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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008When K-1 mouthpiece Sadaharu Tanigawa announced that K-1 and DSE officials would work together in ‘a large coalition’ to produce a modified version of PRIDE, you could see the old PRIDE marks suddenly appear on Sherdog and MMA Fighting message boards. When Nobuyuki Sakakibara sold the PRIDE assets to Lorenzo Fertitta, it was as if […]
K-1 4/13 Yokohama Arena card line-up
Thursday, February 28th, 2008As it stands today: Super Heavyweight Title match: Semmy Schilt vs. Mark Hunt Yusuke Fujimoto vs. Ewerton Teixiera Badr Hari vs. Ray Sefo Mighty Mo vs. Keijiro Maeda Choi Hong-Man, Glaube Feitosa, Musashi, and others are also booked for the show.
K-1 World MAX 2008 Final 16
Wednesday, February 27th, 20084/9 Hiroshima Prefectural Gym card line-up: Masato vs. Virgil Kalakoda Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Albert Kraus Andy Souwer vs. Mike Zambidis Yoshihiro Sato vs. Murat Direkci Drago vs. GORI Artur Kyshenko vs. Jordan Tai Rosario Presti vs. Warren Stevelmans Chi Bin-Lim vs. Yasuhiro Kido Plus: Yuya Yamamoto vs. Marfio Canoletti HIROYA vs. Tsukasa Fuji
Monday news & notes (2/25/08)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Jan “The Giant” Nortje makes quick work of Bob Sapp For those of you in the Reno area, supposedly there is going to be an MMA event at the Grand Sierra Resort on April 5th. The promoter is High Roller Productions. Anyone have details on this show?
Is Kimbo Slice the American MMA version of Bob Sapp?
Monday, February 18th, 2008I’ll throw the question out there with some context and then watch the online powder keg explode. Bob Sapp’s meteoric rise in the world of Japanese MMA & K-1 in the earlier part of this decade was remarkable to watch. Kazuyoshi Ishii did a brilliant job of marketing Sapp and playing off of Japanese stereotypes […]
Friday night fights: Heat-up for Kimbo vs. Tank
Friday, February 15th, 2008There’s a new site called http://www.intheguard.tv that has been launched. Check it out. Sherdog: Cuban’s HDNet Fights enters Couture-UFC war UFC HP: Tim Boetsch vs. Matt Hamill added to UFN 4/2 card (full card line-up here) MMA California: 2008 California State Pankration Championships 15 Rounds (Gary Herman): EXC Miami event predictions Fox Sports: Kimbo, Antonio […]
Fight Opinion Radio #76: Thaler family MMA get-together
Friday, February 15th, 2008Jeff Thaler and Thaler family members join us this week to recap the WEC 32 event from Wednesday night in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Does Carlos Condit deserve the praise that he is receiving online? Where does he stand in terms of worldwide rankings in his weight class? Plus, what’s the best sports analogy to use […]
K-1 & DSE/PRIDE staff join to create DREAM
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008A big press conference was held today in Tokyo at the Metropolitan Edmont hotel with 500 fans in attendance to announce a new promotion called DREAM. Mirko Cro Cop was in attendance and was quoted by the Japanese press as saying that “cage fighting doesn’t suit me” and that Japan is really his second home. […]
Tuesday reading material (2/12/08)
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Popular Japanese MMA writer Hiroshi Nielsen caught this screen capture of Yahoo Japan’s main page today. Kazuyuki Fujita’s signing with World Victory Road was a main story on the site. Hiroshi thinks that it’s not so much a sign that MMA is hugely popular in Japan right now, but rather a testament to the power […]
Monday news review (2/11/08)
Monday, February 11th, 2008There was a media announcement on Monday night that there will be a press conference at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Tokyo (Chiyoda district). At the press conference, PRIDE staff members and FEG/K-1 staff members will unite together to announce the name of their new MMA promotion (focusing on the ‘large coalition’ philosophy). Nightmare of Battle: […]
Dana White on Choi Hong-Man
Monday, February 4th, 2008Audio evidence here at the 6:20 mark… Dana calls Choi Hong-Man “long duck dong.” Not since Phil Baroni mocked Yoon Dong-Sik as “pork fried rice” have we had quite an insensitive remark from a top MMA voice (outside of Japan, anyways — the garbage Yoshihiro Akiyama has had to put up with is ridiculous, as […]
Pre-UFC 81 event notes
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008On a side note, results from today’s mystery K-1 show at Nippon Budokan. Show recap here. The first scheduled hearing in Zuffa LLC’s court case against Randy Couture is on March 4th at 9 AM. Zuffa LLC attorney Donald J. Campbell has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction. Lots of audio previewing the upcoming […]
K-1 2008 schedule
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008As listed at today’s press conference: 2/09 – Hungary, Budapest Sports Arena (Europe GP) 4/13 – Yokohama Arena 4/26 – Holland, Amsterdam Arena (Europe GP) June – Macau (Asia GP) June – Fukuoka Marine Messe (Japan GP) July-August – Hawaii (USA GP) 9/27 – Seoul Olympic Gym (World GP) 12/06 – Yokohama Arena (World GP […]
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