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Thursday, January 17th, 200815 Rounds: Conference call quotes from Kimbo Slice, Tank Abbott, and Gary Shaw The Belfast Telegraph: Slog on the Tyne – Colin Robinson Sports Illustrated (Pramit Mohapatra): Fight Night in the UK Yahoo Sports (Kevin Iole): Maturing BJ Penn ready to claim crown KSBY 6 Action News (San Luis Obispo, CA): Hackelman’s Dream Team helps […]
Ground & Pound Awards 2007
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Press Release The die is cast and the vote for the Third Annual Ground & Pound Awards is over. Fans, fighters, managers, promoters and trainers from all over the world have decided on the winners in the sixteen categories.
Cage Force 2008 calendar
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008The promotion announced their upcoming schedule for the year and there are some very interesting fights about to be booked. The event schedule: 2/11 – Tokyo, Differ Ariake 4/05 – Tokyo, Differ Ariake 6/22 – Tokyo, Differ Ariake September – TBA They will have Featherweight (65.7 kg) and Bantamweight (61.2 kg) tournaments. The featherweight tournament […]
Report: Stefan Leko out 7 months due to knee injury
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Pro Fight Store is reporting that Stefan Leko will be out of action for 7 months due to knee surgery. Leko fought this past weekend. Mauro Ranallo and Don King interview each other. Heaven help us all. Frank Trigg was the color commentator for yet another Fox Sports Net Best Damn Toughman presentation on Monday […]
UFC sues Randy Couture
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008According to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Zuffa LLC (the parent company of UFC) filed a lawsuit on Monday against Randy Couture in Clark County District Court. UFC claims that Couture’s statements about the company last year caused ‘irreparable damage’ and that he breached his UFC contract. This is alluding to the fact that Couture now […]
Phil Baroni’s next fight
Monday, January 14th, 2008I saw this post by Luke Thomas talking about the politics behind Phil Baroni’s next fight. The long and the short of it – Sengoku announced Baroni vs. Kikuta last week for their 3/5 Tokyo show (as we noted on the site), Ken Pavia said Baroni was fielding a number of offers, and now there’s […]
Does anyone care about a Mayweather/De La Hoya re-match?
Sunday, January 13th, 2008I was reading the boxing page and saw the BBC headline stating that Joe Calzaghe vs. Bernard Hopkins is supposedly finalized. April in Las Vegas, apparently. Plus, discussion of De La Hoya vs. Mayweather re-matching. The whole story behind the canceled WCO event in San Diego over the weekend. An interview with Frankie Edgar.
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 […]
Saturday headlines (1/12/08)
Saturday, January 12th, 2008An update on the Xyience Inc. vs. Rich Bergeron $25 million USD lawsuit: Pamela R. Lawson, the new attorney for Xyience, has filed an application for a default judgment on 1/8 in Clark County, NV. and also submitted an affidavit in support of the application. Dave Meltzer takes a look at UFC’s Light Heavyweight division. […]
Thursday night notes (1/10/08)
Thursday, January 10th, 2008More on the story of the day in full-page mode (read on)… World Victory Road announced Sanae Kikuta vs. Phil Baroni for their 3/5 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I event. K-1 announced a “World Youth 2008 ~ International Team Competition” format for their 2/2 Nippon Budokan event, with the theme of Japan vs. Holland. […]
Wednesday news update (1/9/08)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Here are some more details about Larry Hazzard’s lawsuit against New Jersey’s attorney general. Pro Fight Store is reporting that Mirko Cro Cop has hired his old K-1 coach, Marijan Zizanovic. Pramit Mohapatra at Sports Illustrated has a preview of things to come in 2008 in MMA. Pramit also has a Q & A session […]
Fight Network Radio (1/9/08)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008A couple of interviews you should check out: First, ESPN writer Shaun Assael appeared on the radio show to talk about his book, “Steroid Nation.” Audio here. Second, I made an appearance today to talk about the Japanese MMA scene. Audio here.
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 […]
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