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Sunday, May 6th, 2007Jim Lampley’s verbal attack on MMA was noted in USA Today on Monday. Will’s Lampley verbal blunder be the biggest headline coming out of this weekend’s events? Tokyo Sports claims that Josh Barnett will participate on the first IGF (Inoki Genome Federation) show on June 29th in Tokyo at Ryogoku Kokugikan. The Kakutolog link also […]
Fight Opinion Weekly: Boxing’s all Mixed up in Martial Arts
Sunday, May 6th, 2007By Zach Arnold Printable version of article here. In the mid-1970s, Japanese pro-wrestling legend Antonio Inoki had a plan to make himself and his company, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, famous worldwide. Inoki embarked on a series of worked fights against martial artists called the “world of kakutougi (fight skill)” series. The goal of the program was […]
Sunday scorecard: Kellerman versus Lampley
Saturday, May 5th, 2007D-Day for the punishment of Melvin Guillard failing his drug test in Nevada (cocaine) is this Wednesday. Floyd Mayweather defeated Oscar De La Hoya by split-decision after 12 rounds. Fight recap here. Photo gallery here. Plus, scorecard drama. There also was a verbal fight between Max Kellerman and Jim Lampley about MMA fighters. Why Lampley, […]
Red meat Saturday: More angry media writers
Friday, May 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Let’s focus on good things, first. Charles Jay has an excellent must-read article on MSN about the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight and how it ties in with what is happening with MMA. Read this article and make sure to listen to CJ’s interview on this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Here’s […]
Fight Opinion Radio #47: Charles Jay
Friday, May 4th, 2007A hard-hitting 90-minute show this week covering an extraordinary amount of insider hardball topics. This week’s show is brought to you by Monster Wrestling Rings and Kakuto Store. The 47th 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 […]
Friday fight headlines: More MMA talk in boxing articles
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007By Zach Arnold Here is the CompuBox Analysis of De La Hoya vs. Mayweather for this Saturday night. Pro Elite Inc. stock – four times the price as the IFL stock and 200 times the price as the Art of War stock. How will the Pro Elite stock hold up to future scrutiny? Results from […]
Thursday trash talk: Angry media writers
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007From Dave Meltzer: Mike Freeman, the CBS Sportsline writer who did that ridiculous column on UFC as compared to boxing yesterday, was the subject of news himself in 2004 when he was fired by the Indianapolis Star for falsifying his resume. Freeman, after being told to resign three days before he was going to start […]
May 2nd bonus round of links
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007By Zach Arnold ESPN was in full non-MMA fan mode today for their sports programming. On the Jim Rome is Burning program, guests Randy Sklar and Andrew Siciliano both put down MMA as a replacement for boxing (they are right) and called boxing more technical and a science. On Pardon the Interruption, Tony Kornheiser and […]
Wednesday headlines: No child’s play
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007By Zach Arnold Take a look at photos today for an angle ran by Hustle Entertainment (aka Hustle, the pro-wrestling product produced by Dream Stage Entertainment). Hustle, which DSE claims was transferred to a new company called Hustle Entertainment (tickets for Hustle’s 5/9 Korakuen Hall show are still being sold officially by DSE), is using […]
Tuesday headlines: Deadline Day
Monday, April 30th, 2007Today is supposed to be the day that the PRIDE asset transaction sale between DSE Inc. and Zuffa LLC occurs. The Idaho Statesman is reporting that Mike Kyle will be facing Patrick Smith on May 12th at Qwest Arena in Boise, Idaho. Does anyone know if Kyle’s suspension from the California State Athletic Commission has […]
Monday highlights – Cage Force in May
Sunday, April 29th, 2007The IFL stock tumbled downwards on Monday, down to $3.00 USD/share. On January 24th (three months ago), this stock was at $16.50 USD/share. Your eyes are not deceiving you when you read that sentence. The stock has plummeted 80% in three months. Daizo Ishige vs. Dan Hardy booked for the Cage Force May 27th show […]
Sunday snippets: Iowa MMA regulation stays
Sunday, April 29th, 2007The Mason City Globe Gazette, which called for a ban of MMA in the state of Iowa on Saturday, is reporting that an MMA deregulation measure in the state has failed. The state will continue to regulate MMA events. The San Antonio Express-News: Boxing needs a De La Hoya-Mayweather classic New York Newsday: Long Island’s […]
Saturday squash: Newspaper calls for Iowa MMA ban
Saturday, April 28th, 2007By Zach Arnold A typical, boilerplate article on MMA in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune called Ultimate fighting: bloody but popular. The one interesting aspect to the article is that it was Toughman-style promoters using MMA as their gimmick is what has led to the heavy criticism of MMA in the state. This is what we are […]
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