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Friday, September 8th, 2006First, it was the Torch. Now, it’s 1wrestling.com.
Pride Final Conflict Absolute 2006: analysis and predictions
Friday, September 8th, 2006By Stephan Marceau I enjoy doing these reviews, but I’m no expert, just a fan! If you want a more qualified review, check out a great preview by Stephen Quadros. First of all, wow, what an amazing card! I really hope that Pride survives, they do have the best fighters. Here are the fights that […]
World Wide Cage Network Formed
Friday, September 8th, 2006By Mark Pickering GCM Communications, parent company of Japan’s only cage fighting organisation D.O.G have announced the formation of a World Wide Cage Network. The network features promotions who have nurtured fighters and worked tirelessly towards the development of the sport. Five promotions have been announced for the provisionally named initiative – England’s Cage Warriors, […]
Cage Gladiators 2 – ‘Next Generation’ Results
Friday, September 8th, 2006By Mark Pickering The fledgling Cage Gladiators promotion which superseded the Cage Fighting Championship presented ‘The Next Generation’ on Sunday, September 3rd, at the Liverpool Olympia, England. Liverpudlian Jason Tan competed before a partisan crowd in the main event against fellow welterweight standout Jim Wallhead in an eagerly awaited bout to crown the first Cage […]
PRIDE event in Saitama
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Time to get predictions from everyone on the Grand Prix tournament fights. a) Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira – pick a winner b) Mirko Cro Cop vs. vanderlei Silva – pick a winner c) winner of a vs. winner of b – your tournament winner? Jeff Thaler commented on his site that the PRIDE […]
Update on UFC DVDs
Thursday, September 7th, 2006First Look keeps UFC distribution. First Look Home Entertainment last week won the rights to continue distributing Zuffa’s UFC Fighting Championship DVDs for the next 3½ years, while Zuffa won the rights to audit First Look’s books. First Look Studios acquired the assets of Ventura Distribution earlier this year. Zuffa had been distributed by Ventura […]
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 4
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Erin Bucknell Recap of Team Mojo’s asskickery from the past three episodes. And the really odd submission from last week. Patrick Cote and his large Canadian Leafed hat say that he is ready to be the next fighter. Team No Love picks up on this and McCarthy says that he’s ready to fight. I’m […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 23
Thursday, September 7th, 2006This edition of Fight Opinion Radio turns a new leaf, as we welcome in new lead host Jeff Thaler. Jeff is a former agent of many fighters (including Babalu), and he brings a unique perspective to the radio show that I think you will enjoy. On this week’s show, we have a recap of the […]
Did Jim Ross point the finger at K-1?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Several years ago, WWE announcer Jim Ross used to have a weekly column on the WWE site called “The Ross Report” that became controversial for many reasons, with one of those reasons being some of the cryptic comments he made in the reports. No matter what you thought about Ross and his […]
Holyfield’s next fight
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold It was annouunced on Thursday that Evander Holyfield’s next fight would take place on November 10th at the Alamodome against Fres Oquendo. This AP report suggests the fight will air live on Fox Sports Net, while this report suggests that Fox Sports Net is getting into the PPV business and will promote […]
K-1’s message to PRIDE
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Today is the start of the heat-up for this weekend’s PRIDE show in Saitama (with two mega-matches on the card). Instead, K-1/HERO’s cleverly scheduled a press conference for today to announce a fight between Kazushi Sakuraba and Yoshihiro Akiyama in the second round of the HERO’s Light Heavyweight tournament (10/9 Yokohama Arena event). Shungo Oyama […]
Internal media speculation on Tyson
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Kakutolog (in Japanese) has a very interesting post about a Gendai Net report on PRIDE & Mike Tyson working together. More specifically, the supposed motives on PRIDE’s behalf for booking Tyson. The Gendai Net article claims that PRIDE’s real motive behind signing Mike Tyson (to an exhibition boxing match) is to try […]
Report: Bonnar tests positive for steroids
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Source: MMA Weekly. Boldenone is an anabolic steroid that is intended for use only by veterinarians, specifically to help rehabilitate injured horses. It has several brand names for veterinary use, including Equigan, Equipoise, Ultragan, and Ganabol. It is on the banned substances list of all the major athletic commissions and sports leagues. If you recognize […]
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