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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold Mainichi Daily News reports that former tabloid writer Takashi Nishizawa will have to testify on Tuesday, April 4th in front of the members of the Diet. As we’ve discussed in the last few days, this could be fun to watch. On a media sidenote, today the press was focused on the upcoming […]
Onita is back in puroresu
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Wakuda: Testifying is violation of rights
Monday, March 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Friday, we documented the hot political case in Japan over a phony e-mail and how the scandal had tangential connections to the fight industry. We noted that in the phony e-mail case, lawyer Osamu Wakuda was representing Takashi Nishizawa, who is accused to writing the fake e-mail. The reason we noted […]
Bushido 4/2 Ariake Colosseum match order
Monday, March 27th, 2006This week is likely going to be low-key in regards to Japanese PR for the Bushido 10 event. The gaijin will fly in on Tuesday and Wednesday (Narita Airport). DSE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara has not been seen in front of the cameras (so far). The match order for this Sunday’s line-up: Yves Edwards vs. Seichi […]
Japan’s hottest political scandal
Friday, March 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold For the last month, the biggest political story in Japan has revolved around a phony e-mail. Liberal Democratic Party politician Hisayasu Nagata made the claim that he had an e-mail implicating a financial link between the son of an LDP politician and former Livedoor President Takafumi Horie. See the reports in The […]
Two HERO’s tournaments in 2006
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006Akira Maeda announced two tournaments in HERO’s for 2006 – an 85 kg tournament and a 70 kg tournament. The tournament start will happen on 5/3 in Tokyo at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I. This is the show that Akebono will also work. Tokyo Broadcasting System will carry the events on TV. The 85kg tournament […]
The heat is turned up on the yakuza
Friday, March 17th, 2006Mainichi Daily News: Arrests cast glare on shady world of commercialized combat Past Reference: Kawamata talks to Weekly Gendai Those who’ve followed this story on Fight Opinion already understand or have read most of the details in this article. However, it’s important to read this Mainichi story nonetheless. It emphasizes what has already been written […]
Risk for Success? Absolutely.
Friday, March 17th, 2006By Al Yu On January 15th, DSE CEO Nobuyuki Sakakibara confirmed that an Absolute or Open-Weight Grand Prix will be held throughout 2006. Fighters from the Lightweight and Welterweight divisions will be included to participate, in addition to the Middleweight and Heavyweight divisions. The proliferation of MMA has produced a new generation of very talented […]
Three accused yakuza members released
Thursday, March 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold A new twist to the case. According to the Tokushima Shimbun (newspaper), the district attorney/prosecutor in Yokohama have released the three men accused of being members of Yamaguchi-gumi in connection to the criminal complaint filed in 2004 by promoter Seiya Kawamata. The reason for the release of the three men is publicly […]
HERO’s 3/15 Nippon Budokan results
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold An interesting show today. Translated results: Kaoru Uno defeated Rich Clementi by a 3-0 judges’ decision (20-18 three times). Clementi failed to make weight, but was still allowed to fight. Genki Sudo defeated Ole Laursen by a 3-0 judges’ decision in the overtime round. The fight went 3 rounds and was ruled […]
Back home in Japan
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold Tetsuya Sano, special training partner/visitor of Mr. Josh Barnett last week, has returned home to Japan after a successful trip in Seattle. Welcome back home, Sano-san. Speaking of Seattle, this weekend is the scheduled amateur show that Matt Hume is producing. DSE management officials were originally scheduled to attend the event and […]
DSE & Fuji TV’s relationship
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Daily Sports has an article today talking about the future between PRIDE & the TV network that supports them, Fuji TV. As we noted a couple of days ago, 19-year boxing star Koki Kameda announced that he would have a fight on 5/5 at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Today, it was announced […]
Rampage’s next destination: K-1?
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Two media reports today in Japan (Sankei Sports & Daily Sports) have Quinton “Rampage” Jackson considering an offer from K-1 HERO’s. In the Sankei Sports article, Rampage is quoted as saying, “I am not sure where I’ll be fighting net. K-1 wa dai suki desu (I really like K-1).” In the Daily […]
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