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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007All the radio show links should be working now. Results from our last poll: Which story coming out of the major NYE events will have the most long-term impact? Chuck Liddell suffers a torn ACL and torn tendons in hand, out of action for a year – 72% Kazushi Sakuraba accuses Yoshihiro Akiyama of cheating, […]
Fight Opinion Radio #37: Bringing in the New Year
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007A very reflective and perceptive edition of Fight Opinion Radio this week, as our special guest co-host is Keegan Walsh of http://www.fightreport.net. We review the fallout from the UFC 66 card (an update to the show segment – the Nevada commission and the beat writers claim that Liddell tore his ACL, while writers as of […]
PRIDE 2007 schedule notes
Monday, January 1st, 2007The promotion announced the formation of a Super Heavyweight division (creating a Monster GP tournament). Schedule of event dates this year: 2/24 Las Vegas (PRIDE 33), 4/8 Saitama Super Arena (PRIDE 34), 4/28 Las Vegas, May (Saitama Super Arena – Lightweight GP), June in Los Angeles at the Staples Center (PRIDE 36), July in Nagoya […]
PRIDE 12/31 Man Festival event results
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Full-post view gets you the latest match results. The claimed attendance for the Saitama event was 48,709. The Yoshida vs. James Thompson fight grabbed top headlines for PRIDE coverage (the K-1 event took a majority of the media coverage in Japan). PRIDE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara fielded questions from the media about Mirko Cro Cop leaving […]
Mike Tyson arrested in Arizona
Friday, December 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold It sure looks like former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was undergoing rigorous training for his upcoming PRIDE fight in Macau, which was to be part of PRIDE’s triangulation plan to make inroads into the casino world. OK, so Tyson got arrested early Friday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona on charges of DUI […]
Order of matches on PRIDE 12/31
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Full-post view gets you the ordered line-up.
Report: South Korean station OCN pays big money for PRIDE TV
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006Correspondent Yeo Jong-Hoon is reporting that Orion Cinema Network (OCN – cable/satellite) has purchased the rights to air PRIDE exclusively on South Korean cable & satellite TV, plus a non-exclusive South Korean IPTV distribution rights package totalling 11.8 billion won (around $12 million USD). The contract starts in 2007 and expires on May 30, 2011. […]
Final card for Man Festival
Monday, December 25th, 2006Hidehiko Yoshida vs. James Thompson Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Eldari Kurtanidze Akihiro Gono vs. Yuki Kondo Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Ikuhisa Minowa Takanori Gomi vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida Mauricio Shogun vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Shin’ya Aoki vs. Joachim Hansen Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Gilbert Melendez PRIDE Heavyweight Title match: Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mark Hunt
PRIDE boss talks about UFC
Monday, December 25th, 2006Nobuyuki Sakakibara interview notes: ‘If PRIDE wants to keep its No. 1 status, we all have to move to America.’ Of course, don’t tell the morons on the Sherdog forum that it was an interview done for Kami no Puroresu magazine (which is a clearing house for a lot of PRIDE information) and translated by […]
Where’s Yoshida?
Sunday, December 24th, 2006Maybe it’s time to put Hidehiko Yoshida’s face on the side of a milk carton, because he hasn’t been announced for PRIDE’s biggest show of the year. PRIDE’s strongest Japanese drawing card not on the NYE show? What a strange business.
Latest Man Festival card line-up
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Yuki Kondo vs. Akihiro Gono PRIDE Heavyweight Title match: Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mark Hunt Takanori Gomi vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Mauricio Shogun Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Gilbert Melendez Shin’ya Aoki vs. Joachim Hansen Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Ikuhisa Minowa
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 36 (History in the making)
Saturday, December 16th, 2006Simply put, an amazing near 3-hour show this week. With the many history-making events taking place this week in MMA, our show this week creates a complete, comprehensive look at the events that occured to make it such a newsworthy time period in Mixed Martial Arts. First, a complete recap of the Ultimate Fight Night […]
Mirko Heads to Slovenia
Saturday, December 16th, 2006By Mark Pickering PRIDE 2006 Open Weight Grand Prix Champion, Mirko Cro Cop, the subject of intense speculation after mulling over deals from both PRIDE and the UFC, arrived in Slovenia on Thursday to attend Jungle Fight’s first European event.
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