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Friday, August 31st, 2007The headline that has everyone’s attention in Japan is a report in Tokyo Sports that K-1 made an offer of one billion yen to Asashoryu for an 8-fight MMA contract. K-1 denied the report. One of the more intriguing stories coming out of Japan is the future of DEEP. DEEP is ran by Shigeru Saeki, […]
Thursday trash talk: Jay Glazer is not welcome in Kentucky
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007When I was 13 years old, asking for secret sauce meant the mystery dipping condiment with your french fries. Now, secret sauce has a whole new meaning for 13 year olds. (Hat tip: Mikeinformer.) More reaction to this story can be found here. Plus, more discussion about steroids and UFC fighters. How MMA’s popularity is […]
Tuesday headlines: Rickson Gracie is returning
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007There is a brand new SEC filing by Pro Elite. Any new information in the filing? I did notice this gem on page 15: The material weaknesses noted were: (1) the Company inadequately maintained accounting records, (2) accounting policies and procedures were not formally documented, and (3) the accounting department did not have sufficient technical […]
Monday medical notes: Several fighters at UFC 74 injured
Monday, August 27th, 2007Quote of the day on ESPN TV: Washington Post sports columnist Michael Wilbon stating that he wants to see Randy Couture take on Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, nothing more or nothing less. In other words, Wilbon doesn’t want to see Randy fight anyone else. In a strange and funny way, he may have stumbled onto an […]
Dana White admits that PRIDE is dead
Sunday, August 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: One point that I forgot to mention in the initial point is that White’s public quote that the PRIDE assets are ‘tainted’ is going to perhaps raise some interest from the Nevada Gaming Commission. If there is one thing that the NGC does not like, it is any sort of connection […]
Friday fight notes: More steroid comments from Dana White
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Weekly Pro is reporting that Erik Paulson has been booked for the upcoming IGF (Inoki Genome Federation) event in Nagoya. Josh Barnett, Don Frye, Kiyoshi Tamura, Mark Coleman, and other MMA names are also scheduled to appear. Dana White continues his defense of Sean Sherk: “I don’t think he’s a liar,” said UFC president Dana […]
Monday maintenance: Lots of activity in the UK
Monday, August 20th, 2007K-1 announced Masato vs. Buakaw Por Pramuk for their 10/3 K-1 World MAX tournament show in Tokyo at Nippon Budokan. Just an embarassing article in Advertising Age parroting The Zuffa Myth. The author’s e-mail address is here. Here is the Cage Rage 23 card line-up, set for 9/22 in London. IFL TV is coming to […]
Sunday news review: Shooto lands in Orange County
Saturday, August 18th, 2007In the next couple of days, we will be launching a new site design. I expect a mixture of both positive and negative feedback to the re-design, but I feel that the new look will help our readers gather more information quickly on a daily basis. Because the new site format will be pulling links […]
Saturday headlines: K-1 is still confused
Friday, August 17th, 2007On the K-1 web site, you can vote on two all-star fighters advancing to their 9/29 Seoul, South Korea World GP event. Guess what is option five on the voting list? Zabit Samedov, who just got busted in Nevada for failing a drug test due to taking stanozolol. Brilliant timing. Then again, it’s K-1. Do […]
Friday fight notes: A bad week just got worse for K-1
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Two more drug test failures, this time coming out of K-1’s Las Vegas show over the weekend. Check out the T/E ratio for Nordstand – 21:1. This has been a disastrous week of PR for K-1. First, the failed drug tests. Second, the allegations that they falsified the MRIs of Choi Hong-Man so he could […]
Thursday trash talk: Say no, Sakuraba-san…
Thursday, August 16th, 2007A message to the guys at Komikazee – send me the files today that you tried to send earlier in the week (but didn’t work due to broken links). We’re opening up the mailbox for this week’s radio show. Any MMA-related topic on your mind that you want us to talk about during our mailbag […]
Wednesday war room: More red ink for the IFL
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007The IFL filed it’s 10-Q report with the SEC (links here and here). The numbers don’t lie. Pay attention to the comments section of this post, as I expect a lot of our smart financial readers to chomp into the data here. Here’s the first thing that stands out from the latest 10-Q: For the […]
Tuesday news and notes: Bringing the heat against Karo Parisyan
Monday, August 13th, 2007K-1 just announced that Minowaman will face Ralek Gracie at the HERO’s 9/17 Yokohama Arena show. Also on the 9/17 Yokohama card is JZ Calvan vs. Vitor “Shaolin” Ribiero and Black Mamba vs. Kaoru Uno in Middleweight tournament matches. I have a new post at Bloody Elbow talking about a topic that an advertising geek […]
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