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Friday, March 23rd, 2007If anyone out there is an expert with WordPress on the technical side, e-mail me. Thanks. PRIDE’s Japanese HP is promoting a press conference for 3/27 (Tuesday) at 6 PM JST at Roppongi Hills Arena. It’s being marketed as an “important announcement” to be made to both fans and the mass media.
Meltzer: Sakakibara tells PRIDE staff the company is sold
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007Report here: –Nobuyuki Sakakibara yesterday told several members of the U.S. Pride staff that the company is in the proces of being sold to Lorenzo & Frank Fertitta. He said the agreement in principal is done but there are still some minor points to be worked out and the contract is not signed. Sakakibara said […]
Thursday legal talk: PRIDE, Fishman, and The Fertitta Brothers
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007By Zach Arnold On Jim Rome is Burning, ESPN TV personality Jim Rome announced that on his show tomorrow, PRIDE double-crown champion Dan Henderson will be on a correspondent’s segment. According to the Clark County Court District web site, judge Timothy C Williams has been assigned to the Fishman Companies vs. DSE case (case number […]
Ed Fishman interview on Sherdog radio
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007By Zach Arnold Some quick notes from the Ed Fishman interview on the Wednesday Beatdown Radio show.
Wednesday media workout – DanHen mania
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007It’s a busy media story day. The venerable Mike Sawyer sent me a ridiculous press release for Cage Fury Fighting Championship 5 show on June 16th at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Why is it ridiculous? The main event is a fight under MMA rules between boxer Ray Mercer and Kimbo Slice. We hear from […]
Fishman Companies vs. DSE
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007By Zach Arnold Fishman Companies (Ed Fishman), through attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Shreck P.C., filed a lawsuit in Clark County, Nevada on Monday against Dream Stage Entertainment Inc., Dream Stage Entertainment (Japanese branch), and “does i-x.” The “does i-x” is a generic term for unknown individuals related to PRIDE that the court can later […]
Ed Fishman lawsuit being finalized
Monday, March 19th, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: NHB News (Japanese) points out an article from publication Cyzo in which its writer makes the claim that PRIDE’s debts have increased since running shows in America and that the company could be one billion yen in debt. That would be roughly $8-9 million USD. UFC Junkie picked up on a […]
Monday MMA madness
Monday, March 19th, 2007News and notes We hear PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara is traveling to Las Vegas (and perhaps Brazil as well) in the coming days. I’m glad to see Japan is ahead of the curve on racial issues. The real black man in the picture is Andy Ologun. There is a brand new web site called MMA […]
Saturday news slate: More fighter unrest in PRIDE
Friday, March 16th, 2007Click on full-page view to see how fellow Fight Opinion writer and Bear Pit Japan member Tetsuya Sano did in his amateur shootboxing tournament today in Tokyo. Notes from a Sherdog video clip with IFL co-owner Kurt Otto: He says Bas Rutten will “make a special announcement” at the LA Forum show on Saturday (and […]
PRIDE 4/8 Saitama card
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Today, DSE announced three fights for their 4/8 Saitama Super Arena event — Shin’ya Aoki vs. Brian Lo-A-Njoe, Makoto Takimoto vs. Zelg Galesic, and Ricardo Arona vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou. Nobuyuki Sakakibara stated that the PRIDE 35 event (4/28 Las Vegas) was cancelled and that they would reschedule it for either early June in Japan […]
Thursday tabloid: Kiyoshi Tamura heading to HERO’s
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I’ve decided to use Feedburner for the RSS feeds. I will add these links and recommend you use them as opposed to the raw WP feeds on our site now, and hopefully the FeedBurner podcasting feed works out fine. Here are the links to use: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion – RSS for posts http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion/qHJU – RSS for comments […]
Wednesday fight notes – don’t make Bas Rutten angry
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I want to give special thanks to all of our readers in Singapore. If you are reading this and/or have any regional MMA-related news items, send me an e-mail. Congratulations to Aaron Crossen for becoming Editor-in-Chief of The Valley Vanguard newspaper. Now add more fight game coverage to the publication. Jeff Monson wrote on his […]
Tuesday MMA notes – Wanderlei Silva returns
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007A note to all F.O. Radio listeners. Boxer Johnny Tapia overdoses on cocaine.
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