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Friday, February 22nd, 2008Another possible UFC lawsuit? According to our friends at Pro Fight Store, there’s discussion that Zuffa may file a lawsuit against Croatian fighter Goran Reljic. The reason? He participated recently at the BJJ Bristol Open. Reljic won both the heavyweight and absolute divisions. Update: In the comments section, claims that the rumor is false. One […]
Monday news review (2/18/08)
Monday, February 18th, 2008I’m surprised that there isn’t a lot of angry boxing fans ranting and raving on various web sites about Floyd Mayweather Jr. doing an angle with Big Show at last night’s WWE PPV in Las Vegas. TKO Xtreme: Vancouver fighter shot in leg The Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle (TN): Backyard MMA brawls pose controversy – unsanctioned, illegal […]
Wednesday news review (2/14/08)
Thursday, February 14th, 2008The latest IFL SEC filing. KSBY 6 Action News: Knockout crowd shows up in San Luis Obispo to meet Chuck Liddell at book appearance The Canadian Press: Scalpers move in to fill demand for UFC 83 tickets in Montreal MMA Betting Blog: Kimbo or Tank? Find out where the smart money is going The Barrie […]
Monday news review (2/11/08)
Monday, February 11th, 2008There was a media announcement on Monday night that there will be a press conference at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Tokyo (Chiyoda district). At the press conference, PRIDE staff members and FEG/K-1 staff members will unite together to announce the name of their new MMA promotion (focusing on the ‘large coalition’ philosophy). Nightmare of Battle: […]
Tuesday reading material (2/5/08)
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008The Las Vegas Review-Journal: UFC show excites ‘quiet jerk’ Forrest Griffin The Canadian Press: Ontario commissioner Ken Hayashi says MMA is illegal under Criminal Code The Canadian Press: UFC delivers punch at the box office in first foray into Canada Todd Martin: Nogueira proves his mettle again The St. Petersburg Times (FL): Body in pond […]
Friday fight notes before Super Bowl ’08
Friday, February 1st, 2008From Team Link: Alexandre ‘Vaca’ Moreno strengthens Team Link Team Link, whose stable includes UFC star Gabriel “Napao” Gonzaga, WEC champion Paulo Filho, and Gabriel Gladiator, welcomes Alexandre ‘Vaca’ Moreno. Alexandre ‘Vaca’ is already an accomplished competitor, having won the World Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship as a blue belt and as a purple belt. Since moving […]
Friday headlines (1/18/2008)
Thursday, January 17th, 2008First, I wanted to let everyone know about a new site called MMA Memories. Check it out. Onto today’s headlines: Yahoo Sports (Dave Meltzer): Gonzaga vs. Werdum a battle for position The Honolulu Star-Bulletin: UFC is not coming to Hawaii until at least 2009 The Liverpool Echo (UK): Meet Paul Kelly CBS Sports: UFC 80 […]
Report: Stefan Leko out 7 months due to knee injury
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Pro Fight Store is reporting that Stefan Leko will be out of action for 7 months due to knee surgery. Leko fought this past weekend. Mauro Ranallo and Don King interview each other. Heaven help us all. Frank Trigg was the color commentator for yet another Fox Sports Net Best Damn Toughman presentation on Monday […]
Sunday news review (1/6/08)
Sunday, January 6th, 2008The Fairbanks Daily News Miner (Alaska): Justin Buchholz makes mark in MMA and is ready to do the same in UFC The Toronto Sun: Fights worthy of UFC on the TTC bus make it on YouTube Yahoo Sports: Wanderlei Silva will not drop down to Middleweight in UFC The Daily Herald (IL): Stratford Square in […]
Friday fight notes: IFL’s ambitious schedule
Friday, January 4th, 2008If you have extensive WordPress experience and would be interested in helping me out on a new project, please contact me. Fightlinker supposedly has dirt on Matt Hamill. Look at the amount of big IFL shows on the East Coast in 2008. The Izod Center in East Rutherford (Continental Airlines Arena in the Meadowlands) is […]
Thursday trash talk: Everybody has a price
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Reminder: Listen to our Christmas 2007 radio show. There is some ad space available at Bloody Elbow for anyone interested in sponsoring that site. You should definitely check into it if you can, along with signing up for an account at BlogAds.com. Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan) is reporting that Shin’ya Aoki will fight judoka Bu-Kyung […]
Wednesday war room: Street fighting
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The story of the day comes to us from Eastern Canada, where 24-year old Corben MacDonald is in court to face 42 charges of promoting illegal fights. MacDonald’s backyard fight ‘organization’ was called East Coast Street Fights. For more background information on this story, read this. Josh Barnett has a new DVD out. He is […]
Thursday trash talk: IFL 12/29 card suffers setbacks
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Steve Cofield has a WEC post-fight event wrap-up on his site. If you have not subscribed yet to our Fight Opinion Radio RSS feed, go sign up now. Next week, we will be preparing for our annual Christmas Show marathon special. Now’s the time to get on board and subscribe to the feed. Abdul Mohamed […]
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