Archive for September, 2007
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Monday, September 17th, 2007MMA Predictions talks about consolidation in the industry. So, what did it take for Pro Elite to buy out King of the Cage? Now we know. Pursuant to an agreement dated September 12, 2007 (the “Purchase Agreement”) among King of the Cage, Inc. (“KOTC”), Terry Trebilcock (“Trebilcock”) and Juliemae Trebilcock, the shareholders of KOTC (the […]
Super Challenge Grappling: Absolute in December
Monday, September 17th, 2007By Denis Martins West Promotion announced a submission tournament in the absolute division for December. Eleven months after organizing Super Challenge (the biggest MMA event in Brazil), the West Promotion confirmed that they are preparing an absolute submission tournament for December. It will be an open-weight division with 16 fighters (8 from Brazil and 8 […]
Tuesday headlines: Referees gone wild
Monday, September 17th, 2007Our good friend Tetsuya Sano participated in an amateur shootboxing event in Tokyo this past weekend. Check out his matches here, here, and here. The event was covered by Sports Navigator. The Deseret News in Utah is reporting that Brigham Young University (BYU) has banned The Versus Network on campus because the channel airs MMA […]
HERO’s 9/17 Yokohama Arena
Sunday, September 16th, 2007JZ Calvan repeats as Middleweight champion. Claimed attendance was 12,310 at Yokohama Arena. Some more news and notes here. Official results here. How the event played out in the Japanese media… Sankei Sports notes that the event was a nice springboard for New Year’s Eve, with the major names likely being Sakuraba, Yamamoto, Akiyama, and […]
Hardcore Canadian
Sunday, September 16th, 2007By Jeff Comstock Keith Crawford is preparing for his October 19th, Hardcore Championship Fighting show at the Stampede Corral in Calgary. Alberta. Crawford has a wealth of promoting experience with King of the Cage, but the HCF endeavor has taken Canadian MMA promoting to the next level. The signings of superstars Aleksander Emilianenko and Gegard […]
Sunday news review: Half-full or half-empty?
Sunday, September 16th, 2007Dayton Morinaga of The Honolulu Advertiser reported that the crowd size for the Elite XC show in Hawaii on Saturday was around 5,000 at Blaisdell Arena, or around half-full. The mystery MMA show that took place at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday night had a shooting incident take place in the building. More […]
HERO’s 9/16 Yokohama Arena presser
Sunday, September 16th, 2007First interesting item is that Shaolin failed making weight the first time around, being 1.3 kg over the weight limit for his fight against JZ Calvan. The promotion announced that Rickson Gracie will appear at the 9/17 Yokohama Arena event. The official match-order for tomorrow’s show: Middleweight Tournament reserve fight: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Harvey Harra […]
Elite XC 9/15 Hawaii
Saturday, September 15th, 2007Event reports: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | MMA Madness | Observer | (here and here) | Fox Sports | Fight Report | CBS Sportsline | F4W Online | Honolulu Star-Bulletin | Honolulu Advertiser Dave Doyle: Diaz took scores of 30-27 and 29-28, while Aina won by a count of 29-28 on one judge’s scorecard. Y! […]
Saturday house call: AMA joins BMA in angst about MMA
Friday, September 14th, 2007Blowback to the BMA’s call for banning MMA. You can now count the Australian Medical Association expressing concern about MMA. An AMA spokesman says he doesn’t ‘condone’ MMA, which is nice and flowery to say. 🙂 Dave Meltzer has an article at Fox Sports profiling Gina Carano. One of the things about her that writers […]
Update on negotiations between Fedor & UFC
Friday, September 14th, 2007By Zach Arnold M-1, the promotion operated by Vadim Finkelstein (Fedor’s backer), has announced some news regarding their contract negotiations (on behalf of Fedor) with UFC. According to the M-1 office, Finkelstein and UFC negotiated terms of a contract that would allow the PRIDE Heavyweight champion to fight in the Octagon. M-1 claims that the […]
Friday news & notes: Nick Diaz and dirty urine samples
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Mark Cuban said he would have a surprise name for his ‘Inside MMA’ HDNet debut show (hosted by Bas Rutten & Kenny Rice w/ Kevin James). The surprise name is Chuck Liddell. Quietly, the IFL stock is remaining under $0.50/share. Both the IFL and Pro Elite have new SEC filings. Anything of note from the […]
Charges of fabrication made against Fox Sports
Thursday, September 13th, 2007By Zach Arnold Score one for the commenters of the Fight Opinion web site. On Thursday morning, I linked to a Fox Sports article by Ben Cohen titled Bisping’s blow-up bad for UFC. The article made claims about Michael Bisping’s beligerent behavior at the UFC 75 post-fight press conference. However, a funny thing happened. Both […]
Thursday trash talk: Like your MMA in 3D?
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Another failed drug test in MMA. Photo of the day. Over at Fox Sports, a new article titled Bisping’s blow-up bad for UFC. I also have an article on this topic over at Boxing Scene. Gregg Doyel at CBS Sportsline says Friends of MMA, unite against that awful stench. A debate about who the casual […]
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