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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006By Mark Pickering Alistair “Demolition Man†Overeem has emerged as the replacement for the afflicted Kevin “The Monster†Randleman to face former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor “The Phenom†Belfort in the headline bout of Strikeforce’s second show at San Jose, California’s HP Pavilion on Friday, June 9th. Since Randleman was sidelined by a shoulder […]
WFA chasing British Welterweight
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006By Mark Pickering British welterweight Paul “Semtex†Daley has revealed he’s in negotiation with the newly formed WFA and could debut for the promotion on July 23rd in Las Vegas. The FX3 Welterweight Champion has become a sought-after talent due to his continued run of victories over stellar opposition in his native England and America. […]
MMA fighting robots
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The trend is gaining traction in Japan and South Korea. Meet your new fighting robots. Here’s a SK article in Japanese talking about South Korean & Japanese fight robots, specifically in regards to a recent tournament called the Robo-One Grand Prix 2006 in which the Japanese robot won by KO. The event […]
Gendai: Company supplied PRIDE owner with mansion
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold A summary transcript of this week’s Shukan Gendai article about PRIDE, Fuji TV, and Nippon TV.
Are changes coming on New Year’s Eve?
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold The MMA wars (K-1 and PRIDE, with Inoki in 2003) have become a TV programming staple in Japan on New Year’s Eve since 2001. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent by the major networks (Tokyo Broadcasting System, Nippon TV, and Fuji TV) to compete with NHK’s Kohaku (Red & White […]
Who will fall next?
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold Earlier this morning, reports surfaced that major members of the powerful Goto-gumi yakuza group were arrested. Just minutes ago, Nikkan Sports released a more detailed news article. The news outlet discusses, in passing, the influence of Goto-gumi on the fight game in Japan (something I alluded to on the message board). The […]
TV Ratings
Sunday, May 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold There’s a wrestler in Puerto Rico named “Mr. Raytings” Ray Gonzalez. Now, meet Japan’s version of Mr. Ratings. 19-year old boxing star Koki Kameda, who’s May 5th fight was broadcasted on Tokyo Broadcasting System, drew a 40.8% QH peak rating according to Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). The overall average rating was a […]
UFC’s “boxing” movement continues
Saturday, May 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Most people, by now, know that Dana White takes a lot of cues from boxing. It’s a positive on some levels, but unfortunately Zuffa’s latest move is not such a positive step if you’re an MMA fan. Boxing has, for the most part, relegated itself to a PPV-only product with exorbitant PPV […]
Gendai fires back at DSE
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara responded with legal threats a couple of days ago in response to the long-term campaign of allegations made against him by Shukan Gendai in relation to yakuza influence. However, these new threats clearly have not deterred Kodansha (the publisher of Gendai) from their aggressive article series against DSE. […]
Battle of Giants set in K-1
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Digital Chosun reports that “Techno Goliath” Choi Hong-Man will face Semmy Schilt on June 3rd in Seoul, South Korea in the K-1 Asia Grand Prix tournament. Update: An article in The Korea Times about the upcoming match.
PRIDE 5/5 Osaka Dome results
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Click on the post link to read the show results.
The IFL has new ownership
Thursday, May 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold After a somewhat rocky debut on April 29th in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the IFL announced in a press release that the company has merged with Paligent Inc., a former biotech company. In short, the IFL is under new ownership before their first TV show (scheduled for May 21st on Fox Sports […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 17 (Sakuraba leaves PRIDE)
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Kazushi Sakuraba & Akira Maeda (5/4/2006). Photo credit: Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). This week’s one-hour show with Rob Sayers and Zach Arnold focuses on Kazushi Sakuraba’s departure from PRIDE to HERO’s. The original intent of this week’s show was to preview the PRIDE 5/5 Osaka Dome show, but Sakuraba’s departure clearly has overshadowed everything else […]
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