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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Press release buy the show @ http://www.intheguard.tv/riofc/livePPV.php full card @ http://www.intheguard.tv/riofc/fightcard.php
Tuesday reading material (2/19/08)
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008MMA Predictions (radio): The rumors of WWE purchasing the UFC MMA Fight Weekly (MSNBC): Tito Ortiz done with UFC The Hurricane Online (Miami): Kimbo slices up opponent, rallies passionate fans Black Athlete: Kimbo ‘Slices up’ Abbott The Miami Herald: Kimbo ‘Slice of life’ MMA Madness: The Beard & The Rapture – what’s next for Kimbo […]
Thursday trash talk: More UFC in the UK
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Kevin Iole: Frank Mir has seen, done it all (Dana White compares Frank Mir to BJ Penn) Mike Coughlin: The UFC’s ‘next big thing’ The Newark Star-Ledger (NJ): Tim Sylvia expects to come up big at UFC 81 The Long Beach Press-Telegram: Tim Sylvia’s style works for him, not the fans The Edmonton Sun: Maximum […]
Fight Opinion Radio #71: Renato Babalu & Wallid Ismail
Sunday, December 16th, 2007A big 100-minute show this week, so make sure you are subscribed to either our radio show RSS feed or our iTunes feed. We have three interviews on this week’s show. First, we have an interview with Jeffrey Tennen (of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in the USMC). He stopped by to tell us […]
Graciemag reporting death of Ryan Gracie
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Report from GracieMag.com News to make the fighting world tremble. According to news carried by Globo TV, the black belt Ryan Gracie was found dead in the cell where he was being held at a police station in Sao Paulo after having been accused of car theft yesterday in the city of Sao Paulo. According […]
More stupid human tricks
Friday, December 14th, 2007You can always count on Ryan Gracie to bring the entertainment: According to O Globo, a newspaper based in Sao Paulo that is one of Brazil’s largest, Ryan Gracie has been arrested for stealing a car. The article alleges that Ryan Gracie stole a Toyota Corolla but soon after crashed it into a parking barrier. […]
Wednesday war room: Selective memory
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007The X-1 promotion sent out a bulletin claiming that they will pay up to $50,000 for an opponent to fight Niko Vitale on January 26th. “Fighter must be top tier.” Seriously. Eddie Goldman talks about the death of Sam Vasquez. Curious timing award winner of the day: Kevin Iole says UFC should announce that Matt […]
Sunday news review: Law and order
Sunday, November 25th, 2007The lead story of the day comes to us from Nikkan Sports. The newspaper claims that due to the damage inflicted on K-1’s public image from two recent incidents (Masaaki Miyamoto going to jail for possession of marijuana and Hiromi Amada facing charges for assault), the company is basically reading the riot act to both […]
Thursday trash talk: M-1 loves PRIDE
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Quote of the day from Vadim Finkelstein in Daily Sports newspaper: “I want to work with the old PRIDE staff in America & Russia. PRIDE’s team is the best quality in the world.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. In separate quotes at the press conference, Vadim said that he wants […]
Fight Opinion Radio #68: Shayna Baszler & Ken Shamrock
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007We have a special edition of Fight Opinion Radio for you this week, as we are teaming up with The Fightworks Podcast to produce this episode. Expect more co-promotion with TFP and MMA Predictions in the near future. Our special guests this week on the show are Shayna Baszler and Ken Shamrock (w/ Rod Donohoo). […]
Rickson Gracie to be coordinator at Super Challenge Grappling
Saturday, November 10th, 2007(From B-Tough) Submission attempts will score more points than any other position While no one is really sure about his return to the ring, Rickson Gracie has joined the Super Challenge Grappling organization to help coordinate rules for the show. Promoter Paulo Vasconcelos explained that Rickson joining the event was fundamental in establishing the rules […]
Marcelo Garcia to compete at Super Challenge Grappling event
Friday, November 9th, 2007From B-Tough Away of MMA until the end of the year, Garcia may fight in the absolute tournament Super Challenge Grappling is trying its best to promote the most important submission tournament ever. In order to accomplish this, the promoted has hired BJJ ace and superb grappler Marcelo Garcia, the three-time ADCC champion (under 76kg) […]
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 […]
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