Archive for December, 2007
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Monday, December 24th, 2007The headline says it all, as the report claims that Hustle Entertainment is pushing Mirko’s appearance at their Hustle 12/31 Saitama Super Arena event. Comments attributed to Cro Cop were issued in a media release. The publicity stunt should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the politics of Japanese MMA, as Cro Cop’s […]
Sunday night update (12/23/2007)
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Just to let everyone know, the Christmas edition of Fight Opinion Radio will be online in a few hours. If you are in a giving mood and would like to make a donation to our site to help pay for bandwidth costs, please click here to donate. Thanks. The heat-up for the UFC 79 event […]
Calvan vs. Aoki officially canceled
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Sherdog’s Friday news report about the JZ Calvan vs. Shin’ya Aoki 12/31 Saitama Super Arena fight being canceled has been officially verified by the producers of the Yarennoka event. Both Calvan and Aoki appeared at a makeshift press conference at the DEEP gym to address the media regarding the match cancellation. While the Aoki/Calvan fight […]
Saturday fight slate: Josh Barnett wins again in Japan
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007K-1 announced Yoshihisa Inoue vs. Takashi Tachikawa (former Chiba Lotte Marines baseball player) for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event.
Mark Cuban and Floyd Mayweather Jr. meet
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Cuban is brilliant at generating publicity for HDNet Fights. “Floyd is considering fighting with HDNet Fights,” Cuban told ESPN.com. “We are going to let him visit some gyms to talk to some folks about what it would take to learn. He knows it won’t be easy. But he is getting involved with MMA and HDNet […]
My personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene
Friday, December 21st, 2007Warning: This is a very long post. For the last couple of months, I’ve stayed relatively quiet in terms of talking about the Japanese MMA scene and how things are lining up. For starters, I’m bored with a lot of it. Secondly, I don’t see a lot of positives right now. Here is my breakdown […]
Gareb Shamus is going to have a very Merry Christmas
Thursday, December 20th, 2007The IFL filed a form 8k on Tuesday with the SEC, announcing the terms of their consulting agreement with Gareb Shamus. Shamus is being eased out of the IFL, but not without a sweet payday. Retroactive to 11/20/2007 and ending on 5/20/2008, Shamus will be paid $20,833 USD per month for the next six months […]
Quote of the Day – Sean Sherk
Thursday, December 20th, 2007The man has a lot to get off his chest to anyone willing to listen to him: I couldn’t care less what Kenny Florian or Hermes Franca say. They probably don’t like me because I beat the (expletive) out of them and I’d beat the crap out of them again. They’ve got resentments against me. […]
Site update (12/21/07)
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Due to scheduling and other guest booking issues, it looks like the annual Christmas radio show will be available late Sunday night/early Monday morning. If you have any links to Christmas music that I can legally use on the show that you would like to hear, please post a comment. On my Christmas wish list, […]
More bad luck for Rich Franklin
Thursday, December 20th, 2007According to a report at MMA Junkie, Rich Franklin has a torn meniscus in his right knee that will require surgery. He will be out of action until June of 2008.
Site update (12/20/07)
Thursday, December 20th, 2007We’ve added more options on the top menu bar. The most notable feature is our new boxing page, which is made possible thanks to the technical help of Dr. J. There are some sites definitely not listed on the page (MaxBoxing, Fightnews) because we could not find the RSS feeds for them. In the case […]
Wednesday war room: Street fighting
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The story of the day comes to us from Eastern Canada, where 24-year old Corben MacDonald is in court to face 42 charges of promoting illegal fights. MacDonald’s backyard fight ‘organization’ was called East Coast Street Fights. For more background information on this story, read this. Josh Barnett has a new DVD out. He is […]
Denny Burkholder has some things to get off his chest
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Tell us how you really feel: Popular MMA message boards tend to hate mainstream MMA coverage, with posters wondering aloud “why don’t they just hire people like us?” (Which draws various far-reaching assumptions such as that mainstream writers didn’t know about MMA until The Ultimate Fighter, never posted on an MMA message board, and are […]
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