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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Updated throughout the day.
Tuesday news wire
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006This post last updated at 12:07 AM EST. A lot of news stories and articles today. Take 5-10 minutes out of your busy schedule to read the various links and analysis. Then come back here and write your feedback. Hint: Dana White responds to the new Showtime deal with JD Penn. Update: The TUF Finale […]
Monday news round-up
Monday, November 13th, 2006Lots of various rumors, stories, and news items of interest to everyone. Including Fedor news. Video of Werdum vs. Aleksander from the 2H2H event. The top story is a report on Boxing Talk claiming that Showtime is going to work with JD Penn (of Rumble on the Rock fame) to produce MMA events on the […]
Quick IFL & PRIDE thoughts
Sunday, November 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s an odd headline (one of those stories with a “make of it what you will” warning) from Burning Spirit… All the entries for Yuji Shimada’s online blog are gone. Mr. Full (of Burning Spirit) speculates that either Shimada stopped the blog because he didn’t have the time to keep it updated […]
UFC Fight Night post-show open thread
Saturday, November 11th, 2006Have at it. Anything related to Saturday’s night event. Bad judging? Dana drunk? More thoughts: Here, here and here. Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): Cote loses Middleweight battle in UFC TV show’s finale Fight Report has some great short clips from the event. Houston Chronicle: Has the Ultimate Fighter lost its punch?
Angle and Lesnar in HEROs?
Saturday, November 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Comments on Two interesting reports. First, Mike Sawyer in an audio interview at F4W Online reported that Brock Lesnar is scheduled to make his MMA debut for the HERO’s promotion in February. The show is apparently set for Las Vegas. That same month, UFC has their Super Bowl weekend event in early […]
Tim Sylvia: Not a fan of Jeff Monson
Friday, November 10th, 2006Comments on From Dave Doyle’s weekly Fox Sports column: I’ve heard about some of the things he’s said and I think he’s a piece of s—,” said Sylvia, who defends his title against Monson at UFC 65 at Arco Arena in Sacramento on Nov. 18. “He disrespects our soldiers and our country and our President. […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 31
Friday, November 10th, 2006One guest. One name. Frank Shamrock. This week on Fight Opinion Radio. Additional topics discussed on the show include: Mauro Ranallo leaving PRIDE, Kevin Randleman allegedly fails an NSAC drug test, plus the world-famous Grab Bag (including an explanation on why women love Emelianenko Fedor). And, oh yeah, by the way… Mr. Shamrock says he […]
Mauro Ranallo leaves PRIDE
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Comments off The Fight Network reports that announcer Mauro Ranallo has left PRIDE in what Loretta Hunt indicates is a “re-organization of PRIDE’s Los Angeles offices in the coming weeks.” Fight Report: PRIDE’s ship continues to sink as Ranallo bails out MMA Toronto: Mauro Ranallo gone from PRIDE On October 22nd, the day after PRIDE’s […]
UFN TUF Finale open-thread
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Comments on Here’s the fight card line-up for this Saturday’s event that will air on Spike TV. Predict the TV rating that the show will draw on Spike TV (I pick 1.2). Make predictions for the main fights (or for all of them). (Admin note: If you submit a comment to any of the threads […]
Thursday media round-up
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Will be updated all day long. Miami Herald: Serra to meet Lytle in Saturday’s The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback finale UFC HP: Travis Lutter back in the spotlight this Saturday New York Newsday: Can’t take the fight out of this Long Islander (Matt Serra) Houston Chronicle: IFL team competition to air throughout November on […]
NHB News: PRIDE NYE show not on free TV
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006That’s the report in Japanese. It appears that TV-Asahi will not air PRIDE programming on the network for New Year’s Eve. Burning Spirit has more details (in Japanese). The source that NHB News & Burning Spirit alludes to is a television industry magazine called The Television. Further updates will be added to this post over […]
KID Yamamoto will not appear in New York
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sports Nippon newspaper is reporting that Norifumi “KID” Yamamoto will not appear at the NYAC Open on November 18th in New York. This was supposed to be a big event for Yamamoto to participate in for amateur wrestling as far as his hopes of making the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The newspaper report […]
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