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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007A big two-hour radio show this week. First, we are joined by Tomer Chen to talk about the fallout from UFC 76. Our focus is on how the current North American MMA judges could be trained better and what ways could be implemented to improve the effectiveness of the 10-point must system. Second, we have […]
K-1 feeling heat in South Korean media
Friday, September 21st, 2007By Zach Arnold Famous Japanese blogger Gryphon pointed out a major negative TV story in South Korean media about K-1. Please read Gryphon’s post first. After you read his post, you will notice that he had a site commenter named MD Han who said that he watched the show in question. He then sent Gryphon […]
Wednesday war room: Heat-up for UFC Fight Night
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Weigh-in results for the UFC Fight Night show that will take place Wednesday night in Las Vegas. A complete event preview is here. The Vancouver Sun says that the city council will ponder future of ‘human cockfighting.’ The paper claims that the city council will have a report claiming MMA is more violent than boxing. […]
HERO’s 9/17 Yokohama Arena
Sunday, September 16th, 2007JZ Calvan repeats as Middleweight champion. Claimed attendance was 12,310 at Yokohama Arena. Some more news and notes here. Official results here. How the event played out in the Japanese media… Sankei Sports notes that the event was a nice springboard for New Year’s Eve, with the major names likely being Sakuraba, Yamamoto, Akiyama, and […]
HERO’s 9/16 Yokohama Arena presser
Sunday, September 16th, 2007First interesting item is that Shaolin failed making weight the first time around, being 1.3 kg over the weight limit for his fight against JZ Calvan. The promotion announced that Rickson Gracie will appear at the 9/17 Yokohama Arena event. The official match-order for tomorrow’s show: Middleweight Tournament reserve fight: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Harvey Harra […]
Saturday house call: AMA joins BMA in angst about MMA
Friday, September 14th, 2007Blowback to the BMA’s call for banning MMA. You can now count the Australian Medical Association expressing concern about MMA. An AMA spokesman says he doesn’t ‘condone’ MMA, which is nice and flowery to say. 🙂 Dave Meltzer has an article at Fox Sports profiling Gina Carano. One of the things about her that writers […]
Tuesday turmoil: More on UFC 75 and Bisping/Hamill
Monday, September 10th, 2007Real live MMA and fighting happening in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Surely, Jordan Breen is on the case. K-1 announced Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem and Fabio Silva vs. Melvin Manhoef for their 9/17 Yokohama Arena event. Kharitonov was promoted in Japan today as being associated with Volk Han. Sports Illustrated has an article claiming that […]
Report: Hidehiko Yoshida may appear at Dynamite
Sunday, September 9th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports is reporting that Hidehiko Yoshida is considering an offer to appear at the K-1 Dynamite New Year’s Eve event. Yoshida was quoted as saying that he wanted to fight before the end of the year and that he is leaving any future career decisions to the J-ROCK office to determine. […]
Monday madness: Mark Cuban wants Fedor
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Your top headline of the day – Mark Cuban wants to do business with Fedor. I don’t know whether to be excited or scared about this. I’m more worried about Cuban in as far as doing business in the fight industry, especially with some of the characters we’ve seen on display from the world of […]
Saturday surprise: K-1 interested in Asashoryu?
Friday, August 31st, 2007The headline that has everyone’s attention in Japan is a report in Tokyo Sports that K-1 made an offer of one billion yen to Asashoryu for an 8-fight MMA contract. K-1 denied the report. One of the more intriguing stories coming out of Japan is the future of DEEP. DEEP is ran by Shigeru Saeki, […]
Tuesday headlines: Rickson Gracie is returning
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007There is a brand new SEC filing by Pro Elite. Any new information in the filing? I did notice this gem on page 15: The material weaknesses noted were: (1) the Company inadequately maintained accounting records, (2) accounting policies and procedures were not formally documented, and (3) the accounting department did not have sufficient technical […]
Friday fight notes: More steroid comments from Dana White
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Weekly Pro is reporting that Erik Paulson has been booked for the upcoming IGF (Inoki Genome Federation) event in Nagoya. Josh Barnett, Don Frye, Kiyoshi Tamura, Mark Coleman, and other MMA names are also scheduled to appear. Dana White continues his defense of Sean Sherk: “I don’t think he’s a liar,” said UFC president Dana […]
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 […]
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