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Monday, June 25th, 2007The top story of the day from Japan is K-1 doing a business tie-up with the Kyoei boxing gym, with the focus on K-1 using Russian boxing and MMA talent. K-1 hopes that it creates a big impact on all of their various shows in terms of boosting talent. Medical suspensions coming out of this […]
Chris Benoit dead at age 40
Monday, June 25th, 2007By Zach Arnold More on Benoit’s death can be found at SLAM! Sports, The Edmonton Sun, WWE HP, and ABC News. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WAGA-TV has further updates. Even Gambling 911 has an update. Fox News has an update with a very sad graphic photo. More details at the Observer. TMZ is also covering […]
Cage Fury FC 5 event official results
Monday, June 25th, 2007NJSACB Official Weights, Results, Suspensions and Attendance Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5 Promoter: Felix Martinez June 23, 2007 Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ Paid Attendance: 7,286 Exhibition Result Kimbo Slice (239.4lbs) vs. Ray Mercer – (241.9lbs) Slice via guillotine choke submission at 1:12 of Round One. Referee: Dan Miragliotta
Monday MMA headlines: Kimbo’s next project
Sunday, June 24th, 2007The Associated Press is reporting that ESPN is including MMA fighters as nominees in their Best Fighter category, which originally used to be ‘Best Boxer.’ Somehow, I don’t think Kid Yamamoto and Fedor are going to be nominated any time soon. NHB News (Japanese) reports that the K-1 Holland event drew a 10.9% TV rating […]
Takada: PRIDE will return on 10/11
Sunday, June 24th, 2007By Zach Arnold Daily Sports quotes Nobuhiko Takada today as stating that PRIDE will return in Japan on October 11th, which is the 10th anniversary of the promotion’s first event (10/11/1997 at the Tokyo Dome with Takada vs. Rickson Gracie). He promised to deliver an all-star cast of fighters for the event. Whether he is […]
Sunday morning media: Kimbo Slice’s fan appeal
Sunday, June 24th, 2007Don’t make Joe Rogan angry… Results from our last site poll question: Who will become the double-crown 205 pound champion? Quinton Jackson – 59% Dan Henderson – 41% Relatively speaking, those results would suggest setting the odds at Jackson -180 and Henderson +120 going into their September 8th fight. We’ve added a new poll on […]
Super Saturday
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007TUF 5 Finale results: Observer | MMA Weekly | Sherdog | UFC Junkie | UFC Mania | MMA on Tap | Fight Report | The Fanhouse | The Sweet Science | Gambling 911 | The Canadian Press | Yahoo Sports | The Houston Chronicle | The Honolulu Star-Bulletin | Yahoo Sports II | UFC HP […]
Suspend Frank Shamrock?
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007On Thursday, Armando Garcia was quoted by Dave Meltzer as doing the following at the StrikeForce fighter weigh-ins and rules meeting: Armando Garcia was very careful in explaining what wouldn’t be allowed, including swearing, lewd gestures, antagonizing T-shirts and hats, face paint in the ring (not a problem here since Warpath isn’t on the show), […]
Saturday slice-and-dice: Kimbo vs. UFC vs. Hatton vs. K-1
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Somehow, I totally missed or skipped over the comment Dana White made about WEC & PRIDE in yesterday’s Entreprenur article. Luckily, both UFC Mania and Jeff Thaler (he’s back blogging!) picked up on what I missed. In order for White’s statement to come true (that WEC will be bigger than PRIDE), WEC would need to […]
Strikeforce 6/22 San Jose event
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Ongoing results/reports: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | MMA on Tap | More than UFC | Observer | F4W Online | The Houston Chronicle | UFC Mania | Fight Report | Sprawl ‘n Brawl MMA California has two reviews of the show: here and here.
An all-out turf war for PRIDE in Japan
Friday, June 22nd, 2007More about this story at Gryphon’s site. On Wednesday, Nikkan Sports published a report that on August 18th, the first ‘shinsei’ PRIDE event would happen at Saitama Super Arena. Obviously, it sounded like the kind of rumor that would be started by someone who used to be affiliated with DSE or is trying to get […]
Friday fight notes: Shamrock/Baroni happens tonight
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Dana White interviewed by Entrepreneur. White is also interviewed in today’s Oregonian. He stated that Shogun will make his UFC debut on September 22nd. White also said this whopper of a statement: “We’re already beating the NBA, Major League Baseball and NASCAR. The only think that is bigger in the (demographic) is the NFL.” What […]
Fight Opinion Radio #53: A Fighter’s Heart
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Start your weekend off the right way with a new edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Our special guests this week are Rex Richards (Strikeforce) and author Sam Sheridan (buy his book here). There’s only one way to describe our interview with Sam – wild and wacky. Especially the part of the interview where we talk […]
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