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Monday, September 3rd, 2007Tomorrow (yes, Wednesday) is the next WEC event from Las Vegas and I’m looking forward to it. We will recap the event on the next edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Here is some more background information about Mark Cuban’s interest in MMA. Cuban and Fishman working together would be a hell of a deal. Kevin […]
Dana White interview with Sportsline
Monday, September 3rd, 2007CBS Sportsline posted their new interview with Dana White and when it comes to the issue of the whole PRIDE asset purchase, it is one of the most incoherent and peculiar interviews I think I’ve seen in a long time. First, White explains why he fired Renato Babalu and how Babalu’s incident was worse than […]
Monday madness: Mark Cuban wants Fedor
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Your top headline of the day – Mark Cuban wants to do business with Fedor. I don’t know whether to be excited or scared about this. I’m more worried about Cuban in as far as doing business in the fight industry, especially with some of the characters we’ve seen on display from the world of […]
Sunday media slate: Rizzo remains on his winning ways
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Lots of news and notes coming out of the Art of War III event from Dallas, TX. on Saturday. Results here and event PBP here. The event drew around 8,000 (although there is a debate about that number), which is a respectable crowd. Two ‘upsets’ at the top of the card with both Jeremy Horn […]
Fight Opinion Radio #61: Writer’s roundtable
Saturday, September 1st, 2007The views and opinions expressed by guests on the Fight Opinion Radio show are those of the guests and not necessarily those expressed by the staff of Fight Opinion Radio. A good week for Fight Opinion Radio, as we recap the UFC 74 event from last weekend. This week’s highlight segment is a writer’s roundtable […]
Saturday surprise: K-1 interested in Asashoryu?
Friday, August 31st, 2007The headline that has everyone’s attention in Japan is a report in Tokyo Sports that K-1 made an offer of one billion yen to Asashoryu for an 8-fight MMA contract. K-1 denied the report. One of the more intriguing stories coming out of Japan is the future of DEEP. DEEP is ran by Shigeru Saeki, […]
Friday flame wars: Barnett vs. White
Friday, August 31st, 2007“And he’s like, he’s more part of the UFC than part of Yahoo.” — Oliver Copp talking about Kevin Iole, F4W Daily show, 8/31/2007. More information on Oliver here. Copp also said on the radio show that Dana White has heavy influence on the music that fighters use for entrances to the cage. The Texas […]
Five things I learned from the UFC 75 conference call
Thursday, August 30th, 2007By Zach Arnold Luke Thomas wrote-up an excellent summary of the UFC 75 conference call. My first thoughts after reading the summary: Renato Babalu was fired from UFC for holding a choke hold on David Heath for around 3-4 seconds after the referee asked him to let go. Babalu’s firing sounds more designed for Public […]
Thursday trash talk: Jay Glazer is not welcome in Kentucky
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007When I was 13 years old, asking for secret sauce meant the mystery dipping condiment with your french fries. Now, secret sauce has a whole new meaning for 13 year olds. (Hat tip: Mikeinformer.) More reaction to this story can be found here. Plus, more discussion about steroids and UFC fighters. How MMA’s popularity is […]
Whatever happened to… Mark Hall
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007By Zach Arnold If you’re an old UFC and MMA fan, the name Mark Hall brings back some interesting memories. I haven’t heard his name mentioned much in the last few years, but today his name surfaced in a media report — and it’s not great publicity, either. The Press-Enterprise (Southern California) is reporting that […]
Wednesday war room: What’s in a name?
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007It is not a good day in the world of Bodog. You, too, can buy Mike Tyson’s poop. If Kevin Iole called his critics last week “keyboard warriors,” I can only imagine what he is going to say after reading this. Luke Thomas has some words for Iole. Both Frank Trigg and Joe Stevenson think […]
Tuesday headlines: Rickson Gracie is returning
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007There is a brand new SEC filing by Pro Elite. Any new information in the filing? I did notice this gem on page 15: The material weaknesses noted were: (1) the Company inadequately maintained accounting records, (2) accounting policies and procedures were not formally documented, and (3) the accounting department did not have sufficient technical […]
UFC plays hardball with Arlovski
Monday, August 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold Most hardcore MMA fans online generally understand how Zuffa LLC, the parent company of UFC, does business — especially when fighters have one fight left remaining on their contract. So, it should be of no surprise that UFC matchmaker Joe Silva indicated to Steve Sievert of The Houston Chronicle that Andrei Arlovski […]
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