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Friday, July 21st, 2006In an interview in The Long Beach Press-Telegram (discussing Quinton “Rampage” Jackson leaving PRIDE): “I left at the right time,†Jackson said. “I think it has a lot to do with karma. They treat people bad. We are the show. The fighters are the show. You have to treat the fighters well. You have to […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 22 (The Return)
Friday, July 21st, 2006We’re back (hopefully on a normal schedule) this week with a brand new Fight Opinion show, as the entire crew (Rob Sayers, Luke Nicholson, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold) discuss the latest news stories in MMA. We have an overlook on the UFC vs. PRIDE interpromotional battle, a preview of the WFA Los Angeles PPV […]
Kimo pulled off of the WFA PPV
Thursday, July 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The WFA sent out a press release, stating that the California State Athletic Commission has notified them that Kimo failed a drug test (reportedly tested positive for Stanozolol). This was easily the last big-money fight in Kimo’s MMA career, and now it is finished. Fight Report has more details. Update: Sherdog reports […]
Mirko fighting in America?
Thursday, July 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The last 24 hours, MMA boards have been buzzing about comments that Mirko Cro Cop reportedly made in an interview regarding his future in fighting (specifically where he will fight). Read his comments here. In short, he said the following (I cleaned up the grammar): JL: You have mentioned on many occasions […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Wednesday, July 19th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) Network – Tokyo Broadcasting System Card line-up: Light Heavyweight Tournament: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kin Tai Ei (Seido Kaikan) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Shungo Oyama vs. Rodrigo Gracie Light Heavyweight Tournament: Carlos Newton vs. Melvin Manhoef Kin Tai Ei fought in […]
WFA ‘King of the Streets’ – Preview and Analysis
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006By Al Yu Event Date: 07.22.06 Location: The Forum (Los Angeles, California) Fight Card: Antonio McKee vs Adam Arredondo Jorge Oliveira vs Marvin Eastman Rob McCullough vs Harris Sarmiento Jason Miller vs Lodune Sincaid Ivan Salaverry vs Art Santore Ricco Rodriguez vs Ron Waterman Lyoto Machida vs Vernon White Bas Rutten vs Kimo Leopoldo Quinton […]
Gendai: Gackt associated with DSE owner
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold This week’s edition of Shukan Gendai has a top story in their magazine, claiming that popular Japanese music artist Gackt (through the office he is employed with) is associated with Mr. I (Ishizaka), the alleged yakuza owner of PRIDE who is rumoredly hiding in South Korea. In short, attaching the name of […]
WFA aims for pro-wrestling fans
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006WFA President Jeremy Lappen comments: “Pro wrestling’s audience is waning,” Lappen said. “I think boxing’s audience is waning. I think those people are still out there. They’re just looking for something else to watch. I think what they’re going to watch is this.” The fighters don’t seem to mind the extra attention and appear more […]
PRIDE 8/26 Bushido GP card
Tuesday, July 18th, 20068/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall card line-up: Kazuo Misaki vs. Dan Henderson Akihiro Gono vs. Gegard Mousasi Ryo Chonan vs. Paulo Filho Denis Kang vs. Amar Suloev
Update on ECC 3 show
Monday, July 17th, 2006The Chronicle Herald newspaper (in Halifax) reports that ECC 3 promoter Peter Martell wants elbow strikes (similar to what you see in UFC) to be allowed. Suffice to say, the local media in Halifax is taking this request as Martell trying to add blood and violence to the event.
Stupid human tricks
Sunday, July 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold In the past few weeks, we’ve heard promos from both Kurt Angle (WWE) and Rhyno (TNA – video of his open challenge here) talking about how they would accept any challengers from a 4-sided, 6-sided, or 8-sided ring. This, of course, has set off a fury on MMA boards and has pro-wrestling […]
What mainstream media coverage looks like
Sunday, July 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold I looked around for a media report to see if Mike Kyle appeared at the Boise (Idaho) MMA show on Saturday night (and he didn’t), and what I found was this article reviewing the show. Actually, it was more or less commentary disguised as actual coverage of the show (and negative). The […]
Developing revisionist history
Friday, July 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Friday, Josh Gross wrote an article on Sherdog titled Liddell vs. Silva: Why now? talking about the upcoming co-promotional matchmaking between PRIDE & UFC. The PRIDE source Gross quotes (and doesn’t dispute in the article) is engaged in amazing spin-doctoring, to the point that you start laughing at the claims being […]
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