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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008The media heat-up for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao is in overdrive. Throngs of international media writers are in Las Vegas covering the fight, but there are some questions about what kind of PPV buyrate the event will really draw. Is this the last fight for De La Hoya? Will Bob Arum be able to promote Pacquiao (should he win) against Ricky Hatton in a fight in Dubai?
Bob Arum: Our next great hope… Dubai
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Bill Dwyre in the LA Times today has a fun column talking about the heat-up for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao and how Ricky Hatton stands to profit handsomely by facing the winner.
Guardian columnist winces at UFC’s rise and boxing’s decline
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Hey, Gary Shaw, I thought you said there were no ‘haters’ in boxing.
UFC, Dana White, Brock Lesnar dominate media headlines again
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008If you thought the media onslaught featuring UFC, Dana White, Brock Lesnar, Georges St. Pierre, BJ Penn, and Randy Couture was going to end soon… think again. It’s only heating up.
Gary Shaw: ‘MMA has a lot of haters’
Monday, November 17th, 2008Gary Shaw says that he would be interested in coming back into the MMA world as long as Dana White ‘loosened his grip’ on controlling the industry.
Media notebook: Heat-up for tonight’s WEC event in Florida
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Randy Couture said that he hopes fighters get health insurance and retirement pensions. Didn’t he have a chance to fight for these things during his contractual dispute with UFC?
UFC: Dana White’s newest Youtube vlog to find the next big British MMA star
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008UFC President Dana White is in the United Kingdom, watching the latest tryouts for The Ultimate Fighter reality show. Who will end up earning a shot to train under UFC fighter Michael Bisping?
Boxing’s Jose Sulaiman & Bernard Hopkins talk about MMA
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The 77-year old WBC boss calls MMA ‘savage’, while 43-year old Bernard Hopkins says that MMA has negatively influenced the way boxers now throw punches in the ring.
UFC 89 (10/18) event results
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Reports: AOL Fanhouse | USA Today | Sherdog | MMA Junkie | MMA Mania ESPN has been running result spoilers on their newsticker (on both ESPN & ESPN2 channels) for UFC 89, so you didn’t even need to be on your computer to find out who won what fights. On the boxing side of things, […]
Quote of the Day – Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer
Sunday, September 14th, 2008In an interview with Josh Gross of Sports Illustrated: “We believe Affliction and the relationships they have with that demographic, the identification they have within that demographic group I think will help bring boxing to these people,” said the Golden Boy CEO. “We think as well, many of the mixed martial arts fans are fans […]
Attrocious boxing scoring on display in Beijing
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008I give the folks at Total MMA a lot of credit for liveblogging and covering the multitude of amateur boxing fights at the Beijing Olympics this year. They deserve praise from everyone for doing this. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to even start writing about the ‘amateur boxing’ has been put on display at […]
Angel Matos has a special message for Olympic officials
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008We’ve seen awful scoring during these Beijing Olympics in boxing (if you want to call it ‘boxing’ that you are watching there) and we’ve seen some controversial officiating in other combat-related sports during the games. Well, a competitor finally lost his mind and decided that he had enough. Meet Angel Matos. Matos is a Cuban […]
A scandal brewing in Kentucky
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Read all the details on the scandal here. Allegations of false blood work…
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