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Friday, January 20th, 2006Spike TV issued a press release (via PR Newswire) regarding the ratings that the UFN 3 show drew on Monday night. There are a lot of micro-rating numbers in the release, so here’s the key one to focus on: Overall, Spike TV’s presentation of “UFC’s Ultimate Fight Night(TM) Live,” delivered a 1.7 HH/1.6 million and […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 3
Thursday, January 19th, 2006The third edition of Fight Opinion Radio is now online and available to download. Here are your options for listening to the show: Broadband (MP3) | Dial-up/Streaming | YouSendIt (Download MP3 file) Or you can use the great flash player to listen to it streaming (without having to use an external program). Check it out […]
A birthday wish
Thursday, January 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today is my birthday. Which naturally means that it’s one of the few days in the calendar year in which I work on the Puroresu Power and Fight Opinion sites for less than 6 hours. Or at least I try to. Nonetheless, I do have a birthday wish that I would like […]
TV ratings battle
Thursday, January 19th, 2006Here they are: WWE RAW – 4.3 rating, UFC Ultimate Fight Night – 1.7 rating. That is strong. Very strong. Debate the implications in the comments section.
MARS 2/4 Ariake Colosseum card
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold From GCM Communications (the company promoting the event): Takumi vs. Arai Kenji Yuji Hoshino vs. Yasunori Kanehara Hironaka Kuniyoshi vs. Ryan Schultz Takumi Yano vs. Rani Yahira Osami Shibuya vs. Thales Leites (Nova Uniao) Akitoshi Tamura vs. Ian Loveland (Team Quest) Mikko Rupponen vs. Antony Rea Eiji Mitsuoka vs. Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro […]
Team Quest mania
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s a recent string of Internet articles regarding Team Quest and Randy Couture. Enjoy. And post responses or other TQ press links/articles here. Question of the Day: Which fight club/team is the best organization right now? I’m not talking about PRIDE, K-1, UFC, etc. I’m talking about groups such as American Top […]
UFC Plans California Debut
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006Alan Abrahamson in the Los Angeles Times reports on Tuesday that UFC will run an event in Anaheim, California on April 15th at the Arrowhead Pond arena (the same building used by the NHL team, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks). This confirms the initial rumors we discussed last week about UFC running Anaheim and not Los […]
The Carnival of UFN Reaction
Monday, January 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update on 1/17 at 9:00 PM EST This is going to turn into one huge, massive post of links. I will update this throughout the next day or two, as there should be a lot of opinions about Monday night’s UFC Ultimate Fight Night live event. MMA Opinion – Booking For Money […]
Weigh-in results for UFN3
Monday, January 16th, 2006Inside Fighting is reporting that all fighters managed to make weight on their first attempt. Official Weights: Tim Sylvia (263) vs. Assuerio Silva (236) James Irvin (204) vs. Stephan Bonnar (205) Drew Fickett (169.5) vs. Josh Burkman (170.5) Chris Leben (185.5) vs. Jorge Rivera (184) vs Melvin Guillard (168) vs. Josh Neer (170) Duane “Bang†[…]
Kick-Shoot: January 14th 2006
Sunday, January 15th, 2006By Rob Sayers While promotions such as PRIDE, the UFC, and many other smaller organizations are often seen in the MMA press, many amateur promotions are taking shape across the country. These shows are giving tomorrows future stars their first taste of combat today and are very important to the growth of our sport. I […]
A fight game’s wiki
Sunday, January 15th, 2006There’s a new fight-based wiki-type site that has been created called Kakuwiki. The creator, Tom, e-mailed me and asked me to help him promote the site. He’s also looking for contributions on fighter pages. Tom would like to make it a true community site. Entries for the new sites are needed on: disciplines, techniques, fighters, […]
PRIDE 2006 GP Tournament
Sunday, January 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold This year, it’s a 16-man tournament. Open-weight. Show schedule: 5/5 Osaka Dome (round one), July at Saitama Super Arena (round two), and September at Saitama Super Arena (semi-finals and finals). Dan Henderson & Takanori Gomi may be involved as participants. Related Links: PRIDE/DSE Planning To Hold Openweight Tournament for 2006! Update: MMA […]
Shinsuke Nakamura wants to fight with Fedor&Mirko
Saturday, January 14th, 2006Firstly please check this article(daily sports/Japanese) this is written about Tanahashi&Nakamura’event. And my title is Nakamura’answer against fan’question “who do you want to fight with?” Tanahashi’answer”Akiyama,Rikioh,Marufuji again” Nakamura”Both of Fedor&Mirko” Nakamura said”This year, I will be back ï¼ï¼ï¼¡’ring again” PRIDE has a few Japanese heavy weight fighters. So…Nakamura will be in PRIDE heavy weight GP […]
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