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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008In Japanese MMA online circles, this item I posted on January 10th drew a lot of attention. I didn’t think a lot about the news item at the time I made it, but apparently a lot of Japanese readers did. So, today’s news about Akira Maeda running an amateur MMA tournament show called The Outsider […]
Strange, ugly heavyweight match-ups arising in 2008
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008According to The Sun in the UK, Brock Lesnar will headline UFC’s June event at the 02 Arena in London. The Sun has a ton of MMA articles, but no RSS feed. If someone can find or produce an RSS feed of Sun MMA articles, please let me know. Bob Sapp vs. Jan “The Giant” […]
Fight Opinion Radio #73: Start of 2008 MMA season
Sunday, January 13th, 2008We kick off the 2008 MMA season by recapping the major NYE MMA events with Adam Swift of MMA Payout and Mike David, who did a remote with us from Tokyo after watching the K-1 Osaka Dome event in person. Everything you ever wanted to know about the major NYE MMA events and the fallout […]
Tuesday news update (1/8/08)
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Steve Sievert has an update about the proposed Frank Shamrock vs. Ken Shamrock fight. He linked to this web site and wondered if it was real or not. A quick domain search claims that the web site is registered to “Frank Shamrock USA,” using GoDaddy. It was registered on December 21st. Here is a new […]
The media whining about Fedor
Friday, January 4th, 2008For the last month, you’ve probably seen countless articles online from various MMA media writers whining and complaining about Fedor Emelianenko’s career direction. You know about the boilerplate rhetoric — he’s afraid of fighting the best competition, his reputation is taking a hit, etc.
NYE MMA fallout
Friday, January 4th, 2008Ratings-wise for the K-1 Dynamite show on Tokyo Broadcasting System, the first round of Kid Yamamoto vs. Rani Yahya drew the highest quarter-hour rating of the night, drawing a 20.9%. The Fedor vs. Hong-Man fight on South Korean cable drew a reported 13.4% rating. Hong-Man’s active fighting career is also reportedly on hold due to […]
2007 NYE ratings
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008According to Sports Navigator: Hustle drew a 4.0% rating on TV-Tokyo. K-1’s Dynamite event drew the following: 6:00-8:30 PM – 11.1% 8:30-11:00 PM – 14.7% 11:00-11:34 PM – 11.1% In other words, not very strong across the board. Kohaku (Red & White Music Festival) drew a 32.8% rating in part one and 39.5% rating in […]
Hustle & Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Hustle Matsuri (Festival), afternoon show at SSA TV: TV-Tokyo Yarennoka (DSE), evening show at SSA TV: SkyPerfecTV PPV, HDNet Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel […]
Friday fight notes: Preparation for NYE MMA in Japan
Friday, December 28th, 2007If anyone is going to be able to record the TV-Tokyo feed of the Hustle show, the Tokyo Broadcasting System feed of the K-1 Dynamite show, or the SkyPerfecTV PPV feed of the DSE show in Saitama, please get a hold of me using the contact form. Thanks. Here is an excerpt from Matt Hughes’ […]
Bout order for Yarennoka card
Friday, December 28th, 200712/31/2007 Saitama Super Arena: Mike Russow vs. Roman Zentsov Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Makoto Takimoto vs. Murilo Bustamante Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Kazuo Misaki vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa Shin’ya Aoki vs. Bu-Kyung Jung Fedor Emelianenko vs. Choi Hong-Man
Fedor does not like UFC contracts
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007A great article at Sherdog, that I recommend reading, is capped off by these two paragraphs: “I never met Dana White, never spoke to him on the phone, never exchanged e-mails,” Fedor said. “However, I did read a lot on the Internet about what he said in regard to me and Vadim []. I also […]
My personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene
Friday, December 21st, 2007Warning: This is a very long post. For the last couple of months, I’ve stayed relatively quiet in terms of talking about the Japanese MMA scene and how things are lining up. For starters, I’m bored with a lot of it. Secondly, I don’t see a lot of positives right now. Here is my breakdown […]
Esquire magazine profile article on Fedor
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007The publication has a new article out today called The Red Menace. It may very well be the most significant media piece on Fedor in terms of broad exposure to the general public in America.
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