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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007From Sports Navigator (w/ Jordan Breen): Preliminaries Lightweights: Junichi Ota vs. Hiroshi Takita Featherweights: Yuji Arakawa vs. Seiya Kawahara Main card Middleweights: Yukiya Naito vs. Takenori Sato Lightweights: ISE vs. Takahito Iida Bantamweights: Kenji Osawa vs. Punchy Yamauchi 57 kg: Yasuhuri Urushitani vs. Jesse Taitano Lightweights: Mizuto Hirota vs. Sing Do Gi Cage Force Welterweight […]
Hiromi Amada facing assault charges
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Mainichi Daily News is reporting that 34-year old Hiromi Amada is facing possible charges of beating up a truck driver after the truck supposedly almost hit him while he was riding his bicycle. What isn’t written in the Mainichi article, at least according to Nikkan Sports, is that Amada was returning home after working at […]
Tuesday headlines: More media reaction to UFC 78
Monday, November 19th, 2007There is a lot of activity this week for MMA events. Eddie Goldman discusses the latest news in the firing of Larry Hazzard from the NJACB. Dave Meltzer on why UFC 78 didn’t validate anyone. MMA Analyst elaborates further. Plus, Fightmetric analysis of Rashad Evans vs. Michael Bisping. Here is a new edition of Fox […]
Monday media notes: Fallout from Strikeforce event in San Jose
Monday, November 19th, 2007Mike Tyson sentenced to jail for 24 hours. Joe Doerksen has a broken orbital bone. MMA California has two articles (here and here) talking about last Friday’s StrikeForce event in San Jose. Dave Meltzer has an article about Cung Le’s win. Meltzer says the SF show drew 8,233 fans at the old San Jose Arena […]
Friday fight notes: Fedor coming to Japan
Friday, November 16th, 2007If you have not listened to the latest edition of Fight Opinion Radio, go download the show. Dana White says that he will meet with Randy Couture next week. Alex Marvez has more information. There has been strong rumors about an MMA event happening at Saitama Super Arena on NYE (it would allegedly happen at […]
Monday evening update (11/12)
Monday, November 12th, 2007Mike Sawyer and Oliver Copp are back with a new edition of their MMA radio show. Video of Joachim Hansen vs. Eiji Mitsuoka. The folks at Fightmetric want your feedback. Notes from today’s UFC 78 conference call. Dana White’s decided that if Sherk loses his appeal with the CSAC, he’ll strip him of the title. […]
Monday media notes: The MMA world outside of UFC
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Today is the 14th anniversary of the first UFC show produced. Jess Liaudin says that he will KO Marcus Davis at UFC 80. Another reason for Mike Pyle to be upset – ABC News has an article about the role of women in MMA. The San Antonio MMA event (promoted by Jesse James Leija) drew […]
Sunday news review: Defending UFC 78’s main event
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Hikaru Sato vs. Josh Barnett was announced by Pancrase for the promotion’s 12/22 Differ Ariake show in Tokyo. The fight will be under catch wrestling rules (two 5-minute rounds). Sato seems interested in costume play. Dana White defending the booking of Michael Bisping vs. Rashad Evans: “Chuck Liddell is the biggest superstar in mixed martial […]
Saturday fight slate: Boxing & MMA take center stage
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Dave Meltzer talks about how Elite XC hired Kimbo Slice. Plus, weigh-in notes from Corpus Christi. Jake Shields has signed a new deal with EXC. Here is another event preview for Saturday’s EXC event in Texas. Make sure to get your EXC event predictions in at MMA Predictions. Two articles in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times […]
Thursday random notes (11/8)
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Hotmail has changed over to its new Windows Live format (which is hideous). Does anyone know how to turn off the “rich text” format for e-mails and go to a text-based format? I didn’t see it anywhere in the options panel. From the CSAC: Jennifer Tate, who last competed for Pro Elite on October 26, […]
Wednesday war room: Sean Sherk put on hold, again
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Jeff Thaler & Zach Arnold appeared at the first annual Jarry Park MMA awards. Well, as much as you can appear on an Internet radio show. Ken Shamrock made an appearance on Fight Network Radio (audio here). Spike TV is home to UFC and Takeru Kobayashi of Major League Eating. (Hat tip: Mikeinformer.) Todd Martin […]
Report: Old DSE staff wants to book Fedor in Japan
Sunday, November 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports is reporting that old DSE staff is preparing for a double-header on New Year’s Eve at Saitama Super Arena (with a Hustle pro-wrestling show during the afternoon and an MMA event at night). The paper claims that there is great interest in booking Fedor for the MMA event. The news […]
Friday fight news: IFL GP is tomorrow
Friday, November 2nd, 2007New MMA figurines. Jens Pulver and Frankie Edgar will be participating in a charity event in Trenton (New Jersey) on 11/7. Rashad Evens garnering headlines in The Sun. Tomorrow is the IFL’s live television event (MyNetworkTV). American viewers will see one hour live, while Canadian viewers will get to watch two hours of live programming. […]
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