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Monday, February 25th, 2008Guest column by MMA Weekly South Korea correspondent John Evans If you are looking for legitimate MMA news, skip ahead now, because this article is primarily about tall, thin, hot women, promotion marketing, and me.
Cage Rage 25 ‘Bring It On!’ Preview
Monday, February 25th, 2008Guest preview written by Adam Underhill Only thirteen days away on Saturday March 8th 2008, in conjunction with the Los Angeles-based entertainment and media brand ProElite Inc, British promoters Andy Geer and Dave O’Donnell present to the mixed martial arts world Cage Rage 25: ‘Bring It On!’ from the Wembley Arena in London, England. An […]
Meet Mini Hong-Man
Sunday, February 24th, 2008The Japanese press calls him “nise Hong-Man,” but his real name is Masayuki Okude and he won his main event fight today on the ZST 16 show in Tokyo at Shinjuku FACE. The swooning is already commencing.
Fight Opinion Radio #77: Court is back in session
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Kimbo Slice proved to be a huge success at the box office and for Showtime’s television ratings. What exactly is driving the Kimbo phenomenon? Is race as big of a factor as it is being made out to be by certain individuals in the MMA community? Court is back in session this week with the […]
Sunday news review (2/24/08)
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Chuck Liddell’s book, Iceman, has slipped to #16 on the NYT Best-Sellers list, but it is the third week in a row that the book has made it onto the list. The Fightworks Podcast: Interview with Robert Drysdale Fightlinker: Who’s the Yoko Ono of MMA? Kim Couture? Steve Cofield: UFC needs to voice stance on […]
Trouble in Tacoma
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Jan “The Giant” Nortje just about finished Bob Sapp’s fighting career tonight. Sapp reportedly was scheduled to fight for the DREAM debut event on 3/15 at Saitama Super Arena. K-1 and DSE cannot be happy about this outcome. I’m starting to regret the fact that I brought up a possible analogy between Bob Sapp and […]
Results of Yuji Nagata’s medical tests
Friday, February 22nd, 2008As it reportedly stands: CT scan – negative MRI – negative MRA (angiography) – showed some slight hemorrhaging of blood on the right side of his brain due to cumulative head trauma over many years of wrestling matches The good news is that doctors don’t think Nagata will need surgery, but it’s unknown when he’ll […]
Friday fight headlines (2/22/08)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Another possible UFC lawsuit? According to our friends at Pro Fight Store, there’s discussion that Zuffa may file a lawsuit against Croatian fighter Goran Reljic. The reason? He participated recently at the BJJ Bristol Open. Reljic won both the heavyweight and absolute divisions. Update: In the comments section, claims that the rumor is false. One […]
The Yahoo-UFC mega-deal
Thursday, February 21st, 2008So there was a press release on Thursday announcing that Yahoo will stream UFC PPvs online for $44.95 USD/show. (Good luck with that, boys.) Naturally, UFC pushed this deal hard on their conference call. Reaction to the news has been mixed. Fightlinker is cautiously optimistic, while Luke Thomas is sounding the alarm bells. I’ll have […]
TV time set for DREAM debut event
Thursday, February 21st, 2008It will air on Tokyo Broadcasting System on the same day (3/15) from 7:00-8:54 PM JST. The event takes place at Saitama Super Arena and is the start of the 2008 Lightweight GP tournament (start time is 3 PM JST).
PRIDE, Xyience, Zuffa, and you
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Special guest opinion/editorial by Leland Roling of MMA-Analyst.com One of the bigger stories so far this year has been the emergence of two scandals that have earned the attention of hardcore fans and the MMA community as a whole. The purchase of PRIDE from Dream Stage Entertainment in the early part of last year sent […]
Is there a difference between Frank Shamrock & Kimbo Slice?
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008In a round-about way, that’s the question Mauro Ranallo and Bryan Alvarez discussed today in regards to marketing in MMA (audio here). Speaking of marketing, I made an appearance on MMA Predictions radio a few days ago to talk about the possibility of WWE buying UFC and how WWE would market MMA differently than Zuffa […]
Wednesday war room: Iceman heats up book sales
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Chuck Liddell’s new book, Iceman, is listed #9 this week on The New York Times Best-Seller’s list for hardcover nonfiction books. This is the second week that Liddell’s book has made the list at #9. Pro Fight Store sent us two links regarding a possible M-1 event happening soon in France (links here and here). […]
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