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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Here is a press release detailing Ricco Rodriguez’s upcoming fight on June 28th in Salt Lake City for the UCE promotion. Sherdog is reporting that UK star Dan Hardy will make his UFC debut on October 18th in England. Josh Gross at Sports Illustrated has a preview of the upcoming MMA Summer calendar. I like […]
Larry Zbyszko tells it like it is
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008The Living Legend on MMA’s appeal to pro-wrestling fans: Wrestling is really in a situation where they’re losing a big part of their audience to the Ultimate Fighting. What wrestling is doing – and I’m speaking for the fans – is stupid. Instead of watching wrestling and athletes, all you’re doing for an hour or […]
Video: Sakuraba vs. Manhoef
Monday, June 16th, 2008Leland Roling at MMA Analyst loves Melvin Manhoef. This fight video… it just makes me sad. More videos of DREAM 4 fights can be seen here.
Why the weight issue matters (Diaz vs. Corbbrey)
Monday, June 16th, 2008Video link from Pancrase.org Just some visual evidence to support the arguments I presented in my new article at MMA Memories.
Today’s chalkboard (6/16/08)
Monday, June 16th, 2008The MMA California site has a new message board, which can be accessed right here. Check it out. New York Magazine has an article on UFC’s attempts to get MMA legalized in the state of New York. Count the number of items in the article that make you laugh or cringe. Sam Caplan has a […]
Sakuraba suffers left arm injury in fight against Manhoef
Sunday, June 15th, 2008DREAM officials announced today that Kazushi Sakuraba suffered an ulna fracture in his left arm during his fight against Melvin Manhoef yesterday at Yokohama Arena. The injury reportedly occurred when Sakuraba attempted to block a high-kick from Manhoef. One interesting item is that any sort of retirement talk for Sakuraba was profusely shut down and […]
Report: UFC will go head-to-head with Affliction on 7/19
Sunday, June 15th, 2008This report reminds me of the 1980s pro-wrestling scene when Vince McMahon was determined to crush regional promotions by going into their markets and blowing them out of the water. McMahon was successful and got what he wanted. Dana White will probably accomplish the same result, too.
Making weight
Sunday, June 15th, 2008I have a new article up at MMA Memories discussing this very topic. Feedback to the article can be found here.
KJ Noons vs. Yves Edwards
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Then the Diaz brothers got involved…
DREAM 4 (6/15 Yokohama Arena)
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Reports: Total MMA | Japan MMA | Sherdog | MMA Junkie
The fight world has an American presidential candidate in 2008…
Saturday, June 14th, 2008… and his name is Charles Jay.
Jordan Breen’s DREAM 4 preview
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Mr. Breen talks here. His predictions for Sunday’s Yokohama Arena event: Melvin Manhoef over Kazushi Sakuraba Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza over Jason “Mayhem” Miller Kin Tai Ei over Zelg Galesic Gegard Mousasi over Yoon Dong-Sik Shin’ya Aoki over Katsuhiko Nagata Hideo Tokoro over Darren Uyenoyama Ralek Gracie over Alavutdin Gazhiyev Alistair Overeem over Lee Tae-Hyun
Shukan Gendai
Saturday, June 14th, 2008It looks like the magazine is interested about the disappearance of Akira Maeda from the major leagues of Japanese MMA. A new edition of the magazine is supposed to come out in a couple of days…
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