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Thursday, December 13th, 2007WEC 31 tickets must have cost half a million dollars. That’s the only financially reasonable thing I can think after watching another Zuffa promoted WEC card out of The Hard Rock in Vegas. Keep in mind that this was the third WEC show at the 1,000 seat venue, and the last one on 9/5 was […]
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 […]
Press Conference Coverage of UFC and Randy Couture
Thursday, October 25th, 2007By Jeff Comstock No time for a breakdown of all of today’s news, so read these articles to get the 411 on all of todays announcements. Fightlinker has by far the funnest live blog of the UFC press conference. UFC Daily has details on the new Spike TV deal , and a complete rundown of […]
Dana White vs. Randy Couture
Thursday, October 25th, 2007By Jeff Comstock I’ll be updating this thread as the news comes in from the dueling press conferences. Dana White’s conference can be heard on Yahoo live at 4 p.m. ET. To listen in, just click here. Randy’s conference will be broadcast live at ProElite.com and HDNet at 4:30 p.m. ET. The TV deal announcement […]
French middleweight Jonstomp attacked
Saturday, July 14th, 2007By Mark Pickering French middleweight Boris Jonstomp is expected to recover his full vision but will have titanium plates inserted into his face after being attacked with a firearm in his native Paris earlier this week. The CageWarriors veteran was set on by a highly intoxicated group of males wearing balaclavas who shot him in […]
The product is growing stale
Sunday, July 8th, 2007By Tim Leidecker When a friend of mine introduced me to the sport of Mixed Martial Arts at the end of the 1990s, all was still right with the world. Sakuraba had just polished off his first Gracie, opponents were scared s$%&^*! of Tom Erikson and Igor Vovchanchyn and Ricco Rodriguez was miles away from […]
A brief history of the NYSAC
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007By Tomer Chen
On June 21st, a Lower Hudson Online article criticized the sport of MMA, which is really no big shock given the rough ride of the sport over the last 14 years in the media and the sensationalism that seems to grasp the mainstream media as a tool to draw in readers. What was really shocking, however, was the criticism of a New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) Deputy Commissioner emeritus by the name of Steve Acunto, who has been a trainer for several decades in the sport of Boxing. It isn’t a shock that Mr. Acunto would criticize the sport of MMA given his deep rooted links to Boxing, but the analogy he made to the need for stopping MMA:
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UFC 72 Recap
Saturday, June 16th, 2007By Adam Morgan Going from UFC 71, which was the most-hyped event in mixed martial arts history, to UFC 72 is like going from eating a nice steak dinner to eating some scraps out of the garbage can. It sucks. The fight card itself was very lackluster on paper. And lackluster is exactly what it […]
Fedor: Where have you gone?
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007By Adam Morgan Fedor emelianenko highlight HLUploaded by psykojojo Some of you may be familiar with me, some of you may not. For those who aren’t, I am Adam Morgan, proprietor of Sprawl ‘n Brawl, a wee little blog that doesn’t draw half the readership of a site such as Fight Opinion. But this matters […]
Test post
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007If things don’t load 100% of the way, do not be alarmed. The fact that I’ve managed to spend the last several hours repairing WordPress, backing up and restoring a 2-year old database, and manually tweak the system is enough of a miracle at the moment. I wish I had the bankroll to hire Jeremy […]
Monday madness: Ayre says Fedor is Bodog 4 Life
Sunday, April 8th, 2007By Zach Arnold Explanation of title post here. Kakutolog notes a Tokyo Sports report claiming that there is consideration of booking Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba for the Tokyo Dome on 10/11, which would be the exact date of the 10th anniversary of PRIDE.
PRIDE 34 media coverage
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Sankei Sports claims the attendance for the PRIDE 34 show was 23,336. The newspaper claims that K-1 gave Sakuraba permission to have one fight with Kiyoshi Tamura in the PRIDE ring under UFC control. Sports Nippon echoed the same sentiments. The same from Nikkan Sports. And more of the same in Daily Sports. Sakakibara discussed […]
Sunday media sandwich: Matt Serra shakes up gamblers
Sunday, April 8th, 2007This has been quite the red-meat weekend. So here’s some more red meat. A Japanese blogger looked at a pamphlet at the PRIDE 34 show that was promoting the upcoming 5/20 Saitama Super Arena Lightweight GP tournament. The photographs of 12 fighters were apparently on the pamphlet. The fighters supposedly listed were…
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