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Thursday, June 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Nikkan Sports reports that DSE will be opening up their gym in Tokyo up to the public, as they hope to use it as tool to develop new talent and also to bring in some of their fighters & managers for lectures. It’s interesting, because the spotlight is now away from the […]
Ryan Bennett dead
Thursday, June 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Ryan Bennett, the creator of the MMA Weekly news site, has died after being killed in a car accident. Please donate to the Ryan Bennett Family Fund. Whaledog comments | Sherdog statement | KSBY article | Greg Savage article | San Luis Obispo Tribune article | UFC official statement
“K-1 & UFC Strong Tag Alliance”
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold Today’s Nikkan Sports newspaper has a bombastic article talking about an “aggressive” tag team between K-1 & UFC, with both sides starting heavy co-promotional deals. The article talks about Chuck Liddell maybe working the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show in Tokyo (or the August K-1 Las Vegas show), with Kazushi Sakuraba and […]
Bob Sapp’s side of the story
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold The pressure on K-1 has just picked up. Bob Sapp’s side of the story about the K-1 Amsterdam fiasco has been relayed on the MMA Ring Report web site. Compare this report to what the Japanese have been claiming and what Simon Rutz is claiming.
CBC Newsworld – MMA Feature Story
Monday, May 29th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson CBCNews Sunday with Evan Solomon, had a feature story on Mixed Martial Arts, or as they called it, Extreme Fighting. Throughout the piece they used both terms. It was discerning because “Extreme Fighting” gives it a more rogue sound than Mixed Martial Arts. MMA sounds much more professional. Evan talked about how […]
Nevada state athletic commission in crosshairs
Monday, May 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Reid statement on free tickets. Keep your eyes on Technorati (or try this search) to read reaction to this story. The Associated Press reports that the Nevada State Athletic Commission gave Democratic senate leader Harry Reid free ringside boxing tickets in exchange for influencing legislation on federal regulation of boxing. Picture […]
The price of being mainstream
Monday, May 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold TV Week has an extraordinary article, talking about various American cable networks jumping on the MMA bandwagon. And, as you would expect with some network executives, their view of what MMA is produces some wacky, but unfortunate results. BET, MTV2, Oxygen and Fox Sports are betting the popularity of ultimate fighting will […]
Online ticket auction
Sunday, May 28th, 2006We got a note from correspondent Michael Blechman about an auction taking place to help benefit Brian Olsen, the fighter who got stuck with an ambulance bill after Mike Kyle kicked him in the face in their WEC fight. Link to the auction site. For the auction, two cage side seats (Section C, Row 1, […]
Gendai: Fuji TV not to renew PRIDE TV deal?
Sunday, May 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold As noted yesterday on the message board, Shukan Gendai came out with a page article in this week’s magazine, proclaiming that their campaign against DSE for being an alleged yakuza group is showing some effects. They claim that the TV deal between DSE/PRIDE & Fuji TV is up in September, and that […]
UFC mania in Japan
Sunday, May 28th, 2006Photo credit: Sankei Sports By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports has two articles today (here and here). The first one talks about the photo-op that Kazushi Sakuraba, K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa, and UFC President Dana White had. The hope is that Sakuraba will work in UFC soon. The second article talks about Ryo Chonan training with […]
Goldberg in MMA?
Saturday, May 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Matt Boone reports that MMA Hawaii’s X-2 show in Oakland, California on June 3rd may have a surprise. Boone claims that X-2 is in preliminary negotiations to book Bill Goldberg vs. Tank Abbott.
Sakuraba to attend UFC show?
Friday, May 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports reports that Kazushi Sakuraba may be in attendance for the UFC 60 show on Saturday night (Matt Hughes vs. Royce Gracie). The article speculates that Sakuraba may end up participating in UFC (given the current business relationship between UFC & K-1 with BJ Penn & Royce Gracie).
UFC’s expansion plans
Thursday, May 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold There is a great Whaledog editorial about Dana White’s comments to The Long Beach Press-Telegram about expanding the UFC into Europe, Canada, and other markets. One comment that struck me in particular was Mr. White stating that the NFL has had trouble exporting their product overseas, but that UFC could export their […]
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