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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Mirko Cro Cop vs. Ralek Gracie at DREAM 4 in the dream grappling match you’ve all waited for. Onto today’s headlines. Steve Cofield: Audio of UFC 84 post-fight insanity AOL Fanhouse: Dana White rips reporter who called him ‘The White Don King’ TMZ: Jacko enjoys smacko through cracko Josh Gross: Many star fighters, but just […]
Steroid talk dominates media heat-up for UFC 84 event
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Sherdog is bringing in a lot of new and veteran writing talent on their site now (including Loretta Hunt and Brian Knapp of TFN fame). It is definitely a positive move in the right direction. Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Coleman is officially canceled. Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Melvin Manhoef has been booked for 6/15 at Yokohama […]
Interested in Mayhem vs. Sakuraba?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008DREAM 4 is set for June 15th at Yokohama Arena. Any desire to see Mayhem Miller vs. Kazushi Sakuraba in a fight? The claimed paid attendance for DREAM 3 at Saitama Super Arena on the 11th was 21,789. USA Today: Interview with Josh Barnett PR: Nonprofit organizes May 15th run in Vegas to raise funds […]
‘Redbelt’ draws mostly positive mainstream media reviews
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Total MMA: DREAM 3 live results The Seattle PI: Ivan Salaverry’s last stand? BC Local News (Canada): Fighting against MMA Penn Live (Entertainment): ‘Redbelt’ is an oddly intriguing Mamet mix The Denton Record-Chronicle (TX): Finding the art of fighting The Ventura County Star: Meeting Kimbo Slice The LA Times: On the mat with David Mamet […]
DREAM 3 ordered card line-up
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Featherweights: Takeshi Yamazaki vs. Shoji Maruyama Middleweight GP: Jason Miller vs. Katsuyori Shibata Middleweight GP: Melvin Manhoef vs. Kim Dae Won Lightweights: Daisuke Nakamura vs. Jung Bu-Kyung DREAM Welterweight contender’s match: Nick Diaz vs. Katsuya Inoue Lightweight GP: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Buscape Lightweight GP: Joachim Hansen vs. Eddie Alvarez Lightweight GP: Kaoru Uno vs. […]
(Dis)organized chaos with Cro Cop
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008There are plenty of rumors that Mirko Cro Cop will face Jerome Le Banner or Sergey Kharitonov at a future DREAM event. Well, maybe that won’t happen after all.
Not much news happening…
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008If anyone can find me an RSS feed for the articles Josh Gross writes on SI, I’ll add it to our page. The one ‘interesting’ story of the day is Matt Lindland reportedly threatening to file a lawsuit against the ex-wife of politician Bob Packwood. Sports Illustrated: While the UFC dodges worry, EXC isn’t as […]
Chaos with DREAM
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Too long to translate, but the summary is that between fighters like Masakatsu Funaki losing and Kiyoshi Tamura suffering a finger injury, everything is in a state of flux right now with both DREAM GP tournaments. In other words, expect some past fighters (like JZ Calvan) to be possibly re-booked as replacements in the tournament […]
DREAM 2 (4/29 Saitama Super Arena)
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Results here. Multimedia clips from the show here. Show commentary here. MMA Predictions breakdown here.
Today’s chalkboard (4/16/08)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Before we head to today’s news links, I wanted to give a tip of the cap to Michael David Smith over at AOL Fanhouse. MDS has been spearheading a big effort over at that web site to increase the volume of MMA coverage, feeling that there was clearly an underserved need for legitimate MMA writing […]
DREAM & Sengoku card updates
Friday, April 4th, 2008K-1 has set the table for the next two DREAM events (DREAM 2 on 4/29 and DREAM 3 on 5/11 at Saitama Super Arena). The 5/11 Saitama card features Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Buscape, Kaoru Uno vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida, Joachim Hansen vs. Eddie Alvarez, and Katsuhiko Nagata vs. the winner of JZ Calvan/Shin’ya Aoki II […]
The one-year anniversary of PRIDE’s death
Sunday, March 30th, 2008It was a year ago when the death of PRIDE, Japan’s largest MMA play, became a reality. A company that was ultimately sunk by charges of corruption eventually met its fate. That fate is still playing out in a Clark County, Nevada courtroom with PRIDE FC Worldwide Holdings LLC suing Nobuyuki Sakakibara and his production […]
DREAM 4/29 Saitama card update (3/27)
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Middleweight GP 2008 tournament 4/29 Saitama Super Arena (3 PM) As it currently stands: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Andrews Nakahara (Kyokushin karate) Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Masakatsu Funaki Denis Kang vs. Gegard Mousasi
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