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Monday, December 24th, 2007The headline says it all, as the report claims that Hustle Entertainment is pushing Mirko’s appearance at their Hustle 12/31 Saitama Super Arena event. Comments attributed to Cro Cop were issued in a media release. The publicity stunt should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the politics of Japanese MMA, as Cro Cop’s […]
Sunday night update (12/23/2007)
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Just to let everyone know, the Christmas edition of Fight Opinion Radio will be online in a few hours. If you are in a giving mood and would like to make a donation to our site to help pay for bandwidth costs, please click here to donate. Thanks. The heat-up for the UFC 79 event […]
Calvan vs. Aoki officially canceled
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Sherdog’s Friday news report about the JZ Calvan vs. Shin’ya Aoki 12/31 Saitama Super Arena fight being canceled has been officially verified by the producers of the Yarennoka event. Both Calvan and Aoki appeared at a makeshift press conference at the DEEP gym to address the media regarding the match cancellation. While the Aoki/Calvan fight […]
Saturday fight slate: Josh Barnett wins again in Japan
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007K-1 announced Yoshihisa Inoue vs. Takashi Tachikawa (former Chiba Lotte Marines baseball player) for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event.
My personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene
Friday, December 21st, 2007Warning: This is a very long post. For the last couple of months, I’ve stayed relatively quiet in terms of talking about the Japanese MMA scene and how things are lining up. For starters, I’m bored with a lot of it. Secondly, I don’t see a lot of positives right now. Here is my breakdown […]
Wednesday war room: Street fighting
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The story of the day comes to us from Eastern Canada, where 24-year old Corben MacDonald is in court to face 42 charges of promoting illegal fights. MacDonald’s backyard fight ‘organization’ was called East Coast Street Fights. For more background information on this story, read this. Josh Barnett has a new DVD out. He is […]
Updated K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome card (as of 12/18)
Monday, December 17th, 2007As of today: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Hideo Tokoro K-1 rules: Musashi vs. Bernard Ackah Melvin Manhoef vs. Yosuke Nishijima Zulu vs. Minowaman Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Joachim Hansen Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki K-1 rules: Masato vs. Choi Yong-Soo Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Rani Yahya Bob Sapp vs. Bobby Ologun K-1 U-18 tournament
Pancrase 12/22 Differ Ariake card
Monday, December 17th, 2007The line-up: Featherweights: Tatsuya So vs. Hayato Shimizu Lightweights: Takumi Yano vs. Yuichi Ikari Featherweights: Miki Shida vs. Jameel “The Sargeant” Massouh Middleweights: Masahiro Toryu vs. Gadzhiev Alavutdin (Russia) Lightweights: Kenji Arai vs. Kaku Sajin Catch Wrestling: Hikaru Sato vs. Josh Barnett Lightweights: Takafumi Ito vs. Shoji Light Heavyweights: Ryo Kawamura vs. Kei’ichiro Yamamiya
Monday chalkboard (12/17)
Monday, December 17th, 2007For Internet Explorer users, we’ve added a feature on the top menu called “set as your HP.” Simply put, if you would like to make our site your browser’s starting page every time it loads, you can click on the link. I can’t find code that will work in Firefox and Netscape browsers, so this […]
Fight Opinion Radio #71: Renato Babalu & Wallid Ismail
Sunday, December 16th, 2007A big 100-minute show this week, so make sure you are subscribed to either our radio show RSS feed or our iTunes feed. We have three interviews on this week’s show. First, we have an interview with Jeffrey Tennen (of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in the USMC). He stopped by to tell us […]
Thursday trash talk: IFL 12/29 card suffers setbacks
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Steve Cofield has a WEC post-fight event wrap-up on his site. If you have not subscribed yet to our Fight Opinion Radio RSS feed, go sign up now. Next week, we will be preparing for our annual Christmas Show marathon special. Now’s the time to get on board and subscribe to the feed. Abdul Mohamed […]
Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena card (updated 12/13)
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Fedor Emelianenko vs. Choi Hong-Man Kazuo Misaki vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Hidehiko Hasegawa vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai Shin’ya Aoki vs. JZ Calvan K-1 announced Bob Sapp vs. Bobby Ologun for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event.
Wednesday war room: WEC on Versus tonight
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Jeff Hamlin talks about Jens Pulver. Plus, everyone made weight for tonight’s WEC event. Check out this WEC event preview and make sure to get your fight predictions in at MMA Predictions. Video of Kimbo Slice on ESPN’s E:60 show yesterday. Two MMA HQ notes: 1) Go vote in the MMA HQ 2007 year-end MMA […]
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