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Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Several years ago, WWE announcer Jim Ross used to have a weekly column on the WWE site called “The Ross Report” that became controversial for many reasons, with one of those reasons being some of the cryptic comments he made in the reports. No matter what you thought about Ross and his […]
K-1’s message to PRIDE
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Today is the start of the heat-up for this weekend’s PRIDE show in Saitama (with two mega-matches on the card). Instead, K-1/HERO’s cleverly scheduled a press conference for today to announce a fight between Kazushi Sakuraba and Yoshihiro Akiyama in the second round of the HERO’s Light Heavyweight tournament (10/9 Yokohama Arena event). Shungo Oyama […]
Internal media speculation on Tyson
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Kakutolog (in Japanese) has a very interesting post about a Gendai Net report on PRIDE & Mike Tyson working together. More specifically, the supposed motives on PRIDE’s behalf for booking Tyson. The Gendai Net article claims that PRIDE’s real motive behind signing Mike Tyson (to an exhibition boxing match) is to try […]
Report: Bonnar tests positive for steroids
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Source: MMA Weekly. Boldenone is an anabolic steroid that is intended for use only by veterinarians, specifically to help rehabilitate injured horses. It has several brand names for veterinary use, including Equigan, Equipoise, Ultragan, and Ganabol. It is on the banned substances list of all the major athletic commissions and sports leagues. If you recognize […]
A tough marketing sell
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Recently, many of the various professional wrestling web sites have tried to integrate MMA coverage into their news & opinion reporting. Today, The Pro-Wresling Torch announced the opening of a new MMA web site called MMA Torch.
Media notes for upcoming MMA events
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006This weekend is the IFL show in Portland, Oregon. It’s not getting much attention online, but the local press in Oregon has been covering it. Antonio Inoki is scheduled to make an appearance at the event, meaning the IFL show will no doubt receive coverage in the Japanese press. Making Inoki’s team, well, unique, is […]
BJ Penn vs. Matt Hughes II
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Luke Nicholson In case you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, UFC is having a HELL of a year. Coming off UFC 61, where a re-match between Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock drew 775 thousand buys on PPV, and UFC 62 which will probably do in the range of 450-500 thousand PPV buys, UFC […]
UFC 63 card line-up
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006September 23rd at the Anaheim Pond in California. Press release here: Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn Mike Swick vs. David Loiseau Jens Pulver vs. Joe Lauzon Rashad Evans vs. Jason Lambert Gabe Ruediger vs. Melvin Guillard
Media focus on Mike Tyson
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold ESPN aired a segment on the Tuesday edition of their Outside the Lines: First Report show, focusing on the rise and fall of Mike Tyson. The segment, titled Split Decision by Jeremy Schaap, profiled Tyson’s latest antics in Las Vegas and whether or not his retirement from boxing was permanent. Tyson is […]
Media quote of the day
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006Dana White in the Miami Herald on an impending HBO deal: ‘There’s never a deal until a deal is done, . . . but, yeah, we’re going to do a deal with HBO,” White said. “HBO is getting pulled, kicking and screaming, into this thing. They’ve obviously spent millions of dollars on boxing. [HBO Sports […]
Dana White talks about PRIDE – again
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold From an interview in the Chicago Sun-times: Pride is coming to Vegas. How will that affect the UFC? Not at all. They’re having financial trouble. They lost their TV distribution in Japan. There are a lot of accusations they’re not good guys. Could you guys merge? We could buy them. I’m starting […]
Rapper ICE-T wants in MMA
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006somebody had to point this story out. From Contact Music. Meanwhile, more trouble for Calvin Ayre?
Dana White talks about PRIDE
Friday, September 1st, 2006In an interview with FoxSports.com: “They talk a lot of s– but never back it up. I’m here I’m ready, Chuck’s here, he’s ready. It’s not that Wanderlei doesn’t want the fight, he’s a fighter. No disrespect to him. You know who I’m talking about. I’ve been trying to do this for five years. I […]
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