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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006GCM Communications have announced that their MARS 2/4 show, held at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, will air this Saturday afternoon February 25th 2006 at 3:00pm on Japanese television station Tokyo MXTV. Currently the show is being advertised as an hour-long episode. No news regarding whether or not the entire event will be shown in […]
“UFC: All Access” Tonight! UFC Programming Replays
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006UFC: All Access will debut tonight on Spike TV at 10:00pm eastern time. Presented by UFC ring girl Rachelle Leah, the show will follow UFC middleweight champion, Rich Franklin, as he trains for his fight with David Loiseau at UFC 58: USA vs. Canada on March 4th 2006. If you miss the show tonight, repeats […]
Fighters vs. Promoters
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold When I created the PPH (Puroresu Power Hour) radio show three years ago, Dr. Keith Lipinski was a matchmaker/booker for guests. Ever since the show started, he and the PPH have had a great relationship in terms of getting interviews with the UFC promotion. We’ve had Dana White on for a few […]
ACF 2/24 Denver card line-up
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Press release Genesis is the debut event of American Championship Fighting (ACF), a new mixed martial arts promotion based in Denver, Colorado. ACF: Genesis is scheduled for this Friday night, February 24, at the historic Denver Coliseum. All tickets are $29.00 and are available at all Front Range King Soopers locations, by calling 866-464-2626 or […]
PRIDE 31 match order
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Here’s the match order for the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena card: Pedro Rizzo vs. Roman Zentsov Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Yoon Dong Sik John Olav Einemo vs. Fabricio Werdum Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Mario Sperry Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Kiyoshi Tamura Mauricio Shogun vs. Mark Coleman […]
Cage or ring?
Monday, February 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold Eric Fredericks at PNW MMA has brought up the issue about whether or not MMA promoters should be using a cage or a pro-wrestling ring. Read his argument here. I’ve been anticipating (and dreading) the pro-cage argument for some time. Here is a link to an article I wrote on June 18, […]
A hard sell
Sunday, February 19th, 2006Yosuke Nishijima had a meeting with the press on Sunday at the Takada Dojo in Tokyo. This was to push his upcoming fight against Mark Hunt on the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena show. In this photo, Nishijima is trying to show off a choke sleeper hold on Kazushi Sakuraba. Nishijima claimed that his training in […]
K-1’s “Cinderella Boy” loses
Saturday, February 18th, 2006Hideo Tokoro, nicknamed “Cinderella Boy” by K-1, lost in the main event of ZST’s Differ Ariake show in Tokyo on Saturday night. He was KO’d in the second round by Lithuanian fighter Erikas Petraitis. The semi-main event saw Naoyuki Kotani & Darius Skliaudys go to a draw. Remigijus Morkevicius defeated Wataru Inatsu (U-FILE camp) in […]
The legal battle in Hawaii continues
Saturday, February 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold There’s good news and bad news, according to a report in Saturday’s edition of The Honolulu Advertiser. Writer Treena Shapiro notes that legislation to try to cripple MMA in Hawaii has been stalled: A prohibition on mixed martial arts fighting is also essentially dead for the year, as is a bill that […]
Toughman promoter: We’re safer than MMA
Saturday, February 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold The battle between promoters for the two industries continues. The Rockford Register Star has an article on the upcoming King of the Cage show promoted by Monte Cox in Moline, Illinois. However, the newspaper’s author manages to somehow bring Toughman into the discussion. The topic? Getting athletic commissions to regulate their respective […]
Shooto 2/17 Yoyogi event
Friday, February 17th, 2006Results here. Gryphon has more notes on the event. Top Japanese female fighter Megumi Fujii won her fight on today’s event. She has super charisma. A total babyface. Click on the picture to check out her blog.
MMA print magazines
Friday, February 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Jason Gatties has a report about a new print-magazine publication about MMA in March. Money quote from the press release: Editor in Chief Mike Carlson says that Real Fighter will deliver the in-depth, journalistic coverage of professional MMA that’s currently lacking in the marketplace. “The Internet has done a great job covering […]
5 matches announced for HERO’s 3/15 Budokan show
Thursday, February 16th, 2006The 3/15 HERO’s Nippon Budokan show in Tokyo will have a “Japan vs. The World” theme. 5 matches have been announced for the card: Genki Sudo vs. Ole Laursen (Denmark/Kickboxing) Kaoru Uno vs. Rich Clementi Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Karim Ibrahim Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Ivan Menjivar Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Kim Min-Soo Update: Two more fights announced […]
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