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Friday, July 21st, 2006We’re back (hopefully on a normal schedule) this week with a brand new Fight Opinion show, as the entire crew (Rob Sayers, Luke Nicholson, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold) discuss the latest news stories in MMA. We have an overlook on the UFC vs. PRIDE interpromotional battle, a preview of the WFA Los Angeles PPV […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Wednesday, July 19th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) Network – Tokyo Broadcasting System Card line-up: Light Heavyweight Tournament: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kin Tai Ei (Seido Kaikan) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Shungo Oyama vs. Rodrigo Gracie Light Heavyweight Tournament: Carlos Newton vs. Melvin Manhoef Kin Tai Ei fought in […]
Gendai: Gackt associated with DSE owner
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold This week’s edition of Shukan Gendai has a top story in their magazine, claiming that popular Japanese music artist Gackt (through the office he is employed with) is associated with Mr. I (Ishizaka), the alleged yakuza owner of PRIDE who is rumoredly hiding in South Korea. In short, attaching the name of […]
PRIDE 8/26 Bushido GP card
Tuesday, July 18th, 20068/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall card line-up: Kazuo Misaki vs. Dan Henderson Akihiro Gono vs. Gegard Mousasi Ryo Chonan vs. Paulo Filho Denis Kang vs. Amar Suloev
Stupid human tricks
Sunday, July 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold In the past few weeks, we’ve heard promos from both Kurt Angle (WWE) and Rhyno (TNA – video of his open challenge here) talking about how they would accept any challengers from a 4-sided, 6-sided, or 8-sided ring. This, of course, has set off a fury on MMA boards and has pro-wrestling […]
Developing revisionist history
Friday, July 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Friday, Josh Gross wrote an article on Sherdog titled Liddell vs. Silva: Why now? talking about the upcoming co-promotional matchmaking between PRIDE & UFC. The PRIDE source Gross quotes (and doesn’t dispute in the article) is engaged in amazing spin-doctoring, to the point that you start laughing at the claims being […]
PRIDE 9/10 Saitama
Thursday, July 13th, 2006The promotion announced Mirko Cro Cop vs. Vanderlei Silva and Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira as the semi-finals of the open-weight GP tournament, which take place on 9/10 at Saitama Super Arena.
K-1 Revenge 2006
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Update: K-1 announced on Friday that Bobby Ologun would participate on the 7/30 Sapporo show. 7/30 Sapporo, Makomanai Ice Arena card line-up: Akebono vs. Choi Hong-Man Remy Bonjasky vs. Mighty Mo Glaube Feitosa vs. Musashi Peter Aerts vs. Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge Poul Slowinski vs. Tatsufumi Tomihira Bjorn Bregy vs. Tsuyoshi Nakasako Yusuke Fujimoto vs. […]
Shukan Playboy: The bubble is bursting
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold This week’s edition of Shukan Playboy has a four-page spread titled who killed martial art movement? in English next to Japanese text asking what killed the Japanese kakutougi (MMA) boom. It’s a fairly complete article in terms of writing, with numerous sportswriters being quoted and all the facts being accurate. The main […]
Sapp – “I was betrayed by K-1”
Sunday, July 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold Bob Sapp held a press conference on Monday morning (Nikkan Sports report here with comments from Sapp’s lawyer, Michael Connette) at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Sapp told the press that he did not run away from fighting and that he wanted the fans to know the truth. He went […]
Potholes in Kings’ Road
Sunday, July 9th, 2006By Dave Ditch Four pro wrestlers have made headlines so far this month, and all of them have one thing in common: tours of All Japan Pro-Wrestling. Kenta Kobashi was trained there, debuted there, and became a top star there. He was first lauded as one of the best wrestlers in the world during the […]
PRIDE comments on UFC
Sunday, July 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold While Dana White was allegedly busy having security escort WFA President Jeremy Lappen out of the Mandalay Bay Events Center, PRIDE was busy posting a report on their web site about Vanderlei Silva’s appearance in the UFC octagon. PRIDE’s report clearly states “PRIDE x UFC” as a full-out promotional war, and raises […]
UFC vs. PRIDE
Saturday, July 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold UFC President Dana White announced Chuck Liddell vs. Vanderlei Silva to happen in November. Internet response to this story: Eddie Goldman | Whaledog | MMA HQ | Ivan Trembow Update: Commenter Torn Victor points out a report on Fox Sports that Vanderlei Silva has signed a 3-fight deal with the UFC. This […]
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