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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Joe Fernandez of New York’s Newsday did an interview with Royce Gracie for their Thursday newspaper edition. Two interesting notes from the interview: Joe Fernandez: How did you get signed for this match? Royce Gracie: It’s an agreement between UFC and K-1 because I’m under contract with K-1. K-1 called me up […]
“The biochemists”
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold In recent interviews that Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has done with various media outlets (transcript here), Jackson has talked about having to deal with DSE’s “US office,” which is really just an office space in Los Angeles with Turi Altavilla (who used to work for King of the Cage, and is a hard […]
American money in China’s MMA scene
Monday, May 22nd, 2006The Voice of San Diego has an article about former American football player Rashaan Salaam being the force (money and investors) behind the Art of War promotion in Beijing, China.
K-1 7/30 Sapporo event
Monday, May 22nd, 2006As noted earlier today on the Puroresu Power page, K-1 announced a World GP show booking for July 30th in Sapporo at Makomanai Ice Arena. Musashi vs. Ernesto Hoost is likely to take place on the show. The more interesting story comes from Nikkan Sports, which notes that Bob Sapp may end up working that […]
Taking notice
Monday, May 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold The Houston Chronicle has a good article in their Monday edition of the newspaper, talking about MMA being hot property on US TV right now. It’s basically a UFC-oriented article with the usual pro-UFC spin about how they changed the rules (the same true/false mixed story), but one interesting twist is the […]
IFL debut TV show on Fox Sport Net
Sunday, May 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold Sunday, May 21st was the date of the IFL’s TV debut on Fox Sports Net. If the purpose of the show was to look like a serious, legitimate contender to UFC — then they accomplished the task at hand. Site Poll: Rate the IFL’s TV debut on FSN MMA Snark review of […]
PR: EXTREME WARS X2 on June 3rd in Oakland
Saturday, May 20th, 2006Update: Vladimir Matyushenko has been added to the show, and he will be fighting Bristol Marunde. Extreme Wars X2 promoters of MMA at the Oakland McAfee Arena, Oakland California are in the planning stage of presenting a Live-Streaming online PPV of the June 3rd MMA Show. This will provide the MMA Fans with an alternative […]
ACF Press Release (5/19)
Friday, May 19th, 2006VECC CONTINUES AS AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTING CEO DENVER, COLORADO – American Championship Fighting(sm) Chief Executive Officer Rico Vecc appeared before Denver District Court Friday, to face sentencing for conduct stemming from a previous real estate venture. Vecc assumed responsibility for one count of securities fraud he incurred while engaging in a joint venture with business […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 19 (Rampage vs. Lindland)
Friday, May 19th, 2006This week’s 80-minute show is presented by MMACalifornia.net and MonsterWrestlingRings.com. Our special guest is Todd Martin of http://www.wrestlingobserver.com, who was in attendance at the WFA press conference earlier this week. The WFA announced Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Matt Lindland for their July 22nd event. Todd gives us the inside story about the press conference and […]
M-1 & Red Devil coming to South Korea
Friday, May 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Dong-A Ilbo is reporting that Emelianenko Fedor, who’s visit to South Korea a few months ago made him very popular (especially his love of eating dog meat), may be influencing a prominent South Korean official to promote M-1 shows in September or October. South Korea has been a desirable market for […]
Gomi on Fox Sports Net
Thursday, May 18th, 2006Source of YouTube video link: Sherdog By Zach Arnold Takanori Gomi made an appearance tonight on The Best Damn Sports Show Period on Fox Sports Net in Los Angeles. It was a surreal appearance, because the hosts (Chris Rose & Rob Dibble) were asking some interesting questions, with most of them sounding like what a […]
Valor Fighting June 9th California event
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Promoter: Valor Fighting Date: June 9, 2006 Location: Cache Creek Casino (Brooks, California – near Sacramento) Card line-up: Dan Severn vs. Paul O’Keefe Angelo Catsouras vs. Chin Seng Sam Liara vs. Raven Seymon Aric Nelson vs. Jason Bress Carlos Garcia vs. Richard Blake Heavy Craig Wilkerson vs. Adam Macrae Joel Crawford vs. Chris Clifton David […]
Internet posts on Bob Sapp/K-1 situation
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold A couple of interesting links. First, this link on Gary Goodridge’s forum about Bob Sapp allegedly showing up with a DSE lawyer. The post claims that DSE sent a lawyer with Sapp to the Holland show. The second link is a translation of a statement that K-1 Holland promoter Simon Rutz made […]
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