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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Butterbean was announced for the 8/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall Bushido show. Minowa and Josh Barnett had a PR session today in Japan, which garnered big attention. What makes the Butterbean announcement interesting is that he is scheduled to fight two weeks before the show, on August 12th. The 300-plus-pound former boxer […]
Techno Goliath leaving K-1?
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Dong-A Ilbo in South Korea reports that Choi Hong-Man may be negotiating out of his contract with K-1. Money quote: A close associate of Choi commented about his future, “If he dislikes the contract with K-1, he might seek another way.†Choi will start negotiations on his contract at the end of […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card finalized
Friday, July 21st, 2006A press conference was held on Saturday to announce the participation of Kaoru Uno, Hiroyuki Takaya, and Hideo Tokoro for the Middleweight tournament (8/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum event). Genki Sudo will not work the show due to injury (K-1 claims Sudo has a herniated disc, causing numbness in his left hand). Updated 8/5 Tokyo card […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Wednesday, July 19th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) Network – Tokyo Broadcasting System Card line-up: Light Heavyweight Tournament: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kin Tai Ei (Seido Kaikan) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Shungo Oyama vs. Rodrigo Gracie Light Heavyweight Tournament: Carlos Newton vs. Melvin Manhoef Kin Tai Ei fought in […]
K-1 Revenge 2006
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Update: K-1 announced on Friday that Bobby Ologun would participate on the 7/30 Sapporo show. 7/30 Sapporo, Makomanai Ice Arena card line-up: Akebono vs. Choi Hong-Man Remy Bonjasky vs. Mighty Mo Glaube Feitosa vs. Musashi Peter Aerts vs. Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge Poul Slowinski vs. Tatsufumi Tomihira Bjorn Bregy vs. Tsuyoshi Nakasako Yusuke Fujimoto vs. […]
Shukan Playboy: The bubble is bursting
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold This week’s edition of Shukan Playboy has a four-page spread titled who killed martial art movement? in English next to Japanese text asking what killed the Japanese kakutougi (MMA) boom. It’s a fairly complete article in terms of writing, with numerous sportswriters being quoted and all the facts being accurate. The main […]
Sapp – “I was betrayed by K-1”
Sunday, July 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold Bob Sapp held a press conference on Monday morning (Nikkan Sports report here with comments from Sapp’s lawyer, Michael Connette) at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Sapp told the press that he did not run away from fighting and that he wanted the fans to know the truth. He went […]
Major speech coming on Monday
Friday, July 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Bob Sapp will be making a big appearance at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan on Monday to address the media as to what happened between him and K-1. The press conference (Bob Sapp and attorney Michael Connette) will last one hour (10:30 AM-11:30 AM). (Hat tip: Gryphon.) Update: Shukan Gendai, the […]
More arguments in the Sapp vs. K-1 war of words
Monday, July 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold American attorney Michael Connette, who is based out of Tokyo and has experience practicing law in California, sent a press release to the fight media on Monday claiming of inaccuracies in statements made by K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa last week. Tanigawa issued a public reply to a FAX that Bob Sapp sent […]
K-1 World MAX World Championship Final
Friday, June 30th, 2006Results from today’s event at Yokohama Arena. Yodsanklai Fairtex defeated Kamal El Amrani after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-26 three times). Reserve fight: Artur Kyshenko (Ukraine) defeated Rayen Simson (Holland) after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision. Tournament: Masato defeated Takayuki Kohiruimaki after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-28 three times). Tournament: […]
War between Sapp & K-1 continues
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Tuesday, a FAX was sent to the mass media in Japan on behalf of Bob Sapp (through a Japanese lawyer), explaining what happened at the infamous K-1 Amsterdam show and why he didn’t fight Ernesto Hoost. In short, Sapp said that he was threatened. (English summary of Sapp’s argument in the […]
Diet Master
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006In a press release on Friday, the Japan Diet Academy issued a statement talking about their newest and most high-profile client, Akebono. The PR starts out by stating that Akebono was advised to join the Diet Academy by Kazuyoshi Ishii, and that the goal is for Akebono to lose 50 kg (105-110 pounds). Before Akebono […]
HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum notes
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006The promotion held a press conference today to announce the participation of Kazushi Sakuraba, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Rodrigo Gracie, Carlos Newton, Melvin Manhoef, Shungo Oyama, and Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) in the HERO’s 2006 Middleweight & Light Heavyweight tournaments. Akira Maeda mentioned at the press conference that negotiations with BJ Penn were being finalized and that […]
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