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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Mainichi Daily News: Kameda may relinquish title and move on, boxing gym president hints Keiichiro Kanehira, the president of the boxing gym to which world light flyweight champion Koki Kameda belongs, has hinted that Kameda may give up his crown without defending it. Speaking in a news conference Thursday, Kanehira suggested that Kameda, who won […]
Final HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Thursday, August 3rd, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) HERO’s rules: Kotetsu Boku vs. Alexandre Franca Nogueira HERO’s rules: Semmy Schilt vs. Kim Min Soo Middleweight Tournament: Hideo Tokoro vs. Ivan Menjivar Middleweight Tournament: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. JZ Calvan (Gesias Calvancanti) Middleweight Tournament: Kazuya Yasuhiro vs. Rani Yahira Middleweight Tournament: Kaoru Uno vs. Black Mamba Light Heavyweight Tournament: […]
Kameda equals Mr. Ratings
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan announced on Thursday afternoon that the WBA Light Flyweight Title fight between Koki Kameda and Juan Jose Landaeta of Venezuela drew a 42.4% TV rating in the Kanto region (Tokyo area) on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network. The highest peak rating for the match was 52.9%. These ratings are astronomical. […]
Kameda wins in Yokohama
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Image credit: Sports Navigator Koki Kameda defeated Juan Jose Landaeta of Venezuela tonight (August 2nd) at Yokohama Arena by split decision to win the WBA World Light Flyweight title. The fight aired live (start time – 8:40 PM) on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network. Judges scores can be found here. The reaction of Kameda’s split […]
Good cop, bad cop
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006So you want to hang out with Josh Barnett? Our first stop was Akihabara, the holy-land for “otaku” [“fanatics”]. Although we went there so Josh could be interviewed by a sports newspaper, the first thing Josh spotted was a life-sized figure of the comic Fist of the North Star’s hero, Kenshiro. Josh, a huge Fist […]
Japanese MMA notes
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Satoru Kitaoka vs. Paul “Semtex” Daley was announced for Pancrase’s 8/27 Yokohama Bunka Gym show. Don Frye vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto was announced for HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum show. GCM Communications announced that a special “best bouts” episode of D.O.G. cage matches will air on TV Tokyo on 8/13 from 2:45-3:35 AM JST.
Kameda’s next test
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Tomorrow at Yokohama Arena, the headliner is Koki Kameda vs. Juan Jose Landaeta (Venezuela) for the vacant WBA Light Flyweight Title. With little MMA or pro-wrestling activity right now, boxing has dominated the Japanese news wires. Kameda hasn’t changed his heelish act, as he and Landaeta had a staredown today after the weigh-ins. The day […]
K-1 7/30 Sapporo report
Sunday, July 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today was K-1’s first show on Fuji TV since the departure of chief producer Kunio Kiyohara, who was demoted in the FujiSankei conglomerate due to the yakuza scandal. K-1 drew a reported crowd of 8,390 paid at Makomanai Ice Arena in Sapporo, with Glaube Feitosa defeating Musashi by a unanimous decision in […]
K-1 & PRIDE notes
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Butterbean was announced for the 8/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall Bushido show. Minowa and Josh Barnett had a PR session today in Japan, which garnered big attention. What makes the Butterbean announcement interesting is that he is scheduled to fight two weeks before the show, on August 12th. The 300-plus-pound former boxer […]
Techno Goliath leaving K-1?
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Dong-A Ilbo in South Korea reports that Choi Hong-Man may be negotiating out of his contract with K-1. Money quote: A close associate of Choi commented about his future, “If he dislikes the contract with K-1, he might seek another way.†Choi will start negotiations on his contract at the end of […]
PRIDE 8/26 Bushido updated card
Monday, July 24th, 2006An update to the first announced matches. Here are the new matches: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Chris Brennan Gilbert Melendez vs. Nobuhiro Obiya Shin’ya Aoki vs. Jason Black (Miletich) Jeff Curran vs. Hioki Hatsu
KID leaves MMA
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto has left the world of MMA to return to wrestling. His sights are set for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing (free-style wrestling), preparing to participate in the 60 kg. weight class. Yamamoto said that he decided to make this decision based on the fact that he is 29 years old and he […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card finalized
Friday, July 21st, 2006A press conference was held on Saturday to announce the participation of Kaoru Uno, Hiroyuki Takaya, and Hideo Tokoro for the Middleweight tournament (8/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum event). Genki Sudo will not work the show due to injury (K-1 claims Sudo has a herniated disc, causing numbness in his left hand). Updated 8/5 Tokyo card […]
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