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Monday, October 30th, 2006Ivan Trembow has more details. I’m sure it won’t make headlines in Japan, but hey… how about that slow news week?
PRIDE’s NYE TV options
Sunday, October 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold The five major free TV networks in Japan (Tokyo Broadcasting System, TV-Tokyo, Nippon TV, Fuji TV, & TV-Asahi) are starting to get their New Year’s Eve programming plans ready. Based on what is publicly known, here is the information that we know of so far: TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting) – K-1 Dynamite!! Fuji […]
Sunday & Monday is media fun-day
Sunday, October 29th, 2006Consider this an open post to talk about any stories MMA-related you see in the media or just anything in general MMA-related you want to talk about. Look at the prices on Ticketmaster for tickets for UFC’s TUF 4 Finale show. $175-$495 USD per ticket. Sunday and Monday headlines can be read in full-post view.
Kiyoshi Tamura appreciation day
Saturday, October 28th, 2006The obstinent man in red pants. A man who calls his daily journal the Full Nude Blog. It’s impossible to hate him. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba (UWF-International) Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (6/27/1998 at Tokyo Bay NK Hall – RINGS promotion) Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Frank Shamrock (4/23/1999 Osaka Prefectural Gym – RINGS promotion) Kiyoshi […]
Trevor Berbick murdered
Saturday, October 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Associated Press reports a disturbing crime scene in Jamaica. Bloomberg has more details. As noted in a Wikipedia entry, Berbick was involved in a famous double-crossing in 1991 against Nobuhiko Takada for the UWF-International promotion. Other related links: ESPN (Dan Rafael): Berbick ‘the other guy’ in the career of others The […]
Mike Tyson’s PPV value in 2006 is…
Friday, October 27th, 2006Half of what Total Nonstop Action wrestling draws. Oleg Maskaev has his Christmas card ready to send and mail off to Iron Mike now. Even he is laughing at Tyson’s buyrate power. PRIDE looks to be very smart by marketing Tyson in Macau and not in America. If you click on full-post view, you can […]
Drug test failures draw no Japanese media attention
Friday, October 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold When news broke that both Vitor Belfort & Pawel Nastula apparently failed the NSAC-sanctioned drug tests, it was certainly a story with some traction on the various English MMA web sites. However, the story is a completely different one in regards to the Japanese press.
GSP interview on RDS
Friday, October 27th, 2006By Stephan Marceau A great article on RDS. RDS is the French version of TSN, which in turn is the Canadian equivalent to ESPN. Funny enough, RDS covers a lot more sports than TSN. TSN seems to cover mainstream sports only. I thought there would be enough interest to warrant a full translation (right Erin?), […]
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 11
Thursday, October 26th, 2006By Erin Bucknell Update: Din Thomas has a message for those of you who thought this week’s TV fight was boring. I argue that we haven’t seen nearly enough of Randy and GSP this season, and there is no excuse of this! Well, other than the fact that it’s about the fighters and not the […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 29 (PRIDE in Las Vegas)
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Right after we taped our newest show (reviewing the PRIDE Las Vegas event), news broke that both Vitor Belfort and Pawel Nastula failed their drug tests (issued by the NSAC). Will the company recognize the drug testing suspensions worldwide? We’ll have a lot more on this story on next week’s show. On this week’s show, […]
Thursday and Friday multipurpose thread
Thursday, October 26th, 2006This will be updated throughout the next two days. If you click full-post mode, you’ll read comments made by Dave Meltzer in an interview on Thursday in regards to how UFC is reacting to PRIDE’s first Las Vegas event. Plus (updated Friday), Tito Ortiz finds new ways to create controversy.
NSAC releases PRIDE Gate Figures.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006By Luke Nicholson The NSAC recently released PRIDE’s live gate numbers on their website yesterday. It turns out the paid attendance was 8,079 for a gate total of 2,056,440, which ranks them sixth in all-time attendance in Nevada for MMA events. For a first time event, the number is always high due to the curiosity […]
Will BoDog be able to book Fedor away from PRIDE?
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Gryphon comments on the story. Emelianenko Fedor, the PRIDE Heavyweight champion, is certainly one of the most coveted fighters in the industry today. In 2003, when Miro Mijatovic was his agent in Japan, he worked the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 event at Kobe Wing Stadium. That event became part of the larger […]
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