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Friday, May 18th, 2007The Andy Wang remix from The Ultimate Fighter Angry Andy Wang discussion between MMA fighters online. Day 54 since the March 27th handshake deal between UFC & DSE for the PRIDE asset sale… with no sale finalized at the moment. Tickets for Hustle’s 6/14 Korakuen Hall show are on sale through ‘Hustle Entertainment’, but the […]
Friday fight notes: The return of Akebono
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Stock ticker: IFL | Art of War | Pro Elite More talk on the Kermit Cintron/Dana White PR battle. Words cannot describe how great this article is. Yomiuri Hochi reports that Akebono will return to HERO’s in July at the promotion’s Yokohama Arena event. He would have supposedly fought on the June 2nd LA Coliseum […]
Thursday trash talk: Which sport is more fan friendly – the NBA or UFC?
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007The IFL stock price is declining. On Wednesday night, I was in an irritable mood during the tapings of our latest edition of Fight Opinion Radio. However, I work with talented (nice) professionals like Jeff Thaler and Erin Bucknell who tolerate me every single week. For that, I thank them. With that stated, after my […]
Evening news update: UFC 71 coverage heats up
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007The MMA World League web site is going to stream the Gracie Fighting Championship event (on May 19th from Ohio). Wallid Ismail is building up this web site pretty fast and is doing a good job with it. Let me know if you watch any of the events streamed on that site and what the […]
Monday notes: Drug testing at UFC 72
Monday, May 14th, 2007Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio celebrated the ESPN/Sherdog tie-up on his show today. Audio clip here (start around the 8 minute mark). Results from our last site poll question: Do you care about ethical business dealings in MMA? Yes – 77% No – 23% New poll question added to the right side of the page.
Friday flame wars: Boxing vs. MMA argument won’t die
Thursday, May 10th, 2007The fact that the Miami Herald and a couple of other newspapers (according to Google News) picked up this ridiculous article on MMA amazes me (author e-mail is here).
Fight Opinion Radio #48: Karo Parisyan
Thursday, May 10th, 2007A compact 45-minute show this week debating a hard-hitting topic: Who would win in a match between Josh Barnett and “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan? This week’s show is brought to you by Monster Wrestling Rings and Kakuto Store. The 48th edition of Fight Opinion Radio is now online and available to download. Here are your options […]
Wild Wednesday – MMA overload
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007There is a Mil Mascaras self-defense course available now for purchase? The first Hustle event under the Hustle Entertainment banner happened today in Tokyo at Korakuen Hall. Naoya Ogawa, under the ‘Celeb Ogawa’ gimmick w/ Yuji Shimada as heel manager, defeated Ryoji Sai with a school-boy roll-up. K-1 is inviting the UFC owners to watch […]
Tuesday highlights: Dynamite card shaping up
Monday, May 7th, 2007As first reported on Boxing Talk, Kevin Iole at Yahoo Sports is reporting that Diego Corrales died Monday night in a motorcycle accident. Dan Rafael at ESPN is also reporting on the story. Gary Shaw has now confirmed the story to the Associated Press. K-1 6/2 LA Coliseum rumored card line-up. K-1’s web site confirms […]
Red meat Saturday: More angry media writers
Friday, May 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Let’s focus on good things, first. Charles Jay has an excellent must-read article on MSN about the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight and how it ties in with what is happening with MMA. Read this article and make sure to listen to CJ’s interview on this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Here’s […]
Barnett: No fight in place for HERO’s
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007By Zach Arnold In a direct conversation with Josh Barnett on Tuesday, he stated that the reports of him fighting Sergey Kharitonov at the Dynamite event at the LA Coliseum on June 2nd are not true. Barnett further stated that there is no verbal or written agreement for him having a fight against Kharitonov at […]
Saturday splash: No love for Fabricio Werdum
Friday, April 20th, 2007One Randy Couture says that he thinks Mirko Cro Cop will lose to Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 70. I suggested the same thing a couple of weeks ago and drew surprise. I expect to be laughed at soon. Randy also picked Arlovski over Werdum, whereas I think Werdum has a real good shot here to […]
Friday media fix – Another Japanese love call for UFC
Friday, April 6th, 2007K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa issued a challenge to have a re-match between Royce Gracie and Matt Hughes for the LA Coliseum June 2nd event. The underlying theme of the challenge is Tanigawa provoking Dana White after Dana said on March 27th at Roppongi Hills Arena that any MMA group outside of UFC & PRIDE is […]
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