Archive for May, 2007
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007By Zach Arnold If you want to see an article full of spin (I can’t do it justice unless you read Japanese), check out this Yomiuri Hochi article on the upcoming K-1 Dynamite show. Remember, this is the kind of information that Japanese fans are reading and not North American fans. The article claims the […]
Thursday trash talk: Freak show fights
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Bodog has posted their betting lines for the UFC 71 event. Rampage is at +145 now. Brock Lesnar vs. Tank Abbott, Ruben Villareal, Butterbean, or James Thompson as your headliner for the K-1 Dynamite LA Coliseum show? Butterbean would be, by far, the best option both as a local drawing card and for the Japanese […]
Report: PRIDE fighters sue DSE
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007By Zach Arnold MMA Weekly has the latest twist in what is amounting to a complete implosion of Dream Stage Entertainment Inc. and the PRIDE asset sale. According to sources, DSE requested that Pride fighters assign their contracts to “Pride FC Worldwide†(the new company created in the wake of Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta’s proposed […]
Wednesday notes: The K-1 Dynamite Titanic
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007The Fight Network is reporting that Choi Hong-Man has been denied a license to fight in the state of California for the K-1 Dynamite June 2nd event at the LA Coliseum. Kevin Iole at Yahoo Sports has more details. I find this news interesting because Hong-Man fought Mike Malone in Hawaii on April 28th. Without […]
High stakes at K-1 Dynamite
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007By Zach Arnold Loretta Hunt has more details about what is turning out to be a major implosion of the K-1 Dynamite show. For those of you who studied the DSE yakuza scandal carefully, compare and contrast the way DSE & K-1 do business. Two hours following the story, the CSAC says they received documents […]
Report: K-1 Dynamite show may not happen
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007By Zach Arnold If you want a perfect example of why Japanese fight promoters act like total marks and are clueless when doing business outside of Japan, look no further than this report at The Fight Network web site in regards to the upcoming K-1 Dynamite event. Audio of Loretta Hunt report here. MMA Weekly […]
ProElite.com & OnTheMat.com tie-up
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007PROELITE.COM partnership with onthemat brings together the best of Online MMA and grappling Renowned Journalist, Entrepreneur and Jiu-Jitsu Champion, Scotty Nelson, to Help Build ProElite.Com Grappling Fan Base with OTM Cross-Promotions (LOS ANGELES) – May 22, 2007 – Continuing its growing number of alliances and partnerships within the world of combat, ProElite.com, the comprehensive and […]
HERO’s 6/2 LA Coliseum fight card
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007From the K-1 HERO’s HP: Brock Lesnar vs. Choi Hong-Man Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Royce Gracie Mighty Mo vs. Choi Mu Bae Melvin Manhoef vs. Yoon Dong-Sik Javier Vazques vs. Katsuhiko Nagata Brad Pickett vs. Hideo Tokoro Johnnie Morton (former NFL star) vs. Bernard Ackah (Japanese TV personality from the Ivory Coast with one pro. fight) […]
Tuesday talk: Kimbo Slice is Miami’s hottest star
Monday, May 21st, 2007Kimbo Slice gets more big press in Miami, this time with CBS 4 in a piece called Backyard fighter goes legit at South Florida gym. Luke Thomas has a defense of Kimbo Slice in MMA. Michael David Smith over at The Fanhouse will be live-blogging the UFC 71 event. Michael is one of the better […]
One Brit, One Punch
Monday, May 21st, 2007By Mark Pickering The traits instilled in a family’s latest lineage often energise the youth of today into wondering about the vocation of their ancestors. For Brad Pickett it was palpable. With his ancestors including an uncle who boxed in the navy and a bare-knuckle prizefighter the London native was destined to lace up his […]
IFL/Kurt Otto radio interview
Monday, May 21st, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: More IFL stock shares to be made available? A stock split? Tomer weighs in. On Sherdog.com yesterday, IFL co-founder Kurt Otto did a 30-plus minute long radio interview (audio here – time mark is from 31:00-1:02:30). Here is a summary of the interview (and we’ll focus on the questions regarding the […]
Monday media: Rampage Jackson’s big week
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Kazushi Sakuraba vs Quinton JacksonUploaded by Panabas This is certainly one of the more memorable matches in PRIDE’s history, featuring established Japanese ‘ace’ Kazushi Sakuraba against (at that time) relative newcomer Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. I’ll never forget the storyline that DSE established to introduce Jackson to the Japanese public. In newspaper and TV outlets, DSE […]
Sunday snark: A new Zuffa Myth for 2007
Saturday, May 19th, 2007Chuck Liddell vs Quinton JacksonUploaded by thepitbull By Zach Arnold Last year (and still ongoing), American newspapers push(ed) the dreaded original Zuffa Myth (more here). We need to make a wikipedia entry for the various myths soon. This year, the new Zuffa Myth appears to be that the PRIDE asset sale between UFC & DSE […]
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