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Saturday, March 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1 promoter Scott Coker promised big business, and he ended up delivering even better than he originally promised. Over 18,000 paid in the building on Friday night. Here is a list of links/reports: Observer (live report) Sherdog (official results) Associated Press (show report/review) Contra Costa Times (show report/review) San Jose Mercury News […]
FightOpinion.com Top 25 Welterweights
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Jason Adams Pre-PRIDE 31 and UFC 58 rankings.
Weekly publications start talking – part two
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold In part one of this two-part post series, I posted a summary of a Weekly Taishu publication article about the recent yakuza arrests in Japan and the history of the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 event. It’s an event that will become a historical show if the police can prove that certain people involved […]
Weekly publications start talking
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Shukan (Weekly) Taishu, one of the various weekly Japanese publications, has published an article about the recent yakuza arrests in relation to the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 show. I read the Japanese article and at first glance, a picture of Antonio Inoki was shown along with the question about morals at Nippon TV […]
PRIDE’s worst nightmare
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Photo credit: Sports Nippon (newspaper) By Zach Arnold 19-year old Koki Kameda, Japan’s hottest boxer in terms of business, is going to make things very hard on DSE on May 5th. Kameda’s camp announced that his next fight will happen on 5/5 in Tokyo at Ariake Colosseum. The fight will likely be carried on live […]
UFC 58 Medical Suspensions
Thursday, March 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Nevada State Athletic Commission has just released the official results & medical suspensions from the UFC 58 show. Here is the PDF file. Suspensions of note: Rich Franklin is suspended until 9/1 (unless he gets clearance by a doctor), mandatory suspension until 5/4 David Loiseau is suspended until 5/4 Spencer Fisher […]
Uno Injured. Replacement not yet named
Thursday, March 9th, 2006In a post on his MySpace, Rich “No Love” Clementi revealed that Caol Uno, his original opponent for the 3/15 Hero’s show has been injured and is unable to fight. It is not yet known who will replace Uno.
Phil Baroni back in the PRIDE ring
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE announced Yuki Kondo vs. Phil Baroni and Luiz Azeredo (Chute Boxe) vs. Joachim Hansen for their Bushido show on 4/2 at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Add these fights to the three matches already announced. Also scheduled to work the show is Dennis Kang, Ikuhisa Minowa, & Akihiro Gono. PRIDE boss Nobuyuki […]
Rich Franklin medical update
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold The UFC says he is out for 6-8 months due to a broken left hand. Question of the day: Do you classify this injury as just part of the game, or does the equipment that fighters use (i.e. gloves) need to be improved?
Bad news for Shogun
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Full Contact Fighter reports that medical tests reveal that Mauricio “Shogun” Rua’s elbow is fractured, and all ligaments in the elbow are ruptured. He is out for an estimated six months.
FightOpinion.com Top 25 Middleweights
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006By Jason Adams Keep in mind this voting was done prior to the recent PRIDE and UFC but here are the top 25 as voted by several FightOpinion writers:
Bushido 4/2 Ariake Colosseum card line-up
Monday, March 6th, 2006Three matches announced so far: Takanori Gomi vs. Marcus Aurelio Dan Henderson vs. Kazuo Misaki Masakazu Imanari vs. Jens Pulver An interesting storyling going into this card line-up is that Henderson is also scheduled for the 5/5 Osaka Dome open-weight tournament show.
UFC 58 reviews
Monday, March 6th, 2006Dr. J, Fight Report, and CP writer Neil Davidson have reviews of the show. Meanwhile, UFC’s new “rival” (the IFL) has issued a press release about their new company.
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