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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007The opponent Akihiro Gono will be fighting at UFC 78 is Tamden McCrory. Information on the next ShoXC card. How much did it cost Pro Elite to buy out Future Fight Productions, Inc. (Icon Sport) of Hawaii? The data can be found here and here. In total: $350,000 USD in cash, 200,000 restricted PE shares […]
Tuesday turmoil: Mainstream media questions if Liddell was all hype and no substance
Monday, September 24th, 2007Does anyone know of alternates to Feedity for creating RSS feeds that does not require creating an account or going through the hassle of registration? Chuck Liddell = $500,000 USD. Keith Jardine = $14,000 USD. Well. Useless stat of the day – if you combine the listed fight purse money for the main event, Chuck […]
Heat-up for UFC 76
Friday, September 21st, 2007First, more bad news for boxing fans. Mark Cuban made an appearance on The Mike Tirico Show Friday to talk about UFC and MMA (starting at the 15 minute mark – audio here). Here is a report claiming that Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter gave Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz a tour of The White House. […]
Friday headlines: Mainstream blowback against MMA
Friday, September 21st, 2007Vancouver has officially banned MMA. More details in The Vancouver Province and CBC News. Rex Richards is fighting in the semi-main event slot of the next Art of War show in Tunica, MS. If you want to sponsor him, contact Brad Barnes at [email protected]. A mundane article on MMA in Reason Magazine, featuring this doozy […]
Thursday trash talk: Will the IFL take center stage?
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Tickets are still available for UFC 76. Three new SEC filings by Pro Elite (here, here, and here). The Vancouver Province newspaper printed an editorial today speaking out against a possible ban of MMA in the city. Plus, the latest on attempts to ban MMA in Perth, Australia. Alex Marvez is reporting that the IFL […]
Tuesday headlines: Referees gone wild
Monday, September 17th, 2007Our good friend Tetsuya Sano participated in an amateur shootboxing event in Tokyo this past weekend. Check out his matches here, here, and here. The event was covered by Sports Navigator. The Deseret News in Utah is reporting that Brigham Young University (BYU) has banned The Versus Network on campus because the channel airs MMA […]
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 […]
Friday news & notes: Nick Diaz and dirty urine samples
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Mark Cuban said he would have a surprise name for his ‘Inside MMA’ HDNet debut show (hosted by Bas Rutten & Kenny Rice w/ Kevin James). The surprise name is Chuck Liddell. Quietly, the IFL stock is remaining under $0.50/share. Both the IFL and Pro Elite have new SEC filings. Anything of note from the […]
Wednesday war room: Does the MMA media kill negative stories?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007The Chicago Sun Times is reporting this morning that Illinois Governor Blagojevich has signed state legislation to sanction MMA starting in 2008. More on the story here. Here’s a report claiming that Michael Bisping’s father was attacked in the 02 Arena car park. Michael himself also has some comments to add to the discussion. UFC […]
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 […]
Fight Opinion Radio #62: UFC 75 review
Monday, September 10th, 2007No guests this week (the scheduled guest didn’t show). Welcome to radio. No worries, however, as we have a loaded show this week recapping the UFC 75 and WEC 30 events in Las Vegas. Plus, we’ll address the BMA’s attempt to get MMA banned, concussions in MMA, and Dana White’s statements about PRIDE’s future. Also, […]
IFL stock goes below 50 cents
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Stock quote here. The low today was $0.45/share. Here’s the latest activity with Pro Elite.
Tuesday headlines: The NFL vs. MMA
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Tomorrow (yes, Wednesday) is the next WEC event from Las Vegas and I’m looking forward to it. We will recap the event on the next edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Here is some more background information about Mark Cuban’s interest in MMA. Cuban and Fishman working together would be a hell of a deal. Kevin […]
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