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Saturday news slate: More fighter unrest in PRIDE

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Click on full-page view to see how fellow Fight Opinion writer and Bear Pit Japan member Tetsuya Sano did in his amateur shootboxing tournament today in Tokyo. Notes from a Sherdog video clip with IFL co-owner Kurt Otto: He says Bas Rutten will “make a special announcement” at the LA Forum show on Saturday (and […]

Friday funhouse: No Josh Barnett for you at PRIDE

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Bas Rutten has more to say about PRIDE, Josh Barnett likely won’t be fighting in Japan any time soon, Tim Sylvia speaks out, Art of War says they made more than the IFL, and video links to Forrest Griffin’s staph infection shown on camera.

Thursday tabloid: Kiyoshi Tamura heading to HERO’s

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

I’ve decided to use Feedburner for the RSS feeds. I will add these links and recommend you use them as opposed to the raw WP feeds on our site now, and hopefully the FeedBurner podcasting feed works out fine. Here are the links to use: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion – RSS for posts http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion/qHJU – RSS for comments […]

Wednesday fight notes – don’t make Bas Rutten angry

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

I want to give special thanks to all of our readers in Singapore. If you are reading this and/or have any regional MMA-related news items, send me an e-mail. Congratulations to Aaron Crossen for becoming Editor-in-Chief of The Valley Vanguard newspaper. Now add more fight game coverage to the publication. Jeff Monson wrote on his […]

Tuesday MMA notes – Wanderlei Silva returns

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

A note to all F.O. Radio listeners. Boxer Johnny Tapia overdoses on cocaine.

IFL on MyNetwork TV

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Post your feedback to this week’s show here. And I’ve also added a poll on the right side of the page. I want nothing more than to see a second promotion cement itself as a successful MMA operation in the United States. I have friends who work in the IFL. However, there comes a time […]

Monday Torture Rack: Why you like ultimate fighting

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Andy Kaufman talked about Memphis pro-wrestling fans the same way American media outlets talk about MMA fans today Another article about MMA’s increasing popularity… Public Torture — Preparing the Audience: We also have the rise in popularity of Ultimate Fighting in the past few years. People will always pay to see two people beating on […]

Sunday headlines – TUF 5 fighters displayed

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Sadaharu Tanigawa announced at a press conference today that an announcement would be made at the end of March in regards to HERO’s running an event in California later this year. The rumor is that the first event will happen in the middle of June. If there is anyone out here reading this that keeps […]

Wednesday hot topics

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

The top story today in Japanese media circles and also in the US wrestling press is the death of Bad News Allen (Allen Coage, who more famously worked as Bad News Brown in the then-WWF). Coage worked a pretty famous Judo Jacket match against Seiji Sakaguchi in New Japan Pro-Wrestling during the time that Inoki […]

Monday news highlights

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Well, the Fight Opinion Weekly article I wrote late Sunday night seems to be garnering some discussion. Although I don’t think arguing about the article’s truthfulness is necessarily the right avenue for criticism… One person who does apparently deserve criticism is Nick Diaz for reportedly failing a drug test after fighting on the PRIDE 33 […]

Sunday news special

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

I hear that Randy Couture guy is really popular right now. News and comments from Loretta Hunt on WOL radio (I’m using this link because it’s simpler than me typing the comments out). Here’s the audio. I wanted to highlight one point she made – the point being that she doesn’t think PRIDE will sell. […]

Tuesday tough talk

Monday, February 26th, 2007

MMA Weekly: Pennsylvia state athletic commission preparing to regulate MMA in its state Sherdog: Greg Savage has unkind words for Jerry Millen IFL HP: Dear Don – advice from “The Predator” The Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): The Iceman (Liddell) ready to get back to training, looks forward to Sylvia-Couture Vegas Pop: Star PRIDE (celebrities […]

Saturday news snippets

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Your comment of the day from Sherdog writer Mike Sloan: It’s pretty much common knowledge that the some MMA fans here in America aren’t too keen on the growing number of superb fighters born and raised in the Land of the Rising Sun. Now where have I have seen this reasoning of logic before… Onto […]

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