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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007The HEROs show on Monday at Yokohama Arena reportedly drew a 10.9% rating on Tokyo Broadcasting System. Not a great number by any means, but an accurate reflection on a promotion with no real major star power. Josh Gross says Royce Gracie has his reasons for not filing an appeal with the CSAC about a […]
Monday morning quarterback: Back to the future
Monday, July 16th, 2007Is the San Diego Union-Tribune lumping UFC into a story about increased violence with assaults due to punching? Royce Gracie did not end up appealing his drug suspension in California. Steve Sievert reports that UFC 75 will be broadcast on Spike TV. Somehow, I don’t think this is the kind of mugshot that Renato Babalu […]
Friday fight notes: Who will sign Denis Kang?
Friday, July 13th, 2007Bad luck for the IFL – Chris Horodecki has a broken hand and won’t fight Bart Palaszewski on August 2nd in New Jersey. BodogFight tapings are coming to Vancouver soon. John Griffin says that the UFC 73 On Demand service was a horrible experience. The new UFC video game.
Wednesday weekly notes: Reality TV mania
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007About that Mark Burnett reality show for Elite XC… is the recruiting starting? Luke Thomas on the UFC 73 attendance. More at Fightlinker. Kuniyoshi Hironaka announced his blog that he will facing Thiago Alves at Ultimate Fight Night 11 on September 19th at The Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas.
Tuesday talking points: 8,622? 8,622!
Monday, July 9th, 2007Underground cage fighting. Plus, Xyience Training Center Grand Opening. UFC 73 attendance, gate, and purse information. Look at the figures – 8,622 paid. They did a little under 8,000 in Ireland. This may sound like piling on here, but I’ve been saying far and wide in media outlets that once UFC gets out of the […]
Thursday trash talk: The road to UFC 73
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Dave Doyle is starting to write columns over at Yahoo Sports on MMA. The RSS feed for his columns is here. The RSS feed for Kevin Iole’s columns is here. Here are the odds over at Bodog for the UFC 73 event. The obvious odd that sticks out is Marquardt at +140. Ortiz comes into […]
Wednesday war room: Mirko brings in the artillery
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007The guys at profightstore.com are reporting that Sergey Kharitonov will arrive in Croatia on July 20th to train with Mirko Cro Cop (for Mirko’s upcoming fight against Cheick Kongo). How anxious is the media for more dirt on the Chris Benoit story? Read here. Sadaharu Tanigawa supposedly said that Armando Garcia told him that Choi […]
Tuesday headlines: MMA and drug testing
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Well, no title unification on September 8th in London for Quinton Jackson vs. Dan Henderson. Interesting manuever that UFC is not pushing the PRIDE belts. Sounds to me like UFC will not be recognizing either of Henderson’s PRIDE title belts. Reminds me of yesteryear in 1991 when Ric Flair came into WWE with “the real […]
Saturday media slum: Dumpster diving
Friday, June 29th, 2007Royal Burnell has a report about an upcoming Art Dore “Extreme Cage Combat” event in Michigan in which Royal claims that fighters are using the dumpster area of a Hooter’s restaurant to set up a ‘locker room.’ Royal’s report includes pictures. Get ready for Congress to start asking WWE some questions — The Associated Press […]
Fight Opinion Radio #54: Ken Shamrock speaks out
Friday, June 29th, 2007Dana White recently stated that he released Ken Shamrock from his UFC contract because he didn’t feel that Shamrock could be competitive in the UFC. However, Ken Shamrock and his manager/attorney Rod Donohoo dispute this claim. On this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio, both men appear on our show to talk about the supposed […]
Friday fight notes: Dana White’s media messages
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Peter Aerts vs. Bob Sapp last weekend from Amsterdam Dana White sends a message to Jeff Sherwood. Also, The Oregonian reports on the war featuring UFC vs. Sherdog and Internet MMA web sites. More thoughts here. Ken Shamrock also got a media message from Dana White and he’s not happy about it. We’ll be hearing […]
IFL fudges numbers?
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold When the IFL held their June 16th event at the Las Vegas Hilton (in the facility’s ballroom), they stated the following in a press release: LAS VEGAS, June 16, 2007 – The New York Pitbulls and host Nevada Lions claimed victories in the final 2007 regular-season International Fight League matches for each […]
Tuesday headlines: K-1 signs a big deal
Monday, June 25th, 2007The top story of the day from Japan is K-1 doing a business tie-up with the Kyoei boxing gym, with the focus on K-1 using Russian boxing and MMA talent. K-1 hopes that it creates a big impact on all of their various shows in terms of boosting talent. Medical suspensions coming out of this […]
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