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Monday, September 10th, 2007By Adam Underhill Every British tabloid that I picked up last Wednesday, every news bulletin that I tuned into on the BBC’s Radio 1 network; it had appeared that mixed martial arts had finally at long last reached headline news… but regrettably for completely the wrong reasons. Preceding Saturday’s UFC 75: Champion vs. Champion event […]
Monday madness with Michael Bisping
Monday, September 10th, 2007So far, the amount of North American media coverage for the UFC 75 (London) event after it took place feels similar to the coverage for UFC’s Ireland event in June. In other words, pretty light and not very much of it. There was an avalanche of previews heading into the show, but not much reporting […]
Fight Opinion Radio #62: UFC 75 review
Monday, September 10th, 2007No guests this week (the scheduled guest didn’t show). Welcome to radio. No worries, however, as we have a loaded show this week recapping the UFC 75 and WEC 30 events in Las Vegas. Plus, we’ll address the BMA’s attempt to get MMA banned, concussions in MMA, and Dana White’s statements about PRIDE’s future. Also, […]
Report: Hidehiko Yoshida may appear at Dynamite
Sunday, September 9th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports is reporting that Hidehiko Yoshida is considering an offer to appear at the K-1 Dynamite New Year’s Eve event. Yoshida was quoted as saying that he wanted to fight before the end of the year and that he is leaving any future career decisions to the J-ROCK office to determine. […]
UFC 75
Saturday, September 8th, 2007I will add results links as they are created. Results (coming soon): Yahoo Sports | MMA on Tap | Sherdog | Sprawl ‘n Brawl | Javno | Lancanshire Telegraph | Fox Sports All predictions, spoilers, news and notes go here. A funny spoiler (view it in full page mode)…
Saturday headlines: UFC 75 previews galore
Friday, September 7th, 2007Zab Judah defeated Edwin Vazquez in a rather uninspiring fight at the Hard Rock Biloxi on Friday night. Lamont Peterson defeated Frankie Santos in the main event (telecasted on ESPN2 TV). The 4th CAGE FORCE event took place today in Tokyo at Differ Ariake. Main results: In a Lightweight tournament match Kotetsu Boku defeated Eiji […]
Friday headlines: Heat-up for UFC 75
Friday, September 7th, 2007Matt Hughes joins Full Tilt Poker. Art of War 4 will take place on 10/27 at the Grand Event Center in Tunica, MS. Movement business-wise for The Fight Network. Jon Fitch made an appearance on the Any Given Saturday radio show on Thursday (audio here). Plus, a UFC 75 preview (Fitch picked Henderson, Bisping, Mirko, […]
Thursday afternoon update – 9/6/07
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Guy Mezger explains his role in Mark Cuban’s new MMA project. The Sun tries to educate people on what MMA is. UFC Junkie is rebranding itself as MMA Junkie.
IFL stock goes below 50 cents
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Stock quote here. The low today was $0.45/share. Here’s the latest activity with Pro Elite.
K-1 9/29 Seoul & Pancrase 10/14 Tokyo cards
Thursday, September 6th, 2007K-1 World GP 2007 in Seoul FINAL 16 9/29 Seoul Olympic Gym #1 (5 PM) Peter Aerts vs. Ray Sefo Jerome Le Banner vs. Ruslan Karaev Yusuke Fujimoto vs. Junichi Sawayashiki Remy Bonjasky vs. Stefan Leko Semmy Schilt vs. Paul Slowinski Glaube Feitosa vs. Chalid “Die Faut” Arrab Badr Hari vs. Doug Viney Choi Hong-Man […]
Thursday trash talk: Not interested in UFC 75? You have a problem
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Adam Morgan is moving on from Fight Opinion to 411 Mania. I wish Adam a lot of luck and hope he does well with his new job. Tonight, Luke Thomas is interviewed Jon Fitch on his radio show starting at 10 PM EST. Details here. The phone number to call in is 646-478-5091. I want […]
WEC 9/5 Las Vegas
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007All links, spoilers, and thoughts on the show go here. Show starts at 9 PM EST/6 PM PST on The Versus Network.
Wednesday war room: BMA and Big Brother
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Lots of news coverage today regarding the state of Chris Benoit’s brain. ABC News has more details. Plus, check out the reader comments. On ESPN’s Outside the Lines today, they focused their 30-minute program on the Benoit brain tissue analysis and concussions in sports. Commentary on Dana White: Komikazee | Fightlinker The BBC is reporting […]
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