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Next Entries »Bas Rutten makes PRIDE predictions
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005Bas Rutten makes his predictions for the 2005 Man Festival. Most interesting paragraph from his predictions article: Nakamura/Kondo Nakamura is a star on the rise, but Kondo faced more opponents in MMA and fought better guys, so you would think that Kondo is going to do it. Than again, Nakamura is getting better and better […]
Drafting wrestlers for a new company
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Ivan Trembow has an interesting article about creating a Top 50 draft list of who you would select for wrestlers if you were building a new company. Read Ivan’s thoughts here. Ivan picks his #1 choice and… 1. Samoa Joe— As I wrote in my review of TNA’s Turning Point pay-per-view, it’s hard to fathom […]
Fighters start to arrive in Japan
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Royce Gracie is already in Japan, training and preparing at the Gracie Academy in Tokyo for his upcoming fight against Hideo Tokoro. Ernesto Hoost arrived in Japan and said that he was in very good condition. He said that he would win his fight without fail. Sankei Sports reported that Hoost’s tentative retirement fight is […]
K-1 & G.C.M To Promote New Fight Event
Monday, December 26th, 2005FEG K-1 and the Japanese MMA promotion G.C.M are to promote a new combat event scheduled for Saturday February 4th 2006 at the Differ Ariake in Tokyo, Japan. Numerous reports suggest that the new promotion will go under the alias “MARS” and will be produced in association with FEG, the company behind K-1 and HEROS. […]
PRIDE 12/31 Ogawa v Yoshida News
Sunday, December 25th, 2005Hidehiko Yoshida is looking for a new game plan come PRIDE Man Festival 2005 on 12/31. Yoshida has been training in Muay Thai with Yoshida Dojo coach Sergio Cunha for the past five months and proclaims that he will knock out Ogawa with his knee. “We are doing good work, training a lot. We are […]
K-1 PREMIUM 2005 Dynamite! New Additions!
Sunday, December 25th, 2005With only five days to go until the big MMA New Years Eve shows on 12/31, K-1 have suprised everyone with the addition of Japanese kickboxer Masato to the K-1 fight card. He will be facing off against Japanese boxing champion Akira Oohigashi. Masato was set for a return to K-1 early next year after […]
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