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Monday, August 14th, 2006Update: The Eugene Register-Guard has more details. Make your voice heard. KVAL-TV in Eugene, Oregon is reporting that the city is preparing a ban on MMA. “It is not a professional sport. It doesn’t have requirements around weight or age or anything that sets up fair competition,” says Piercy. If you would like to (politely) […]
PRIDE rolls the dice in Las Vegas
Saturday, August 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion in Japan announced that Emelianenko Fedor, Mauricio Shogun, Mirko Cro Cop, Kazuyuki Fujita, Josh Barnett, Mark Coleman, Kevin Randleman, Phil Baroni, Kazuhiro Nakamura, and Pawel Nastula will work their 10/21 Las Vegas show at the Thomas & Mack Center. Not surprisingly, the promotion is also running a special tour event […]
UFC makes another acquisition
Friday, August 11th, 2006Multichannel News is reporting that InDemand programming executive Marshall Zelaznik will join UFC and head up their UK opertaions. MN says this move is a precursor of UFC expanding into Europe. Meanwhile, an update on the Silva/Liddell story that was first reported by CP (Canadian Press) in the Calgary Sun – the CP wire report […]
Dana says Liddell/Silva unlikely to happen
Friday, August 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold CP (Canadian Press) reports that UFC is now postponing plans for a fight in November between Chuck Liddell and Vanderlei Silva. This news comes one month after Dana White announced on PPV (in Las Vegas) that Silva would fight Liddell. He cited problems in dealing with the Japan-based Pride Fighting Championships that […]
Big talk, little interest
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Consider this an opinion piece, if you liked to be warned in advance. For the last week or so, I’ve seen reports online about comments PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara has been making about how his guys would beat the UFC fighters. UFC, to their credit, has literally said nothing about any sort […]
K-1 & Lesnar in Las Vegas
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion has a show this weekend at the Bellagio Hotel, and Brock Lesnar is expected to appear at a press conference to announce his participation in an MMA match for HERO’s. 8/12 Vegas card line-up here. I know that there were several other promotions interested in his services, including one group […]
Brandon Vera vs Frank Mir at UFC 65
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006By Stephan Marceau Updated the title to reflect the confirmation that this is now scheduled for UFC 65. Originally Brandon Vera’ site is the one that misled me to think it was at 62, the site has subsequently been updated to reflect that the fight is scheduled for UFC 65 That seems rather fast for […]
Techno Goliath versus The Paparazzi
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Digital Chosun has a report (in Japanese) about comments recently made by Choi Hong-Man. Hong-Man went on a SBS variety TV show (South Korean) on Monday and talked about being followed by the paparazzi. He told a story about how a Japanese magazine took a snapshot of him and a woman at […]
PRIDE’s new big signing
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Yeo Jong-Hoon (long-time correspondent) reports that Lee Tae Hyun (born on 1/17/1976, 196 cm, 138 kg) announced at a press conference today that he would fight in PRIDE. (Sports Navigator report here). Nobuyuki Sakakibara & Nobuhiko Takada were present at the media briefing. Tae Hyun is considered one of the great Ssirum […]
Tank vs. Buentello
Monday, August 7th, 2006It appears that letting Paul Buentello become a free agent may not pay off for UFC. Tank Abbott vs. Paul Buentello has been booked for the next Scott Coker Strikeforce show on October 7th in Fresno, California at the SaveMart Center. Can this match sell 10,000 tickets?
Resolution between Mirko & PRIDE?
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Vecernji List reports (translated on Sherdog) that a resolution between PRIDE & Mirko Cro Cop may have been reached. The dispute between Mirko and PRIDE involved money, more specifically whether or not he would get paid fight money for two fights if he won his first fight against Vanderlei Silva and then […]
HERO’s admits misjudgement
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last week turned out to be bittersweet for Tokyo Broadcasting System, which televised both the Koki Kameda fight (that drew monster ratings) and the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show, featuring the debut of Kazushi Sakuraba in the K-1 MMA ring. Both of those fights had controversy, but there was another fight on […]
Mirko out of open-weight tournament?
Saturday, August 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Reaction on the Nokaut site. This Croatian report indicates that Mirko Cro Cop is not working the PRIDE 9/10 Saitama Super Arena show. Sherdog claims it is a money issue. This is a very bad sign for PRIDE, even if the end result (which is likely Yoshida filling in, creating yet […]
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