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Sunday, February 18th, 2007By Tomer Chen Ali-Frazier. Zale-Graziano. Shamrock-Ortiz. All of these feuds have etched a place into the history of combat sports and when you list one of these opponents, inevitably the other gets mentioned out of word association. But why? Why do people get enamored by the desire of two fighters getting into a ring (or cage) and […]
Gong Kakutougi status in question
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Before you start flooding this post with replies about other topics, let’s discuss the red-meat topic of the day that Gryphon has alluded to. Background about the situation can be read here (this is from October of 2006). Here’s the news update today (in Japanese). Last year, we lost Weekly Fight. We could lose Gong […]
Fight Opinion Weekly: Japan’s second-class fight scene
Sunday, February 18th, 2007By Zach Arnold Comments off It seems like a distant memory. In December of 2005, PRIDE announced the most-expensive fight in the history of MMA with Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Naoya Ogawa. At a price tag of nearly $5 million USD, it blew away anything else happening at the time in the industry’s landscape. It was […]
Fight Opinion Radio #41: Old-School
Saturday, February 17th, 2007Add us as your MySpace friend. Potential sponsors (web sites, fighters, teams, companies) – if you want to have ads on our show (paid or barter), e-mail us immediately. Use the e-mail also if you Want to write guest op-eds for the site. We have a show this week that I think both MMA fans […]
The value of records
Saturday, February 17th, 2007By Tomer Chen The name of Rocky Marciano invariably brings up his record: 49-0 with 43 KOs. After all, Rocky is the only World Champion in Boxing history to ever retire with such a high record without any losses or draws to ‘mar’ it. True, there have been numerous champions who won more bouts than […]
Milan hosts New Generation Tournament II
Saturday, February 17th, 2007By Mark Pickering MaxFighting.com Milan, the fashion capital of the world, a city more akin to the glamorous world of design and lavish indulgence, will host Italy’s leading mixed martial arts and submission event, New Generation Tournament II, on Sunday, March 25th.
Saturday news flash
Saturday, February 17th, 2007Shin’ya Aoki defeated Akira Kikuchi by a 2-1 judges’ decision in the main event of today’s Shooto event in Yokohama at Pacifico National Hall. The R1 Gym sent out a mass e-mail stating that Frank Trigg wants to both fight and do commentary for the PRIDE 2/24 Las Vegas show. ” I will get the […]
Friday news and notables
Friday, February 16th, 2007If you are interested in writing a guest op-ed or two for the site, e-mail me. From Josh Thomson’s MySpace: KNOXX GEAR WILL BE GIVING AWAY FREE PRIDE TICKETS!! FREE KNOXX GEAR and PRIDE FC will be at 40055 Mission Blvd Fremont, Ca 94539 at 3:00-4:00pm in the Main Plaza on Sunday, Feb. 18th!!!! There […]
Jungle FC signs deal with boxing promoter
Thursday, February 15th, 2007By Zach Arnold In an interview taped on Thursday night (which will air in the coming days on FO Radio), Wallid Ismail announced that Jungle Fighting Championship has signed a deal with New York-based boxing promoter Cedric Kushner to produce four MMA events in the United States in 2007. While Jungle FC will continue to […]
UFC Officially Announce UK Show
Thursday, February 15th, 2007ByAlly Clark The UFC today officially announced it’s return to the UK on April 21st. It’ll be the first time since 2002 that the biggest MMA promotion in the US and arguably the world has produced an event in Great Britain. In the press release posted on the UFC website President Dana White described his […]
Thursday news and links
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007I hope your Valentine’s Day went better than it did for this guy. I shouldn’t say this guy, because the guy happens to be the head of a very strong yakuza group in Japan. Not a fun time for any of the fight groups in Japan right now. Joe Rogan goes to war with comedian […]
Wednesday link-o-rama
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007YouTube users, be careful. From the IFL’s MySpace bulletin on Tuesday: If you go to Ticketmaster and put in the code BOGO you can get two tickets for the price of one to the Atlanta IFL fights on Feb 23rd. The Houston Chronicle: Premiere of Elite XC falls to UFC repeat in ratings battle MMA […]
Tuesday news review
Monday, February 12th, 2007Today’s red meat article comes to us from The Sunderland Today in the UK, which is titled Doctor’s warning to ultimate fighters. It’s full of the political correctness and nanny-state politics you’ve come to love. Also, there are many a Japanese women likely crying at the news of Masato marrying Shin Yazawa.
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