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Thursday, October 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan) is reporting tonight (Thursday night Japanese time) that Jamie Pollack, the Zuffa-appointed legal advisor who went to Japan shortly after Lorenzo Fertitta purchased the assets of PRIDE from Dream Stage Entertainment, has shut down the PRIDE FC Worldwide office in Tokyo. Furthermore, the report claims that Pollack fired […]
Thursday trash talk: K-1 GP TV ratings down from past years
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Dave Meltzer at Fox Sports asks if Michael Bisping is a big-enough name to headline a UFC show in Newark, New Jersey. Rashad Evans has comments about his upcoming fight in The Newark Star-Ledger. Take a look at the ticket prices UFC is asking for at the event. Adam Morgan shares the same sentiments as […]
Wednesday war room: Bickering about UFC’s money
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Adam Swift has a new article about some alleged political tension between Zuffa LLC (UFC) and certain fighters. One thing I will comment on regarding the PRIDE fighters getting paid fairly well for guaranteed money is that the way UFC treated the top PRIDE guys is similar to how Vince McMahon treats outsiders he wants […]
Tuesday (10/2) reading material
Monday, October 1st, 2007Kazuhiro Nakamura ended up being the only fighter (so far) from the UFC 76 show suspended for failing a drug test (marijuana). Anthony Johnson, Rich Clementi, Thiago Tavares, Tyson Griffin, and Ryoto Machida tested negative for anabolics, masking agents, diuretics, or drugs of abuse. A third batch of testing results from fighters on the show […]
K-1 12/8 Yokohama Arena card line-up
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Line-up as follows: Jerome Le Banner vs. Choi Hong-Man Semmy Schilt vs. Glaube Feitosa Badr Hari vs. Remy Bonjasky Peter Aerts vs. Junichi Sawayashiki
Friday fight notes: Fedor turns 31
Friday, September 28th, 2007Today is Fedor’s 31st birthday. If you haven’t already listened to this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio, go listen now. Quietly, K-1 is preparing for their World GP event in Seoul, South Korea this weekend. The latest on Kazuhiro Nakamura: Though he resisted, Nakamura was taken to a hospital for precautionary measures after complaining […]
J-ROCK comments on Kazuhiro Nakamura drug suspension
Thursday, September 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: I made an appearance on Fight Network Radio (audio here) on Thursday to discuss the Nakamura situation and how it’s playing out in Japan. J-ROCK, the management team of Kazuhiro Nakamura, fired back at the California State Athletic Commission in the Japanese press on Thursday. The company released a statement on […]
Thursday trash talk: How will the Japanese media cover Nakamura’s failed drug test?
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007There are multiple news reports that Kazuhiro Nakamura tested positive for marijuana. By North American standards, this would be just looked upon as stupid. However, by Japanese standards, this will be a story of much larger importance given their cultural standards on marijuana usage (hint: it’s really considered bad in Japan). There’s two ways this […]
Fight Opinion Radio #63: Frank Shamrock
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007A big two-hour radio show this week. First, we are joined by Tomer Chen to talk about the fallout from UFC 76. Our focus is on how the current North American MMA judges could be trained better and what ways could be implemented to improve the effectiveness of the 10-point must system. Second, we have […]
Wednesday war room: Where’s my PRIDE?
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007The opponent Akihiro Gono will be fighting at UFC 78 is Tamden McCrory. Information on the next ShoXC card. How much did it cost Pro Elite to buy out Future Fight Productions, Inc. (Icon Sport) of Hawaii? The data can be found here and here. In total: $350,000 USD in cash, 200,000 restricted PE shares […]
Tuesday turmoil: Mainstream media questions if Liddell was all hype and no substance
Monday, September 24th, 2007Does anyone know of alternates to Feedity for creating RSS feeds that does not require creating an account or going through the hassle of registration? Chuck Liddell = $500,000 USD. Keith Jardine = $14,000 USD. Well. Useless stat of the day – if you combine the listed fight purse money for the main event, Chuck […]
UFC 76 – the aftermath
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports attended the UFC 76 post-fight press conference. Some highlights: White launched into a tirade against the PRIDE fan boys and the Internet sites he said who encourage them to denigrate the UFC. “I want to say something and everybody knows how I’ve felt for years about these goofy Internet websites,” […]
K-1 feeling heat in South Korean media
Friday, September 21st, 2007By Zach Arnold Famous Japanese blogger Gryphon pointed out a major negative TV story in South Korean media about K-1. Please read Gryphon’s post first. After you read his post, you will notice that he had a site commenter named MD Han who said that he watched the show in question. He then sent Gryphon […]
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