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Thursday, September 20th, 2007Wednesday war room: Heat-up for UFC Fight Night
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Weigh-in results for the UFC Fight Night show that will take place Wednesday night in Las Vegas. A complete event preview is here. The Vancouver Sun says that the city council will ponder future of ‘human cockfighting.’ The paper claims that the city council will have a report claiming MMA is more violent than boxing. […]
Tuesday headlines: Referees gone wild
Monday, September 17th, 2007Our good friend Tetsuya Sano participated in an amateur shootboxing event in Tokyo this past weekend. Check out his matches here, here, and here. The event was covered by Sports Navigator. The Deseret News in Utah is reporting that Brigham Young University (BYU) has banned The Versus Network on campus because the channel airs MMA […]
HERO’s 9/17 Yokohama Arena
Sunday, September 16th, 2007JZ Calvan repeats as Middleweight champion. Claimed attendance was 12,310 at Yokohama Arena. Some more news and notes here. Official results here. How the event played out in the Japanese media… Sankei Sports notes that the event was a nice springboard for New Year’s Eve, with the major names likely being Sakuraba, Yamamoto, Akiyama, and […]
HERO’s 9/16 Yokohama Arena presser
Sunday, September 16th, 2007First interesting item is that Shaolin failed making weight the first time around, being 1.3 kg over the weight limit for his fight against JZ Calvan. The promotion announced that Rickson Gracie will appear at the 9/17 Yokohama Arena event. The official match-order for tomorrow’s show: Middleweight Tournament reserve fight: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Harvey Harra […]
Saturday house call: AMA joins BMA in angst about MMA
Friday, September 14th, 2007Blowback to the BMA’s call for banning MMA. You can now count the Australian Medical Association expressing concern about MMA. An AMA spokesman says he doesn’t ‘condone’ MMA, which is nice and flowery to say. 🙂 Dave Meltzer has an article at Fox Sports profiling Gina Carano. One of the things about her that writers […]
Wednesday war room: Does the MMA media kill negative stories?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007The Chicago Sun Times is reporting this morning that Illinois Governor Blagojevich has signed state legislation to sanction MMA starting in 2008. More on the story here. Here’s a report claiming that Michael Bisping’s father was attacked in the 02 Arena car park. Michael himself also has some comments to add to the discussion. UFC […]
Tuesday turmoil: More on UFC 75 and Bisping/Hamill
Monday, September 10th, 2007Real live MMA and fighting happening in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Surely, Jordan Breen is on the case. K-1 announced Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem and Fabio Silva vs. Melvin Manhoef for their 9/17 Yokohama Arena event. Kharitonov was promoted in Japan today as being associated with Volk Han. Sports Illustrated has an article claiming that […]
Report: Hidehiko Yoshida may appear at Dynamite
Sunday, September 9th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports is reporting that Hidehiko Yoshida is considering an offer to appear at the K-1 Dynamite New Year’s Eve event. Yoshida was quoted as saying that he wanted to fight before the end of the year and that he is leaving any future career decisions to the J-ROCK office to determine. […]
Saturday headlines: UFC 75 previews galore
Friday, September 7th, 2007Zab Judah defeated Edwin Vazquez in a rather uninspiring fight at the Hard Rock Biloxi on Friday night. Lamont Peterson defeated Frankie Santos in the main event (telecasted on ESPN2 TV). The 4th CAGE FORCE event took place today in Tokyo at Differ Ariake. Main results: In a Lightweight tournament match Kotetsu Boku defeated Eiji […]
K-1 9/29 Seoul & Pancrase 10/14 Tokyo cards
Thursday, September 6th, 2007K-1 World GP 2007 in Seoul FINAL 16 9/29 Seoul Olympic Gym #1 (5 PM) Peter Aerts vs. Ray Sefo Jerome Le Banner vs. Ruslan Karaev Yusuke Fujimoto vs. Junichi Sawayashiki Remy Bonjasky vs. Stefan Leko Semmy Schilt vs. Paul Slowinski Glaube Feitosa vs. Chalid “Die Faut” Arrab Badr Hari vs. Doug Viney Choi Hong-Man […]
Thursday trash talk: Not interested in UFC 75? You have a problem
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Adam Morgan is moving on from Fight Opinion to 411 Mania. I wish Adam a lot of luck and hope he does well with his new job. Tonight, Luke Thomas is interviewed Jon Fitch on his radio show starting at 10 PM EST. Details here. The phone number to call in is 646-478-5091. I want […]
Monday madness: Mark Cuban wants Fedor
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Your top headline of the day – Mark Cuban wants to do business with Fedor. I don’t know whether to be excited or scared about this. I’m more worried about Cuban in as far as doing business in the fight industry, especially with some of the characters we’ve seen on display from the world of […]
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