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Thursday, February 28th, 2008As it stands today: Super Heavyweight Title match: Semmy Schilt vs. Mark Hunt Yusuke Fujimoto vs. Ewerton Teixiera Badr Hari vs. Ray Sefo Mighty Mo vs. Keijiro Maeda Choi Hong-Man, Glaube Feitosa, Musashi, and others are also booked for the show.
K-1 World MAX 2008 Final 16
Wednesday, February 27th, 20084/9 Hiroshima Prefectural Gym card line-up: Masato vs. Virgil Kalakoda Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Albert Kraus Andy Souwer vs. Mike Zambidis Yoshihiro Sato vs. Murat Direkci Drago vs. GORI Artur Kyshenko vs. Jordan Tai Rosario Presti vs. Warren Stevelmans Chi Bin-Lim vs. Yasuhiro Kido Plus: Yuya Yamamoto vs. Marfio Canoletti HIROYA vs. Tsukasa Fuji
A DREAM turning into a nightmare
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Gryphon has two news items of interest. First, Kaoru Uno is unlikely to work for the DREAM promotion right now. Second, DREAM backers are in a panic about Bob Sapp losing to Jan “The Giant” Nortje. A panic? Why, our fine fellow readers chided me for making such a suggestion a couple of days ago! […]
Tuesday media takedown (2/26/08)
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008The brand new web site for the DREAM promotion is DreamOfficial.com. The DREAM web site is basically a modified format from the old DSE web site for PRIDE. The domain name for the web site was registered on behalf of the promotion’s backers by Network Solutions. Card line-up for 3/15 Saitama Super Arena show.
Meet Mini Hong-Man
Sunday, February 24th, 2008The Japanese press calls him “nise Hong-Man,” but his real name is Masayuki Okude and he won his main event fight today on the ZST 16 show in Tokyo at Shinjuku FACE. The swooning is already commencing.
Sunday news review (2/24/08)
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Chuck Liddell’s book, Iceman, has slipped to #16 on the NYT Best-Sellers list, but it is the third week in a row that the book has made it onto the list. The Fightworks Podcast: Interview with Robert Drysdale Fightlinker: Who’s the Yoko Ono of MMA? Kim Couture? Steve Cofield: UFC needs to voice stance on […]
Results of Yuji Nagata’s medical tests
Friday, February 22nd, 2008As it reportedly stands: CT scan – negative MRI – negative MRA (angiography) – showed some slight hemorrhaging of blood on the right side of his brain due to cumulative head trauma over many years of wrestling matches The good news is that doctors don’t think Nagata will need surgery, but it’s unknown when he’ll […]
Friday fight headlines (2/22/08)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Another possible UFC lawsuit? According to our friends at Pro Fight Store, there’s discussion that Zuffa may file a lawsuit against Croatian fighter Goran Reljic. The reason? He participated recently at the BJJ Bristol Open. Reljic won both the heavyweight and absolute divisions. Update: In the comments section, claims that the rumor is false. One […]
TV time set for DREAM debut event
Thursday, February 21st, 2008It will air on Tokyo Broadcasting System on the same day (3/15) from 7:00-8:54 PM JST. The event takes place at Saitama Super Arena and is the start of the 2008 Lightweight GP tournament (start time is 3 PM JST).
PRIDE, Xyience, Zuffa, and you
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Special guest opinion/editorial by Leland Roling of MMA-Analyst.com One of the bigger stories so far this year has been the emergence of two scandals that have earned the attention of hardcore fans and the MMA community as a whole. The purchase of PRIDE from Dream Stage Entertainment in the early part of last year sent […]
Wednesday war room: Iceman heats up book sales
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Chuck Liddell’s new book, Iceman, is listed #9 this week on The New York Times Best-Seller’s list for hardcover nonfiction books. This is the second week that Liddell’s book has made the list at #9. Pro Fight Store sent us two links regarding a possible M-1 event happening soon in France (links here and here). […]
Pancrase 3/26 Korakuen Hall card
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Announced today: #1 contender’s match (Featherweights): Miki Shida vs. Marlon Sandro (Nova Uniao) Middleweights: Izuru Takeuchi vs. Hiromitsu Kanehara Middleweights: Alavutdin Gadzhiev (Russia) vs. Hikaru Sato Lightweights: Takafumi Ito vs. Hacran Dias (Nova Uniao) Lightweights: Kenji Arai vs. Shinsuke Shoji (Krazy Bee) Bantamweights: Michihisa Asano vs. Yukito (U-FILE camp) Middleweights: Ichiro Kanai vs. Takenori Sato […]
Kintaro Kanemura sexual harassment scandal
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Update: Here’s a scan of Tokyo Sports today that Kakutolog has posted. The big question raised now is whether or not Big Japan tried to cover-up the incident. The newspaper speculates on whether criminal charges will be filed. Update II: Kanemura’s bookings on two upcoming LOCK-UP shows (2/24 Korakuen Hall & 2/29 Osaka, IMP Hall) […]
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