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Monday, November 27th, 2006That’s the headline in Nikkan Sports today. The newspaper claims that PRIDE has received multiple offers from promoters to run events in Brazil, and given their roster of Brazilian talent, it is felt to be a natural business fit. The paper claims that the major issue facing PRIDE as far as running in Brazil is […]
NYE TV schedule
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006Burning Spirit notes a news item from the January 2007 edition of The Television magazine. The magazine published the New Year’s Eve TV schedule. For TV-Asahi, the following is listed: Doraemon Special (18:00-20:00), TV Tackle Nagata-cho Special (20:00-on). For Nippon TV: Weekender Special (19:00-21:00). TV-Tokyo will have a Gaea year-end party special. None of the […]
Fedor vs. Hunt
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006That is your main event for the PRIDE Heavyweight Title on 12/31 at Saitama Super Arena. What is your first reaction to the announcement of Fedor vs. Hunt on NYE? This is the best match possible Wanted to see Fedor vs. Mirko Wanted to see Fedor vs. Barnett Wanted to see Fedor vs. Nogueira Wanted […]
WWE posts details on PRIDE meeting
Sunday, November 19th, 2006On the WWE HP, the article discusses Vince McMahon talking with DSE officials about Hustle. Hustle Mania takes place this Thursday at Yokohama Arena with HG’s retirement match from pro-wrestling. How can you not love Generalissimo Takada and HG on the same stage together. We can’t forget about Ogawa, either.
Report: Noboru Yamaguchi out
Sunday, November 19th, 2006Comments off Consider this insider baseball-style news. It is intriguing news, however, if you follow the inside politics of DSE and the Japanese fight industry. NHB News has an item claiming that Noboru Yamaguchi, main editor of Kami no Puroresu (a magazine very much supportive of PRIDE, and sometimes K-1 on a smaller scale), is […]
PRIDE and WWE doing business together?
Friday, November 17th, 2006Use this link if the image doesn’t load fully for you Comment from Zach: Only WWE.com could find a way to have the phrases Big Dick Johnson and Let’s Go to Prison on their news page when talking about PRIDE. The Underground Forum and Sherdog threads about this developing story. By Stephan Marceau This is […]
PRIDE Otoko Matsuri 2006
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Fighters announced today (who will participate on the 12/31 Saitama Super Arena show): Emelianenko Fedor, Mark Hunt, Mirko Cro Cop, Josh Barnett, Vanderlei Silva, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Hidehiko Yoshida, Kazuyuki Fujita, Takanori Gomi, Mauricio Shogun, and Dan Henderson. Tickets go on sale this Sunday starting at 10 AM.
BoDog humiliates PRIDE VP
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold On this week’s edition of BodogFight TV (download the 215 MB QuickTime video here), the promotion decided to humiliate PRIDE VP Sotaro Shinoda. And they weren’t secretive about it, either.
Monday news round-up
Monday, November 13th, 2006Lots of various rumors, stories, and news items of interest to everyone. Including Fedor news. Video of Werdum vs. Aleksander from the 2H2H event. The top story is a report on Boxing Talk claiming that Showtime is going to work with JD Penn (of Rumble on the Rock fame) to produce MMA events on the […]
Quick IFL & PRIDE thoughts
Sunday, November 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s an odd headline (one of those stories with a “make of it what you will” warning) from Burning Spirit… All the entries for Yuji Shimada’s online blog are gone. Mr. Full (of Burning Spirit) speculates that either Shimada stopped the blog because he didn’t have the time to keep it updated […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 31
Friday, November 10th, 2006One guest. One name. Frank Shamrock. This week on Fight Opinion Radio. Additional topics discussed on the show include: Mauro Ranallo leaving PRIDE, Kevin Randleman allegedly fails an NSAC drug test, plus the world-famous Grab Bag (including an explanation on why women love Emelianenko Fedor). And, oh yeah, by the way… Mr. Shamrock says he […]
Mauro Ranallo leaves PRIDE
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Comments off The Fight Network reports that announcer Mauro Ranallo has left PRIDE in what Loretta Hunt indicates is a “re-organization of PRIDE’s Los Angeles offices in the coming weeks.” Fight Report: PRIDE’s ship continues to sink as Ranallo bails out MMA Toronto: Mauro Ranallo gone from PRIDE On October 22nd, the day after PRIDE’s […]
NHB News: PRIDE NYE show not on free TV
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006That’s the report in Japanese. It appears that TV-Asahi will not air PRIDE programming on the network for New Year’s Eve. Burning Spirit has more details (in Japanese). The source that NHB News & Burning Spirit alludes to is a television industry magazine called The Television. Further updates will be added to this post over […]
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