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Archive for December, 2007

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Fedor on HDNet for NYE

Friday, December 7th, 2007

A curious announcement today by HDNet that Fedor’s 12/31 Saitama Super Arena fight will air live on HDNet. Curious for a couple of reasons… There is still no opponent booked yet for Fedor’s fight. Why is HDNet so eager to telecast the Yarennoka event, an event which is backed by publicly-tainted DSE officials? Short memories, […]

Bodog odds for TUF 6 finale event

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The odds: Ben Saunders (-260) vs. Dan Barrera (+200) Jonathan Goulet (-500) vs. Paul Georgieff (+300) Matt Arroyo (-330) vs. John Kolosci (+260) Roman Mitichyan (-500) vs. Dorian Price (+300) George Sotiropoulos (-500) vs. Billy Miles (+300) John Koppenhaver (-125) vs. Jared Rollins (-105) Richie Hightower (-145) vs. Troy Mandaloniz (+115) Mac Danzig (-150) vs. […]

Friday chalkboard (12/7/07)

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Fox News Fight Game has a video segment talking about the death of Sam Vasquez. The updated K-1 12/8 Yokohama Arena card line-up. A week after losing by DQ in Cage Force (Tokyo), Dan Hardy is back in action. Site news I’ve added a Video Corner section on the right side of the page. Fox […]

Sean Sherk remains UFC Lightweight champion

Friday, December 7th, 2007

This news coming according to a report by Steve Sievert of The Houston Chronicle. Armando Garcia has some comments about the Sean Sherk appeals case with the CSAC.

Thursday media round-up

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

ESPN’s Page 2 has a profile article on Roger Huerta. He’s pretty popular in the media. Here is part two of Todd Martin’s interview with Dana White on CBS Sports. Money quote about why season four of The Ultimate Fighter ended up being so boring: “I think the concept was awesome,” White says. “We executed […]

Sam Caplan responds to Luke Thomas

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Addressing the way the MMA media has covered the death of Sam Vasquez: My reasons for devoting light coverage to the story had nothing to do with fear or bringing negative attention to the sport and was not an attempt to sweep the situation under the rug. It has to do with how I was […]

Thursday trash talk: New York Yankee loves UFC

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Over at MMAHQ.net, a new round of voting has started for MMA fighter rankings. Go vote now. ESPN’s Buster Olney recently interviewed Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain and UFC was a favorite topic of conversation: It was awesome! It def is getting bigger than boxing! Even had a couple guys from Nebraska fighting! There is so […]

New RSS feeds added

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Check both the news side (left) and audio corner (right) for updated feeds. Both Tagg Radio (here) and Fight Network Radio (here) have broken RSS feeds, so I can’t add them onto the site until they fix their feeds. (Podomatic also has XML feeds that do not provide individual links to each separate audio show, […]

Updated Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama card line-up

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

The latest update: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Hidehiko Hasegawa vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai Shin’ya Aoki vs. JZ Calvan Production ace Daisuke Sato has a new blog (in Japanese) about the event.

Report: Big John McCarthy is retiring

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Throughout the last couple of days, The Fight Network has been issuing press releases regarding a conference call on Friday afternoon (2 PM EST/11 AM PST) in which famous MMA referee Big John McCarthy would make an important announcement. The obvious speculation is that he will retire from active officiating. In a pre-emptive strike (of […]

Fight Opinion Radio #70: Richie Hightower

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

This Saturday, The Ultimate Fighter 6 finale will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our special guest this week is Richie Hightower, who will be fighting on the card. If you’re a fan of The Ultimate Fighter, it’s an interesting interview to check out. Also on this week’s show: We discuss the politics of the […]

Seiya Kawamata is back in MMA

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Just when you think the PRIDE yakuza scandal is about to finally die, the tentacles of history’s past are back in mysterious ways. Seiya Kawamata, the admitted yakuza fixer who was a central figure of Shukan Gendai’s negative magazine campaign against PRIDE & Dream Stage Entertainment, is back in business. In a recent column by […]

Wednesday war room: Selective memory

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

The X-1 promotion sent out a bulletin claiming that they will pay up to $50,000 for an opponent to fight Niko Vitale on January 26th. “Fighter must be top tier.” Seriously. Eddie Goldman talks about the death of Sam Vasquez. Curious timing award winner of the day: Kevin Iole says UFC should announce that Matt […]

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