’s fans should show their crazy love and support for him by attending his funeral next week.
“Tito Ortiz became the first light heavyweight champ by beating Wanderlei Silva at UFC 25?
No, he won the middleweight title that was vacated by Frank Shamrock after Frank he went into semi retirement.
The title was renamed LHW after the Zuffa purchase”
You can word it anyway you want, Tito Ortiz was the first light heavyweight champion, and how he became champ was by beating Wanderlei.
Got this surprising message on proelite.com today. TV deal for CRC my ass?
“Subject: FREE Live Stream – Cage Rage & NoLimits!
Message: Saturday, 4/21 we are streaming two top MMA Events – FREE!
1. Cage Rage at 3 pm EST / 12 pm PST live from London featuring – Bob “The Beast†Sapp vs. Gary Turner, Ninja, Paul Daley, Michael McDonald
2. NoLimits at 10 pm EST/ 7 pm PST live from California featuring Takumi Nakayama, Brazil’s Fábio Negão and Tim “Big Perm†Persey”
– Anyway, this is probably better for Cage Rage than some low-life TV chan; and I certainly look forward to watching it in the great VQ PE.com brings. So thumbs up!
Merchant has lost it I feel as a commentator. He’s getting older and what he says takes too long to go from his brain out of his throat. It doesn’t feel organic. I think Kellerman is the right move in the commentating booth. But nobody does a better post fight interview than Larry Merchant. Hopefully HBO keeps him around for that.
Speaking of the IFL, not that anyone was, what were the Batlleground ratings for the last episode with Lindland and the Wolfpack? Anyone know?
Speaking of the IFL, not that anyone was, what were the Batlleground ratings for the last episode with Lindland and the Wolfpack? Anyone know?
0.7 rating.
http://steelecage.com/
IFO Website has been relaunched. Marvin Eastman vs. TBA for their first event.
.7 is a bad rating for a 4th show. No other way to say it.
Eric Pele weighed in at 277 lbs. On Sherdog, he said that he got a surgery which helped him get his weight down. He also said his current deal with Bodog is good enough that he wouldn’t want to fight at Heavyweight for the UFC at this time.
So number of legit Super Heavyweights is really dwindling. Eric Pele can make Heavyweight. Brock Lesnar could make Heavyweight. So could James Thompson. Antonio Silva probably could make it, mostly because he is 6’4″ and not any taller. Evan Little Fedor is 255.
I can’t think of even one Top 20 fighter who is over 205 lbs who couldn’t make 265 lbs.
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