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Thursday, May 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold After a somewhat rocky debut on April 29th in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the IFL announced in a press release that the company has merged with Paligent Inc., a former biotech company. In short, the IFL is under new ownership before their first TV show (scheduled for May 21st on Fox Sports […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 17 (Sakuraba leaves PRIDE)
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Kazushi Sakuraba & Akira Maeda (5/4/2006). Photo credit: Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). This week’s one-hour show with Rob Sayers and Zach Arnold focuses on Kazushi Sakuraba’s departure from PRIDE to HERO’s. The original intent of this week’s show was to preview the PRIDE 5/5 Osaka Dome show, but Sakuraba’s departure clearly has overshadowed everything else […]
Cage Rage 17 Card
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Mark Pickering Cage Rage have announced the card for CR: 17 Ultimate Challenge’ on 1st July at the Wembley Arena, London. The much anticipated clash between Tank Abbott and Algerian behemoth Amokrane “Kiane†Sabet headlines. Meanwhile, Ian Freeman steps out of retirement to face Cage Rage World Light Heavyweight Champion Melvin Manhoef. David “Tank†[…]
Hero on the HERO’s ring
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Tetsuya Sano ã¨ã„ã†è¨³ã§é«˜ç”°é“å ´ã‚’é€€å›£ã—ãŸPRIDEã®ã‚·ãƒ³ãƒœãƒ«æ¡œåºå’Œå¿—ã•ã‚“。 å½¼ã«éžå¸¸ã«ã‚ˆãä¼¼ãŸã‚¿ã‚¤ã‚¬ãƒ¼ãƒžã‚¹ã‚¯ãŒå‰ç”°æ—¥æ˜Žã•ã‚“ã«ã‚ˆã£ã¦ HEROSã®ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã«æ‹›ã入れられã¾ã—ãŸã€‚ PRIDE’symbol Kazushi Sakuraba-san left Takada dojo. Tonight, Akira Maeda introduced us a mask man “Tiger Mask”=Kazushi Sakuraba. Hero was on the HEROs ring. ãã—ã¦ã€ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã§ã¯å½¼ã®ã‚¤ãƒ³ã‚¿ãƒ“ューã€ãƒžã‚¤ã‚¯ãƒ‘フォーマンスãŒè¡Œã‚ã‚Œã¾ã—ãŸãŒ HEROSå‡ºå ´ã®æ˜Žè¨€ã¯æœ€å¾Œã¾ã§ã‚ã‚Šã¾ã›ã‚“ã§ã—ãŸã€‚ And there were his interview by TBS anouncer and the mask man’mike performance. But he didn’t say “I’ll fight here” clearly.
Sakakibara’s new response to Gendai & Kawamata
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara issued a statement on the PRIDE HP about Shukan Gendai & Seiya Kawamata. In the statement, Sakakibara says the following: DSE & PRIDE are not backed by yakuza money Kawamata’s testimony and claims are one-sided and false The statements that Kawamata & Gendai have made are frustrating and […]
Sakuraba jumps from PRIDE to HERO’s
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold A few hours ago, rumors were flying about an “explosive surprise” that K-1 boss Sadaharu Tanigawa promised to have at the Yoyogi show. The first word of this came in a Tarzan Yamamoto column. The rumors are substantiated now, and that Kazushi Sakuraba (who, over the weekend, left the DSE-ran Takada Dojo) […]
PRIDE 5/5 Osaka preview show
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Tomorrow, Rob Sayers & I will do a quick preview of the 5/5 Osaka Dome show. We’ll go over the last-minute line-ups, the arrival of fighters in Japan, the media coverage, the circumstances surrounding the booking of the show and money, plus we’ll keep our eyes on whether or not Yosuke Nishijima […]
Brock Lesnar & New Japan: Potential, Pride, Purgatory
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006By David Ditch It’s difficult to keep abreast of events that span industries (wrestling/MMA), continents (Asia/North America) and years all at the same time. Different narratives weave around each other. The events of the past week involving New Japan and Brock Lesnar highlight these difficulties. It takes someone with a borderline-obsessive thirst for wrestling news […]
Return of Ian Freeman
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006By Mark Pickering Ian Freeman will return to MMA at Cage Rage 17 against the promotions World Light Heavyweight Champion Melvin Manhoef in an openweight contest. Cage Rage promoter Dave O’Donnell confirmed the bout earlier today and mentioned contracts could be officially signed at Europe’s biggest MMA expo, Seni Show, this weekend in Birmingham, England. […]
HERO’s 5/3 Yoyogi final card
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1/HERO’s announced that Yoshihisa Yamamoto & Gilbert Melendez are off the card due to injuries. They are replaced respectively by Kazuhiro Hamanaka & Rani Yahya. WAKASHOYO vs. Kazuhiro Hamanaka Antonio Silva vs. Tom Erikson Akebono vs. Don Frye Middleweight Tournament: Ivan Menjivar vs. Taiyo Nakahara Middleweight Tournament: Ryuki Ueyama vs. Rani Yahya […]
Media Notes
Monday, May 1st, 2006Ryan Bennett (MMAWeekly.com) signs with The Fight Network. The Denver-based ACF (American Championship Fighting) promotion has signed a deal with HDNet to air footage of ACF MMA shows. The heavy push starts this weekend at the Denver Coliseum. Over 5,600 fans show up in Halifax on Saturday for their first MMA event. Chronicle Herald writer […]
PRIDE Total Elimination Absolute 2006 – Preview and Analysis
Monday, May 1st, 2006By Al Yu Total Elmination Absolute introduction – “Risk for Success? Absolutely.” Full 5/5 PRIDE Osaka Dome card. – Roman Zentsov (11-10) vs Gilbert Yvel (27-10-1) Roman Zentsov is a teammate of PRIDE Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko. He has fought in M-1 and 2Hot2Handle events throughout most of his career. In his PRIDE debut at […]
Full 5/5 PRIDE Osaka Dome card
Sunday, April 30th, 2006Yuji Shimada (pictured above): Photo credit — DSE official HP (Japanese) By Zach Arnold DSE has been marketing the Open-Weight tournament as a 16-man tournament, but it appears that it will be a 14-man tournament with Emelianenko Fedor getting a bye into the second round. Card line-up: Non-Tournament: Gilbert Yvel vs. Roman Zentsov Alistair Overeem […]
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