Archive for February, 2008
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008John Edwards in The Las Vegas Review-Journal this morning is reporting that Zyen LLC, one company that The Fertitta Brothers have used to help finance Xyience, has won a battle in bankruptcy court to loan more money to Xyience. According to Edwards, Zyen LLC can now loan up to $2.6 million USD to Xyience.
WEC 2/13 Albuquerque
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Event results: MMA Weekly | The Fight Network | Sherdog | MMA Mania | Yahoo Sports Steve Sievert was right – that is a packed house in Albuquerque. This is a fantastic show. Chase Beebe got schooled by Miguel Torres and Jamie Varner frustrated Rob McCullough in a fight that featured some heavy punching in […]
Site performance issues
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008The answer as to why our server has had trouble lately. More on this later.
K-1 & DSE/PRIDE staff join to create DREAM
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008A big press conference was held today in Tokyo at the Metropolitan Edmont hotel with 500 fans in attendance to announce a new promotion called DREAM. Mirko Cro Cop was in attendance and was quoted by the Japanese press as saying that “cage fighting doesn’t suit me” and that Japan is really his second home. […]
Six degrees of Ken Imai
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008On the eve of what appears to be Mirko Cro Cop showing up in Tokyo for the K-1/DSE joint press-conference in Japan to announce their new promotion, I thought that I would take a brief respite here and put on my historian cap to talk about a certain individual. To understand the various scandals and […]
Eddie Goldman sounds off on UFC’s lawsuit against DSE
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Start at the 16 minute, 30 second mark (audio here) and listen. Cross-reference: Two-part interview with Tadashi Tanaka (part one and part two) In our earlier news post today, we linked to an article that Charles Jay wrote about regarding UFC’s lawsuit against Dream Stage Entertainment over the PRIDE asset sale deal. MMA Memories, the […]
Tuesday reading material (2/12/08)
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Popular Japanese MMA writer Hiroshi Nielsen caught this screen capture of Yahoo Japan’s main page today. Kazuyuki Fujita’s signing with World Victory Road was a main story on the site. Hiroshi thinks that it’s not so much a sign that MMA is hugely popular in Japan right now, but rather a testament to the power […]
Fight Opinion Radio #75: The return of Judge Jeff Thaler
Monday, February 11th, 2008We’ve now officially reached the point where Judge Jeff Thaler may become a weekly segment on our radio show, thanks to the millions of MMA-related lawsuits being filed in the United States. This week, the Judge takes a close look at PRIDE FC Worldwide’s lawsuit against Dream Stage Entertainment. What are some of the unique […]
Monday news review (2/11/08)
Monday, February 11th, 2008There was a media announcement on Monday night that there will be a press conference at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Tokyo (Chiyoda district). At the press conference, PRIDE staff members and FEG/K-1 staff members will unite together to announce the name of their new MMA promotion (focusing on the ‘large coalition’ philosophy). Nightmare of Battle: […]
WEC 2/13 Albuquerque card line-up
Sunday, February 10th, 2008As of Monday: Carlo Prater vs. Carlos Condit Jamie Varner vs. Rob McCullough Miguel Torres vs. Chase Beebe Manny Tapia vs. Antonio Banuelos Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Leonard Garcia Josh Grispi vs. Mark Hominick Del Hawkins vs. Coty Wheeler Charlie Valencia vs. Yoshiro Maeda Micah Miller vs. Chance Farrar Scott Jorgensen vs. Jesse Moreng
A question about the PRIDE asset sale deal…
Friday, February 8th, 2008Adam Swift at Sherdog has an excellent article, talking about PRIDE FC Worldwide Holding’s lawsuit against Nobuyuki Sakakibara & DSE Inc.
Accusation by Nogueira trainer: Sylvia used skin creme
Thursday, February 7th, 2008On Tatame’s site in Portuguese (not in English), Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira trainer Luiz Alves made the claim that Tim Sylvia used some sort of skin lotion or creme. This is the same kind of allegation that got Yoshihiro Akiyama (famously) in hot water when he fought Kazushi Sakuraba on NYE in 2006.
Bergeron vs. Xyience lawsuit update
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Rich Bergeron, the blogger who was sued by Xyience for $25 million USD, won today’s round of court hearings in Las Vegas. Bergeron comments here. Pamela Lawson, the attorney for Xyience, filed a motion for Xyience to win the case on a technicality. Judge Tim Williams ruled against Xyience. Here’s the summary ruling on the […]
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