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Sunday, October 7th, 2007More bad news for the cursed UFC 78 New Jersey show – Hector Lombard can’t get a working visa. Shu Hirata gives his latest thoughts on the Japanese fight scene. Analyzing UFC’s attempt to get into the Japanese marketplace. Let me clear up one thing about UFC’s deal with WOWOW… UFC had been on WOWOW […]
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is UFC bound
Sunday, September 30th, 2007By Jeff Comstock MMAMovement.com has discovered that submission grappling phenom Ronaldo Souza has signed a contract with the UFC. A post made on the Portal do Vale Tudo forums claims that Jacare’s manager and Amazon Challenge promoter Andre Cabral made the announcement during yesterday’s Amazon Challenge event. The announcement was apparently big enough to make […]
Super Challenge Grappling: Absolute in December
Monday, September 17th, 2007By Denis Martins West Promotion announced a submission tournament in the absolute division for December. Eleven months after organizing Super Challenge (the biggest MMA event in Brazil), the West Promotion confirmed that they are preparing an absolute submission tournament for December. It will be an open-weight division with 16 fighters (8 from Brazil and 8 […]
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 […]
Thursday trash talk: The future of BodogFight
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007The current RSS feed for the WEC HP is here. However, as you notice on their HP, the feed is severely lagging behind the site updates. So, two questions: a) is this the correct RSS feed to be using and b) why is the current RSS feed lagging behind time-wise? Time for our stock market […]
Thursday trash talk: North Carolina ready to regulate MMA
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The IFL enters into $12.7 million USD financing. Update: The stock went down to $0.65 USD/share the morning after this news was released. Here are the weigh-in results for the IFL show that will take place tonight in New Jersey. If you haven’t already done so, head on over to MMA Predictions and make your […]
Wednesday war room: From the horse’s mouth
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Pro Elite puts money into Cage Rage. Not a bad plan. Plus, Nick Diaz returns September 15th in Hawaii. Kevin Iole is reading your letters and responding back. To e-mail him with MMA-related topics, use [email protected]. Plus, he made an appearance Tuesday on Fight Network Radio. Audio here. Lots of interesting odds and ends in […]
Saturday media slate: What’s the UFC 76 main event?
Saturday, July 14th, 2007UFC & Spike TV ink a new deal. Chuck Liddell vs. Keith Jardine as the UFC 76 main event? One word – what? Why not book Liddell vs. Houston Alexander, the guy who beat Jardine? How about Liddell vs. Forrest Griffin, who actually won his last fight?
Wednesday weekly notes: Reality TV mania
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007About that Mark Burnett reality show for Elite XC… is the recruiting starting? Luke Thomas on the UFC 73 attendance. More at Fightlinker. Kuniyoshi Hironaka announced his blog that he will facing Thiago Alves at Ultimate Fight Night 11 on September 19th at The Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas.
Saturday sound bites: UFC 73 in Sacramento
Friday, July 6th, 2007I have a UFC 73 preview write-up over at Fox Sports. Check it out. Also, Brian Kenny on ESPN Radio previews this weekend’s action in combat sports. Also, I made an appearance yesterday on Bryan Alvarez’s Figure Four Daily radio show. One of the topics we discussed was the Chris Benoit murder-suicide story and how […]
Friday fight notes: K-1 reacts to Royce drug test failure
Friday, June 15th, 2007The reports of Royce Gracie failing a drug test officially hit Japan, as K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa was asked by the Japanese media for a response to the story. Tanigawa said that he was ‘perplexed’ by the reports. He further stated that K-1 would investigate the matter. Tanigawa originally had a press conference today to […]
Red meat Wednesday: PRIDE goeth before the fall
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007More ridiculousness about the Tommy Morrison ‘MMA’ debut in The Verde Independent. Speaking of Morrison, he appeared on The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio yesterday. Larry Holmes is not happy about Morrison’s PR blitz. The LA Times is reporting that both James Toney and Danny Batchelder tested positive for steroids. The two men fought […]
Monday media mayhem: Chuck Liddell drug tested
Monday, March 26th, 2007I am begging the fine readers of this site (and those who aren’t) to help us promote our coverage of the PRIDE & K-1 PR sessions to the blogs and other major sites. I’m amazed by the traction that the ‘big boy’ sites (and you know who you exactly are — not you, Jordan) are […]
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