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Thursday, December 18th, 2008Musashi vs. Gegard Mousasi and Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Kozo Takeda… under K-1 rules.
Daily Sports: Nippon TV will discontinue NOAH TV show in March
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Daily Sports is reporting that there is a strong possibility of Nippon TV discontinuing its relationship with NOAH by March of 2009.
K-1 gives punishment to Badr Hari
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Badr Hari lost all of his fight money, along with his K-1 Heavyweight title and second-place status in this year’s World GP event (Yokohama Arena) due to his disqualification loss to Remy Bonjasky in the tournament finals.
K-1 12/6 Yokohama Arena card
Monday, December 8th, 2008Aerts vs. Hari, Zimmerman vs. Teixeira, Saki vs. Karaev, Bonjasky vs. Le Banner, plus Hong-Man vs. Sefo & Slowinski vs. Manhoef.
D-Day for Antonio Silva coming up – Sengoku or US MMA career
Saturday, December 6th, 2008Undoubtedly, there is financial pressure on Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva to take Sengoku’s offer to fight on January 4th at Saitama Super Arena and risk losing his license to fight in America due to his drug suspension.
Kimbo Slice has arrived in Japan
Friday, December 5th, 2008Picture here of him at Narita Airport. He’ll be at the K-1 Yokohama Arena show tomorrow.
Report: K-1 interested in Kimbo/Petruzelli re-match on NYE
Sunday, November 30th, 2008The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting that K-1 is considering booking Kimbo Slice vs. Seth Petruzelli in a re-match for their Dynamite NYE event at Saitama Super Arena. Tokyo Sports Mobile is reporting that Slice could make his K-1 debut in March of 2009 against Badr Hari.
KONISHIKI’s older brother dies
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Anoaro Atisano’e, the older brother of Sumo star KONISHIKI, reportedly died Sunday at 9 AM in a Hawaiian hospital due to a heart attack. He was 51 years old.
Update on PRIDE FC WW vs. Sakakibara lawsuit
Monday, November 24th, 2008The latest update on the lawsuit filed by PRIDE FC Worldwide Holdings LLC management (Zuffa/UFC) against Dream Stage Entertainment (Nobuyuki Sakakibara) in regards to the notorious PRIDE asset sale agreement.
Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Sanae Kikuta booked for Sengoku 1/4 Saitama event
Monday, November 17th, 2008Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Sanae Kikuta was announced today in Tokyo for Sengoku’s 1/4 Saitama Super Arena event coming up.
A note about Japanese NYE programming on TV
Friday, November 14th, 2008Hustle Mania will take place on 12/30 in Tokyo at Ariake Colosseum.
Fight Opinion Radio #93: Elite XC asset fire sale
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008In the immortal words of the late Vince Lombardi, “What the hell is going on out here?” That’s what we ask this week with the news of Showtime having a fire sale of Elite XC’s assets, including the fighter contracts of Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano, Jake Shields, and many other prominent fighters. Leave up to our resident lawyer, Jeff Thaler, to break down what could happen at next week’s fire sale auction and just who might be interested in fighter contracts.
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kiyoshi Tamura set for Dynamite!!
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba is now booked for K-1’s 12/31 Saitama Super Arena event.
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