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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006Sports Nippon reports that PRIDE is attempting to sign WBC World Super Flyweight champion Masamori Tokuyama (background information here and here) for their 12/31 Saitama Super Arena show. The report claims that should Tokuyama work the PRIDE show, the JBC (Japan Boxing Commission) would threaten to strip him of his title. Reportedly, the news of […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 30 (Media Week)
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006This week’s show (presented by Whaledog.com) is a good one if you like to hear the thoughts from writers who cover the MMA business extensively. Our first guest is Eddie Goldman of NHB News (his site’s ATOM feed is here). Eddie shares his thoughts on UFC’s marketing tactics, Dana White’s behavior in public, HBO’s level […]
Takanori Gomi cancels media interview
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006According to a Daily Sports report. Gomi was supposed to meet with the media and do a training session for the media on behalf of DSE. He canceled. And the bad news for PRIDE got even worse. Gilbert Melendez is off the Yokohama Arena card due to an injury. Here is a statement from Gilbert […]
Fuji TV says no MMA programming for NYE
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Yahoo Japan HP: Fuji TV says “No kakutougi (MMA) on New Year’s Eve” By Zach Arnold Daily Sports reports that Fuji TV President Koichi Murakami will not air kakutougi (MMA) programming on the network for New Year’s Eve. This leaves TV-Asahi as the only network (officially) left for PRIDE programming to possibly air on New […]
UFC signs deal to create TV shows in Spanish
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Multichannel News: Fox Sports Espanol gets in UFC ring The exclusive one-year deal includes Spanish-language television and video-on-demand rights to Gladiadores del UFC, a series of six one-hour UFC fight specials that will air over the course of six months. Business Wire: UFC’s press release on the new FSE deal
IFL business data now publicly available
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006The folks at The Underground Forum made a pretty interesting discovery. Mainly, the IFL’s financial statements in preparation of their upcoming stock merger to be a publicly traded company. The method the IFL is choosing to get onto the stock market through Paligent Inc. is called a reverse stock merger. Once the move happens, a […]
Bushido at Yokohama Arena
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006DJ GOZMA gets the GRABAKA boys in shape So, Bushido is this Sunday at Yokohama Arena. Good card line-up. Denis Martins has an interview with Denis Kang here. Likely a (very) small crowd. Same story for a rather unheralded S-Cup (Shootboxing) event in Tokyo at Ryogoku Kokugikan this Friday featuring Andy Souwer and other K-1 […]
Pawel Nastula allegedly fails more drug tests
Monday, October 30th, 2006Ivan Trembow has more details. I’m sure it won’t make headlines in Japan, but hey… how about that slow news week?
PRIDE’s NYE TV options
Sunday, October 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold The five major free TV networks in Japan (Tokyo Broadcasting System, TV-Tokyo, Nippon TV, Fuji TV, & TV-Asahi) are starting to get their New Year’s Eve programming plans ready. Based on what is publicly known, here is the information that we know of so far: TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting) – K-1 Dynamite!! Fuji […]
Sunday & Monday is media fun-day
Sunday, October 29th, 2006Consider this an open post to talk about any stories MMA-related you see in the media or just anything in general MMA-related you want to talk about. Look at the prices on Ticketmaster for tickets for UFC’s TUF 4 Finale show. $175-$495 USD per ticket. Sunday and Monday headlines can be read in full-post view.
Kiyoshi Tamura appreciation day
Saturday, October 28th, 2006The obstinent man in red pants. A man who calls his daily journal the Full Nude Blog. It’s impossible to hate him. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba (UWF-International) Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (6/27/1998 at Tokyo Bay NK Hall – RINGS promotion) Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Frank Shamrock (4/23/1999 Osaka Prefectural Gym – RINGS promotion) Kiyoshi […]
Trevor Berbick murdered
Saturday, October 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Associated Press reports a disturbing crime scene in Jamaica. Bloomberg has more details. As noted in a Wikipedia entry, Berbick was involved in a famous double-crossing in 1991 against Nobuhiko Takada for the UWF-International promotion. Other related links: ESPN (Dan Rafael): Berbick ‘the other guy’ in the career of others The […]
Mike Tyson’s PPV value in 2006 is…
Friday, October 27th, 2006Half of what Total Nonstop Action wrestling draws. Oleg Maskaev has his Christmas card ready to send and mail off to Iron Mike now. Even he is laughing at Tyson’s buyrate power. PRIDE looks to be very smart by marketing Tyson in Macau and not in America. If you click on full-post view, you can […]
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