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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006K-1 World GP 2006 in Osaka Jerome Le Banner vs. Choi Hong-Man Peter Aerts vs. Remy Bonjasky Semmy Schilt vs. Bjorn Bregy Ernesto Hoost vs. Yusuke Fujimoto Musashi vs. Chalid “Die Faust” Arrab Plus: Glaube Feitosa, Ray Sefo, Ruslan Karaev, and others. Sidenote: Genki Sudo vs. Ian Schaffa was announced for the promotion’s 9/4 Tokyo, […]
Kameda vs. Landaeta II
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006The big announcement today in Japan is that Koki Kameda, who won a very controversial decision over Juan Jose Landaeta of Venezuela (on 8/2 at Yokohama Arena), will have a re-match with Landaeta in October.
Mike Tyson in PRIDE
Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The front page of Yahoo Japan’s HP has the link to a Sports Nippon newspaper report about Mike Tyson participating in PRIDE. Tyson is being marketed to the Japanese as PRIDE’s “big surprise” for their 10/21 Las Vegas event. Also in the report, Hidehiko Yoshida continued expressing his desire to open up […]
PRIDE 10/21 Las Vegas event
Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion announced Mark Coleman vs. Emelianenko Fedor and Kevin Randleman vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua as two of the matches for their 10/21 Thomas & Mack Center show in Las Vegas, Nevada. What makes the Coleman vs. Fedor announcement interesting is that a few days ago, the promotion indirectly (through Sankei Sports) […]
Holyfield wins in return fight
Friday, August 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Fox Sports Net had a live telecast of the Evander Holyfield vs. Jeremy Bates fight from Dallas, Texas at the American Airlines Arena on Friday night. Holyfield defeated Jeremy Bates by TKO (referee stoppage) at the end of R2. The crowd was very large at the Arena and strongly supportive of Holyfield, […]
Calvin Ayre officially announces MMA entry
Friday, August 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last month, we reported an industry rumor online first about Bodog.net owner Calvin Ayre getting involved in the MMA business. Today, a press release was issued on the Casino City Times detailing Ayre’s plans. In short, the first MMA show series taping is underway right now in Costa Rica (where Ayre is […]
UFC Fight Night (8/17/2006)
Thursday, August 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here we go. Full show review.
UFN 6 – Analysis
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Stephan Marceau As usual I like to review and analyze the line up! This card is particularly good for a free card as you will see. I didnt do the full card, but the most intesting fights imho. So without further due: Jason Von Flue Vs. Joe Riggs Riggs has been kind of lackluster […]
Heat-up for TUF 4
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold There is a lot of press coverage this week in the media for this Thursday’s season-opening show for The Ultimate Fighter: Season 4. Neil Davidson in the Canadian Press (article here at Canada.com) has an article, along with The Dartmouth Online, the UK’s News & Star, The Boston Herald, and Multichannel News. […]
Promoting 101: How to burn a town
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold For the last few days, Erin Bucknell at MMA California has been following the events surrounding a Stockton, California MMA show last Saturday that was supposed to be headlined by Nick Diaz. On Saturday morning, Erin caught a newspaper report about Diaz not having an official weigh-in. Hours later, various MMA sites […]
Inoki has advice for Kameda
Monday, August 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Antonio Inoki has had a storied career, and some of those highlights include his friendships with dictators. Before you consider that statement harsh, history shows that Mr. Inoki likes to extend himself to various characters — such as the Hussein sons in 1990 in Iraq (when he went there to get Japanese […]
Top Oregon city proposes MMA ban
Monday, August 14th, 2006Update: The Eugene Register-Guard has more details. Make your voice heard. KVAL-TV in Eugene, Oregon is reporting that the city is preparing a ban on MMA. “It is not a professional sport. It doesn’t have requirements around weight or age or anything that sets up fair competition,” says Piercy. If you would like to (politely) […]
K-1 World GP in Las Vegas
Sunday, August 13th, 2006The return of Stefan Leko was a successful one. Bellagio show results (from the K-1 Japanese HP): Alexey Ignashov defeated Imani Lee after 3R by a 2-1 judges’ decision (30-27, 27-30, 29-28). Michael McDonald defeated Ariel Mastov after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-26 three times). Stefan “Blitz” Leko defeated Scott Lighty in R3 […]
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