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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008When K-1 mouthpiece Sadaharu Tanigawa announced that K-1 and DSE officials would work together in ‘a large coalition’ to produce a modified version of PRIDE, you could see the old PRIDE marks suddenly appear on Sherdog and MMA Fighting message boards. When Nobuyuki Sakakibara sold the PRIDE assets to Lorenzo Fertitta, it was as if […]
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: […]
Akira Maeda’s new project, The Outsider
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008In Japanese MMA online circles, this item I posted on January 10th drew a lot of attention. I didn’t think a lot about the news item at the time I made it, but apparently a lot of Japanese readers did. So, today’s news about Akira Maeda running an amateur MMA tournament show called The Outsider […]
Misaki vs. Akiyama fight ruled a no-contest
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008According to God Bless the Ring (hat tip: Hiroshi), the finish of the Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kazuo Misaki fight has been overturned. Misaki was declared the winner by brutal KO in the fight. However, the decision has been officially changed. Speaking of Misaki, check out the next fight he is booked for.
Fight Opinion Radio #73: Start of 2008 MMA season
Sunday, January 13th, 2008We kick off the 2008 MMA season by recapping the major NYE MMA events with Adam Swift of MMA Payout and Mike David, who did a remote with us from Tokyo after watching the K-1 Osaka Dome event in person. Everything you ever wanted to know about the major NYE MMA events and the fallout […]
Thursday night notes (1/10/08)
Thursday, January 10th, 2008More on the story of the day in full-page mode (read on)… World Victory Road announced Sanae Kikuta vs. Phil Baroni for their 3/5 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I event. K-1 announced a “World Youth 2008 ~ International Team Competition” format for their 2/2 Nippon Budokan event, with the theme of Japan vs. Holland. […]
NYE MMA fallout
Friday, January 4th, 2008Ratings-wise for the K-1 Dynamite show on Tokyo Broadcasting System, the first round of Kid Yamamoto vs. Rani Yahya drew the highest quarter-hour rating of the night, drawing a 20.9%. The Fedor vs. Hong-Man fight on South Korean cable drew a reported 13.4% rating. Hong-Man’s active fighting career is also reportedly on hold due to […]
2007 NYE ratings
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008According to Sports Navigator: Hustle drew a 4.0% rating on TV-Tokyo. K-1’s Dynamite event drew the following: 6:00-8:30 PM – 11.1% 8:30-11:00 PM – 14.7% 11:00-11:34 PM – 11.1% In other words, not very strong across the board. Kohaku (Red & White Music Festival) drew a 32.8% rating in part one and 39.5% rating in […]
The story of Choo Sung-Hoon
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008South Korean friend and correspondent Yeo Jong-Hoon tells the story about Yoshihiro Akiyama and why Kazuo Misaki’s comments to Akiyama after their MMA bout was over are drawing a lot of heat. By Yeo Jong-Hoon I watched K-1 Dynamite! and Yarennoka last night. Both aired in Korea cable TV, network XTM. (Dynamite was delay, Yarennoka […]
Tanigawa: K-1’s ‘large coalition’ will continue
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Today, Kazushi Sakuraba and Sadaharu Tanigawa held a press briefing in Osaka. (Picture here.) If Fedor’s face looked like he suffered from road rash, then Sakuraba’s face is twice as bad. However, the big story coming out of the press conference involved Tanigawa proclaiming that the ‘large coalition’ that K-1 was a part of would […]
Thoughts on the Japanese NYE 2007 MMA events
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008(I want to apologize for not responding to e-mails sent to me today, as Hotmail for some reason is acting up and giving some weird error messages when I send replies or try to delete mails.) “The message you selected could not be found. It may have been moved or deleted. Please click the folder […]
K-1 Dynamite 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007TV: Tokyo Broadcasting System (6 PM-11:35 PM JST) Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel free to post links. Notes on the show can be found […]
Bout order for K-1 Dynamite 2007 card
Friday, December 28th, 2007As it stands for the Osaka Dome event: U-18 tournament reserve fight: Ryo Murakoshi vs. Arata Fujimoto K-1 rules: Takashi Tachikawa (former Chiba Lotte Marines baseball player) vs. Yoshihisa Inoue U-18 tournament: HIROYA vs. Kizaemon Saiga U-18 tournament: Kenji Kubo vs. Yudai HERO’s 70 kg: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Joachim Hansen HERO’s 85 kg: Melvin Manhoef […]
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