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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold Note: As stated after PRIDE’s 9/10 Saitama event, the promotion will run their New Year’s Eve show at Saitama Super Arena. The idea with Mike Tyson is to have him fight in another country. That country is now thought to be Macau. For those who have followed PRIDE’s m.o. on a business […]
Ken Kaneko moves to HERO’s
Monday, September 18th, 2006Livedoor has a report that states that Japanese actor Ken Kaneko, who worked PRIDE’s 2005 New Year’s Eve show against Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett, is going to appear in HERO’s for the promotion’s October 9th event at Yokohama Arena.
Pancrase’s new star
Saturday, September 16th, 2006Seiji Sakaguchi’s son’s Pancrase debut makes top headlines on Yahoo Japan By Zach Arnold Yukio Sakaguchi, the 33-year son of former New Japan Pro-Wrestling President Seiji Sakaguchi, made his amateur debut on Saturday at Pancrase’s Differ Ariake show. He won his amateur fight by KO. There are big plans by Pancrase for him to make […]
Weekly Fight newspaper collapses
Monday, September 11th, 2006Yahoo Japan HP: “Pro-wrestling publication ‘Weekly Fight’ is ended” By Zach Arnold Kakutolog (in Japanese) has a shocking post about a media report in regards to the future of Weekly Fight, the weekly newspaper produced by Shin-Osaka Shimbun. The paper is being discontinued as of September 27th, which will apparently be the last issue of […]
Random PRIDE thoughts
Monday, September 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Thoughts after watching the Saitama event…
PRIDE 9/10 Saitama results
Saturday, September 9th, 2006Click on full-post link to read results. Special thanks to Burning Spirit for specific match times. A more detailed report of show results can be found here. The claimed paid attendance was 47,410. Post updated at 6:30 PM EST on 9/10.
World Wide Cage Network Formed
Friday, September 8th, 2006By Mark Pickering GCM Communications, parent company of Japan’s only cage fighting organisation D.O.G have announced the formation of a World Wide Cage Network. The network features promotions who have nurtured fighters and worked tirelessly towards the development of the sport. Five promotions have been announced for the provisionally named initiative – England’s Cage Warriors, […]
PRIDE event in Saitama
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Time to get predictions from everyone on the Grand Prix tournament fights. a) Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira – pick a winner b) Mirko Cro Cop vs. vanderlei Silva – pick a winner c) winner of a vs. winner of b – your tournament winner? Jeff Thaler commented on his site that the PRIDE […]
Did Jim Ross point the finger at K-1?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Several years ago, WWE announcer Jim Ross used to have a weekly column on the WWE site called “The Ross Report” that became controversial for many reasons, with one of those reasons being some of the cryptic comments he made in the reports. No matter what you thought about Ross and his […]
K-1’s message to PRIDE
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Today is the start of the heat-up for this weekend’s PRIDE show in Saitama (with two mega-matches on the card). Instead, K-1/HERO’s cleverly scheduled a press conference for today to announce a fight between Kazushi Sakuraba and Yoshihiro Akiyama in the second round of the HERO’s Light Heavyweight tournament (10/9 Yokohama Arena event). Shungo Oyama […]
Internal media speculation on Tyson
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Kakutolog (in Japanese) has a very interesting post about a Gendai Net report on PRIDE & Mike Tyson working together. More specifically, the supposed motives on PRIDE’s behalf for booking Tyson. The Gendai Net article claims that PRIDE’s real motive behind signing Mike Tyson (to an exhibition boxing match) is to try […]
Media focus on Mike Tyson
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold ESPN aired a segment on the Tuesday edition of their Outside the Lines: First Report show, focusing on the rise and fall of Mike Tyson. The segment, titled Split Decision by Jeremy Schaap, profiled Tyson’s latest antics in Las Vegas and whether or not his retirement from boxing was permanent. Tyson is […]
K-1 9/4 WORLD MAX event results
Monday, September 4th, 20069/4 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (9,950 claimed paid) Japanese results page. Satoruvashicoba defeated Taka Osamitsu in R1 in 55 seconds by KO (three knockdowns). Jordan Tai (New Zealand) defeated SHINOBU Tsogto Amara (Mongolia) after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-27, 30-28, 29-27). Mike Zambidis defeated TATSUJI after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-29 twice, […]
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