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Monday, March 19th, 2007News and notes We hear PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara is traveling to Las Vegas (and perhaps Brazil as well) in the coming days. I’m glad to see Japan is ahead of the curve on racial issues. The real black man in the picture is Andy Ologun. There is a brand new web site called MMA […]
Saturday news slate: More fighter unrest in PRIDE
Friday, March 16th, 2007Click on full-page view to see how fellow Fight Opinion writer and Bear Pit Japan member Tetsuya Sano did in his amateur shootboxing tournament today in Tokyo. Notes from a Sherdog video clip with IFL co-owner Kurt Otto: He says Bas Rutten will “make a special announcement” at the LA Forum show on Saturday (and […]
Friday funhouse: No Josh Barnett for you at PRIDE
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Bas Rutten has more to say about PRIDE, Josh Barnett likely won’t be fighting in Japan any time soon, Tim Sylvia speaks out, Art of War says they made more than the IFL, and video links to Forrest Griffin’s staph infection shown on camera.
PRIDE 4/8 Saitama card
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Today, DSE announced three fights for their 4/8 Saitama Super Arena event — Shin’ya Aoki vs. Brian Lo-A-Njoe, Makoto Takimoto vs. Zelg Galesic, and Ricardo Arona vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou. Nobuyuki Sakakibara stated that the PRIDE 35 event (4/28 Las Vegas) was cancelled and that they would reschedule it for either early June in Japan […]
Wednesday fight notes – don’t make Bas Rutten angry
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I want to give special thanks to all of our readers in Singapore. If you are reading this and/or have any regional MMA-related news items, send me an e-mail. Congratulations to Aaron Crossen for becoming Editor-in-Chief of The Valley Vanguard newspaper. Now add more fight game coverage to the publication. Jeff Monson wrote on his […]
Tuesday MMA notes – Wanderlei Silva returns
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007A note to all F.O. Radio listeners. Boxer Johnny Tapia overdoses on cocaine.
Friday media funhouse
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Heat. Nuclear heat. I have no idea why the feeds for the radio show are not updating, but I will try to work on it today. Download our newest show here directly rather than wait for the feeds to update. It’s a good show. I give you read meat for what was a slow Friday […]
Deconstructing Jerry Millen
Thursday, March 8th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sam Caplan at CBS Sportsline had an interview with Jerry Millen that just screams for a counter-response. I’ll highlight some of what Millen said in the interview and respond to his claims.
Fight Opinion Radio #42: Power brokers
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007We are back after a long break to catch up on a ton of hot MMA news topics. Expect some controversy coming out of this show. Our two big guests this week are Jeremy Lappen (former WFA boss, now working for Elite XC) and Jimmy Greninger of Soldier Fight Gear. Jeremy talks about his role […]
Tuesday MMA media notes
Monday, March 5th, 2007Enson Inoue talks about PRIDE Lots of content today. See it in full-page view.
Monday news highlights
Monday, March 5th, 2007Well, the Fight Opinion Weekly article I wrote late Sunday night seems to be garnering some discussion. Although I don’t think arguing about the article’s truthfulness is necessarily the right avenue for criticism… One person who does apparently deserve criticism is Nick Diaz for reportedly failing a drug test after fighting on the PRIDE 33 […]
Fight Opinion Weekly: The end game for PRIDE
Monday, March 5th, 2007By Zach Arnold On Saturday, news broke that PRIDE’s next American show on April 28th at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada had been cancelled. It capped off a tumultuous week after the PRIDE 33 event on February 24th. Within three days after the PRIDE 33 event (heralded in the media as […]
Putting the ass in ‘no class’
Sunday, March 4th, 2007Surprise! What response would you expect to hate speech being pointed out? Within minutes of posting a nasty thread as a backlash towards this site pointing out hate speech, the poster(s) were immediately backtracking and asking for moderators to delete it. Screen capture here. With news breaking this week that legal action is pending from […]
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