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Friday, January 12th, 2007Let me know if the RSS feeds are working or if you are having problems with them working for you. Sherdog: Nobuyuki Sakakibara says that Vince McMahon is his hero (and also spins fighter defections as a positive for PRIDE) Long Beach Press-Telegram: PRIDE is proud to announce big fight (Sakakibara claims that American MMA […]
Thursday media highlights
Thursday, January 11th, 2007Jordan Breen: Sakuraba vs. Akiyama from the 12/31 Osaka Dome show ruled a no-contest (Burning Spirit has more details in Japanese, which leaves an unfortunate impression that Akiyama is going to get roasted by the Japanese fans for using skin cream and another excuse to make racist remarks about him being part Korean. This scandal […]
K-1 World MAX 2007 Japan tournament card
Monday, January 8th, 20072/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (5:30 PM) K-1 HP listing Tournament fights Takayuki Kohiruiamki vs. Andy Ologun TATSUJI vs. HAYATO Hiroki Shishido vs. Keiji Ozaki Yoshihiro Sato vs. Yasuhito Shirasu Super Fight: Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. SHINOBU Tsogto Amara Reserve fight: Kazuya Yasuhiro vs. Satoruva Shicoba Also, K-1 announced a rules meeting for 1/9 (Tuesday) about […]
PRIDE 2007 schedule notes
Monday, January 1st, 2007The promotion announced the formation of a Super Heavyweight division (creating a Monster GP tournament). Schedule of event dates this year: 2/24 Las Vegas (PRIDE 33), 4/8 Saitama Super Arena (PRIDE 34), 4/28 Las Vegas, May (Saitama Super Arena – Lightweight GP), June in Los Angeles at the Staples Center (PRIDE 36), July in Nagoya […]
Ratings data
Monday, January 1st, 2007Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan announced the ratings for the Red & White Music Festival (Kohaku) program in Japan. The first part drew a 30.6% rating in the Kanto area (28.5% in the Kansai area), and the second part drew a 39.8% rating in the Kanto area (37.6% in the Kansai area). The numbers are […]
K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome Dynamite event
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Main card results here. If you have more results links, video clip links, etc. anything related to this show, post contributions in the comments area. Official show results can be seen in full-post view. The claimed attendance was 50,930 at the Osaka Dome. Genki Sudo indicated that he would retire after his fight with Jackson […]
PRIDE 12/31 Man Festival event results
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Full-post view gets you the latest match results. The claimed attendance for the Saitama event was 48,709. The Yoshida vs. James Thompson fight grabbed top headlines for PRIDE coverage (the K-1 event took a majority of the media coverage in Japan). PRIDE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara fielded questions from the media about Mirko Cro Cop leaving […]
Saturday news slate
Friday, December 29th, 2006Click on full-post view to see the media story links and the K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome card line-up in match order.
Mike Tyson arrested in Arizona
Friday, December 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold It sure looks like former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was undergoing rigorous training for his upcoming PRIDE fight in Macau, which was to be part of PRIDE’s triangulation plan to make inroads into the casino world. OK, so Tyson got arrested early Friday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona on charges of DUI […]
Order of matches on PRIDE 12/31
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Full-post view gets you the ordered line-up.
Tuesday media notes
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006Link: Evan Tanner creates his own web site Vecernji List: Mirko will make an announcement next Monday regarding his fighting career in America The Eagle-Tribune (Massachusetts): Eric Bradley signs contract with Showtime for Elite XC 2/10 event Canadian Press (via SLAM! Sports): UFC looks to expand chokehold on MMA No Holds Barred (radio): Meet the […]
New K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome card
Monday, December 25th, 2006Here we go. HERO’s rules: Tokimitsu Ishizawa (Kendo Ka Shin) vs. Kin Tai Ei Badr Hari vs. Nicolas Pettas Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kazushi Sakuraba Masato vs. Choi Yong-Soo Hideo Tokoro vs. Royler Gracie Norifumi “KID” Yamamoto vs. Istvan Majoros Musashi vs. Randy Kim Ken Kaneko vs. Andy Ologun Katsuhiko Nagata vs. Shuichiro Katsumura HERO’s rules: […]
Final card for Man Festival
Monday, December 25th, 2006Hidehiko Yoshida vs. James Thompson Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Eldari Kurtanidze Akihiro Gono vs. Yuki Kondo Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Ikuhisa Minowa Takanori Gomi vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida Mauricio Shogun vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Shin’ya Aoki vs. Joachim Hansen Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Gilbert Melendez PRIDE Heavyweight Title match: Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mark Hunt
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