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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008UFC politics: UFC President Dana White and owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta were alleged to be openly ecstatic at cageside over Griffin’s submission win over Rua in September. Matchmaker Joe Silva passed a note to announcer Joe Rogan during Lyoto Machida’s mauling of Sokoudjou on Saturday, saying the bout’s outcome was indicative that “This ain’t […]
The story of Choo Sung-Hoon
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008South Korean friend and correspondent Yeo Jong-Hoon tells the story about Yoshihiro Akiyama and why Kazuo Misaki’s comments to Akiyama after their MMA bout was over are drawing a lot of heat. By Yeo Jong-Hoon I watched K-1 Dynamite! and Yarennoka last night. Both aired in Korea cable TV, network XTM. (Dynamite was delay, Yarennoka […]
Tanigawa: K-1’s ‘large coalition’ will continue
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Today, Kazushi Sakuraba and Sadaharu Tanigawa held a press briefing in Osaka. (Picture here.) If Fedor’s face looked like he suffered from road rash, then Sakuraba’s face is twice as bad. However, the big story coming out of the press conference involved Tanigawa proclaiming that the ‘large coalition’ that K-1 was a part of would […]
Thoughts on the Japanese NYE 2007 MMA events
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008(I want to apologize for not responding to e-mails sent to me today, as Hotmail for some reason is acting up and giving some weird error messages when I send replies or try to delete mails.) “The message you selected could not be found. It may have been moved or deleted. Please click the folder […]
Vanishing Xyience
Monday, December 31st, 2007One of the notable aspects of Saturday night’s UFC 79 event in Las Vegas was that the fact that the promotion did not push Xyience hard. Instead of having the typical Xyience logos on the Octagon mat canvas, they had huge logos for Harley Davidson and Lumber Liquidators (a company that recently went public on […]
K-1 Dynamite 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007TV: Tokyo Broadcasting System (6 PM-11:35 PM JST) Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel free to post links. Notes on the show can be found […]
Hustle & Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Hustle Matsuri (Festival), afternoon show at SSA TV: TV-Tokyo Yarennoka (DSE), evening show at SSA TV: SkyPerfecTV PPV, HDNet Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel […]
Interview: White gave Mirko permission to attend Hustle event
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Tokyo Sports mobile (the newspaper) conducted an interview with Dana White on a number of subjects. The focus was on Takanori Gomi and Mirko Cro Cop. According to the newspaper’s interview, White said that Mirko Cro Cop asked for permission to attend the Hustle event on 12/31 in Saitama and that his request was granted. […]
Image of the day – Yoshihiro Akiyama
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Now, this is bad fashion.
‘I want NFL Network’ TV ad mocks ‘cage fighting’
Saturday, December 29th, 2007In a thinly-veiled attack on UFC (and WEC), Saturday night’s NFL Network broadcast (simulcasted on NBC and CBS) of the New York Giants vs. New England Patriots featured a TV ad spot for “I want NFL Network.” The ad features actors mocking cable companies that claim people don’t want to pay for the NFL Network, […]
UFC 79 event results
Saturday, December 29th, 2007All thoughts about the show (event recaps, results, liveblogging of the show) will go here in this post. Kevin Iole reports that Liddell will make $500,000 USD for his fight at UFC 79, while his opponent Wanderlei Silva will make $150,000 USD. CompuStrike.com is doing live stats of tonight’s UFC 79 event in Las Vegas. […]
IFL 12/29 Mohegan Sun Arena
Saturday, December 29th, 2007For those watching the event on HDNet tonight, post your thoughts about the event here. Event results: Sherdog | The Fight Network | MMA on Tap | F4W Online
Audio previews of this week’s MMA events
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Check out Mike Coughlin’s new edition of Five Star Radio here. Oliver Copp and Mike Sawyer of Tough Talk Radio went to the IFO show on Friday at the Riviera in Las Vegas. They have a recap of the event in audio form (listen to the show here). Jarry Park has an interview with Damon […]
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