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Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The front page of Yahoo Japan’s HP has the link to a Sports Nippon newspaper report about Mike Tyson participating in PRIDE. Tyson is being marketed to the Japanese as PRIDE’s “big surprise” for their 10/21 Las Vegas event. Also in the report, Hidehiko Yoshida continued expressing his desire to open up […]
PRIDE 10/21 Las Vegas event
Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion announced Mark Coleman vs. Emelianenko Fedor and Kevin Randleman vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua as two of the matches for their 10/21 Thomas & Mack Center show in Las Vegas, Nevada. What makes the Coleman vs. Fedor announcement interesting is that a few days ago, the promotion indirectly (through Sankei Sports) […]
Inoki has advice for Kameda
Monday, August 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Antonio Inoki has had a storied career, and some of those highlights include his friendships with dictators. Before you consider that statement harsh, history shows that Mr. Inoki likes to extend himself to various characters — such as the Hussein sons in 1990 in Iraq (when he went there to get Japanese […]
Dana says Liddell/Silva unlikely to happen
Friday, August 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold CP (Canadian Press) reports that UFC is now postponing plans for a fight in November between Chuck Liddell and Vanderlei Silva. This news comes one month after Dana White announced on PPV (in Las Vegas) that Silva would fight Liddell. He cited problems in dealing with the Japan-based Pride Fighting Championships that […]
Big talk, little interest
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Consider this an opinion piece, if you liked to be warned in advance. For the last week or so, I’ve seen reports online about comments PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara has been making about how his guys would beat the UFC fighters. UFC, to their credit, has literally said nothing about any sort […]
K-1 & Lesnar in Las Vegas
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion has a show this weekend at the Bellagio Hotel, and Brock Lesnar is expected to appear at a press conference to announce his participation in an MMA match for HERO’s. 8/12 Vegas card line-up here. I know that there were several other promotions interested in his services, including one group […]
Updated K-1 9/4 Ariake Colosseum card
Wednesday, August 9th, 20069/4 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum: Kazuya Yasuhiro vs. Andy Ologun Genki Sudo vs. TBA Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Hiroki Shishido Hiroshiki Ishii vs. Ian Schaffa Hiroyuki Maeda vs. Remigijus Morkevicius Drago vs. Naoki Samukawa TATSUJI vs. Mike Zambidis HAYATO vs. Artur Kyshenko Takayuki Kohiruimaki vs. Andy Souwer Yoshihiro Sato vs. Albert Kraus
Techno Goliath versus The Paparazzi
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Digital Chosun has a report (in Japanese) about comments recently made by Choi Hong-Man. Hong-Man went on a SBS variety TV show (South Korean) on Monday and talked about being followed by the paparazzi. He told a story about how a Japanese magazine took a snapshot of him and a woman at […]
Resolution between Mirko & PRIDE?
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Vecernji List reports (translated on Sherdog) that a resolution between PRIDE & Mirko Cro Cop may have been reached. The dispute between Mirko and PRIDE involved money, more specifically whether or not he would get paid fight money for two fights if he won his first fight against Vanderlei Silva and then […]
HERO’s admits misjudgement
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last week turned out to be bittersweet for Tokyo Broadcasting System, which televised both the Koki Kameda fight (that drew monster ratings) and the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show, featuring the debut of Kazushi Sakuraba in the K-1 MMA ring. Both of those fights had controversy, but there was another fight on […]
Bushido 8/26 updated card line-up
Sunday, August 6th, 20068/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall (4 PM) Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Cristiano Marcello (Chute Boxe) Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Luciano Azevedo Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Eric “Butterbean” Esch Jeff Curran vs. Hioki Hatsu Shin’ya Aoki vs. Jason Black Gilbert Melendez vs. Nobuhiro Obiya Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Chris Brennan Welterweight Tournament: Denis Kang vs. Amar Suloev Welterweight Tournament: […]
Mirko out of open-weight tournament?
Saturday, August 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Reaction on the Nokaut site. This Croatian report indicates that Mirko Cro Cop is not working the PRIDE 9/10 Saitama Super Arena show. Sherdog claims it is a money issue. This is a very bad sign for PRIDE, even if the end result (which is likely Yoshida filling in, creating yet […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo review
Saturday, August 5th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum results | Kakuto.com show review Anyone who gets a chance to watch some of the matches, feel free to write a comment to this post. Update: On Sunday, Akira Maeda gave comments to the media about the Sakuraba fight. Maeda stated that bad decisions were made by the referee, judge, and […]
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