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Thursday, July 10th, 20087/21 Osaka Castle Hall (3 PM) Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Katsuyori Shibata Mark Hunt vs. Mr. X Kuniyoshi Hironaka vs. Motoki Miyazawa Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Joseph Benavidez Lightweight GP reserve match: Joachim Hansen vs. Black Mamba Lightweight GP: Eddie Alvarez vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri Lightweight GP: Shin’ya Aoki vs. Kaoru Uno Lightweight GP finals
Today’s chalkboard (7/10/08)
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Dan Wetzel (Yahoo Sports): Competition sends Dana White back to basics Luke Thomas: I love Dana White’s ruthlessness Florida Today: MMA hits Brevard County (Joe Silva is quoted) Florida Today: MMA sheds violent image (with quotes from Marc Ratner) Jason Macdonald: Brutal scoring – MMA judging right now is so ridiculous, and something needs to […]
K-1 World MAX (7/7 Nippon Budokan)
Monday, July 7th, 2008A respectable crowd of 11,610 paid. Results here. The obvious headline involves Yoshihiro Sato pulling off the upset over Buakaw Por Pramuk, setting up a Masato/Sato confrontation for October 1st. Interestingly enough, there was a lot of media focus on “salaryman” Hiroyuki Owatari (Seido Kaikan) winning by KO in his K-1 debut.
UFC 86 media heat-up
Friday, July 4th, 2008The headline of the day is K-1 announcing Semmy Schilt vs. Peter Aerts for their 9/27 Seoul, South Korea World GP 2008 event. The flood of media coverage for UFC 86 is starting today…
K-1 2008 Japan GP in Fukuoka (6/29/08)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Report here. The claimed attendance was 6,927 (not super).
Today’s chalkboard (6/26/08)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008I have a new article up at MMA Memories discussing the prospects of Urijah Faber vs. Kid Yamamoto happening. It’s a fight that I think we all want to see, but it will be a very complicated process politically to get it booked. Business Week: Giving UFC its proper due The Stockton Record (CA): EXC […]
Fight Opinion Radio #83: Writing the IFL’s obituary, and retirement talk for Matt Hughes
Friday, June 20th, 2008On this week’s show, there is absolutely no talk regarding the announcement of Lorenzo Fertitta moving full-time to UFC. You’ll have to wait until next week’s show for that discussion. Instead, we have a length discussion about the recent BJJ Worlds event in Long Beach, a debate about the keyboard warriors who are calling for […]
Quotes of the Day – Dave Meltzer on the DREAM 4 show
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Audio here (22 minute time mark): “I thought that it was long and not necessarily exciting, uh, a couple of fights were okay, but there was nothing um nothing worth going out of way to see, that’s for sure.” After praising Jacare vs. Miller… “Nothing, uh, nothing really, Nothing really stood out. Very missable show.”
Video: Sakuraba vs. Manhoef
Monday, June 16th, 2008Leland Roling at MMA Analyst loves Melvin Manhoef. This fight video… it just makes me sad. More videos of DREAM 4 fights can be seen here.
DREAM 4 (6/15 Yokohama Arena)
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Reports: Total MMA | Japan MMA | Sherdog | MMA Junkie
Jordan Breen’s DREAM 4 preview
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Mr. Breen talks here. His predictions for Sunday’s Yokohama Arena event: Melvin Manhoef over Kazushi Sakuraba Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza over Jason “Mayhem” Miller Kin Tai Ei over Zelg Galesic Gegard Mousasi over Yoon Dong-Sik Shin’ya Aoki over Katsuhiko Nagata Hideo Tokoro over Darren Uyenoyama Ralek Gracie over Alavutdin Gazhiyev Alistair Overeem over Lee Tae-Hyun
Match order for DREAM 4 event
Thursday, June 12th, 2008As of today in terms of fight order: 6/15 Yokohama Arena (5 PM JST) Lightweight GP round two: Shin’ya Aoki vs. Katsuhiko Nagata Heavyweights: Alistair Overeem vs. Lee Tae-Hyun Light Heavyweights: Ralek Gracie vs. Alavutdin Gadzhiyev Featherweights: Hideo Tokoro vs. Darren Uyenoyama Middleweight GP round two: Gegard Mousasi vs. Yoon Dong-Sik Middleweight GP round two: […]
Choi Hong-Man has successful surgery to remove tumor
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Nikkan Sports published a story today claiming that Choi Hong-Man had a successful operation to remove the tumor in his pituitary gland that caused him to be blocked from fighting in California at the LA Coliseum last year. Hong-Man is expected to be in the hospital for about a week in recovery and may appear […]
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