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Monday, November 5th, 2007For the MMA insiders and hardcore fans, today’s big news item is a report that Xyience and Zuffa are supposedly linked together much more closely than apparently first thought. Luke Thomas elaborates on why this is an important story to follow. The one thing I don’t understand is that if the report is true that […]
Saturday headlines: Steroids and birth defects
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007The negative effects of using performance-enhancing drugs and how it effects the children of users. The Fight Network has reached a deal with K-1 and Fuji TV to air the 12/8 World GP Yokohama Arena event live. Luke Thomas talks about Phil Baroni’s appeal with the CSAC board. Kevin Iole has more comments about UFC […]
Friday fight news: IFL GP is tomorrow
Friday, November 2nd, 2007New MMA figurines. Jens Pulver and Frankie Edgar will be participating in a charity event in Trenton (New Jersey) on 11/7. Rashad Evens garnering headlines in The Sun. Tomorrow is the IFL’s live television event (MyNetworkTV). American viewers will see one hour live, while Canadian viewers will get to watch two hours of live programming. […]
Thursday trash talk: Japan’s tough guys
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Todd Martin took on a big task in writing his new CBS Sports column, which is talking about the evolution of MMA in Japan. There are two points that I felt Todd missed talking about in the article: 1) The infamous ‘cement’ (cement is a term that the Japanese use for a ‘shoot’) incident between […]
Wednesday war room: UFC winning the PR battle?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Well, we know the Couture vs. White feud has jumped the shark when Time Magazine starts covering it. Here is the video of ESPN’s E:60 TV segment yesterday covering Miletich Fighting systems. Trevor Prangley talks about the upcoming Strikeforce Middleweight tournament in November. Here’s an interview with Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua. Meet Matt Gudgeon, who is […]
Tuesday turmoil: More war games
Monday, October 29th, 2007Mike Sawyer & Oliver Copp have a new edition of Tough Talk radio w/ guest Brad Imes. Kevin Iole praises Frank Warren. There’s a brand new MMA statistical site called FightMetric.com. Good news – Windy Tomomi is coming back. Yet another press conference about the Randy Couture/Dana White situation, this time on the UFC side. […]
Monday media notes: Setting the agenda
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Yahoo has officially separated it’s boxing and MMA pages. You can access their MMA home page here. Sam Caplan means business. BBC Sports is reporting that Joe Calzaghe will be retiring within the next 12 months. Taking a look at upcoming fights and challenges in UFC for 2008. Fightlinker needs your help with WordPress issues. […]
Friday fallout: More confusion than clarity
Friday, October 26th, 2007Oh yeah, there’s a ShoXC event tonight. Shayna Baszler is fighting on the card. Watch the show. So, there were dueling press conferences between UFC and Randy Couture on Las Vegas on Thursday. Here is the audio from Couture’s press conference. Kevin Iole was at the Randy Couture press conference and Dave Meltzer covered the […]
Wednesday war room: Do you care about Liddell vs. Silva?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I want to send my regards to Jeff Comstock, who will moving a lot of his columns over to Bloody Elbow. You can check out Jeff’s latest BE article here. The IFL stock this morning has plunged down to $0.33/share. The UFC 77 payscale. Bleacher Report calls Randy Couture a joke. The author continues to […]
Tuesday news & notes: Sakuraba vs. Funaki officially booked
Monday, October 22nd, 2007The big news of the day is that K-1 announced Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event. Regarding the M-1 situation, there are two separate SEC dockets related to Sibling Entertainment (here and here). Which docket should we be paying more attention to? Mistaken translations at the M-1 NYC press conference. […]
Sunday hangover: Day after UFC 77
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Video of Dana White’s comments from the UFC 77 post-fight press conference. Over at The Fightworks Podcast, they have a new audio interview with Ricardo Almeida. Don Frye is not a man you want to fight on the street or in a bar. Someone tried to do this, inexplicably. Over at MMA Predictions, not a […]
Thursday trash talk: Marc Ecko supporting M-1?
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007If you have not yet signed up for the brand new MMA HQ Fighter Rankings site, go sign up. First-day turn out was great and I want to see as many readers as possible sign up. I think Dr. J is building an excellent project here. Just asking… Monte Cox was pretty quick in publicly […]
Wednesday war room: New fighter ranking system online
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Danny Hodge, Chairman of the Oklahoma Professional Boxing Commission Sick of various MMA web sites producing their own Top 10 fighter rankings? Dr. J has come up with a solution that involves audience participation. Check out his new rankings project. Monte Cox appeared for an interview on Fight Network Radio yesterday (audio here). Fox News […]
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