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Monday, January 23rd, 2006Hell has frozen over it seems as Sherdog is reporting the long announced bout between MMA legend Frank Shamrock and BJJ Black Belt Cesar Gracie will finally take place March 10th in San Diego’s HP Pavilion. This will be the first MMA event in California since mixed martial arts events were made legal in the […]
Fight Opinion radio – file sharing
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Gambit’s Blog has a great link to a BitTorrent client called uTorrent. I fully admit that I have zero knowledge about BitTorrent files. However, the program GB links to not only accepts BitTorrent feeds, but it also creates them. However, because I have no knowledge of how to work with BT files, I’m not sure […]
World Combat League in Connecticut
Monday, January 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Here is an interesting review of the show Chuck Norris produced last Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut. Money quote: All in all, it was an alright show. If the WCL wants to compete with UFC, K-1, and PRIDE FC then they’ll need to do some serious work to […]
Art Dore comments on MMA
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s a link to an interview conducted with Toughman boss Art Dore in the Dayton Daily News. Money quote: “I think the future of Toughman is very good. Around the country, in fact, people are complaining that it’s not tough enough compared to these other sports, like Ultimate Fighting. They’re saying, ‘You […]
Booking a Legend.
Saturday, January 21st, 2006By Luke Nicholson It’s been used in Pro Wrestling for decades. You book legends from the past to help create new stars for the future. Consider, the way WWE used Hulk Hogan to put over Brock Lesnar as a monster a few years back. That was textbook booking of a legend to help create a […]
DSE plays the “media ban” card?
Saturday, January 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold Do you remember the situation from December of 2005 in regards to the negotiations for the Naoya Ogawa vs. Hidehiko Yoshida match? If you don’t remember, use this link to refresh your memory – simple for the purpose of a timeline. Here was the situation – some of the newspapers reported that […]
Rumble on the Rock results
Saturday, January 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold The Honolulu Advertiser’s article on the event (with results). Some topics of discussion to talk about (regarding their 170-pound Welterweight tournament): Carlos Condit gets a win over Renato “Charuto” Verissimo. Condit was a huge underdog on the gambling/sportsbook odd-making lines. People who bet on him made a lot of money. Yushin Okami […]
Ultimate Fight Night 3 Ratings
Friday, January 20th, 2006Spike TV issued a press release (via PR Newswire) regarding the ratings that the UFN 3 show drew on Monday night. There are a lot of micro-rating numbers in the release, so here’s the key one to focus on: Overall, Spike TV’s presentation of “UFC’s Ultimate Fight Night(TM) Live,” delivered a 1.7 HH/1.6 million and […]
New Japan rumors
Thursday, January 19th, 2006Gryphon on his blog reports some rumors (in Japanese, via the infamous 2ch gossip Japanese message board system) regarding the relationship between New Japan & TV-Asahi. The rumors claim that TV-Asahi wants to discontinue airing NJ’s weekly television show. Here’s a more direct link (in Japanese). The reality of the situation for New Japan is […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 3
Thursday, January 19th, 2006The third edition of Fight Opinion Radio is now online and available to download. Here are your options for listening to the show: Broadband (MP3) | Dial-up/Streaming | YouSendIt (Download MP3 file) Or you can use the great flash player to listen to it streaming (without having to use an external program). Check it out […]
A birthday wish
Thursday, January 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today is my birthday. Which naturally means that it’s one of the few days in the calendar year in which I work on the Puroresu Power and Fight Opinion sites for less than 6 hours. Or at least I try to. Nonetheless, I do have a birthday wish that I would like […]
TV ratings battle
Thursday, January 19th, 2006Here they are: WWE RAW – 4.3 rating, UFC Ultimate Fight Night – 1.7 rating. That is strong. Very strong. Debate the implications in the comments section.
Why have gaijin wrestlers been heels in Japan? Sano’s Japanese Wrestling Column
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Mr. Tetsuya Sano Swimming Eye タイトルã®å•ã„ã‚’Zachã•ã‚“ã«ã•ã‚Œã¾ã—ãŸã®ã§ãã‚Œã«ã¤ã„ã¦ã®è‡ªåˆ†ãªã‚Šã®å›žç”を書ããŸã„ã¨æ€ã„ã¾ã™ã€‚ＵＦＣã®è©±é¡Œã‚‚一段è½ã—ã¾ã—ãŸã—ã“ã†ã„ã†ã®ã‚‚ã„ã„ã‹ãªï¼Ÿã¨ã€‚ The question (the title) of this post was made by Mr. Zach and I want to write my own answer for it. Did the topic of UFC complete it’s stage? ã¾ãšã“ã®å•ã„ã«ç”ãˆã‚‹ã«ã¯æ—¥æœ¬ã®ãƒ—ãƒãƒ¬ã‚¹ã®æ´å²ã‚’振り返らãªãã¦ã¯ãªã‚‰ãªã„。 First of all, it is necessary to look back at the history of pro-wrestling in Japan to […]
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