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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008August 16th in Okayama at Momotaro Arena. The show will be called “Gladiator” and feature a Japan vs. South Korea 5-versus-5 fight card concept. Also booked is Minowaman vs. Don Frye and Gary Goodridge vs. Hiromi Amada (K-1 rules). More notes here.
Quotes of the Day – Dave Meltzer on the DREAM 4 show
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Audio here (22 minute time mark): “I thought that it was long and not necessarily exciting, uh, a couple of fights were okay, but there was nothing um nothing worth going out of way to see, that’s for sure.” After praising Jacare vs. Miller… “Nothing, uh, nothing really, Nothing really stood out. Very missable show.”
Video: Sakuraba vs. Manhoef
Monday, June 16th, 2008Leland Roling at MMA Analyst loves Melvin Manhoef. This fight video… it just makes me sad. More videos of DREAM 4 fights can be seen here.
Today’s chalkboard (6/16/08)
Monday, June 16th, 2008The MMA California site has a new message board, which can be accessed right here. Check it out. New York Magazine has an article on UFC’s attempts to get MMA legalized in the state of New York. Count the number of items in the article that make you laugh or cringe. Sam Caplan has a […]
Sakuraba suffers left arm injury in fight against Manhoef
Sunday, June 15th, 2008DREAM officials announced today that Kazushi Sakuraba suffered an ulna fracture in his left arm during his fight against Melvin Manhoef yesterday at Yokohama Arena. The injury reportedly occurred when Sakuraba attempted to block a high-kick from Manhoef. One interesting item is that any sort of retirement talk for Sakuraba was profusely shut down and […]
DREAM 4 (6/15 Yokohama Arena)
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Reports: Total MMA | Japan MMA | Sherdog | MMA Junkie
Jordan Breen’s DREAM 4 preview
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Mr. Breen talks here. His predictions for Sunday’s Yokohama Arena event: Melvin Manhoef over Kazushi Sakuraba Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza over Jason “Mayhem” Miller Kin Tai Ei over Zelg Galesic Gegard Mousasi over Yoon Dong-Sik Shin’ya Aoki over Katsuhiko Nagata Hideo Tokoro over Darren Uyenoyama Ralek Gracie over Alavutdin Gazhiyev Alistair Overeem over Lee Tae-Hyun
Shukan Gendai
Saturday, June 14th, 2008It looks like the magazine is interested about the disappearance of Akira Maeda from the major leagues of Japanese MMA. A new edition of the magazine is supposed to come out in a couple of days…
Match order for DREAM 4 event
Thursday, June 12th, 2008As of today in terms of fight order: 6/15 Yokohama Arena (5 PM JST) Lightweight GP round two: Shin’ya Aoki vs. Katsuhiko Nagata Heavyweights: Alistair Overeem vs. Lee Tae-Hyun Light Heavyweights: Ralek Gracie vs. Alavutdin Gadzhiyev Featherweights: Hideo Tokoro vs. Darren Uyenoyama Middleweight GP round two: Gegard Mousasi vs. Yoon Dong-Sik Middleweight GP round two: […]
Choi Hong-Man has successful surgery to remove tumor
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Nikkan Sports published a story today claiming that Choi Hong-Man had a successful operation to remove the tumor in his pituitary gland that caused him to be blocked from fighting in California at the LA Coliseum last year. Hong-Man is expected to be in the hospital for about a week in recovery and may appear […]
Josh Barnett profiled on NHK
Monday, June 9th, 2008NHK recently did a profile of Josh Barnett. His favorite word? Fight. The Fightworks Podcast: Your turn to interview Xande Ribeiro, BJJ world champion USA Today: Jeff Monson pulled off of this Saturday’s Adrenaline MMA event The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (CA): There will be blood… and when there is, fight doctor Gary Furness will be […]
K-1 June & July 2008 cards
Monday, June 9th, 20086/29 Fukuoka, Marine Messe (3 PM JST) Card as of today: Heavyweight title match: Badr Hari vs. Glaube Feitosa Super Heavyweight title match: Semmy Schilt vs. Jerome Le Banner Takashi Tachikawa vs. Shinkyu Kawano Peter Aerts vs. Jan “The Giant” Nortje Japan GP: Musashi vs. Keijiro Maeda Japan GP: Takumi Sato vs. Mitsugu Noda Japan […]
Monday media review (6/9/08)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008WVR has booked Saitama Super Arena for 8/24. BTW, not a single Japanese media outlet is giving the paid number of fans for the Sengoku III show that happened yesterday in Saitama. I’ve never seen that happen before. Usually at least one outlet will go with a worked number. Matt Stewart (F4W Online): Kimbo Slice’s […]
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