Archive for September, 2007
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007By Jeff Comstock Announced their first card which will be shown as part of their Friday Night Fights program. HDNet Fights October 13, 2007 in Dallas, Texas at the American Airlines Center: Eric Paulson vs. Jeff Ford Justin Eilers vs Justin Howard Freddie Espiricueta vs Jason House Sean Salmon vs. Leopoldo Serao Anthony Lapsley vs […]
Wednesday war room: Does the MMA media kill negative stories?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007The Chicago Sun Times is reporting this morning that Illinois Governor Blagojevich has signed state legislation to sanction MMA starting in 2008. More on the story here. Here’s a report claiming that Michael Bisping’s father was attacked in the 02 Arena car park. Michael himself also has some comments to add to the discussion. UFC […]
UFC 75 draws huge numbers
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007UFC’s home page says it all – UFC 75 on Spike TV is the most-watched UFC event in history. The event drew a 3.1 rating. It’s an excellent rating for the show overall. Even better for UFC is that the ratings numbers grew for each fight on the show incrementally, meaning people did not turn […]
Tuesday turmoil: More on UFC 75 and Bisping/Hamill
Monday, September 10th, 2007Real live MMA and fighting happening in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Surely, Jordan Breen is on the case. K-1 announced Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem and Fabio Silva vs. Melvin Manhoef for their 9/17 Yokohama Arena event. Kharitonov was promoted in Japan today as being associated with Volk Han. Sports Illustrated has an article claiming that […]
Safeguarding the Future of MMA in Great Britain
Monday, September 10th, 2007By Adam Underhill Every British tabloid that I picked up last Wednesday, every news bulletin that I tuned into on the BBC’s Radio 1 network; it had appeared that mixed martial arts had finally at long last reached headline news… but regrettably for completely the wrong reasons. Preceding Saturday’s UFC 75: Champion vs. Champion event […]
Monday madness with Michael Bisping
Monday, September 10th, 2007So far, the amount of North American media coverage for the UFC 75 (London) event after it took place feels similar to the coverage for UFC’s Ireland event in June. In other words, pretty light and not very much of it. There was an avalanche of previews heading into the show, but not much reporting […]
Fight Opinion Radio #62: UFC 75 review
Monday, September 10th, 2007No guests this week (the scheduled guest didn’t show). Welcome to radio. No worries, however, as we have a loaded show this week recapping the UFC 75 and WEC 30 events in Las Vegas. Plus, we’ll address the BMA’s attempt to get MMA banned, concussions in MMA, and Dana White’s statements about PRIDE’s future. Also, […]
Report: Hidehiko Yoshida may appear at Dynamite
Sunday, September 9th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports is reporting that Hidehiko Yoshida is considering an offer to appear at the K-1 Dynamite New Year’s Eve event. Yoshida was quoted as saying that he wanted to fight before the end of the year and that he is leaving any future career decisions to the J-ROCK office to determine. […]
UFC 75
Saturday, September 8th, 2007I will add results links as they are created. Results (coming soon): Yahoo Sports | MMA on Tap | Sherdog | Sprawl ‘n Brawl | Javno | Lancanshire Telegraph | Fox Sports All predictions, spoilers, news and notes go here. A funny spoiler (view it in full page mode)…
Saturday headlines: UFC 75 previews galore
Friday, September 7th, 2007Zab Judah defeated Edwin Vazquez in a rather uninspiring fight at the Hard Rock Biloxi on Friday night. Lamont Peterson defeated Frankie Santos in the main event (telecasted on ESPN2 TV). The 4th CAGE FORCE event took place today in Tokyo at Differ Ariake. Main results: In a Lightweight tournament match Kotetsu Boku defeated Eiji […]
Friday headlines: Heat-up for UFC 75
Friday, September 7th, 2007Matt Hughes joins Full Tilt Poker. Art of War 4 will take place on 10/27 at the Grand Event Center in Tunica, MS. Movement business-wise for The Fight Network. Jon Fitch made an appearance on the Any Given Saturday radio show on Thursday (audio here). Plus, a UFC 75 preview (Fitch picked Henderson, Bisping, Mirko, […]
Thursday afternoon update – 9/6/07
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Guy Mezger explains his role in Mark Cuban’s new MMA project. The Sun tries to educate people on what MMA is. UFC Junkie is rebranding itself as MMA Junkie.
IFL stock goes below 50 cents
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Stock quote here. The low today was $0.45/share. Here’s the latest activity with Pro Elite.
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