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Friday, January 5th, 2007A message from our friend Tim Leidecker: Ground & Pound Awards 2006 It is about time to give away the Ground & Pound Awards for the year 2006. It is you, the fans, fighters, managers, promoters and trainers, who make the decision! To smack down your vote, go here. Pick your favorites and hit “Wählen” […]
Bad boys, bad boys…
Thursday, January 4th, 2007More drug testing fun — Thiago Alves reportedly tests positive for a diuretic. And, famous boxing broadcaster Jim Lampley finds himself in hot water. NBC San Diego has more information.
Thursday news spread
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007A new poll has been added to the right sidebar of the page. It’s an interesting one, given that all three situations are serious. Poll results from our last site question: What is the biggest MMA-related story for 2006? UFC explodes in popularity, creates big business boom – 53% PRIDE gets negative campaign from Shukan […]
New Jersey commission to use instant replay
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007State of New Jersey State Athletic Control Board P.O. Box 180 Trenton, NJ 08625-0180 PRESS RELEASE Date: January 3, 2007 Subject: Use of Instant Replay for Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, and Kickboxing Matches
Wednesday weekly notes
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007UFC Junkie: An alert to MMA writers about plagiarism (it sounds pretty much like spam blogs set up to take RSS feeds and pass off the content as their own) Tales from Inside Japan: Live PRIDE 12/31 Saitama event report TC Palm: Jupiter (Florida) gym on ground floor of growing popularity of Ultimate Fighting Gambling […]
PRIDE 2007 schedule notes
Monday, January 1st, 2007The promotion announced the formation of a Super Heavyweight division (creating a Monster GP tournament). Schedule of event dates this year: 2/24 Las Vegas (PRIDE 33), 4/8 Saitama Super Arena (PRIDE 34), 4/28 Las Vegas, May (Saitama Super Arena – Lightweight GP), June in Los Angeles at the Staples Center (PRIDE 36), July in Nagoya […]
Ratings data
Monday, January 1st, 2007Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan announced the ratings for the Red & White Music Festival (Kohaku) program in Japan. The first part drew a 30.6% rating in the Kanto area (28.5% in the Kansai area), and the second part drew a 39.8% rating in the Kanto area (37.6% in the Kansai area). The numbers are […]
Happy New Year headlines
Monday, January 1st, 2007Lots of news links, headlines, and interesting items.
K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome Dynamite event
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Main card results here. If you have more results links, video clip links, etc. anything related to this show, post contributions in the comments area. Official show results can be seen in full-post view. The claimed attendance was 50,930 at the Osaka Dome. Genki Sudo indicated that he would retire after his fight with Jackson […]
PRIDE 12/31 Man Festival event results
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Full-post view gets you the latest match results. The claimed attendance for the Saitama event was 48,709. The Yoshida vs. James Thompson fight grabbed top headlines for PRIDE coverage (the K-1 event took a majority of the media coverage in Japan). PRIDE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara fielded questions from the media about Mirko Cro Cop leaving […]
UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2
Saturday, December 30th, 2006By Erin Bucknell Added – broadsheet coverage of the UFC 66 show. Plus, a report that Mirko has signed a six-fight deal with the UFC. Am I the only one yelling at Tito to fix his damn hat in the commercials (where it’s tilted to the side) for his fight? For God’s sakes, man, this […]
Fighting and the bottom line
Saturday, December 30th, 2006By Tomer Chen Throughout the history of combat sports, there have been titanic clashes between two fighters which the public had demanded to face each other in order to be recognized as ‘the’ man. One of the earliest examples of such a superfight would be the 1860 John C. Heenan-Thomas Sayers bout which pitted an […]
Open UFC thread
Saturday, December 30th, 2006Have at it in the comments section. Talk about the ongoing UFC 66 show taking place in Las Vegas, or discuss the entry of Rampage and Mirko into UFC.
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