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Monday, May 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Reid statement on free tickets. Keep your eyes on Technorati (or try this search) to read reaction to this story. The Associated Press reports that the Nevada State Athletic Commission gave Democratic senate leader Harry Reid free ringside boxing tickets in exchange for influencing legislation on federal regulation of boxing. Picture […]
Royce Gracie for Japanese new MMA fan
Monday, May 29th, 2006By Tetsuya Sano 今更僕ãŒè¨€ã†ã¾ã§ã‚‚ãªãホイス・グレイシーã¯ãƒžãƒƒãƒˆãƒ»ãƒ’ューズã«æ•—ã‚ŒãŸã€‚ 完敗ã€æ–‡å—通りã®å®Œæ•—。 ä¼èª¬ã¯ç¾å®Ÿã«å…¨ãã¨ã„ã£ã¦ã„ã„ã»ã©æ•µã‚ãªã‹ã£ãŸã€‚ Royce Gracie lost to Matt Hughes, and that was a totally complete defeat. The legend was no match for reality. ブãƒãƒƒã‚¯ãƒ»ãƒ¬ã‚ºãƒŠãƒ¼ã«è¡€ã‚’åã‹ã•ã‚ŒãŸãƒãƒ«ã‚¯ãƒ»ãƒ›ãƒ¼ã‚¬ãƒ³ã®ã‚ˆã†ã«æ•—ã‚ŒãŸãƒ›ã‚¤ã‚¹ã¯åŠ›ç„¡ã‹ã£ãŸã€‚ Like Hulk Hogan spitting blood by Brock Lesnar. ã ã‹ã‚‰ã¨è¨€ã£ã¦æŸ”è¡“ã€ãã—ã¦ç·åˆæ ¼é—˜æŠ€ã®ãƒ‘イオニアã§ã‚るホイスã®åŠŸç¸¾ã¯ãƒ›ãƒ¼ã‚¬ãƒ³ã®ãã‚ŒåŒæ§˜å…¨ã色ã‚ã›ã‚‹ã“ã¨ã¯ãªã„。 The distinguished service of Royce as the pioneer of kakutougi (MMA) and jiu-jitsu does not fade (similar to Hogan […]
UFC in Canada?
Monday, May 29th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson There was an interesting story by Neil Davidson of the CP, talking about UFC coming to Canada. Obviously, as a Canadian, this is very exciting. With the high Canadian dollar, and with MMA’s growing popularity in the Great White North, it only would make sense for UFC to expand beyond their borders, […]
Mach Sakurai makes national headlines
Monday, May 29th, 2006Mach Sakurai story makes front page of Yahoo Japan HP By Zach Arnold Unfortunately for 30-year Hayato “Mach” Sakurai, he didn’t make national headlines in Japanese news circles because of his great fighting career. Instead, he made the news because police arrested 33-year old construction worker Kenichi Sakayori on suspicion of assault (causing an injury). […]
The price of being mainstream
Monday, May 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold TV Week has an extraordinary article, talking about various American cable networks jumping on the MMA bandwagon. And, as you would expect with some network executives, their view of what MMA is produces some wacky, but unfortunate results. BET, MTV2, Oxygen and Fox Sports are betting the popularity of ultimate fighting will […]
Online ticket auction
Sunday, May 28th, 2006We got a note from correspondent Michael Blechman about an auction taking place to help benefit Brian Olsen, the fighter who got stuck with an ambulance bill after Mike Kyle kicked him in the face in their WEC fight. Link to the auction site. For the auction, two cage side seats (Section C, Row 1, […]
Gendai: Fuji TV not to renew PRIDE TV deal?
Sunday, May 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold As noted yesterday on the message board, Shukan Gendai came out with a page article in this week’s magazine, proclaiming that their campaign against DSE for being an alleged yakuza group is showing some effects. They claim that the TV deal between DSE/PRIDE & Fuji TV is up in September, and that […]
IFL 5/28 TV report
Sunday, May 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Flashback: IFL debut TV show on Fox Sports Net The TV intro package is the same as last week. We see a review of the Silverbacks’ domination of the Anacondas, with tonight featuring Renzo Gracie’s Pitbulls vs. Maurice Smith’s Tiger Sharks.
UFC mania in Japan
Sunday, May 28th, 2006Photo credit: Sankei Sports By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports has two articles today (here and here). The first one talks about the photo-op that Kazushi Sakuraba, K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa, and UFC President Dana White had. The hope is that Sakuraba will work in UFC soon. The second article talks about Ryo Chonan training with […]
Goldberg in MMA?
Saturday, May 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Matt Boone reports that MMA Hawaii’s X-2 show in Oakland, California on June 3rd may have a surprise. Boone claims that X-2 is in preliminary negotiations to book Bill Goldberg vs. Tank Abbott.
UFC 60 – Aftermath
Saturday, May 27th, 2006By Rob Sayers Perhaps it was the fact that I wasn’t expecting a great show, but I left the UFC PPV very satisfied and slightly surprised at the high level of entertainment we saw tonight. Coming into the event, only a few of the undercard bouts interested me, and the main event I feared would […]
UFC 60 Results
Saturday, May 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Results links: W. Observer | Sherdog | MMA Weekly | Fox Sports | CP | MMA Snark | Long Beach Press-Telegram | FightReport.net Post your show thoughts here, or in the comments section of this post.
Sakuraba to attend UFC show?
Friday, May 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports reports that Kazushi Sakuraba may be in attendance for the UFC 60 show on Saturday night (Matt Hughes vs. Royce Gracie). The article speculates that Sakuraba may end up participating in UFC (given the current business relationship between UFC & K-1 with BJ Penn & Royce Gracie).
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