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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008South Korean friend and correspondent Yeo Jong-Hoon tells the story about Yoshihiro Akiyama and why Kazuo Misaki’s comments to Akiyama after their MMA bout was over are drawing a lot of heat. By Yeo Jong-Hoon I watched K-1 Dynamite! and Yarennoka last night. Both aired in Korea cable TV, network XTM. (Dynamite was delay, Yarennoka […]
Tanigawa: K-1’s ‘large coalition’ will continue
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Today, Kazushi Sakuraba and Sadaharu Tanigawa held a press briefing in Osaka. (Picture here.) If Fedor’s face looked like he suffered from road rash, then Sakuraba’s face is twice as bad. However, the big story coming out of the press conference involved Tanigawa proclaiming that the ‘large coalition’ that K-1 was a part of would […]
Thoughts on the Japanese NYE 2007 MMA events
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008(I want to apologize for not responding to e-mails sent to me today, as Hotmail for some reason is acting up and giving some weird error messages when I send replies or try to delete mails.) “The message you selected could not be found. It may have been moved or deleted. Please click the folder […]
K-1 Dynamite 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007TV: Tokyo Broadcasting System (6 PM-11:35 PM JST) Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel free to post links. Notes on the show can be found […]
Hustle & Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Hustle Matsuri (Festival), afternoon show at SSA TV: TV-Tokyo Yarennoka (DSE), evening show at SSA TV: SkyPerfecTV PPV, HDNet Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel […]
Interview: White gave Mirko permission to attend Hustle event
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Tokyo Sports mobile (the newspaper) conducted an interview with Dana White on a number of subjects. The focus was on Takanori Gomi and Mirko Cro Cop. According to the newspaper’s interview, White said that Mirko Cro Cop asked for permission to attend the Hustle event on 12/31 in Saitama and that his request was granted. […]
Image of the day – Yoshihiro Akiyama
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Now, this is bad fashion.
Friday fight notes: Preparation for NYE MMA in Japan
Friday, December 28th, 2007If anyone is going to be able to record the TV-Tokyo feed of the Hustle show, the Tokyo Broadcasting System feed of the K-1 Dynamite show, or the SkyPerfecTV PPV feed of the DSE show in Saitama, please get a hold of me using the contact form. Thanks. Here is an excerpt from Matt Hughes’ […]
Bout order for K-1 Dynamite 2007 card
Friday, December 28th, 2007As it stands for the Osaka Dome event: U-18 tournament reserve fight: Ryo Murakoshi vs. Arata Fujimoto K-1 rules: Takashi Tachikawa (former Chiba Lotte Marines baseball player) vs. Yoshihisa Inoue U-18 tournament: HIROYA vs. Kizaemon Saiga U-18 tournament: Kenji Kubo vs. Yudai HERO’s 70 kg: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Joachim Hansen HERO’s 85 kg: Melvin Manhoef […]
Bout order for Yarennoka card
Friday, December 28th, 200712/31/2007 Saitama Super Arena: Mike Russow vs. Roman Zentsov Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Makoto Takimoto vs. Murilo Bustamante Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Kazuo Misaki vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa Shin’ya Aoki vs. Bu-Kyung Jung Fedor Emelianenko vs. Choi Hong-Man
Bas Boon speaks out about PRIDE
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Over at the Golden Glory message board forum, a person has posted three separate items claiming that it is a story about the events that led to the death of PRIDE. The poster claims that Bas Boon, manager of Golden Glory, contributed details to the story. You can read the posts here, here, and here. […]
Thursday trash talk: Everybody has a price
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Reminder: Listen to our Christmas 2007 radio show. There is some ad space available at Bloody Elbow for anyone interested in sponsoring that site. You should definitely check into it if you can, along with signing up for an account at BlogAds.com. Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan) is reporting that Shin’ya Aoki will fight judoka Bu-Kyung […]
TBS to air two Yarennoka matches
Monday, December 24th, 2007An official Japanese news release from the network says that Fedor vs. Hong-Man and Akiyama vs. Misaki will air on the K-1 Dynamite time block on NYE for Tokyo Broadcasting System. It makes sense, given that both Hong-Man and Akiyama are K-1 fighters. The time block for Dynamite on TBS is from 6 PM to […]
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