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Tuesday media takedowns

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

This is officially a sign of success. I guess the only advice I would have is if the paper wants more hits, start covering MMA or fighting weekly. The numbers will definitely increase. Much thanks to the staff of The Valley Vanguard for cooperating with us on last week’s show. If you have any specific […]

Monday MMA headlines

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Here’s your laugh track of the day – Ed Fishman says if PRIDE won’t sell, he’ll start his own MMA company. Here’s another knee-slapper from the article: Dream Stage Entertainment CEO Sakakibara is believed to be the majority owner of the PRIDE brand and its assets. Let’s introduce Loretta Hunt to this and this to […]

Fight Opinion Weekly: Japan’s second-class fight scene

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

By Zach Arnold Comments off It seems like a distant memory. In December of 2005, PRIDE announced the most-expensive fight in the history of MMA with Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Naoya Ogawa. At a price tag of nearly $5 million USD, it blew away anything else happening at the time in the industry’s landscape. It was […]

Fight Opinion Radio #41: Old-School

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Add us as your MySpace friend. Potential sponsors (web sites, fighters, teams, companies) – if you want to have ads on our show (paid or barter), e-mail us immediately. Use the e-mail also if you Want to write guest op-eds for the site. We have a show this week that I think both MMA fans […]

The value of records

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

By Tomer Chen The name of Rocky Marciano invariably brings up his record: 49-0 with 43 KOs. After all, Rocky is the only World Champion in Boxing history to ever retire with such a high record without any losses or draws to ‘mar’ it. True, there have been numerous champions who won more bouts than […]

Saturday news flash

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Shin’ya Aoki defeated Akira Kikuchi by a 2-1 judges’ decision in the main event of today’s Shooto event in Yokohama at Pacifico National Hall. The R1 Gym sent out a mass e-mail stating that Frank Trigg wants to both fight and do commentary for the PRIDE 2/24 Las Vegas show. ” I will get the […]

Friday news and notables

Friday, February 16th, 2007

If you are interested in writing a guest op-ed or two for the site, e-mail me. From Josh Thomson’s MySpace: KNOXX GEAR WILL BE GIVING AWAY FREE PRIDE TICKETS!! FREE KNOXX GEAR and PRIDE FC will be at 40055 Mission Blvd Fremont, Ca 94539 at 3:00-4:00pm in the Main Plaza on Sunday, Feb. 18th!!!! There […]

Tuesday news review

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Today’s red meat article comes to us from The Sunderland Today in the UK, which is titled Doctor’s warning to ultimate fighters. It’s full of the political correctness and nanny-state politics you’ve come to love. Also, there are many a Japanese women likely crying at the news of Masato marrying Shin Yazawa.

Sunday fight headlines

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

The Deseret News: How the Sydney Olympics changed wrestler Rulon Gardner’s life (key line in the article is that PRIDE keeps calling him with offers to fight Fedor at $500,000 USD) Observer: Reader challenges Eddie Goldman in regards to the ‘ground rule’ in effect at the Elite XC show The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: MMA is not […]

Friday media coverage

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Red meat week here at Fight Opinion. Here’s some red meat for site readers. Bugly Blog: F.O. Radio panel not as entertaining as Sherdog’s radio team. Tasty. He clearly must not be talking about me. An update to something I mentioned on the radio show about Bruce Buffer’s continuous blunders as UFC ring announcer. Yes, […]

Thursday media topics

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Despite a report (and claim by UFC) stating that UFC is preparing to run in the state of New Jersey, information provided to us claims otherwise. The New Jersey State Athletic Control board has supposedly not been contacted with any request to hold dates, get a venue permit, or approve matches for a UFC event […]

PRIDE notes

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

MMA Weekly reports that PRIDE will air their next Japanese show live in the US on PPV. (Ed. — I’ve done PBP before of PRIDE shows. The last Bushido show, 11/3/06 Yokohama Arena, lasted 6 hours. It started from 11 PM-12 AM PST. Nobody in large numbers is staying up this late to watch a […]

Fight Opinion Radio #40: Big happenings

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Add us as your MySpace friend. Potential sponsors (web sites, fighters, teams, companies) – if you want to have ads on our show (paid or barter), e-mail us immediately. We’ll keep this short. We have a lot of content in our three-hour show. We have a lot of guests, including Mac Danzig, Sean Salmon, Jordan […]

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