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PRIDE boss talks about UFC

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Nobuyuki Sakakibara interview notes: ‘If PRIDE wants to keep its No. 1 status, we all have to move to America.’ Of course, don’t tell the morons on the Sherdog forum that it was an interview done for Kami no Puroresu magazine (which is a clearing house for a lot of PRIDE information) and translated by […]

Fight Opinion Radio: The Christmas Show

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Six big MMA guests, five days of taping, four radio team members producing, three guest co-hosts for a segment, two weeks to produce, and one large three-plus hour-long Christmas radio show. An emergency room visit, a visit to the mental institution, armlocks in an American football scrum, Christmas shopping at the mall, and coming home […]

Weekly Fight boss dies

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

By Zach Arnold Yoshihiro Inoue, the main boss behind the Weekly Fight publication that debuted in 1967 (backed by Osaka Shimbun) and shut down a few months ago, died at the age of 72 on December 13th at 1 PM in Osaka. The publicly stated cause of death was stomach cancer. Inoue’s “children” (such as […]

Wednesday weekly notes

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

There is a lot going on behind the scenes that will come to fruition publicly in a couple of days. You will be pleased by what is being produced. Business Wire (PR): Andrei Arlovski gets top role in film Never Submit The News & Star (UK): Cage Rage star Rob Broughton praises Workington promoter BodogFight: […]

Updated K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome card

Monday, December 18th, 2006

More bizarreness from K-1. HERO’s rules: Genki Sudo vs. Jackson Page (is this Damacio Page?) K-1 rules: Musashi vs. Randy Kim HERO’s rules: Ken Kaneko vs. Andy Ologun HERO’s rules: Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Istvan Majoros (Hungary) HERO’s rules: Akebono vs. Giant Silva HERO’s rules: Hideo Tokoro vs. Royler Gracie HERO’s rules: Katsuhiko Nagata vs. […]

Latest Man Festival card line-up

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Yuki Kondo vs. Akihiro Gono PRIDE Heavyweight Title match: Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mark Hunt Takanori Gomi vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Mauricio Shogun Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Gilbert Melendez Shin’ya Aoki vs. Joachim Hansen Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Ikuhisa Minowa

Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 36 (History in the making)

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Simply put, an amazing near 3-hour show this week. With the many history-making events taking place this week in MMA, our show this week creates a complete, comprehensive look at the events that occured to make it such a newsworthy time period in Mixed Martial Arts. First, a complete recap of the Ultimate Fight Night […]

Latest Man Festival card

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

PRIDE Heavyweight Title Match: Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mark Hunt Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Ikuhisa Minowa Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Gilbert Melendez Shin’ya Aoki vs. Joachim Hansen Mauricio Shogun vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Takanori Gomi vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida

Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 35

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

We waste no time this week talking about the politics of the two major Japanese MMA events on NYE. How much heat will there be on Fedor & Cro Cop by various Japanese power brokers given their recent business manuevers? Our special guest this week is Josh Barnett, who addresses fact from fiction as far […]

Updated K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome card

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Here it is. Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kazushi Sakuraba Masato vs. Choi Yong-Soo Akebono vs. Giant Silva Katsuhiko Nagata vs. “Real Tiger Mask” Shuichiro Katsumura Hideo Tokoro vs. Royler Gracie

Updated Man Festival card

Monday, December 4th, 2006

PRIDE Heavyweight Title Match: Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mark Hunt Shin’ya Aoki vs. Joachim Hansen Gilbert Melendez vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Russia becomes the hot spot

Monday, December 4th, 2006

By Zach Arnold The last few days have been quite interesting in regards to Fedor and Bodog. Bodog and MFC are planning to run an event in St. Petersburg, Russia on 3/3. Fedor is scheduled to appear. This news, much like Gilbert Melendez announcing that he would face Tatsuya Kawajiri (instead of Shin’ya Aoki), appeared […]

Sunday media special

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

For the last 48 hours, I have been suffering from an amazing amount of information overload as far as media coverage. Don’t suffer the same fate, but do keep yourself updated on the latest MMA news & notes. Full-post view will do the trick. Also, if you haven’t already, listen to our newest edition of […]

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