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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Mauro Ranallo interviewed Stephen Quadros on Wednesday (audio here). Plus, an MMA Madness interview with Georges St. Pierre. Dave Doyle on what to look for at UFC 74. A very interesting appearance for Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on ESPN’s SportsCenter on Wednesday. He made no bones about the fact that he would like to see the […]
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 […]
Tuesday headlines: Jens Pulver injured, WEC debut postponed
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Unfortunate news coming out today regarding Jens Pulver getting injured. His WEC debut against Cub Swanson is now put on hold. Luke Thomas has a preview of the upcoming UFC 74 event in audio form. Gilbert Melendez vs. Clay Guida is available for free to watch online. Kevin Iole is defending himself against charges that […]
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 […]
Friday fight notes: A bad week just got worse for K-1
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Two more drug test failures, this time coming out of K-1’s Las Vegas show over the weekend. Check out the T/E ratio for Nordstand – 21:1. This has been a disastrous week of PR for K-1. First, the failed drug tests. Second, the allegations that they falsified the MRIs of Choi Hong-Man so he could […]
Thursday trash talk: Say no, Sakuraba-san…
Thursday, August 16th, 2007A message to the guys at Komikazee – send me the files today that you tried to send earlier in the week (but didn’t work due to broken links). We’re opening up the mailbox for this week’s radio show. Any MMA-related topic on your mind that you want us to talk about during our mailbag […]
Tuesday news and notes: Bringing the heat against Karo Parisyan
Monday, August 13th, 2007K-1 just announced that Minowaman will face Ralek Gracie at the HERO’s 9/17 Yokohama Arena show. Also on the 9/17 Yokohama card is JZ Calvan vs. Vitor “Shaolin” Ribiero and Black Mamba vs. Kaoru Uno in Middleweight tournament matches. I have a new post at Bloody Elbow talking about a topic that an advertising geek […]
Thursday evening news update (8/9)
Thursday, August 9th, 2007If you aren’t a subscriber to our radio show, go subscribe now. Friendly links: iTunes feed or RSS feed. Josh Barnett was the guest on our last show. We’ll have a new radio show coming out shortly. So, go subscribe. The latest IFL filing with the SEC. Adam “Pacman” Jones had quite the appearance on […]
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 […]
Wednesday war room: Horse play
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007The estimable Dave Doyle comments on the CSAC reducing James Toney’s drug suspension from one year to six months in length: Or maybe they’re sending the worst signal of all: Maybe California’s commissioners are a pack of hypocrites with a glaring double standard. Maybe they’re just paying lip service to the notion of cracking down […]
Sunday news snips: Hong-Man back on winning track
Sunday, August 5th, 2007K-1 8/5 Hong Kong event results. Mike Coughlin has filed a report. I saw a post over at NHB News (Japanese) that took quotes from former MMA agent Miro Mijatovic about MMA’s drug culture in Japan and attributed those quotes to the Wrestling Observer. Those quotes made by Mijatovic were made to me and the […]
Saturday afternoon media special
Saturday, August 4th, 2007There’s a surprising amount of MMA media coverage today. The zone is flooded with content. Here’s our Saturday morning news update. On Any Given Saturday today, Luke Thomas interviewed Sherdog writer Jake Rossen. Show audio here. Also, Luke is also looking for guest bloggers next week to help fill in for him at Bloody Elbow. […]
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