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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Image credit: Sports Navigator Koki Kameda defeated Juan Jose Landaeta of Venezuela tonight (August 2nd) at Yokohama Arena by split decision to win the WBA World Light Flyweight title. The fight aired live (start time – 8:40 PM) on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network. Judges scores can be found here. The reaction of Kameda’s split […]
Drug testing in MMA
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Jeff Thaler indicates that Kimo may be suffering from Floyd Landis-itis about accusations of doping. Ivan Trembow reports that the Nevada State Athletic Commission is showing its thriftyness… by not drug testing many fighters on UFC cards. Kizer’s explanation is amusing, as he tries to explain why there was $835.20 USD in […]
Good cop, bad cop
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006So you want to hang out with Josh Barnett? Our first stop was Akihabara, the holy-land for “otaku” [“fanatics”]. Although we went there so Josh could be interviewed by a sports newspaper, the first thing Josh spotted was a life-sized figure of the comic Fist of the North Star’s hero, Kenshiro. Josh, a huge Fist […]
Kentucky authority member wants MMA banned
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Larry Bisig, member of the Kentucky Sports Authority, wants MMA banned in the state (according to an Associated Press report). “It defies logic that a cock rooster has more protection in the state of Kentucky than does a human being, and if that’s not broken, what is,” Bisig said in a telephone […]
Japanese MMA notes
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Satoru Kitaoka vs. Paul “Semtex” Daley was announced for Pancrase’s 8/27 Yokohama Bunka Gym show. Don Frye vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto was announced for HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum show. GCM Communications announced that a special “best bouts” episode of D.O.G. cage matches will air on TV Tokyo on 8/13 from 2:45-3:35 AM JST.
Kameda’s next test
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Tomorrow at Yokohama Arena, the headliner is Koki Kameda vs. Juan Jose Landaeta (Venezuela) for the vacant WBA Light Flyweight Title. With little MMA or pro-wrestling activity right now, boxing has dominated the Japanese news wires. Kameda hasn’t changed his heelish act, as he and Landaeta had a staredown today after the weigh-ins. The day […]
Big thinking
Monday, July 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold The Houston Chronicle reports that UFC will run a show in either Houston or Dallas in early 2007. “Expanding to Texas is a natural,” said Ratner. “Houston and Dallas are major-league cities. When you look at the pay-per-view numbers, there is a big contingent of people who buy out of the state […]
K-1 7/30 Sapporo report
Sunday, July 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today was K-1’s first show on Fuji TV since the departure of chief producer Kunio Kiyohara, who was demoted in the FujiSankei conglomerate due to the yakuza scandal. K-1 drew a reported crowd of 8,390 paid at Makomanai Ice Arena in Sapporo, with Glaube Feitosa defeating Musashi by a unanimous decision in […]
Getting it done right
Sunday, July 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold Childs Walker in the Baltimore Sun has a very extensive and accurately-written article about UFC, titled UFC Fighting To Be Ring Leader. Outside of the quotes from Jim Lampley and a man that I nicknamed The American Media’s MMA Boogeyman, it’s a very good mainstream media article on MMA. Check it out.
Austin & Ibragimov fight to a draw
Friday, July 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Friday night, ESPN2 in America aired an “eliminator” boxing match (IBF Heavyweight Title Eliminator) between Sultan Ibragimov of Russia and Ray Austin from Cleveland. Two heavyweights fighting for the chance at a shot at Klitschko, with the fight taking place at the Seminole Hard Rock Arena in Hollywood, Florida. More details […]
Source: Calvin Ayre getting involved in MMA
Friday, July 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold An MMA insider is telling us that Calvin Ayre (of BoDog.net fame) is getting into the business, with a tentative date scheduled for November in Los Angeles. Ayre, who is based out of Costa Rica, is expected to be running shows very shortly. He is listed as #746 on the world’s richest […]
Is Bob Meyrowitz returning to MMA?
Thursday, July 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold An unnoticed article in Multichannel News (use this link if the direct link doesn’t load for you) caught my attention. R. Thomas Umstead reported on Monday that Bob Meyrowitz, the founder of UFC, is pitching to several cable networks a new MMA reality show series. Before you get too excited, there’s one […]
The Zuffa Myth – revisited?
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article for their Thursday newspaper on UFC titled UFC traveled bumpy road to mainstream. The article (at the bottom) admits that it’s a re-write of material already written by Andrew Levine in the Washington Post, Ron Borges in the Boston Globe, and information pulled from UFC’s web […]
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