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Thursday, November 15th, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: New stories in The Press of Atlantic City, The Philadelphia Daily News, and The New York Post. More thoughts over at The Fanhouse. Larry Hazzard, who was Commissioner of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board until Wednesday afternoon after he was escorted out of his office by authorities, has fired […]
Larry Hazzard removed from the NJACB
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Update: This news is now on AOL’s Fanhouse site. Update II: Here are quotes from Anne Milgram’s office about Hazzard’s firing. “It was time for a change.” What? Sounds like New Jersey-style politics to me… Stunning news just days before the UFC 78 event in Newark, New Jersey. According to The New Brunswick Home News […]
Thursday trash talk: WAMMA gets major media coverage
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007UFC officially announced today the signing of Sokoudjou. He will face Ryoto Machida at UFC 79. The state of Kentucky has now passed legislation to regulate amateur MMA. USA Today has two high-profile MMA articles in its newspaper today. The first is about UFC 78 and the second is about the WAMMA. AM New York […]
Wednesday war room: IFL makes a business pitch to everyone
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The IFL sent out two press releases on Tuesday. The first release talks about their 12/29 Mohegan Sun Arena card. The second release talks about their video deals with YouTube and Google Ads. Adam Swift analyzes the business deal. Steve Sievert says the promotion still has no live TV deal for the 12/29 show. Thoughts […]
Fight Opinion Radio #68: Shayna Baszler & Ken Shamrock
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007We have a special edition of Fight Opinion Radio for you this week, as we are teaming up with The Fightworks Podcast to produce this episode. Expect more co-promotion with TFP and MMA Predictions in the near future. Our special guests this week on the show are Shayna Baszler and Ken Shamrock (w/ Rod Donohoo). […]
WAMMA press conference on Wednesday
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007For those who care: Wednesday is the presser for the new attempt at a sanctioning body in MMA, WAMMA. Godwin Asifo was/is Ike Quartey’s manager. I can’t begin to stress how little I take this deal seriously. Rank fighters by weight division? Every mom and pop MMA web site does that. (Besides, there’s a new […]
Tuesday news & notes: UFC 78 event talk
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007All MMA blog and site owners: I want to update my bookmarks and RSS feeds, so if you have a site that you want to promote… post a comment here listing two things only: 1) your site URL and 2) your site’s RSS feed link. A Texas MMA fighter is currently in the ICU ward […]
Monday evening update (11/12)
Monday, November 12th, 2007Mike Sawyer and Oliver Copp are back with a new edition of their MMA radio show. Video of Joachim Hansen vs. Eiji Mitsuoka. The folks at Fightmetric want your feedback. Notes from today’s UFC 78 conference call. Dana White’s decided that if Sherk loses his appeal with the CSAC, he’ll strip him of the title. […]
Monday media notes: The MMA world outside of UFC
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Today is the 14th anniversary of the first UFC show produced. Jess Liaudin says that he will KO Marcus Davis at UFC 80. Another reason for Mike Pyle to be upset – ABC News has an article about the role of women in MMA. The San Antonio MMA event (promoted by Jesse James Leija) drew […]
Sunday news review: Defending UFC 78’s main event
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Hikaru Sato vs. Josh Barnett was announced by Pancrase for the promotion’s 12/22 Differ Ariake show in Tokyo. The fight will be under catch wrestling rules (two 5-minute rounds). Sato seems interested in costume play. Dana White defending the booking of Michael Bisping vs. Rashad Evans: “Chuck Liddell is the biggest superstar in mixed martial […]
Rickson Gracie to be coordinator at Super Challenge Grappling
Saturday, November 10th, 2007(From B-Tough) Submission attempts will score more points than any other position While no one is really sure about his return to the ring, Rickson Gracie has joined the Super Challenge Grappling organization to help coordinate rules for the show. Promoter Paulo Vasconcelos explained that Rickson joining the event was fundamental in establishing the rules […]
Big Saturday (11/10)
Saturday, November 10th, 2007We’ll add play-by-play links for both the EXC show in Corpus Christi and the boxing event at MSG. Post all thoughts, spoilers, and criticisms in the comments section. EXC event: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | MMA on Tap | The Fight Network | Bloody Elbow | Observer Interesting results from MMAPrediction.com users regarding who they […]
Saturday fight slate: Boxing & MMA take center stage
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Dave Meltzer talks about how Elite XC hired Kimbo Slice. Plus, weigh-in notes from Corpus Christi. Jake Shields has signed a new deal with EXC. Here is another event preview for Saturday’s EXC event in Texas. Make sure to get your EXC event predictions in at MMA Predictions. Two articles in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times […]
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