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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Randy Couture will be hosting a charity poker tournament on January 12th at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas from 1-6 PM. Rashad Evans will participate at Curtis Granderson’s Grand Kids Foundation Celebrity Basketball Game in Auburn Hills (Detroit area) on January 26th.
Quotes of the Day – Lorenzo Fertitta
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008In a sit-down media session with Kevin Iole: One of the greatest successes that we’ve had, for instance, is the last show we did in New Jersey (UFC 78 on Nov. 17). We had a fight being headlined by two guys who had never fought for a championship and, relatively, had never been proven to […]
Yo-Sam Choi dead at age 33
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008South Korean boxer Yo-Sam Choi, who slipped into a coma after winning a 12-round decision over Hari Amol in Seoul on Christmas, is brain dead and will be taken off of life support. Coverage on the story at BBC Sports, Eastside Boxing, and Boxing Scene.
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 […]
Video of the Day – Mirko Cro Cop does the Hustle
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Setting the scene: Ryoji Sai & Erica (the legendary Aja Kong) are facing Kintarman (Kintaro Kanemura) & Kurodaman (Tetsuhiro Kuroda) in a Dynamite Hardcore Hustle weapons match. The last time Kintarman & Kurodaman participated in this match format (Hustle Mania on 11/25 at Yokohama Arena), their ‘weapon’ of choice was Mark Hunt coming to the […]
Serious Pimp… seriously?
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Check out this wacky press release: Serious Pimp Apparel had an epic night at the 2007 IFL World Grand Prix Championships live on HDnet, December 29, 2007 with three athletes winning at inaugural event with 3-5 million viewers watching. “We would also like to congratulate Mark Cuban for his HDnet IFL HD broadcast. Not only […]
Quote of the Day – Jake Rossen
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008UFC politics: UFC President Dana White and owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta were alleged to be openly ecstatic at cageside over Griffin’s submission win over Rua in September. Matchmaker Joe Silva passed a note to announcer Joe Rogan during Lyoto Machida’s mauling of Sokoudjou on Saturday, saying the bout’s outcome was indicative that “This ain’t […]
The story of Choo Sung-Hoon
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008South Korean friend and correspondent Yeo Jong-Hoon tells the story about Yoshihiro Akiyama and why Kazuo Misaki’s comments to Akiyama after their MMA bout was over are drawing a lot of heat. By Yeo Jong-Hoon I watched K-1 Dynamite! and Yarennoka last night. Both aired in Korea cable TV, network XTM. (Dynamite was delay, Yarennoka […]
Tanigawa: K-1’s ‘large coalition’ will continue
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Today, Kazushi Sakuraba and Sadaharu Tanigawa held a press briefing in Osaka. (Picture here.) If Fedor’s face looked like he suffered from road rash, then Sakuraba’s face is twice as bad. However, the big story coming out of the press conference involved Tanigawa proclaiming that the ‘large coalition’ that K-1 was a part of would […]
Thoughts on the Japanese NYE 2007 MMA events
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008(I want to apologize for not responding to e-mails sent to me today, as Hotmail for some reason is acting up and giving some weird error messages when I send replies or try to delete mails.) “The message you selected could not be found. It may have been moved or deleted. Please click the folder […]
Vanishing Xyience
Monday, December 31st, 2007One of the notable aspects of Saturday night’s UFC 79 event in Las Vegas was that the fact that the promotion did not push Xyience hard. Instead of having the typical Xyience logos on the Octagon mat canvas, they had huge logos for Harley Davidson and Lumber Liquidators (a company that recently went public on […]
K-1 Dynamite 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007TV: Tokyo Broadcasting System (6 PM-11:35 PM JST) 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 free to post links. Notes on the show can be found […]
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 […]
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