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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Tuesday, a FAX was sent to the mass media in Japan on behalf of Bob Sapp (through a Japanese lawyer), explaining what happened at the infamous K-1 Amsterdam show and why he didn’t fight Ernesto Hoost. In short, Sapp said that he was threatened. (English summary of Sapp’s argument in the […]
Fuji TV stockholders meeting
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Shareholders of Fuji TV stock will meet at the TV network’s annual shareholder’s meeting at the Le Meridien Hotel Grand Pacific. The stockholder activist groups are preparing to put the heat on Fuji TV management for several issues, and one activist site (Labor Net Japan) has the PRIDE scandal listed as a […]
UFC to Sherdog: Go away
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold More information here. In short, Zuffa told Sherdog to leave their public fighter weigh-ins event. Note the word public. If you are an MMA fan and not a pro-wrestling fan or historian, I strongly urge you to research just exactly what happened to the American pro-wrestling scene in 1985 when Vince McMahon […]
It’s 1985 all over, again
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Ultimate Fighter 3 finale show on Spike TV last Saturday night drew a 2.04 cable rating, blowing away all expectations. The UF3 show was panned for not having enough “star power” with Kenny Florian vs. Sam Stout in the main event, but all criticism was clearly blown away by the strong […]
Inoki returns
Monday, June 26th, 2006Sports Nippon reports that there will be a special show on 9/1 at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Antonio Inoki vs. Muhammad Ali fight that took place on June 26, 1976. Sankei Sports notes that the 9/1 Budokan show will be a “new kakutougi (MMA) event” for Inoki, the […]
Lee Murray captured?
Monday, June 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold Arrests in Morocco in connection to the $90 million USD robbery from last February. Update: The Guardian reports that Lee Murray was, in fact, arrested. The BBC and The London Times also confirm this report.
Match order for PRIDE 7/1 show
Sunday, June 25th, 2006Pawel Nastula vs. Edson Drago Yoshihiro Nakao vs. Lee Eun-Su Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Vitor Belfort Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Alistair Overeem Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Evangelista Cyborg Open-Weight GP 2nd Round: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Fabricio Werdum Intermission Open-Weight GP 2nd Round: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Vanderlei Silva Open-Weight GP 2nd Round: Josh Barnett vs. Mark Hunt […]
Ultimate Fighter 3 Finale show
Saturday, June 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Results/recaps: Sherdog | Observer | MMA Toronto | MMA Snark | Fight Report
HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum notes
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006The promotion held a press conference today to announce the participation of Kazushi Sakuraba, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Rodrigo Gracie, Carlos Newton, Melvin Manhoef, Shungo Oyama, and Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) in the HERO’s 2006 Middleweight & Light Heavyweight tournaments. Akira Maeda mentioned at the press conference that negotiations with BJ Penn were being finalized and that […]
Full PRIDE 7/1 Saitama card line-up
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006Pawel Nastula vs. Edson Drago Yoshihiro Nakao vs. Lee Eun-Su (South Korea) Alistair Overeem vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Evangelista Cyborg Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Vitor Belfort Open-Weight GP 2nd Round Josh Barnett vs. Mark Hunt Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Fabricio Werdum Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Vanderlei Silva Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Mirko Cro Cop
Bill O’Reilly on MMA
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold Bill O’Reilly on the Fox News Channel had a 6-minute segment called “Ultimate Brutality” (in the “Back of the Book” segment block) during his O’Reilly Factor program on Wednesday night, in which O’Reilly focused on MMA. There were two teases for this segment during the show. The first: “They call it ultimate […]
K-1 mythology continues
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports continues to push hard the claimed number by K-1 that the UFC 60 PPV with Royce Gracie vs. Matt Hughes did 800,000 buys and $32 million dollars, despite reports that contradict this. The Sankei article I linked to is a puff piece about HERO’s now having a show air on […]
WFA 7/22 Los Angeles card line-up
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Lodune Sincaid Rob McCullough vs. Harris Sarmiento Jorge Oliviera (Chute Boxe) vs. Marvin “The Beastman” Eastman Jose “Pele” Landi-Jons vs. TBA Bas Rutten vs. Kimo Ryoto Machida vs. Vernon “Tiger” White Ricco Rodriguez vs. Ron “H20” Waterman Ivan Salaverry vs. Art Santore Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Matt Lindland
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