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Monday, April 2nd, 2007By Zach Arnold Comments off Printable version over at BoxingScene.com First, if you haven’t listened to the brand new edition of FOR, go listen. It is an entertaining show that should fly by for 2 hours when you hear it. Everyone did great on the show. Second, make sure to read the latest Shukan Gendai […]
Shukan Gendai: Yakuza owner & problematic employee
Sunday, April 1st, 2007By Zach Arnold Printable version over at BoxingScene.com Kakutolog also read the Shukan Gendai article. Motoichiro Takasu also has thoughts about the subject (in Japanese). Today’s edition of Shukan Gendai (pages 34-37, no author byline) has a three-page article about the sale of PRIDE assets by Dream Stage Entertainment to Zuffa LLC/UFC. The title of […]
Fight Opinion Radio #44: Judo chop
Sunday, April 1st, 2007Two interesting interviews and guests this week on our two-hour program. First, the legendary “Judo” Gene LeBell stops by to talk about his Judo career, how he transitioned into pro-wrestling, and his world-famous encyclopedic hold books. Second, ProElite.com CEO Kelly Perdew stops by to talk about what plans Pro Elite and Elite XC have in […]
April Fool’s: Dana wants PRIDE rules?
Sunday, April 1st, 2007By Zach Arnold Does anyone have an event report or results from the Panther Fight League Genesis event that happened in Miami on Saturday? Dana White gave an ‘exclusive’ interview with Daily Sports newspaper in Japan on Saturday. The theme was a “kakutougi (MMA) Super Bowl.” The article says that Dana wants UFC and PRIDE […]
Video of the day – early history of PRIDE
Saturday, March 31st, 2007Saturday side suplex: Contracts not assignable for you!
Friday, March 30th, 2007The Sioux City Journal reports that Marc Ratner is not happy about the Iowa Senate’s decision to deregulate MMA. The bill’s top sponsor says he passed it because politicians couldn’t agree on whether or not to ban MMA in the state. A very interesting card lined up by DEEP for their 4/13 Korakuen Hall show […]
Friday fence grabbing: The new PRIDE
Friday, March 30th, 2007Humorless, nutty, and screwed by the mainstream media — a description of UFC fans. Ed. — The default setting is comments off. I just turned them on now. Sorry. Mad Squabbles: Cage Rage and Sky TV The San Mateo County Times (California): Pacifica fighters to mix it up in ‘ultimate’ weekend event The Chicago Sun […]
Thursday trash talk: UFC gets major media coverage
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Kakutolog: Nobuyuki Sakakibara interview in Kami no Puroresu For those who understand Japanese, here’s some video of comments from Nobuyuki Sakakibara about the PRIDE asset sale agreement. Also, site commenter Body Shots posted this over at Sherdog. IFL: UFC/PRIDE merger good for us So says Gareb Shamus in an interview with the North Jersey Media […]
Wacky Wednesday: Zuffa takes over the world
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007The IFL did a 0.8 rating for week three on My Network TV. 0.8, 0.7, and 0.8 for the first three weeks. I receive little to no feedback at all from readers about the IFL Battleground show. If you watch it, give me your thoughts about the program. Softbank’s sponsorship tie-up with K-1 is drawing […]
Media wars
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold Gryphon points out two excellent items in the Japanese media today. The first one involves Sakakibara on Elite XC and the second one involves Ed Fishman. On the first point, Sakakibara claims that Gary Shaw wanted to do a reverse stock merger with DSE/PRIDE but that he wouldn’t do it because essentially […]
Tuesday media turmoil: MMA wars rage on
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Today, I ask all of you to help out in terms of gathering of stories, videos, links, etc. Please add your contributions in the comments section, especially on the K-1 press conference at the LA Coliseum. That should be an interesting media session. Nobuyuki Sakakibara & Lorenzo Fertitta shake hands. The Associated Press has already […]
PRIDE at Roppongi Hills Arena
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Image credit: Livedoor By Zach Arnold Here’s a picture taken at 5 PM JST outside of Roppongi Hills Arena. The Livedoor article says that all of the seats are already filled up at the media session (and that some fans were waiting in line at 8 AM). Stephen Martinez is at the press conference. MMA […]
Insider hardball – UFC’s options with PRIDE
Monday, March 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports has a report today quoting a DSE employee, denying that UFC has bought PRIDE. The staffer claims that at the Tuesday press conference at Roppongi Hills Arena in Tokyo, PRIDE will announce a tie-up with UFC. The only thing consistently said throughout the various Japanese newspapers is that DSE’s last […]
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