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Monday, April 3rd, 2006By Mark Pickering Jason Tan is a promising welterweight prospect from Liverpool, England who is set to pursue the sport on a full-time basis. Tan has a perfect record of 4-0 with his most recent victory coming against Cage Rage’s top ranked middleweight Alex Reid at WCFC No Guts No Glory on March 18th.
Mainstream media malfeasance – again
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Last week, we linked to an article in USA Today that lumped Toughman boxing with MMA. It hit a real nerve with readers, and I was afraid that the USA Today would snowball into more stupidity. And it has. Today’s USA Today editorial/opinion feedback section has a letter from “Bud Stuart” of […]
Tuffman, toughman, all the same?
Saturday, April 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Earlier in the week, we linked to a USA Today article lumping Toughman boxing with MMA. Today, we have a Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota) article from a writer named Tu-Uyen Tran talking about a 48-year drywall contractor participating in the First Annual Tuffman Competition. I tried to find out information about […]
UFC expands office
Thursday, March 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion has named John Mulkey (from Wall Street) as the company’s CFO. This Review Journal article from May of 2004 points to Mulkey working as a high-yield gaming/casino financial analyst at Bear Stearns. Mulkey is referenced in many media articles in relations to casinos, gambling, Macau, etc. It’s interesting to watch […]
Another victory for MMA
Thursday, March 30th, 2006Special to Fight Opinion By Joey Arsenault The explosion of MMA continues to grow to broader areas by the day. The revolution of the combat sport has now blasted its way into the fringe market of Nova Scotia and is looking to strike briskly over the rest of the Maritimes (Prince Edward Island and New […]
Fox Sports Net & IFL sign deal
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold As predicted by Dr. J on Friday, the IFL has announced a TV deal with Fox Sports Net. Three TV shows will air on the network in May & June. In the press release, the IFL stressed how they were a national company. Expect a lively debate on next week’s radio show […]
Truth serum
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold Mainichi Daily News reports that former tabloid writer Takashi Nishizawa will have to testify on Tuesday, April 4th in front of the members of the Diet. As we’ve discussed in the last few days, this could be fun to watch. On a media sidenote, today the press was focused on the upcoming […]
New developments in Nova Scotia
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006Tuesday night is when the Halifax City Council debates Councilmember Bob Harvey’s plan to ban MMA in the city. CBC Nova Scotia has more on the story. In the article, Harvey admits that he has received over a dozen e-mails since his proclaimation last week of trying to ban MMA in the area. Meanwhile, The […]
Media round-up
Tuesday, March 28th, 20063/28 media links: Surprise, PRIDE US PPV customers. 3 of the 10 Bushido fights will air on Fox Sports Net on 4/9, including Baroni vs. Kondo (a fight that definitely could sell some PPV buys). Bushido 10 fighter Denis Kang interviewed on MaxFighting. New Hampshire is ready to host it’s first sanctioned MMA event. If […]
More mainstream media malfeasance
Monday, March 27th, 2006An article just published on the USA Today web site manages to lump Toughman boxing with MMA. Toughman, Ultimate Fighting, Kage Kombat and other forms of brawling are full of surprises. But the biggest may be that “extreme fighting,” a sport once on the verge of being banned, is enjoying increasing regulatory approval and drawing […]
Alliances & recruitment
Monday, March 27th, 2006We have reached a deal with the staff of MMAFighting.com to work together on promoting each other’s sites. This includes exchanges of links, stories, and other content. It’s important to make deals with allies, and MMA Fighting certainly qualifies as a very good independent site. Expect a lot more in the future. Second, I am […]
The YouTube Conundrum
Sunday, March 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold On our Fight Opinion forum, Al Yu points out a story about UFC contacting YouTube to remove a person’s multimedia video package featuring UFC fight footage. It’s pretty fair to say that YouTube has become an absolute nightmare for copyright lawyers and programming executives. On one hand, there is blatant copyright violation […]
UFC’s next targets: New York & Chicago
Sunday, March 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Dana White has New York & Chicago penciled in as his next big media targets. It puts the hiring of Marc Ratner into perspective. The article was originally a piece about Andrei Arlovski, but the quotes from White about UFC’s future plans are the bigger story. It […]
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