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Thursday, April 13th, 2006The Ultimate Fighter 3 – Review By: Luke Nicholson The show opens with a recap of the debut episode last week, and Kalib’s win over Mike Stine. Team Shamrock holds the hammer, in terms of matchmaking. This week Ross gets a little pissed off that someone has blocked the toilet, but never bothered to fix […]
Sakakibara responds to Gendai articles
Thursday, April 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara told the press that the charges made in the Shukan Gendai interview series by Seiya Kawamata are ‘groundless’ in regards to telling the truth. Sakakibara stated that the articles were one-sided pieces and that he wants an inquiry into the truth. He claimed that the contents of the […]
Fujita to return to PRIDE
Thursday, April 13th, 2006He did a photo-op today for DSE to announce his return to the PRIDE ring. Fujita will participate in the open-weight tournament, which starts on May 5th at the Osaka Dome.
Tito-mania runs wild
Thursday, April 13th, 2006The Long Beach Press-Telegram has three articles (here, here, and here) on this weekend’s UFC 59 PPV show.
DSE links with Pankration team
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Nobuhiko Takada participated in a press briefing at Yamanashi university in Kofu on the 12th to announce the first “Pankration” team in the world. PRIDE hopes that by linking up with this team, they will be able to have some representation in future Olympic games.
Kawamata loses in court to Mijatovic
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today, a judge in Tokyo district court awarded a complete victory to power-agent Miro Mijatovic in his civil court case against Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 promoter, Seiya Kawamata. (Case background information here and here) Mijatovic sued to obtain a lien on any earnings that Kawamata wins in his civil court case against Nippon […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 14 (Tuesday Night Takedowns)
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006This week’s show features an interview with Sherdog’s Jake Rossen, talking about a brand new MMA print magazine called Real Fighter. Jake also talks about the direction of the Ultimate Fight Night shows, and the future of the IFL. Also, we talk with Fight Opinion writer Luke Nicholson about the direction and future of PRIDE, […]
UFC 59 ‘Reality Check – Preview and Analysis
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006By Al Yu Event Date: 04.15.06 Fight Card: Evan Tanner vs Justin Levens Thiago Alves vs Derrick Noble Jason Lambert vs Terry Martin Karo Parisyan vs Nick Thompson David Terrell vs Scott Smith Jeff Monson vs Marcio Cruz Nick Diaz vs Sean Sherk Tito Ortiz vs Forrest Griffin Andrei Arlovski vs Tim Sylvia Evan Tanner […]
Kawamata’s kamikaze attack
Monday, April 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold By no means is the end-all, be-all translation summary of the latest Shukan Gendai interview with Seiya Kawamata about the yakuza scandal rocking the fight industry in Japan. However, I was able to translate and gather some interesting details from the latest interview that really have people on edge. In the latest […]
Upcoming plans for HERO’s
Monday, April 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold If you’re a fan of the K-1-style MMA, today was a very interesting day. The promotion announced their plans for the next five months. More details to come soon. The 5/3 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I show features Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Kazuyuki Miyata and Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Katsuhiko Nagata. The […]
PRIDE on FSN TV special
Sunday, April 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Sunday night, Fox Sports Net aired a PRIDE TV special centered around the Bushido 10 show. It started off with a rap-themed intro video package, with Phil Baroni saying, “This is PRIDE, welcome to the show.” They debuted a new video graphics package. The annoying female announcer Lenny Hart did her […]
Insider hardball
Sunday, April 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold I just got the Shukan Gendai issue (released today) with the new yakuza article about K-1, DSE, and Kawamata. My first read of the article is that this is an important article, because it includes a flowchart (which I will try to recreate later if I can) that clearly links all the […]
Pancrase 4/9 Differ Ariake results
Sunday, April 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold Courtesy of Sports Navigator/Yahoo Japan: Middleweights: Ichiro Kanai defeated Moriyuki Yamada in R1 in 2 minutes, 11 seconds with a shoulder-hardening hold (similar to the one Aurelio used on Gomi at the Bushido show). Featherweights: Atsushi Yamamoto (KILLER BEE) defeated Takumi Murata in R2 in 1 minute, 37 seconds with a choke […]
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