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Saturday, November 10th, 2007We’ll add play-by-play links for both the EXC show in Corpus Christi and the boxing event at MSG. Post all thoughts, spoilers, and criticisms in the comments section. EXC event: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | MMA on Tap | The Fight Network | Bloody Elbow | Observer Interesting results from MMAPrediction.com users regarding who they […]
Saturday fight slate: Boxing & MMA take center stage
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Dave Meltzer talks about how Elite XC hired Kimbo Slice. Plus, weigh-in notes from Corpus Christi. Jake Shields has signed a new deal with EXC. Here is another event preview for Saturday’s EXC event in Texas. Make sure to get your EXC event predictions in at MMA Predictions. Two articles in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times […]
Thursday random notes (11/8)
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Hotmail has changed over to its new Windows Live format (which is hideous). Does anyone know how to turn off the “rich text” format for e-mails and go to a text-based format? I didn’t see it anywhere in the options panel. From the CSAC: Jennifer Tate, who last competed for Pro Elite on October 26, […]
Monday musings: Zuffa & Xyience
Monday, November 5th, 2007For the MMA insiders and hardcore fans, today’s big news item is a report that Xyience and Zuffa are supposedly linked together much more closely than apparently first thought. Luke Thomas elaborates on why this is an important story to follow. The one thing I don’t understand is that if the report is true that […]
Saturday headlines: Steroids and birth defects
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007The negative effects of using performance-enhancing drugs and how it effects the children of users. The Fight Network has reached a deal with K-1 and Fuji TV to air the 12/8 World GP Yokohama Arena event live. Luke Thomas talks about Phil Baroni’s appeal with the CSAC board. Kevin Iole has more comments about UFC […]
Thursday trash talk: Japan’s tough guys
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Todd Martin took on a big task in writing his new CBS Sports column, which is talking about the evolution of MMA in Japan. There are two points that I felt Todd missed talking about in the article: 1) The infamous ‘cement’ (cement is a term that the Japanese use for a ‘shoot’) incident between […]
Tuesday turmoil: More war games
Monday, October 29th, 2007Mike Sawyer & Oliver Copp have a new edition of Tough Talk radio w/ guest Brad Imes. Kevin Iole praises Frank Warren. There’s a brand new MMA statistical site called FightMetric.com. Good news – Windy Tomomi is coming back. Yet another press conference about the Randy Couture/Dana White situation, this time on the UFC side. […]
Monday media notes: Setting the agenda
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Yahoo has officially separated it’s boxing and MMA pages. You can access their MMA home page here. Sam Caplan means business. BBC Sports is reporting that Joe Calzaghe will be retiring within the next 12 months. Taking a look at upcoming fights and challenges in UFC for 2008. Fightlinker needs your help with WordPress issues. […]
Friday fallout: More confusion than clarity
Friday, October 26th, 2007Oh yeah, there’s a ShoXC event tonight. Shayna Baszler is fighting on the card. Watch the show. So, there were dueling press conferences between UFC and Randy Couture on Las Vegas on Thursday. Here is the audio from Couture’s press conference. Kevin Iole was at the Randy Couture press conference and Dave Meltzer covered the […]
Thursday trash talk: Head to head in Las Vegas
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007That whole drug testing thing in California for MMA… what can you say. Lots of big talk and proclamations about M-1 over at Russian MMA. Sean Salmon vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller is set for December 15th in Dallas for HDNet Fights. The latest IFL SEC filings. Plus, their updated prospectus. NBC Sports has a video […]
Wednesday war room: Do you care about Liddell vs. Silva?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I want to send my regards to Jeff Comstock, who will moving a lot of his columns over to Bloody Elbow. You can check out Jeff’s latest BE article here. The IFL stock this morning has plunged down to $0.33/share. The UFC 77 payscale. Bleacher Report calls Randy Couture a joke. The author continues to […]
Tuesday news & notes: Sakuraba vs. Funaki officially booked
Monday, October 22nd, 2007The big news of the day is that K-1 announced Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event. Regarding the M-1 situation, there are two separate SEC dockets related to Sibling Entertainment (here and here). Which docket should we be paying more attention to? Mistaken translations at the M-1 NYC press conference. […]
Friday fight notes: Dana White has a lot to say
Thursday, October 18th, 2007If you’ve experienced any problems lately with the site loading slowly or not loading at all, you’re not alone. There’s been a lot of traffic hitting our server as of late. Make sure to get your picks in for the Hardcore Championship Fighting show over at MMA Predictions. Just asking… If Monte Cox is going […]
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