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Sunday, July 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold Childs Walker in the Baltimore Sun has a very extensive and accurately-written article about UFC, titled UFC Fighting To Be Ring Leader. Outside of the quotes from Jim Lampley and a man that I nicknamed The American Media’s MMA Boogeyman, it’s a very good mainstream media article on MMA. Check it out.
Source: Calvin Ayre getting involved in MMA
Friday, July 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold An MMA insider is telling us that Calvin Ayre (of BoDog.net fame) is getting into the business, with a tentative date scheduled for November in Los Angeles. Ayre, who is based out of Costa Rica, is expected to be running shows very shortly. He is listed as #746 on the world’s richest […]
UFC on rematches
Friday, July 28th, 2006By Stephan Marceau Many of us (us includes me, yes) have been complaining that all we have been getting lately in the UFC is rematches, well the UFC itself has posted an article analyzing that very fact. The rematch is a strange beast to figure out. In boxing (with obvious exceptions, of course), it can […]
Is Bob Meyrowitz returning to MMA?
Thursday, July 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold An unnoticed article in Multichannel News (use this link if the direct link doesn’t load for you) caught my attention. R. Thomas Umstead reported on Monday that Bob Meyrowitz, the founder of UFC, is pitching to several cable networks a new MMA reality show series. Before you get too excited, there’s one […]
The Zuffa Myth – revisited?
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article for their Thursday newspaper on UFC titled UFC traveled bumpy road to mainstream. The article (at the bottom) admits that it’s a re-write of material already written by Andrew Levine in the Washington Post, Ron Borges in the Boston Globe, and information pulled from UFC’s web […]
MMA a threat to boxing?
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006By Stephan Marceau The Boxing press must really feel threatened these days, I keep coming across these types of articles from the boxing world. Check this article out, in it Dan Morgan is trying to rationalize that boxing is not threatened by the growth of the UFC. He should be a little more open and […]
Wrestling comedy with Paul Heyman
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold In an interview with The Sun in the UK, WWE-contracted employee Paul Heyman found himself on the defensive when discussing ECW and its future. The most laughable quote from Heyman in the interview is one that should raise eyebrows: Another thing is we don’t deny the influence of Mixed Martial Arts, which […]
APEX on TSN
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold The APEX Championship Fighting promotion issued a press release announcing their new deal with TSN in Canada. This is certainly a step forward for the organization, along with increasing awareness about MMA in Canada. Press release below.
Media: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Monday, July 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Prepare to be entertained.
PRIDE 8/26 Bushido updated card
Monday, July 24th, 2006An update to the first announced matches. Here are the new matches: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Chris Brennan Gilbert Melendez vs. Nobuhiro Obiya Shin’ya Aoki vs. Jason Black (Miletich) Jeff Curran vs. Hioki Hatsu
Article on Halifax ECC 3 in Globe and Mail
Monday, July 24th, 2006By Stephan Marceau The Globe and Mail had an article, before the show, on the ECC in Halifax, which was on the same night as the WFA. The sport they call human cockfighting Not a very flattering article, but what can you expect from the Globe and Mail. And here is an actual review of […]
Big show in Holland
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006The 2H2H (Too Hot To Handle) promotion in Holland is promoting a November 12th show titled PRIDE & Honor at the Ahoy’ Rotterdam. Names being listed for the show include Rodney Faverus, Alistair Overeem, Gilbert Yvel, Emelianenko Alexander, and Gegard Mousasi. Overeem vs. Yvel has already been announced. In other PRIDE-related news, Ivan Trembow has […]
WFA 7/22 Los Angeles PPV recap
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006Internet round-up: Observer | Sherdog | F4W Online | F.O. board | Random Fix | MMA Shout | Todd Martin | Eddie Goldman | Whaledog #1 | Whaledog #2
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