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Monday, May 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Saturday night in Holland, Bob Sapp bolted before his scheduled main event with Ernesto Hoost, causing a major firestorm in front of 17,500 fans at the Amsterdam Arena. Sankei Sports, the newspaper affiliated with Fuji TV (which broadcasted the K-1 event), declared that “Sapp ran away” from the fight and issued […]
Kameda Brothers become next media target
Monday, May 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold It apparently isn’t only PRIDE that is getting the yakuza scandal treatment. This week’s edition of Shukan Post is promoting a “scoop” story about the alleged ties between the yakuza and the (star) boxing Kameda Brothers. The yakuza spotlight continues to shine in relation to the fight & entertainment worlds. Last week, […]
K-1 World GP in Amsterdam
Saturday, May 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today’s show in Holland at the Amsterdam Arena proved to be quite a long show. How long? Try 16 matches. No results on the English K-1 page, but they had them on the Japanese page. Results (well, most of them anyways, K-1’s Japanese page didn’t report on all the fights) from today’s […]
Lennox Lewis getting involved in MMA?
Saturday, May 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here are his words in an interview with The Record (based out of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada): I am also getting involved in Super Fighters; it’s a new thing that is launching in Australia. It’s basically like Ultimate Fighting but it’s three, four-minute rounds and you may have three fights in a day.
Gendai: Company supplied PRIDE owner with mansion
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold A summary transcript of this week’s Shukan Gendai article about PRIDE, Fuji TV, and Nippon TV.
Who will fall next?
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold Earlier this morning, reports surfaced that major members of the powerful Goto-gumi yakuza group were arrested. Just minutes ago, Nikkan Sports released a more detailed news article. The news outlet discusses, in passing, the influence of Goto-gumi on the fight game in Japan (something I alluded to on the message board). The […]
TV Ratings
Sunday, May 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold There’s a wrestler in Puerto Rico named “Mr. Raytings” Ray Gonzalez. Now, meet Japan’s version of Mr. Ratings. 19-year old boxing star Koki Kameda, who’s May 5th fight was broadcasted on Tokyo Broadcasting System, drew a 40.8% QH peak rating according to Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). The overall average rating was a […]
Gendai fires back at DSE
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara responded with legal threats a couple of days ago in response to the long-term campaign of allegations made against him by Shukan Gendai in relation to yakuza influence. However, these new threats clearly have not deterred Kodansha (the publisher of Gendai) from their aggressive article series against DSE. […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 17 (Sakuraba leaves PRIDE)
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Kazushi Sakuraba & Akira Maeda (5/4/2006). Photo credit: Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). This week’s one-hour show with Rob Sayers and Zach Arnold focuses on Kazushi Sakuraba’s departure from PRIDE to HERO’s. The original intent of this week’s show was to preview the PRIDE 5/5 Osaka Dome show, but Sakuraba’s departure clearly has overshadowed everything else […]
Sakakibara’s new response to Gendai & Kawamata
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara issued a statement on the PRIDE HP about Shukan Gendai & Seiya Kawamata. In the statement, Sakakibara says the following: DSE & PRIDE are not backed by yakuza money Kawamata’s testimony and claims are one-sided and false The statements that Kawamata & Gendai have made are frustrating and […]
Media Notes
Monday, May 1st, 2006Ryan Bennett (MMAWeekly.com) signs with The Fight Network. The Denver-based ACF (American Championship Fighting) promotion has signed a deal with HDNet to air footage of ACF MMA shows. The heavy push starts this weekend at the Denver Coliseum. Over 5,600 fans show up in Halifax on Saturday for their first MMA event. Chronicle Herald writer […]
Boxing versus UFC
Friday, April 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Keith Terceira has a great article on FoxSports.com titled Boxing losing the battle of evolution to UFC. A must-read article, and I want to hear your feedback about it in the comments section of this post. Money quote from Keith’s article: Writers have been pointing out boxing’s deficiencies for years only to […]
Antonio Inoki’s mystery plan
Thursday, April 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Thursday night, former Livedoor boss Takafumi Horie was released on bail in Tokyo. Reporters flocked to get a comment from him. One magazine, Jitsuwa Knuckles, reports that Horie (before the Livedoor scandal) was considering taking part in a fight project with Antonio Inoki. As the fortunes for both Inoki & Horie […]
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