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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006Gryphon: Semmy Schilt defeats Peter Aerts by decision to win the K-1 World GP 2006 tournament at the Tokyo Dome MMA Rants: Does Dana White mean it this time? Tonight, at ICE 24 in Cincinnati at the Mills Mall, Rich Franklin will guest referee an MMA card “featuring Hamilton County Sheriff Rod “Excessive Force” Housley.” […]
K-1 12/2 Tokyo Dome event
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Next week, K-1 has their World GP 2006 finals at the Tokyo Dome. Out of all of the major pro-wrestling, MMA, and kickboxing events that the Tokyo Dome has held, this may in fact be one of the most quiet build-ups to a Tokyo Dome show I’ve seen. In fact, off the top of my […]
Friday media round-up
Friday, November 24th, 2006Fox Sports: The Weekly Tapout – King Georges is crowned New York Times: A Boxing Regulator Changes Corners (article about Marc Ratner) UFC HP: Three new fights added to UFC 66 12/30 Las Vegas event Manila Bulletin (Philippines): Manny Pacquiao advised to go freelance (and not sign with a specific promoter) Boxing Scene: Mike Tyson […]
NYE TV schedule
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006Burning Spirit notes a news item from the January 2007 edition of The Television magazine. The magazine published the New Year’s Eve TV schedule. For TV-Asahi, the following is listed: Doraemon Special (18:00-20:00), TV Tackle Nagata-cho Special (20:00-on). For Nippon TV: Weekender Special (19:00-21:00). TV-Tokyo will have a Gaea year-end party special. None of the […]
The scandal that never dies
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Comments off No, the title of this post isn’t referring to the PRIDE vs. Shukan Gendai yakuza allegations war of words. We’re talking about the infamous K-1 corporate tax scandal under the tenure of Kazuyoshi Ishii.
Fedor vs. Hunt
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006That is your main event for the PRIDE Heavyweight Title on 12/31 at Saitama Super Arena. What is your first reaction to the announcement of Fedor vs. Hunt on NYE? This is the best match possible Wanted to see Fedor vs. Mirko Wanted to see Fedor vs. Barnett Wanted to see Fedor vs. Nogueira Wanted […]
Report: Noboru Yamaguchi out
Sunday, November 19th, 2006Comments off Consider this insider baseball-style news. It is intriguing news, however, if you follow the inside politics of DSE and the Japanese fight industry. NHB News has an item claiming that Noboru Yamaguchi, main editor of Kami no Puroresu (a magazine very much supportive of PRIDE, and sometimes K-1 on a smaller scale), is […]
PRIDE Otoko Matsuri 2006
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Fighters announced today (who will participate on the 12/31 Saitama Super Arena show): Emelianenko Fedor, Mark Hunt, Mirko Cro Cop, Josh Barnett, Vanderlei Silva, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Hidehiko Yoshida, Kazuyuki Fujita, Takanori Gomi, Mauricio Shogun, and Dan Henderson. Tickets go on sale this Sunday starting at 10 AM.
Monday news round-up
Monday, November 13th, 2006Lots of various rumors, stories, and news items of interest to everyone. Including Fedor news. Video of Werdum vs. Aleksander from the 2H2H event. The top story is a report on Boxing Talk claiming that Showtime is going to work with JD Penn (of Rumble on the Rock fame) to produce MMA events on the […]
Quick IFL & PRIDE thoughts
Sunday, November 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s an odd headline (one of those stories with a “make of it what you will” warning) from Burning Spirit… All the entries for Yuji Shimada’s online blog are gone. Mr. Full (of Burning Spirit) speculates that either Shimada stopped the blog because he didn’t have the time to keep it updated […]
Angle and Lesnar in HEROs?
Saturday, November 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Comments on Two interesting reports. First, Mike Sawyer in an audio interview at F4W Online reported that Brock Lesnar is scheduled to make his MMA debut for the HERO’s promotion in February. The show is apparently set for Las Vegas. That same month, UFC has their Super Bowl weekend event in early […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 31
Friday, November 10th, 2006One guest. One name. Frank Shamrock. This week on Fight Opinion Radio. Additional topics discussed on the show include: Mauro Ranallo leaving PRIDE, Kevin Randleman allegedly fails an NSAC drug test, plus the world-famous Grab Bag (including an explanation on why women love Emelianenko Fedor). And, oh yeah, by the way… Mr. Shamrock says he […]
Mauro Ranallo leaves PRIDE
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Comments off The Fight Network reports that announcer Mauro Ranallo has left PRIDE in what Loretta Hunt indicates is a “re-organization of PRIDE’s Los Angeles offices in the coming weeks.” Fight Report: PRIDE’s ship continues to sink as Ranallo bails out MMA Toronto: Mauro Ranallo gone from PRIDE On October 22nd, the day after PRIDE’s […]
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