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Saturday, August 30th, 2008Ultimate Branding. I’m bored out of my mind, too. Work with me here.
Report: WEC down to four weight classes
Friday, August 29th, 2008From the office of Kevin Iole: Zuffa’s decision to trim the WEC from six divisions (light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight, lightweight, featherweight and bantamweight) to four by folding its light heavyweight and middleweight divisions into the UFC, however, will make it that much harder to fill cards. That’s particularly true given White’s plan to add pay-per-view […]
The Rampage Jackson media circus at court
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Mr. Jackson plead not guilty today to the charges he is facing. Naturally, Rampage is now doing a media tour to rehabilitate his image publicly. Sports Illustrated’s Ben Fowlkes is not impressed at all: It’s not that I can’t understand the collective desire of the UFC and Jackson himself to put this incident behind them. […]
Why Quinton Jackson was lucky to avoid any further criminal charges…
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008… D.A.: Loss of fetus not from crash Speaking of incidents involving a car, here is a sad story about a young fighter who tried to jump from his car.
IFL 10Q report (8/27/08)
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008No real surprises in today’s filing. The main reason I was interested in reading the document was to see if the IFL had indeed sold its assets to Zuffa LLC. I saw no mention of this at all in the filing. Basic financial stats at hand from the filing: Accumulated deficit as of 6/30/08: $35.7 […]
A lot of nervousness right now
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008So, I’m writing an article that will be posted soon at MMA Memories talking about the state of the MMA industry. Nobody has ever accused me of being Mr. Sunshine, but I can’t recall a more perilous situation for MMA organizations outside of Zuffa LLC as I can right now at this moment. A lot […]
Screaming Rampage media headlines, plus Hamill & GSP get ready for their upcoming big fights
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008The city of Utica (New York) gave Matt Hamill a big sendoff, as he gets ready to face Rich Franklin in Atlanta on September 6th. All the screaming headlines you want about Rampage are here and here. Here’s some news regarding Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn II being booked for January 31st in Las […]
Antonio Inoki is thinking about creating a new star in Japan…
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008… and I’ll give you one guess as far as who he is thinking about. The only surprise is that Inoki thought of this first instead of (Kazuyoshi) Ishii.
TMZ: Rampage Jackson facing two felony charges
Monday, August 25th, 2008Report here. AP report here. Felony charges: 1) Evading while driving recklessly 2) Evading a peace officer Misdemeanors charges: 1) Three counts of hit & run 2) One count of reckless driving
Kimbo Slice vs. Ken Shamrock signed for October 4th
Monday, August 25th, 2008It’s now official. 1) Will it attract a lot of interest from casual, mainstream MMA fans in North America? 2) Will it be a competitive fight? It should be noted that Jeremy Lappen, who is running the show at Elite XC, used to represent Shamrock.
Quote of the week – Big John McCarthy
Monday, August 25th, 2008From a new column on Fox Sports: Here’s the question: Kimbo Slice or Brock Lesnar? Which one is going to be the better mixed martial artist? I love how everyone is so quick to jump on or off either fighter’s bandwagon. Why is it that some MMA fans want to bring these guys down? They […]
Michigan MMA legislation
Sunday, August 24th, 2008I received a message from a reader asking for more information about House Bill 4869, which is the name of the bill that the Michigan State House passed to legalize MMA in 2007. The reader wanted to know about the first amateur MMA fight held in Michigan and what types of procedures were followed (or […]
Sengoku 4 (8/24) at Saitama Super Arena
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The curse of the IFL continues, as Ryan Schultz lost to Mizuto Hirota by KO today. Eiji Mitsuoka pulled off a big win over Rodrigo Damm, and Satoru Kitaoka made Clay French submit. Full event results here and here. Keep your eye on this post for videos from today’s event. Update: For a second straight […]
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