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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Five minutes ago, Sibling Sports issued a press release announcing who is part of M-1’s management team. Monte Cox is the M-1 Global President and CEO. Vadim Finkelchtein is appointed to the M-1 Global Executive Committee. Bob Clark is the COO. Joost Raimond will be President of M-1 Eurasia and be appointed to the M-1 […]
Tuesday turmoil: More war games
Monday, October 29th, 2007Mike Sawyer & Oliver Copp have a new edition of Tough Talk radio w/ guest Brad Imes. Kevin Iole praises Frank Warren. There’s a brand new MMA statistical site called FightMetric.com. Good news – Windy Tomomi is coming back. Yet another press conference about the Randy Couture/Dana White situation, this time on the UFC side. […]
Sunday news & notes: Money, money, money
Saturday, October 27th, 2007Chael Sonnen wants to fight Frank Shamrock. An interview with Carlos Newton. Taking a look at UFC’s PPV bonus scale. Plus, two interesting posts (here and here) at the Xtreme Couture MMA site. I went to the UFC 78 web site and noticed that the folks at Zuffa sure like the blood splattering effect a […]
Fight Opinion Radio #66: The war of words
Saturday, October 27th, 2007The last week of MMA news and events has contributed to information overload. We’re here to help you out. Adam Swift of MMA Payout stops by to talk about the dueling press conferences between Dana White & Randy Couture. Imagine being locked in a room with two legal analysts talking about UFC contracts and the […]
Friday fallout: More confusion than clarity
Friday, October 26th, 2007Oh yeah, there’s a ShoXC event tonight. Shayna Baszler is fighting on the card. Watch the show. So, there were dueling press conferences between UFC and Randy Couture on Las Vegas on Thursday. Here is the audio from Couture’s press conference. Kevin Iole was at the Randy Couture press conference and Dave Meltzer covered the […]
Thursday trash talk: Head to head in Las Vegas
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007That whole drug testing thing in California for MMA… what can you say. Lots of big talk and proclamations about M-1 over at Russian MMA. Sean Salmon vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller is set for December 15th in Dallas for HDNet Fights. The latest IFL SEC filings. Plus, their updated prospectus. NBC Sports has a video […]
Wednesday war room: Do you care about Liddell vs. Silva?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I want to send my regards to Jeff Comstock, who will moving a lot of his columns over to Bloody Elbow. You can check out Jeff’s latest BE article here. The IFL stock this morning has plunged down to $0.33/share. The UFC 77 payscale. Bleacher Report calls Randy Couture a joke. The author continues to […]
M-1 Global hires Monte Cox, signs Fedor Emelianenko, who are they?
Monday, October 22nd, 2007By Jeff Comstock Question: What do you get when you cross Fedor Emelianenko with, a producer of off-Broadway musicals, the agency that represents the world’s greatest tennis players, Monte Cox, and a Scientologist money maven? Answer: Apparently M-1 Global MMA After a press conference (video) following a PRNewswirerelease there are still more questions than answers […]
Tuesday news & notes: Sakuraba vs. Funaki officially booked
Monday, October 22nd, 2007The big news of the day is that K-1 announced Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event. Regarding the M-1 situation, there are two separate SEC dockets related to Sibling Entertainment (here and here). Which docket should we be paying more attention to? Mistaken translations at the M-1 NYC press conference. […]
Monday afternoon news update (10/22)
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Jeff Comstock will be working on a longer article tonight for the site about the new backers of M-1. What a strange situation that is. To prepare you for Jeff’s longer article, here are the news developments from today: Monte Cox, agent of a lot of MMA stars, will be the company’s CEO. MMA Analyst […]
Sunday hangover: Day after UFC 77
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Video of Dana White’s comments from the UFC 77 post-fight press conference. Over at The Fightworks Podcast, they have a new audio interview with Ricardo Almeida. Don Frye is not a man you want to fight on the street or in a bar. Someone tried to do this, inexplicably. Over at MMA Predictions, not a […]
Friday fight notes: Dana White has a lot to say
Thursday, October 18th, 2007If you’ve experienced any problems lately with the site loading slowly or not loading at all, you’re not alone. There’s been a lot of traffic hitting our server as of late. Make sure to get your picks in for the Hardcore Championship Fighting show over at MMA Predictions. Just asking… If Monte Cox is going […]
Thursday trash talk: Marc Ecko supporting M-1?
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007If you have not yet signed up for the brand new MMA HQ Fighter Rankings site, go sign up. First-day turn out was great and I want to see as many readers as possible sign up. I think Dr. J is building an excellent project here. Just asking… Monte Cox was pretty quick in publicly […]
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