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Saturday, April 7th, 2007Event review: Observer | Sherdog | MMA On Tap Post any thoughts you have on the show here. By far (to me), the most interesting theme of this show is how DSE is trying to put this show over as a tribute to Nobuyuki Sakakibara. Yesterday at the Japanese press conference, Akira Shoji said he […]
Friday media fix – Another Japanese love call for UFC
Friday, April 6th, 2007K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa issued a challenge to have a re-match between Royce Gracie and Matt Hughes for the LA Coliseum June 2nd event. The underlying theme of the challenge is Tanigawa provoking Dana White after Dana said on March 27th at Roppongi Hills Arena that any MMA group outside of UFC & PRIDE is […]
Thursday talking points: Dana White says UFC fans are rich
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007A very interesting report from KamiproHand (Kami no Puroresu), which claims that PRIDE producer Daisuke Sato (who worked closely with Nobuyuki Sakakibara & DSE for PRIDE event production) will stay on with Zuffa under the ‘new’ PRIDE. Sato was the man behind PRIDE Bushido events and part of the core matchmaking group of DSE. Will […]
K-1 4/4 Yokohama Arena event results
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Ameba presents K-1 WORLD MAX 2007 4/4 Yokohama Arena (claiming 11,628 paid) Results in Japanese Full-page view gets you the results.
Wednesday War Room: The Japanese message to UFC about PRIDE
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Printable version of this post at BoxingScene.com. Caleb (of The Fightworks Podcast fame) on whether or not UFC’s purchase of PRIDE is good for the sport for MMA. If the message sent by Shukan Gendai on Monday wasn’t loud enough to Zuffa management to hear, then the message sent by Akira Maeda […]
Akira Maeda calls out PRIDE
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007By Zach Arnold On the RINGS HP blog, HERO’s supervisor Akira Maeda wrote a controversial posting discussing PRIDE and the company’s behind-the-scenes activities. Maeda did so in a roundabout way. Gryphon noticed this posting and he thinks the mystery man Maeda is alluding to is Sakakibara. However, my personal guess he’s alluding to the now […]
Tuesday news turnover: UFC dominates headlines
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Dana White, quote machine: “Or, even better, I’ll put up a million dollars of my own money if Floyd Mayweather can sell more than 10 tickets without Oscar De La Hoya.” Jake Shannon has set up a new web site called UWF Bushido that will have all 75 episodes of the UWF-International documentary “Bushido: Way […]
Good cop, bad cop
Monday, April 2nd, 2007By Zach Arnold Yesterday, we alluded to Dana White playing ‘good cop’ in Daily Sports newspaper by openly discussing PRIDE needing their own rules. Today, we have Marc Ratner playing ‘bad cop’ in MMA Weekly by openly discussing how PRIDE fighters will need to adjust to the Unified rules (10-point must scoring system, no more […]
Monday mayhem: Thoughts on Shukan Gendai article
Monday, April 2nd, 2007By Zach Arnold Comments off Printable version over at BoxingScene.com First, if you haven’t listened to the brand new edition of FOR, go listen. It is an entertaining show that should fly by for 2 hours when you hear it. Everyone did great on the show. Second, make sure to read the latest Shukan Gendai […]
Shukan Gendai: Yakuza owner & problematic employee
Sunday, April 1st, 2007By Zach Arnold Printable version over at BoxingScene.com Kakutolog also read the Shukan Gendai article. Motoichiro Takasu also has thoughts about the subject (in Japanese). Today’s edition of Shukan Gendai (pages 34-37, no author byline) has a three-page article about the sale of PRIDE assets by Dream Stage Entertainment to Zuffa LLC/UFC. The title of […]
Fight Opinion Radio #44: Judo chop
Sunday, April 1st, 2007Two interesting interviews and guests this week on our two-hour program. First, the legendary “Judo” Gene LeBell stops by to talk about his Judo career, how he transitioned into pro-wrestling, and his world-famous encyclopedic hold books. Second, ProElite.com CEO Kelly Perdew stops by to talk about what plans Pro Elite and Elite XC have in […]
April Fool’s: Dana wants PRIDE rules?
Sunday, April 1st, 2007By Zach Arnold Does anyone have an event report or results from the Panther Fight League Genesis event that happened in Miami on Saturday? Dana White gave an ‘exclusive’ interview with Daily Sports newspaper in Japan on Saturday. The theme was a “kakutougi (MMA) Super Bowl.” The article says that Dana wants UFC and PRIDE […]