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Friday, September 7th, 2007Matt Hughes joins Full Tilt Poker. Art of War 4 will take place on 10/27 at the Grand Event Center in Tunica, MS. Movement business-wise for The Fight Network. Jon Fitch made an appearance on the Any Given Saturday radio show on Thursday (audio here). Plus, a UFC 75 preview (Fitch picked Henderson, Bisping, Mirko, […]
Wednesday war room: BMA and Big Brother
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Lots of news coverage today regarding the state of Chris Benoit’s brain. ABC News has more details. Plus, check out the reader comments. On ESPN’s Outside the Lines today, they focused their 30-minute program on the Benoit brain tissue analysis and concussions in sports. Commentary on Dana White: Komikazee | Fightlinker The BBC is reporting […]
Tuesday headlines: The NFL vs. MMA
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Tomorrow (yes, Wednesday) is the next WEC event from Las Vegas and I’m looking forward to it. We will recap the event on the next edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Here is some more background information about Mark Cuban’s interest in MMA. Cuban and Fishman working together would be a hell of a deal. Kevin […]
Sunday media slate: Rizzo remains on his winning ways
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Lots of news and notes coming out of the Art of War III event from Dallas, TX. on Saturday. Results here and event PBP here. The event drew around 8,000 (although there is a debate about that number), which is a respectable crowd. Two ‘upsets’ at the top of the card with both Jeremy Horn […]
Saturday surprise: K-1 interested in Asashoryu?
Friday, August 31st, 2007The headline that has everyone’s attention in Japan is a report in Tokyo Sports that K-1 made an offer of one billion yen to Asashoryu for an 8-fight MMA contract. K-1 denied the report. One of the more intriguing stories coming out of Japan is the future of DEEP. DEEP is ran by Shigeru Saeki, […]
Thursday trash talk: Jay Glazer is not welcome in Kentucky
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007When I was 13 years old, asking for secret sauce meant the mystery dipping condiment with your french fries. Now, secret sauce has a whole new meaning for 13 year olds. (Hat tip: Mikeinformer.) More reaction to this story can be found here. Plus, more discussion about steroids and UFC fighters. How MMA’s popularity is […]
Wednesday war room: What’s in a name?
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007It is not a good day in the world of Bodog. You, too, can buy Mike Tyson’s poop. If Kevin Iole called his critics last week “keyboard warriors,” I can only imagine what he is going to say after reading this. Luke Thomas has some words for Iole. Both Frank Trigg and Joe Stevenson think […]
UFC 74
Saturday, August 25th, 2007Live show reports: The Fight Network | Sherdog | MMA Weekly | UFC Junkie | F4W Online | UFC Mania | MMA on Tap | Irish Whip Fighting | Steve Sievert | The Observer | Yahoo Sports | Alex Marvez Non-UFC note: The Fernando Vargas/Ricardo Mayorga fight has been postponed. Kevin Iole – Renato Babalu […]
CSAC promoter meeting set for 9/28
Friday, August 24th, 2007Armando Garcia of the CSAC will be hosting a Promoter’s Information Meeting (with CA licensed boxing, kickboxing, and MMA promoters) on Tuesday 9/28 at 11:30 AM PST at the Ronald Reagan State Building, First Floor Auditorium, located at 300 South Spring Street in Los Angeles. Details of the agenda in full-page mode…
Wednesday war room: Dogfighting and MMA analogies
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007The latest MMA Weekly fighter rankings. Quinton Jackson will appear on ESPN’s First Take show (formerly Cold Pizza) today. There’s a rumor (Jordan Breen says it’s no long a rumor but fact) floating around that Milton Vieira had problems with a visa interview and he will not be able to fight Satoru Kitaoka on 9/5 […]
Monday maintenance: Lots of activity in the UK
Monday, August 20th, 2007K-1 announced Masato vs. Buakaw Por Pramuk for their 10/3 K-1 World MAX tournament show in Tokyo at Nippon Budokan. Just an embarassing article in Advertising Age parroting The Zuffa Myth. The author’s e-mail address is here. Here is the Cage Rage 23 card line-up, set for 9/22 in London. IFL TV is coming to […]
Sunday news review: Shooto lands in Orange County
Saturday, August 18th, 2007In the next couple of days, we will be launching a new site design. I expect a mixture of both positive and negative feedback to the re-design, but I feel that the new look will help our readers gather more information quickly on a daily basis. Because the new site format will be pulling links […]
Saturday headlines: K-1 is still confused
Friday, August 17th, 2007On the K-1 web site, you can vote on two all-star fighters advancing to their 9/29 Seoul, South Korea World GP event. Guess what is option five on the voting list? Zabit Samedov, who just got busted in Nevada for failing a drug test due to taking stanozolol. Brilliant timing. Then again, it’s K-1. Do […]
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