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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006The event is taking place at the Makomanai Ice Arena. Card line-up: Glaube Feitosa vs. Musashi Peter Aerts vs. Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge Poul Slowinski vs. Tatsufumi Tomihira Bjorn Bregy vs. Tsuyoshi Nakasako Yusuke Fujimoto vs. Yuki Niimura Freddy Kemayo vs. Hiromi Amada
K-1 mythology continues
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports continues to push hard the claimed number by K-1 that the UFC 60 PPV with Royce Gracie vs. Matt Hughes did 800,000 buys and $32 million dollars, despite reports that contradict this. The Sankei article I linked to is a puff piece about HERO’s now having a show air on […]
K-1 gets knocked publicly
Saturday, June 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold For those who have spent years covering K-1, one thing is for sure — they can tell some great stories in the press (such as their multiple accounts of trying to book Mike Tyson), but don’t put your life savings on the claims always being 100% accurate. On May 31st, I noted […]
Weekly magazines focus on DSE situation
Thursday, June 8th, 2006Yahoo Japan HP: “Complete denial of ‘Black Association’ by PRIDE” By Zach Arnold At yesterday’s press conference, DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara vociferously defended his company and denied all allegations of ties to the yakuza. He specifically named Shukan Gendai as a publication that damaged his company and caused the cancelation of the Fuji TV deal. […]
K-1 6/3 Seoul results
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006At today’s show at the Olympic Gym in Seoul, South Korea, journeyman K-1 fighter Yusuke Fujimoto won the Seoul GP tournament. Choi Hong-Man defeated Semmy Schilt by decision. Ray Sefo quickly beat Ruslan Karaev. Full results here.
“K-1 & UFC Strong Tag Alliance”
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold Today’s Nikkan Sports newspaper has a bombastic article talking about an “aggressive” tag team between K-1 & UFC, with both sides starting heavy co-promotional deals. The article talks about Chuck Liddell maybe working the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show in Tokyo (or the August K-1 Las Vegas show), with Kazushi Sakuraba and […]
Bob Sapp’s side of the story
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold The pressure on K-1 has just picked up. Bob Sapp’s side of the story about the K-1 Amsterdam fiasco has been relayed on the MMA Ring Report web site. Compare this report to what the Japanese have been claiming and what Simon Rutz is claiming.
Sakuraba to attend UFC show?
Friday, May 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports reports that Kazushi Sakuraba may be in attendance for the UFC 60 show on Saturday night (Matt Hughes vs. Royce Gracie). The article speculates that Sakuraba may end up participating in UFC (given the current business relationship between UFC & K-1 with BJ Penn & Royce Gracie).
K-1 7/30 Sapporo event
Monday, May 22nd, 2006As noted earlier today on the Puroresu Power page, K-1 announced a World GP show booking for July 30th in Sapporo at Makomanai Ice Arena. Musashi vs. Ernesto Hoost is likely to take place on the show. The more interesting story comes from Nikkan Sports, which notes that Bob Sapp may end up working that […]
Masato vs. Kohiruimaki
Thursday, May 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1 announced the main card line-up for their World MAX 2006 show on 6/30 at Yokohama Arena. Card line-up: Yodsanklai Fairtex (Thailand) vs. Kamal El Amrani (Germany) TATSUJI vs. Yasuhito Shirasu Reserve fight: Rayen Simson (Holland) vs. Artur Kyshenko (Ukraine) Kozo Takeda vs. TBA Tournament: Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Yoshihiro Sato Tournament: […]
Internet posts on Bob Sapp/K-1 situation
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold A couple of interesting links. First, this link on Gary Goodridge’s forum about Bob Sapp allegedly showing up with a DSE lawyer. The post claims that DSE sent a lawyer with Sapp to the Holland show. The second link is a translation of a statement that K-1 Holland promoter Simon Rutz made […]
Sakuraba and Yamamoto in Guam
Monday, May 15th, 2006The Pacific Daily News in Guam is reporting that Kazushi Sakuraba and Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto are on the island to train 12 fighters for two big tournaments in the Philippines this upcoming weekend.
K-1 vs. PRIDE vs. Fuji TV vs. Sapp
Monday, May 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Saturday night in Holland, Bob Sapp bolted before his scheduled main event with Ernesto Hoost, causing a major firestorm in front of 17,500 fans at the Amsterdam Arena. Sankei Sports, the newspaper affiliated with Fuji TV (which broadcasted the K-1 event), declared that “Sapp ran away” from the fight and issued […]
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