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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE announced four new matches for their 4/2 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum event. The new matches are: Akihiro Gono vs. Kim Dae Won, Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Paul Rodriguez, Murillo Ninja vs. Paulo Filho, and Dennis Kang vs. Mark Weir. Also, the participation of Ikuhisa Minowa & Seichi Ikemoto. At the press conference, the […]
Kawamata talks to Weekly Gendai
Monday, March 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Seiya Kawamata, the man who filed the complaint with Kanagawa police about being threatened by the yakuza, had an interview/briefing with Shukan (Weekly) Gendai about the recent yakuza arrests. Kawamata names some big names and makes some direct accusations. Burning Spirit has more details (in Japanese). This is the top story in […]
Weekly publications start talking – part two
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold In part one of this two-part post series, I posted a summary of a Weekly Taishu publication article about the recent yakuza arrests in Japan and the history of the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 event. It’s an event that will become a historical show if the police can prove that certain people involved […]
Weekly publications start talking
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Shukan (Weekly) Taishu, one of the various weekly Japanese publications, has published an article about the recent yakuza arrests in relation to the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 show. I read the Japanese article and at first glance, a picture of Antonio Inoki was shown along with the question about morals at Nippon TV […]
PRIDE’s worst nightmare
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Photo credit: Sports Nippon (newspaper) By Zach Arnold 19-year old Koki Kameda, Japan’s hottest boxer in terms of business, is going to make things very hard on DSE on May 5th. Kameda’s camp announced that his next fight will happen on 5/5 in Tokyo at Ariake Colosseum. The fight will likely be carried on live […]
Phil Baroni back in the PRIDE ring
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE announced Yuki Kondo vs. Phil Baroni and Luiz Azeredo (Chute Boxe) vs. Joachim Hansen for their Bushido show on 4/2 at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Add these fights to the three matches already announced. Also scheduled to work the show is Dennis Kang, Ikuhisa Minowa, & Akihiro Gono. PRIDE boss Nobuyuki […]
Bushido 4/2 Ariake Colosseum card line-up
Monday, March 6th, 2006Three matches announced so far: Takanori Gomi vs. Marcus Aurelio Dan Henderson vs. Kazuo Misaki Masakazu Imanari vs. Jens Pulver An interesting storyling going into this card line-up is that Henderson is also scheduled for the 5/5 Osaka Dome open-weight tournament show.
Mark Hunt interview by the PRIDE office
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Expect an English version to be uploaded on the PRIDE site shortly. Hunt talks about the upcoming open-weight tournament show on 5/5 at the Osaka Dome. In the Japanese interview, he is asked for his thoughts about Fedor, Nogueira, Mirko, and Barnett participating in the tournament and who he would like to […]
New defense tactic – blame Inoki
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold The Japanese fight industry is still in shock over last week’s arrests of three yakuza members of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime family. A fourth person is a fugitive and an arrest warrant has been issued. A lot of people were awaiting the reaction from the weekly tabloids regarding this story, but it […]
3 new matches added to HERO’s Budokan show
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006Hideo Tokoro vs. Yoshinori Ikeda (Kyokushin karate), Heath Herring vs. Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge, and Jerome Le Banner vs. Jimmy Ambriz were added to the HERO’s 3/15 Nippon Budokan show in Tokyo.
Nogueira’s next match in PRIDE
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold whenever Sankei Sports has an article about someone in PRIDE wanting to face someone on an upcoming show, it’s important to at least pay attention to it because Sankei is the Fuji TV line of media (as in Fuji TV is the network paying PRIDE). You know some parts of these types […]
Japanese bloggers talk about future of fight business
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Some people in public may be afraid to use the “y” word in Japan, but it’s not stopping the various top Japanese MMA writers on the Internet from discussing the matter. Inside (and outside) the MMA business, last week’s yakuza arrests continue to draw attention and speculation about what else may be […]
They really didn’t mean to say this…
Monday, February 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Quote of the day (from MMA Ring Report’s PRIDE 31 preview) on Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura: Barnett might be larger but in his last fight (vs. Mirko Cro Cop) he demonstrated that he has the capacity to lose any fight. KazNak is like mecha-godzilla; created by Japanese scientists to battle whatever […]
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