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Thursday, May 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion announced Makoto Takimoto vs. Gegard Mousasi (Red Devil International) and Ryo Chonan vs. Joey Villasenor as the first two matches on the 6/4 Saitama Super Arena show. The fighters slotted for the Welterweight tournament are: Akihiro Gono, Kazuo Misaki, Yoon Dong Sik, Denis Kang, Paulo Filho, Phil Baroni, Murilo Ninja, […]
MMA fighting robots
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The trend is gaining traction in Japan and South Korea. Meet your new fighting robots. Here’s a SK article in Japanese talking about South Korean & Japanese fight robots, specifically in regards to a recent tournament called the Robo-One Grand Prix 2006 in which the Japanese robot won by KO. The event […]
Gendai: Company supplied PRIDE owner with mansion
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold A summary transcript of this week’s Shukan Gendai article about PRIDE, Fuji TV, and Nippon TV.
Are changes coming on New Year’s Eve?
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold The MMA wars (K-1 and PRIDE, with Inoki in 2003) have become a TV programming staple in Japan on New Year’s Eve since 2001. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent by the major networks (Tokyo Broadcasting System, Nippon TV, and Fuji TV) to compete with NHK’s Kohaku (Red & White […]
Who will fall next?
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold Earlier this morning, reports surfaced that major members of the powerful Goto-gumi yakuza group were arrested. Just minutes ago, Nikkan Sports released a more detailed news article. The news outlet discusses, in passing, the influence of Goto-gumi on the fight game in Japan (something I alluded to on the message board). The […]
TV Ratings
Sunday, May 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold There’s a wrestler in Puerto Rico named “Mr. Raytings” Ray Gonzalez. Now, meet Japan’s version of Mr. Ratings. 19-year old boxing star Koki Kameda, who’s May 5th fight was broadcasted on Tokyo Broadcasting System, drew a 40.8% QH peak rating according to Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). The overall average rating was a […]
Gendai fires back at DSE
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara responded with legal threats a couple of days ago in response to the long-term campaign of allegations made against him by Shukan Gendai in relation to yakuza influence. However, these new threats clearly have not deterred Kodansha (the publisher of Gendai) from their aggressive article series against DSE. […]
PRIDE 5/5 Osaka Dome results
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Click on the post link to read the show results.
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 17 (Sakuraba leaves PRIDE)
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Kazushi Sakuraba & Akira Maeda (5/4/2006). Photo credit: Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). This week’s one-hour show with Rob Sayers and Zach Arnold focuses on Kazushi Sakuraba’s departure from PRIDE to HERO’s. The original intent of this week’s show was to preview the PRIDE 5/5 Osaka Dome show, but Sakuraba’s departure clearly has overshadowed everything else […]
Hero on the HERO’s ring
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Tetsuya Sano ã¨ã„ã†è¨³ã§é«˜ç”°é“å ´ã‚’é€€å›£ã—ãŸPRIDEã®ã‚·ãƒ³ãƒœãƒ«æ¡œåºå’Œå¿—ã•ã‚“。 å½¼ã«éžå¸¸ã«ã‚ˆãä¼¼ãŸã‚¿ã‚¤ã‚¬ãƒ¼ãƒžã‚¹ã‚¯ãŒå‰ç”°æ—¥æ˜Žã•ã‚“ã«ã‚ˆã£ã¦ HEROSã®ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã«æ‹›ã入れられã¾ã—ãŸã€‚ PRIDE’symbol Kazushi Sakuraba-san left Takada dojo. Tonight, Akira Maeda introduced us a mask man “Tiger Mask”=Kazushi Sakuraba. Hero was on the HEROs ring. ãã—ã¦ã€ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã§ã¯å½¼ã®ã‚¤ãƒ³ã‚¿ãƒ“ューã€ãƒžã‚¤ã‚¯ãƒ‘フォーマンスãŒè¡Œã‚ã‚Œã¾ã—ãŸãŒ HEROSå‡ºå ´ã®æ˜Žè¨€ã¯æœ€å¾Œã¾ã§ã‚ã‚Šã¾ã›ã‚“ã§ã—ãŸã€‚ And there were his interview by TBS anouncer and the mask man’mike performance. But he didn’t say “I’ll fight here” clearly.
Sakakibara’s new response to Gendai & Kawamata
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara issued a statement on the PRIDE HP about Shukan Gendai & Seiya Kawamata. In the statement, Sakakibara says the following: DSE & PRIDE are not backed by yakuza money Kawamata’s testimony and claims are one-sided and false The statements that Kawamata & Gendai have made are frustrating and […]
Sakuraba jumps from PRIDE to HERO’s
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold A few hours ago, rumors were flying about an “explosive surprise” that K-1 boss Sadaharu Tanigawa promised to have at the Yoyogi show. The first word of this came in a Tarzan Yamamoto column. The rumors are substantiated now, and that Kazushi Sakuraba (who, over the weekend, left the DSE-ran Takada Dojo) […]
PRIDE 5/5 Osaka preview show
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Tomorrow, Rob Sayers & I will do a quick preview of the 5/5 Osaka Dome show. We’ll go over the last-minute line-ups, the arrival of fighters in Japan, the media coverage, the circumstances surrounding the booking of the show and money, plus we’ll keep our eyes on whether or not Yosuke Nishijima […]
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