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Thursday, May 31st, 2007Japanese marketing 101. The Los Angeles Times on ticket sales for the K-1 Dynamite event at the LA Coliseum: Kogan said FEG has sold at least 40,000 tickets ranging from $10 to $100. State athletic officials argue that in an outline of ticket distribution plans, FEG officials reported they planned to sell only 10,000 tickets, […]
Thursday trash talk: Dynamite dud or surprise?
Thursday, May 31st, 2007K-1 has come up with an ingenious idea to promote star power at their upcoming Dynamite show at the LA Coliseum this weekend – give a media push to Dennis Rodman. Sports Navigator reports that they would like to see Rodman compete in MMA, as early as late June in Holland. Yes, the Japanese report […]
Wednesday media wrath: MMA’s mainstream growing pains
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007MMA California’s not-official image character, Yoda, cheerleads for Fedor Tim Dahlberg, who is a top boxing writer for the Associated Press, rips into UFC with a new column titled UFC could have used a good fight to back up the hype. He rips into the fans who paid to watch UFC 71 as “not-so-rich-and-famous” (someone […]
Tuesday TNT: Dynamite headlines
Monday, May 28th, 2007If you are wondering about the TBS TV advertising in Japan for the K-1 Dynamite show, the network is still advertising Brock Lesnar vs. Choi Hong-Man and Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Royce Gracie. On the K-1-produced Sakuraba web site, the latest entry shows Sakuraba at the Chute Boxe USA academy training. Furthermore, K-1 (on their HERO’s […]
Possible Sakuraba replacements for K-1 Dynamite
Sunday, May 27th, 2007While the name Yoshihiro Akiyama has been floated as a potential opponent for Royce Gracie on June 2nd at the LA Coliseum event, Dave Meltzer is reporting tonight that K-1 has made an offer to Ken Shamrock to take the fight against Gracie on short-notice.
Sunday media stroll: UFC on a Rampage
Sunday, May 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold In the last media post, I mentioned how a newspaper writer in Syracuse tried to lump in dogfighting allegations against NFL QB Michael Vick in comparison to UFC. That was supposed to carry a negative connotation. Today, ESPN interviewed an anonymous source claiming that Vick was involved in dogfighting — and tried […]
Friday chalkboard: ESPN’s wall-to-wall UFC coverage
Friday, May 25th, 2007Erin Bucknell reports that the California SAC has granted K-1 a temporary promoter’s license for their Dynamite event next week. The Orange County Register confirms the same information in Erin’s report, but also adds that Lesnar’s opponent could be Kim Min-Soo. On Thursday in Clark County, Nevada court (for the Fishman Companies vs. DSE Inc. […]
Fight Opinion Radio #50: Big UFC 71 event preview
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Major UFC 71 Rampage vs. Liddell preview show this week on Fight Opinion Radio. Our special guests this week are: Ken Pishna of MMAWeekly.com, Steve Sievert of The Houston Chronicle, and Luke Thomas of BloodyElbow.com. All six show personalities this week are split 50/50 across the board on who will win the big UFC 71 […]
Thursday night notes: UFC floods the media zone
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Dear Don has more advice for you, the reader at home. Are we going to see some PRIDE fighters wrestle for Hustle in June? The Fight Network reports that Brock Lesnar is still the only fighter scheduled for the K-1 Dynamite show with his paperwork cleared with the California SAC. Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio […]
K-1 in Japanese media: Everything is fine for Dynamite
Thursday, May 24th, 2007By Zach Arnold If you want to see an article full of spin (I can’t do it justice unless you read Japanese), check out this Yomiuri Hochi article on the upcoming K-1 Dynamite show. Remember, this is the kind of information that Japanese fans are reading and not North American fans. The article claims the […]
Wednesday notes: The K-1 Dynamite Titanic
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007The Fight Network is reporting that Choi Hong-Man has been denied a license to fight in the state of California for the K-1 Dynamite June 2nd event at the LA Coliseum. Kevin Iole at Yahoo Sports has more details. I find this news interesting because Hong-Man fought Mike Malone in Hawaii on April 28th. Without […]
High stakes at K-1 Dynamite
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007By Zach Arnold Loretta Hunt has more details about what is turning out to be a major implosion of the K-1 Dynamite show. For those of you who studied the DSE yakuza scandal carefully, compare and contrast the way DSE & K-1 do business. Two hours following the story, the CSAC says they received documents […]
Report: K-1 Dynamite show may not happen
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007By Zach Arnold If you want a perfect example of why Japanese fight promoters act like total marks and are clueless when doing business outside of Japan, look no further than this report at The Fight Network web site in regards to the upcoming K-1 Dynamite event. Audio of Loretta Hunt report here. MMA Weekly […]
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