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Sunday, April 8th, 2007By Zach Arnold Explanation of title post here. Kakutolog notes a Tokyo Sports report claiming that there is consideration of booking Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba for the Tokyo Dome on 10/11, which would be the exact date of the 10th anniversary of PRIDE.
PRIDE 34 media coverage
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Sankei Sports claims the attendance for the PRIDE 34 show was 23,336. The newspaper claims that K-1 gave Sakuraba permission to have one fight with Kiyoshi Tamura in the PRIDE ring under UFC control. Sports Nippon echoed the same sentiments. The same from Nikkan Sports. And more of the same in Daily Sports. Sakakibara discussed […]
Sunday media sandwich: Matt Serra shakes up gamblers
Sunday, April 8th, 2007This has been quite the red-meat weekend. So here’s some more red meat. A Japanese blogger looked at a pamphlet at the PRIDE 34 show that was promoting the upcoming 5/20 Saitama Super Arena Lightweight GP tournament. The photographs of 12 fighters were apparently on the pamphlet. The fighters supposedly listed were…
PRIDE 34
Saturday, April 7th, 2007Event review: Observer | Sherdog | MMA On Tap Post any thoughts you have on the show here. By far (to me), the most interesting theme of this show is how DSE is trying to put this show over as a tribute to Nobuyuki Sakakibara. Yesterday at the Japanese press conference, Akira Shoji said he […]
UFC 69 – Shootout event review
Saturday, April 7th, 2007By Erin Bucknell Man the UFC is really making the rounds. Ohio, Houston, and Manchester next time, sheesh. Damn, they didn’t show the angle where Diego lands right on his ass after shoving Koscheck. That footage is simply too good for words.
UFC 69 review post
Saturday, April 7th, 2007Event reports: Sherdog | Observer | The Houston Chronicle | F4W Online | UFC Junkie | MMA On Tap ESPN did the hard sell for UFC 69 event coverage on their 1 AM EST Sportscenter show. Linda Cohn and Steve Levy pushed the fact that they would have highlights of the Welterweight title match (GSP […]
Last minute notes
Saturday, April 7th, 2007Sherdog reports that the attendance for the IFL show tonight at Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, Illinois is a little under a 50% house. The IFL on FSN show last night showed fights between the San Jose Razorclaws (Frank Shamrock) and the LA Anacondas (taped 3/17 from the LA Forum). The opening fight […]
IFL 5-day stock plunge
Friday, April 6th, 2007The picture from Yahoo Finance says it all. Let’s hope they have better karma for their event tomorrow in Moline, Illinois at Mark of the Quad Cities. For those of you curious, my article on what the IFL needs to do to change their business strategy around to start building momentum is available at MMA […]
UFC 69 weigh-ins
Friday, April 6th, 2007I didn’t get everyone’s weight that was listed (video stalled part of the time), but here’s what I took down for notes: Tickets still available for UFC 69. Rogan did the hard-sell both before and after the weigh-ins.
Dana White: UFC can replace boxing in the Olympics
Friday, April 6th, 2007NBC Sports has a pretty remarkable interview with UFC President Dana White. He sounds an awful like Vince McMahon here. You must read the interview in full to get a flavor of what other MMA organizations are dealing with in UFC.
Friday media fix – Another Japanese love call for UFC
Friday, April 6th, 2007K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa issued a challenge to have a re-match between Royce Gracie and Matt Hughes for the LA Coliseum June 2nd event. The underlying theme of the challenge is Tanigawa provoking Dana White after Dana said on March 27th at Roppongi Hills Arena that any MMA group outside of UFC & PRIDE is […]
UFC Fight Night
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Everything UFC-related on Thursday night goes here. Multi-purpose post. Results from the UFC Fight Night event. No real surprises. Except that internet hardcores are buzzing about Kenny Florian faking the process of drinking from a Xyience can. FWIW, there is one surprise. Our iTunes feed for the radio show is magically working now. If you […]
Report: Fedor not locked to a PRIDE contract
Thursday, April 5th, 2007By Zach Arnold On March 24th, Yomiuri Hochi (Shimbun) reported that PRIDE Heavyweight champion (Emelianenko) Fedor was not under lock-and-key with PRIDE (DSE) and that he was going to fight in BodogFight long-term. Today, the estimable Sam Caplan at CBS Sportsline is reporting that a contract extension to stay in PRIDE was not ‘officially completed.’ […]
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