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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Updates on state MMA regulation In Maryland and South Carolina. Interview notes With Matt Serra and Mark Cuban. Pancrase today at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo Nova Uniao’s Marlon Sandro defeated Miki Shida in the main event today in R2 in 4’19 by KO. Sandro is now the #1 contender for the KOP Featherweight crown. In […]
Report: Angle to make ‘MMA debut’ in Osaka
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Nikkan Sports has a report claiming that Antonio Inoki is interested in Kurt Angle making his MMA debut on the IGF 4/12 Osaka Prefectural Gym show. According to Inoki, Angle will likely participate with open-fingered gloves and that it may be a 3-way MMA match involving Naoya Ogawa & Josh Barnett. Making this story even […]
Losers and winners this month in Japan
Monday, March 17th, 2008MMA Predictions will have an interview with Baret Yoshida later on their site this week. I’m very curious as to what the rating for the DREAM debut show on TBS was. If it’s a low number… and I’m not even talking about the live gate, either. You would have to say that round one of […]
DREAM 3/15 Saitama Super Arena
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Spoilers. Plus, here’s a live event report. Brent Brookhouse has a recap. MMA Opinion also has a recap. The claimed paid attendance for the show was 19,120. Also, here are the videos of the fights on Daily Motion…
Order of fights for DREAM debut event
Thursday, March 13th, 2008As it stands right now: Minowaman vs. Mr. X Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Hidetaka Monma LGP R1: Kotetsu Boku vs. Joachim Hansen LGP R1: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Luiz Buscape LGP R1: Katsuhiko Nagata vs. Artur Umakhanov LGP R1: Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Jung Bu-Kyung Mirko Cro Cop vs. Tatsuya Mizuno LGP R1: Andre Dida vs. Eddie […]
No soccer ball kicks and foot stomps in DREAM
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Yuji Shimada said that the DREAM promotion would aim to not have either soccer ball kicks or foot stomps in fights that take place in the DREAM ring. More on this story here and here. Mirko Cro Cop will face U-FILE camp member Tatsuya Mizuno at the DREAM 3/15 Saitama Super Arena event.
DREAM debut event photos
Saturday, March 8th, 2008At next week’s event at Saitama Super Arena, there will be a photographer taking pictures on behalf of MMA Opinion. The photographer is interested and willing to sell any of the event photographs (including editing). If you’re interested in getting some photos of the event for your web site (and/or magazine), contact Brandt DeLorenzo at […]
Updated DREAM 3/15 Saitama card line-up
Thursday, March 6th, 2008As it stands right now: Lightweight GP tournament matches: Katsuhiko Nagata vs. Artur Umakhanov Andre Dida vs. Eddie Alvarez Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Jung Bu-Kyung Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Black Mamba Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Luiz Buscape Kotetsu Boku vs. Joachim Hansen Shin’ya Aoki vs. JZ Calvan Welterweights: Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Hidetaka Monma Plus: Mirko Cro Cop […]
A DREAM of returning to glory
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008When K-1 mouthpiece Sadaharu Tanigawa announced that K-1 and DSE officials would work together in ‘a large coalition’ to produce a modified version of PRIDE, you could see the old PRIDE marks suddenly appear on Sherdog and MMA Fighting message boards. When Nobuyuki Sakakibara sold the PRIDE assets to Lorenzo Fertitta, it was as if […]
Thursday trash talk: Reading material (3/6/08)
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The latest Pro Elite SEC filing. Fightlinker: Ohio Athletic Commission sues over fake Cummo suspension Sherdog: Rashad Evans vs. Chuck Liddell set for London UFC event (should be interesting to see if the UK fans boo or cheer Evans) The Loudoun Connection (VA): Royce Gracie and family celebrate Capital Jiu-Jitsu grand opening Todd Martin (CBS […]
WVR 3/5 Tokyo (Sengoku) event
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Gryphon has running PBP of the event. The claimed paid attendance for the show was 15,523. If it’s a legitimate number, then the show was a financial success. (Update: A good point here — I remember when WWE ran a show at the facility a couple of years ago and got 12,000 max into the […]
Trying to create some heat for Sengoku
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008The last-minute push for the World Victory Road debut show in Tokyo tomorrow at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I seems to be mild, at best. The main event of Yoshida vs. Barnett should be interesting to watch, but not necessarily a hot box-office attraction. There has been little or no mention about Takanori Gomi vs. […]
Monday news & notes (3/3/08)
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I will have an article talking about the new DREAM promotion in a few days on the site. In short, the viability of the Japanese MMA scene on a large scale is completely dependent on whether or not the DSE-flavored project succeeds. The upcoming article will give you a road map of issues to pay […]
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