Archive for December, 2007
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007Steve Cofield has a WEC post-fight event wrap-up on his site. If you have not subscribed yet to our Fight Opinion Radio RSS feed, go sign up now. Next week, we will be preparing for our annual Christmas Show marathon special. Now’s the time to get on board and subscribe to the feed. Abdul Mohamed […]
Bill Simmons rips into Bruce Buffer
Thursday, December 13th, 2007On the latest edition of The B.S. Report, ESPN personality Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal (from The Jimmy Kimmel Show) shredded Bruce Buffer. Background information: Simmons and Sal were in Las Vegas to watch the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton fight. After the fight, both men went to The Palms Hotel & Casino to […]
Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena card (updated 12/13)
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Fedor Emelianenko vs. Choi Hong-Man Kazuo Misaki vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Hidehiko Hasegawa vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai Shin’ya Aoki vs. JZ Calvan K-1 announced Bob Sapp vs. Bobby Ologun for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event.
WEC 12/12 Las Vegas
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Event reports: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | The Fight Network | MMA Junkie | MMA Mania All comments about the event go here. I’m sure there is a lot to talk about regarding the finish of the Paulo Filho/Chael Sonnen fight. Plus, that was quite the showing for Jens Pulver. According to Kevin Iole, Chael […]
Wednesday war room: WEC on Versus tonight
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Jeff Hamlin talks about Jens Pulver. Plus, everyone made weight for tonight’s WEC event. Check out this WEC event preview and make sure to get your fight predictions in at MMA Predictions. Video of Kimbo Slice on ESPN’s E:60 show yesterday. Two MMA HQ notes: 1) Go vote in the MMA HQ 2007 year-end MMA […]
Report: BJ Penn avoids jail time
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007The Honolulu Advertiser is reporting tonight that BJ Penn was sentenced to a year of probation and fined $2,000 for hitting a Honolulu policeman two years ago. Penn pleaded no contest to the charges. He will be allowed to travel to England to fight Joe Stevenson on January 19th. Here is a longer article on […]
Lingering in the Herd
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007“The first thing I thought was, ‘this is not good for MMA”. That’s an actual quote from a fan who was at the show in the Toyota Center and saw Sammy Vasquez carried out of the arena on a stretcher. The fan called into Sherdog’s Beatdown Radio program the Wednesday after Vasquez passed away to […]
Quote of the Day – Dogfighting and MMA
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007From The Bennington Banner in Vermont: We live in a culture that has long been desensitized to human-on-human violence. Just 10 years ago, mixed martial arts leagues were considered highly controversial, were illegal in most states and available to fans only on pay-per-view. Today, sanctioned leagues like UFC and Pride are regularly shown on basic […]
Tuesday chalkboard (12/11)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Daniel Puder is teaming up with the Cops Care Cancer Foundation. Some good news and bad news for the IFL’s 12/29 Mohegan Sun Arena event. The good news… it will air on Fox Sports World in Canada. The bad news? The promotion’s last event (11/3 Chicago) that aired on FSW drew 200 viewers, according to […]
Updated K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome card line-up
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007As of today: Yosuke Nishijima (ex-boxer) vs. Melvin Manhoef Zulu vs. Minowaman Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Joachim Hansen K-1 rules: Masato vs. Choi Yong-Soo Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Rani Yahya One-night U-18 tournament featuring HIROYA vs. Tsukasa Fuji and Kenji Kubo vs. Yudai
Bob Sapp to fight at Strikeforce Tacoma event
Monday, December 10th, 2007According to a Strikeforce press release, Bob Sapp will headline the promotion’s February event at the Tacoma Dome. Also announced for the card is Maurice Smith vs. Rick Roufus.
Ring of Fire 12/9 event results
Monday, December 10th, 2007I didn’t see any coverage of the Philippines event anywhere other than the Pancrase web site, so here you go: Team Josh Barnett defeated Team Gokor Chivichyan 5-0. Lightweights: Koji Oishi defeated Karen Darabedyan by a 3-0 judges’ decision. Middleweights: Yuki Kondo defeated August Wallen by a 3-0 judges’ decision. Light Heavyweights: Renato Babalu defeated […]
Monday chalkboard (12/10)
Monday, December 10th, 2007Nick Lembo of the NJACB said that none of the fighters at UFC 78 (11/17 Newark, New Jersey) failed their drug tests. Hidehiko Yoshida says that he will not fight on NYE. Luke Thomas thinks WEC + UFC = The Future. Dave Meltzer says that Paulo Filho might be the world’s best middleweight. Here is […]
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