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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009You can grab the paddles but the corpse of Japanese mainstream MMA is not going to be resuscitated any time soon. Look out.
Media coverage of UFC 96 fallout
Sunday, March 8th, 2009Fighters who didn’t fight at UFC 96 made more news than the combatants who fought Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio.
Is Satoshi Ishii going to be UFC’s trojan horse into Japan?
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Daily Sports newspaper in Japan has everyone buzzing about the possibility of Satoshi Ishii signing with Zuffa instead of with DREAM. The paper’s angle is that if Ishii signs with UFC, he won’t be fighting in Japan.
Report: K-1 interested in Kimbo/Petruzelli re-match on NYE
Sunday, November 30th, 2008The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting that K-1 is considering booking Kimbo Slice vs. Seth Petruzelli in a re-match for their Dynamite NYE event at Saitama Super Arena. Tokyo Sports Mobile is reporting that Slice could make his K-1 debut in March of 2009 against Badr Hari.
Fight Opinion Radio #93: Elite XC asset fire sale
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008In the immortal words of the late Vince Lombardi, “What the hell is going on out here?” That’s what we ask this week with the news of Showtime having a fire sale of Elite XC’s assets, including the fighter contracts of Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano, Jake Shields, and many other prominent fighters. Leave up to our resident lawyer, Jeff Thaler, to break down what could happen at next week’s fire sale auction and just who might be interested in fighter contracts.
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kiyoshi Tamura set for Dynamite!!
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba is now booked for K-1’s 12/31 Saitama Super Arena event.
The politics of DREAM & Sengoku
Monday, November 10th, 2008There are rumors in the Japanese fight world that K-1 would like World Victory Road to buy out DREAM in exchange for giving WVR a pipeline to television access on Tokyo Broadcasting System.
Media notebook: Heat-up for tonight’s WEC event in Florida
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Randy Couture said that he hopes fighters get health insurance and retirement pensions. Didn’t he have a chance to fight for these things during his contractual dispute with UFC?
Report: Satoshi Ishii to make MMA debut at Dynamite
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Sports Nippon is reporting that Satoshi Ishii will make his MMA debut for K-1 on 12/31 in Saitama.
K-1: Hey, maybe Yoshihiro Akiyama won’t fight on NYE for us
Saturday, October 18th, 2008I love how K-1 plays out any sort of bad news coming from their camp — they send out former PRIDE PR guy Sasahara to deliver it. Big fighter cancelation for a DREAM show or anything MMA-related? Have Sasahara deliver some bad news to the Japanese media. And make sure it happens a lot at […]
Just asking…
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Every MMA site went out of their way to cover the DREAM 6 event as if it was a big deal, and yet when the bad TV ratings predictably were released, none of these sites are talking about the fallout. I am curious as to why…
DREAM 6 event fallout
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008The claimed attendance for the DREAM 9/23 Saitama show was 20,929. Update: Sports Navigator is reporting that DREAM 6 drew a 9.0% rating on TBS, with the high QH (quarter-hour) mark showing Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Masanori Tonooka drawing a 13.4% rating. Bad numbers, as expected. Personal commentary: If you had to ask me what the […]
DREAM 9/23 Saitama Super Arena
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Play-by-play here. Post your comments if you watch the show live… Of note from the BE report: Fedor comes to the ring in between fights and briefly addresses the fans. According to HDNet’s translator, Fedor says that he’d like to face Ishii but “unfortunately that hasn’t been decided yet,” and that he hopes to return […]
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