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Thursday, June 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Nikkan Sports reports that DSE will be opening up their gym in Tokyo up to the public, as they hope to use it as tool to develop new talent and also to bring in some of their fighters & managers for lectures. It’s interesting, because the spotlight is now away from the […]
Ryan Bennett dead
Thursday, June 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Ryan Bennett, the creator of the MMA Weekly news site, has died after being killed in a car accident. Please donate to the Ryan Bennett Family Fund. Whaledog comments | Sherdog statement | KSBY article | Greg Savage article | San Luis Obispo Tribune article | UFC official statement
PRIDE Bushido 11 ‘Survival’ – Preview and Analysis
Thursday, June 1st, 2006By Al Yu Event Date: 06.04.06 Fight Card: Jason Black vs Eoh Won Jin Murilo Bustamante vs Amar Suloev * Paulo Filho vs Gregory Bouchelaghem * Ryo Chonan vs Joey Villasenor * Makoto Takimoto vs Gegard Mousasi * Mitsuhiro Ishida vs Marcus Aurelio Tatsuya Kawajiri vs Charles Bennett Hayato Sakurai vs Olaf Alfonso Akihiro Gono […]
“K-1 & UFC Strong Tag Alliance”
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold Today’s Nikkan Sports newspaper has a bombastic article talking about an “aggressive” tag team between K-1 & UFC, with both sides starting heavy co-promotional deals. The article talks about Chuck Liddell maybe working the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show in Tokyo (or the August K-1 Las Vegas show), with Kazushi Sakuraba and […]
Bob Sapp’s side of the story
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold The pressure on K-1 has just picked up. Bob Sapp’s side of the story about the K-1 Amsterdam fiasco has been relayed on the MMA Ring Report web site. Compare this report to what the Japanese have been claiming and what Simon Rutz is claiming.
CBC Newsworld – MMA Feature Story
Monday, May 29th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson CBCNews Sunday with Evan Solomon, had a feature story on Mixed Martial Arts, or as they called it, Extreme Fighting. Throughout the piece they used both terms. It was discerning because “Extreme Fighting” gives it a more rogue sound than Mixed Martial Arts. MMA sounds much more professional. Evan talked about how […]
Royce Gracie for Japanese new MMA fan
Monday, May 29th, 2006By Tetsuya Sano 今更僕ãŒè¨€ã†ã¾ã§ã‚‚ãªãホイス・グレイシーã¯ãƒžãƒƒãƒˆãƒ»ãƒ’ューズã«æ•—ã‚ŒãŸã€‚ 完敗ã€æ–‡å—通りã®å®Œæ•—。 ä¼èª¬ã¯ç¾å®Ÿã«å…¨ãã¨ã„ã£ã¦ã„ã„ã»ã©æ•µã‚ãªã‹ã£ãŸã€‚ Royce Gracie lost to Matt Hughes, and that was a totally complete defeat. The legend was no match for reality. ブãƒãƒƒã‚¯ãƒ»ãƒ¬ã‚ºãƒŠãƒ¼ã«è¡€ã‚’åã‹ã•ã‚ŒãŸãƒãƒ«ã‚¯ãƒ»ãƒ›ãƒ¼ã‚¬ãƒ³ã®ã‚ˆã†ã«æ•—ã‚ŒãŸãƒ›ã‚¤ã‚¹ã¯åŠ›ç„¡ã‹ã£ãŸã€‚ Like Hulk Hogan spitting blood by Brock Lesnar. ã ã‹ã‚‰ã¨è¨€ã£ã¦æŸ”è¡“ã€ãã—ã¦ç·åˆæ ¼é—˜æŠ€ã®ãƒ‘イオニアã§ã‚るホイスã®åŠŸç¸¾ã¯ãƒ›ãƒ¼ã‚¬ãƒ³ã®ãã‚ŒåŒæ§˜å…¨ã色ã‚ã›ã‚‹ã“ã¨ã¯ãªã„。 The distinguished service of Royce as the pioneer of kakutougi (MMA) and jiu-jitsu does not fade (similar to Hogan […]
UFC in Canada?
Monday, May 29th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson There was an interesting story by Neil Davidson of the CP, talking about UFC coming to Canada. Obviously, as a Canadian, this is very exciting. With the high Canadian dollar, and with MMA’s growing popularity in the Great White North, it only would make sense for UFC to expand beyond their borders, […]
Mach Sakurai makes national headlines
Monday, May 29th, 2006Mach Sakurai story makes front page of Yahoo Japan HP By Zach Arnold Unfortunately for 30-year Hayato “Mach” Sakurai, he didn’t make national headlines in Japanese news circles because of his great fighting career. Instead, he made the news because police arrested 33-year old construction worker Kenichi Sakayori on suspicion of assault (causing an injury). […]
The price of being mainstream
Monday, May 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold TV Week has an extraordinary article, talking about various American cable networks jumping on the MMA bandwagon. And, as you would expect with some network executives, their view of what MMA is produces some wacky, but unfortunate results. BET, MTV2, Oxygen and Fox Sports are betting the popularity of ultimate fighting will […]
Online ticket auction
Sunday, May 28th, 2006We got a note from correspondent Michael Blechman about an auction taking place to help benefit Brian Olsen, the fighter who got stuck with an ambulance bill after Mike Kyle kicked him in the face in their WEC fight. Link to the auction site. For the auction, two cage side seats (Section C, Row 1, […]
Gendai: Fuji TV not to renew PRIDE TV deal?
Sunday, May 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold As noted yesterday on the message board, Shukan Gendai came out with a page article in this week’s magazine, proclaiming that their campaign against DSE for being an alleged yakuza group is showing some effects. They claim that the TV deal between DSE/PRIDE & Fuji TV is up in September, and that […]
IFL 5/28 TV report
Sunday, May 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Flashback: IFL debut TV show on Fox Sports Net The TV intro package is the same as last week. We see a review of the Silverbacks’ domination of the Anacondas, with tonight featuring Renzo Gracie’s Pitbulls vs. Maurice Smith’s Tiger Sharks.
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