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Thursday, August 24th, 2006FoxSports.com UFC 62 event predictions FoxSports.com Chuck Liddell interview/profile article Mickey’s Brewing Co., a subsidiary of Miller Brewing Co., signs a big sponsorship deal with UFC Canadian Press: Babalu looks for revenge against the Iceman in UFC title bout On a completely unrelated news item, South Korea has a robot MMA tournament happening today.
Newspaper: Hughes/GSP may not happen
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Jose Rodriguez in the Calgary Sun reports that an announcement is expected tomorrow from Georges St. Pierre’s manager, Stephane Patry, as to whether or not the GSP vs. Matt Hughes fight (scheduled to take place on September 23rd at the Arrowhead Pond) will take place. Update: It appears that BJ Penn will […]
UFC’s branding & competition
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Jeff Thaler has thoughts about a recent newspaper article in which UFC’s COO talks about the amount of money that the UFC fighters are paid per-fight. The Miami Herald has more on UFC’s media momentum and branding. I have seen many sentiments online about UFC facing competition in the near future. So […]
PRIDE 9/10 Saitama card line-up
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006Yosuke Nishijima vs. Evangelista Cyborg Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Yoshihiro “KISS” Nakao Reserve Match: Sergey Kharitonov vs. Emelianenko Alexander Open-Weight GP: Vanderlei Silva vs. Mirko Cro Cop Open-Weight GP: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Josh Barnett At the press conference announcing the new fights, Nishijima indicated that he wanted a chance at Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson in PRIDE
Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The front page of Yahoo Japan’s HP has the link to a Sports Nippon newspaper report about Mike Tyson participating in PRIDE. Tyson is being marketed to the Japanese as PRIDE’s “big surprise” for their 10/21 Las Vegas event. Also in the report, Hidehiko Yoshida continued expressing his desire to open up […]
PRIDE 10/21 Las Vegas event
Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion announced Mark Coleman vs. Emelianenko Fedor and Kevin Randleman vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua as two of the matches for their 10/21 Thomas & Mack Center show in Las Vegas, Nevada. What makes the Coleman vs. Fedor announcement interesting is that a few days ago, the promotion indirectly (through Sankei Sports) […]
Calvin Ayre officially announces MMA entry
Friday, August 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last month, we reported an industry rumor online first about Bodog.net owner Calvin Ayre getting involved in the MMA business. Today, a press release was issued on the Casino City Times detailing Ayre’s plans. In short, the first MMA show series taping is underway right now in Costa Rica (where Ayre is […]
UFC Fight Night (8/17/2006)
Thursday, August 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here we go. Full show review.
UFN 6 – Analysis
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Stephan Marceau As usual I like to review and analyze the line up! This card is particularly good for a free card as you will see. I didnt do the full card, but the most intesting fights imho. So without further due: Jason Von Flue Vs. Joe Riggs Riggs has been kind of lackluster […]
Heat-up for TUF 4
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold There is a lot of press coverage this week in the media for this Thursday’s season-opening show for The Ultimate Fighter: Season 4. Neil Davidson in the Canadian Press (article here at Canada.com) has an article, along with The Dartmouth Online, the UK’s News & Star, The Boston Herald, and Multichannel News. […]
Promoting 101: How to burn a town
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold For the last few days, Erin Bucknell at MMA California has been following the events surrounding a Stockton, California MMA show last Saturday that was supposed to be headlined by Nick Diaz. On Saturday morning, Erin caught a newspaper report about Diaz not having an official weigh-in. Hours later, various MMA sites […]
Top Oregon city proposes MMA ban
Monday, August 14th, 2006Update: The Eugene Register-Guard has more details. Make your voice heard. KVAL-TV in Eugene, Oregon is reporting that the city is preparing a ban on MMA. “It is not a professional sport. It doesn’t have requirements around weight or age or anything that sets up fair competition,” says Piercy. If you would like to (politely) […]
PRIDE rolls the dice in Las Vegas
Saturday, August 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion in Japan announced that Emelianenko Fedor, Mauricio Shogun, Mirko Cro Cop, Kazuyuki Fujita, Josh Barnett, Mark Coleman, Kevin Randleman, Phil Baroni, Kazuhiro Nakamura, and Pawel Nastula will work their 10/21 Las Vegas show at the Thomas & Mack Center. Not surprisingly, the promotion is also running a special tour event […]
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