Archive for June, 2008
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Amateur MMA tournaments are coming to Singapore soon. The Washington Times has more thoughts on the current landscape in the MMA industry. The latest update on possible MMA regulation in the state of New York. Michael Bisping is going to be training with boxer David Haye in Cyprus. Other headlines: The Canadian Press: UFC aims […]
Steve Cofield brings the dirt on Andrei Arlovski
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Hard-hitting journalism at its finest. One question — will Tim Sylvia try to bring a replica WAMMA belt with him on a date with Miss Mikula?
UFC 7/19 Las Vegas card
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Report here: Anderson Silva vs. James Irvin (205 pounds) Hermes Franca (coming off his steroid suspension) vs. Frankie Edgar Over at AOL Fanhouse, Michael David Smith is suggesting that Affliction may as well cancel their Anaheim show in light of UFC running against them.
Big DEEP event booked
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008August 16th in Okayama at Momotaro Arena. The show will be called “Gladiator” and feature a Japan vs. South Korea 5-versus-5 fight card concept. Also booked is Minowaman vs. Don Frye and Gary Goodridge vs. Hiromi Amada (K-1 rules). More notes here.
Video: Paul Buentello interview
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Quotes of the Day – Dave Meltzer on the DREAM 4 show
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Audio here (22 minute time mark): “I thought that it was long and not necessarily exciting, uh, a couple of fights were okay, but there was nothing um nothing worth going out of way to see, that’s for sure.” After praising Jacare vs. Miller… “Nothing, uh, nothing really, Nothing really stood out. Very missable show.”
Dana White’s “big announcement”
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008It’s supposed to happen today. This is the post where you can comment on what it ends up being, if interested.
There’s as much fighting outside of the cage than in it these days
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Here is a press release detailing Ricco Rodriguez’s upcoming fight on June 28th in Salt Lake City for the UCE promotion. Sherdog is reporting that UK star Dan Hardy will make his UFC debut on October 18th in England. Josh Gross at Sports Illustrated has a preview of the upcoming MMA Summer calendar. I like […]
Larry Zbyszko tells it like it is
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008The Living Legend on MMA’s appeal to pro-wrestling fans: Wrestling is really in a situation where they’re losing a big part of their audience to the Ultimate Fighting. What wrestling is doing – and I’m speaking for the fans – is stupid. Instead of watching wrestling and athletes, all you’re doing for an hour or […]
Video: Sakuraba vs. Manhoef
Monday, June 16th, 2008Leland Roling at MMA Analyst loves Melvin Manhoef. This fight video… it just makes me sad. More videos of DREAM 4 fights can be seen here.
Why the weight issue matters (Diaz vs. Corbbrey)
Monday, June 16th, 2008Video link from Pancrase.org Just some visual evidence to support the arguments I presented in my new article at MMA Memories.
Today’s chalkboard (6/16/08)
Monday, June 16th, 2008The MMA California site has a new message board, which can be accessed right here. Check it out. New York Magazine has an article on UFC’s attempts to get MMA legalized in the state of New York. Count the number of items in the article that make you laugh or cringe. Sam Caplan has a […]
Sakuraba suffers left arm injury in fight against Manhoef
Sunday, June 15th, 2008DREAM officials announced today that Kazushi Sakuraba suffered an ulna fracture in his left arm during his fight against Melvin Manhoef yesterday at Yokohama Arena. The injury reportedly occurred when Sakuraba attempted to block a high-kick from Manhoef. One interesting item is that any sort of retirement talk for Sakuraba was profusely shut down and […]
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