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Monday, July 23rd, 2007Gregg Doyel at CBS Sportsline has a new article on MMA’s drug culture titled Steroid scandal could destroy what UFC has built. He tends to write in more of an emotional style than say, me. Also, Mike Coughlin has an article on Ridding Mixed Martial Arts of Steroids. Dann Stupp in the Dayton Daily News […]
Fight Opinion Radio #55: Aftermath of UFC 73
Saturday, July 14th, 2007Dave Doyle, Yahoo Sports MMA/Boxing managing editor, joins us to discuss the UFC 73 event from last week in Sacramento. He was at Arco Arena and tells us all about the event – what kind of fans showed up, who got superstar reactions and who didn’t, etc. We also spend some time this week discussing […]
Thursday trash talk: Trigg and Toughman
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Yahoo Sports says the Chuck Liddell/Wanderlei Silva fight will not happen on September 22nd. UFC Junkie Finds White’s claims peculiar. Let me state one thing perfectly clear – both Dann Stupp and Kevin Iole are good writers. They’re guys who do not screw around. I suspect Dana White is going to become a hot topic […]
Sunday media review: The aftermath from UFC 73
Sunday, July 8th, 2007The Gainesville Sun (FL) has a hell of an article on MMA in today’s newspaper. You should go read it. Dave Meltzer has a recap of UFC 73 at Fox Sports. I was on CBS Sportsline and Fox Sports this week, DM is at The LA Times and Fox Sports (plus all the cable TV […]
Friday fight notes: The day before UFC 73
Thursday, July 5th, 2007Pawel Nastula says PRIDE is coming back in September. The Oregonian is reporting that the Oregon State Boxing & Wrestling commission will now be named the Oregon State Athletic Commission. Mauro Ranallo previews the upcoming UFC 73 card (audio). Also on the show, Armando Garcia stated that people would be alarmed by the amount of […]
Tuesday headlines: MMA and drug testing
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Well, no title unification on September 8th in London for Quinton Jackson vs. Dan Henderson. Interesting manuever that UFC is not pushing the PRIDE belts. Sounds to me like UFC will not be recognizing either of Henderson’s PRIDE title belts. Reminds me of yesteryear in 1991 when Ric Flair came into WWE with “the real […]
Monday morning media: Kid Yamamoto returns
Monday, July 2nd, 2007This is a great satire piece because you could clearly picture Spike TV coming up with a gimmick like this. Updated HERO’s 7/16 Yokohama Arena card line-up: Middleweight Tournament (70 kg, 3R at 5 mins): Kaoru Uno vs. Katsuhiko Nagata Middleweight Tournament (70 kg, 3R at 5 mins): Hideo Tokoro vs. Black Mamba Middleweight Tournament […]
Sunday news review: Sakakibara hanging around
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Antonio Inoki rap song from the IGF show The Feds went after Al Capone on taxes. The Nevada State Athletic Commission reportedly wants their tax money from DSE, this according to The Fight Network. The commission is threatening license revocation. That’s it?
Why it is unlikely that Fedor is coming to the UFC
Saturday, June 30th, 2007By Tim Leidecker They call him the “Russian Emperor”, the “Baddest Man on the Planet” or “T-1000”. Russia’s Fedor Emelianenko is without a doubt the strongest martial artist of our generation, perhaps even of all time. Plus: He’s a free agent, at least sort of. After the collapse of Japan’s PRIDE Fighting Championship and subsequent […]
Fight Opinion Radio #54: Ken Shamrock speaks out
Friday, June 29th, 2007Dana White recently stated that he released Ken Shamrock from his UFC contract because he didn’t feel that Shamrock could be competitive in the UFC. However, Ken Shamrock and his manager/attorney Rod Donohoo dispute this claim. On this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio, both men appear on our show to talk about the supposed […]
Getting the PRIDE story straight
Thursday, June 28th, 2007By Zach Arnold Dana White made some rather interesting comments today about PRIDE in the UFC 73 conference call. …explain the situation pertaining to the PRIDE contracts and whether they can be transferred to the UFC. He said the old PRIDE contracts are valid with PRIDE Worldwide, the new company that owns PRIDE. However, the […]
Takada: PRIDE will return on 10/11
Sunday, June 24th, 2007By Zach Arnold Daily Sports quotes Nobuhiko Takada today as stating that PRIDE will return in Japan on October 11th, which is the 10th anniversary of the promotion’s first event (10/11/1997 at the Tokyo Dome with Takada vs. Rickson Gracie). He promised to deliver an all-star cast of fighters for the event. Whether he is […]
An all-out turf war for PRIDE in Japan
Friday, June 22nd, 2007More about this story at Gryphon’s site. On Wednesday, Nikkan Sports published a report that on August 18th, the first ‘shinsei’ PRIDE event would happen at Saitama Super Arena. Obviously, it sounded like the kind of rumor that would be started by someone who used to be affiliated with DSE or is trying to get […]
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