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Sunday, August 12th, 2007In Japanese media circles, Ed Fishman’s appearance at the K-1 Las Vegas event on Saturday night drew some buzz. Ed said he received an invitation from K-1 to watch the show, so he did. It looks like K-1 is going to find a way to get Musashi onto the World GP show on 9/29 in […]
Sunday media stroll: Alexander wants to reach out to you
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Fightlinker needs some help with WordPress. E-mail him if you can help him out. Main results from tonight’s K-1 Las Vegas show: Stefan Leko defeated Mighty Mo after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-27 scores), Bjorn Bregy defeated Ray Sefo after 3R by a 2-1 judges’ decision, and Doug Viney (the New Zealander who […]
Friday fight headlines: Fighter rankings gone wild
Friday, August 10th, 2007Al Bundy on MMA. People in boxing don’t know how to respond to the rise of MMA in America. So, naturally, a cure has been found – let’s have a media-driven symposium called “Is Boxing Down for the Count?” and have a bunch of people who made millions in boxing explain why the industry isn’t […]
Thursday trash talk: The future of BodogFight
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007The current RSS feed for the WEC HP is here. However, as you notice on their HP, the feed is severely lagging behind the site updates. So, two questions: a) is this the correct RSS feed to be using and b) why is the current RSS feed lagging behind time-wise? Time for our stock market […]
Wednesday war room: Horse play
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007The estimable Dave Doyle comments on the CSAC reducing James Toney’s drug suspension from one year to six months in length: Or maybe they’re sending the worst signal of all: Maybe California’s commissioners are a pack of hypocrites with a glaring double standard. Maybe they’re just paying lip service to the notion of cracking down […]
Monday media marks: More UFC/dog fighting comparisons
Monday, August 6th, 2007I present to you the comments from one Bert Sugar in a recent interview: Toss Sugar a question and he fires back an opinion. I didn’t have to dig too deeply for his take on Ultimate Fighting. “I think it appeals to people with their hats turned backwards,” he said. “It’s the Michael Vick chosen […]
Saturday afternoon media special
Saturday, August 4th, 2007There’s a surprising amount of MMA media coverage today. The zone is flooded with content. Here’s our Saturday morning news update. On Any Given Saturday today, Luke Thomas interviewed Sherdog writer Jake Rossen. Show audio here. Also, Luke is also looking for guest bloggers next week to help fill in for him at Bloody Elbow. […]
Fight Opinion Radio #57: Josh Barnett
Saturday, August 4th, 2007A big 90-minute show this week. First, we go through the MMA calendar this month and preview some of the upcoming big fights in WEC & UFC. Second, we take a look at some of the absurd claims that Dana White made in a recent ESPN The Magazine interview. Our stance is pretty clear in […]
Saturday headlines: MMA at the Mansion
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Medical suspensions issued from the NJACB coming out of the IFL show this past Thursday night: Gerald Harris suspended 30 days and needs neurological examination, Bryan Vetell pending x-ray of left foot and opthamalogical exam of left eye, Tim Boetsch pending xray of right hand, David Phillips 60 days and needs neurological examination, Chris Clements […]
Friday fight notes: Just say no… to many things
Friday, August 3rd, 2007I’ve had a few readers who use the Safari browser state that they are having trouble loading this site. I’m not sure what is happening, but one trick to loading the site is to remove the www out of the URL. Try this instead and you should be fine. UFC and J-ROCK make a package […]
Wednesday war room: 9/19 UFC Fight Night card finalized
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Travis Lutter not fighting at UFC 74. Yokozuna Asashoryu suspended for playing soccer. More on the story here. Josh Gross defends his open letter to Dana White on Fight Network Radio. Ivan Canello has video of Fabio Silva vs. Ryo Kawamura. Here is the fight card for the 9/19 UFC Fight Night event. Bad news […]
Tuesday headlines: Catch wrestling fever
Monday, July 30th, 2007Kendall Grove prepares for UFC 74. A message from Antonio Inoki’s MySpace account (there is one for the IGF) on the death of Karl Gotch. Simon Inoki also released a statement. Josh Barnett also posted a statement. John Wood also has a post about Gotch. Here’s some information pertaining to the politics surrounding catch wrestling […]
Monday media marks: Fedor must make concessions for UFC?
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Quote of the day from 411 Mania: With due respect to both sides, this is really a bunch of needless whining. I’m sure the UFC would like nothing more than to throw a couple hundred thousand dollars at Fedor and have the number one fighter in the world in their pocket, and at the same […]
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