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Monday, September 18th, 2006According to PRIDE’s web site: Josh Barnett vs. Pawel Nastula Mark Hunt vs. Eric “Butterbean” Esch Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mark Coleman Kevin Randleman vs. Mauricio Shogun
Media heat-up for IFL & UFC
Monday, September 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold This weekend is going to be action-packed for MMA, as UFC 63 takes place in Anaheim, California with Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn. carlos Arias in The Orange County Register has a preview for the upcoming show. Pat Miletich, who normally would be in Matt’s corner, will instead be at the IFL […]
Is PRIDE doing a reality TV show?
Sunday, September 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Japanese blogger Gryphon has picked up on a lead that Ed Fishman, the rumored Las Vegas backer for PRIDE, is going to try to pitch a new PRIDE reality show for TV in America. If this is true, it makes PRIDE look like a copycat to UFC as far as what PRIDE’s […]
UFC media round-up
Friday, September 15th, 2006The Houston Chronicle has an interesting post about Dana White’s reaction to Silva vs. Mirko in the PRIDE ring. Yes, Mr. White apparently is paying close attention to PRIDE these days. Definitely a must-read link. Also, Dave Doyle has two good articles (here and here), detailing some quotes he did in an interview with Georges […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 24
Thursday, September 14th, 2006Instant punditry this week from Jeff Thaler, Luke Nicholson, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold on a variety of topics. Erin has a road report of The Malice at the Cow Palace MMA event she went to, along with a review of the IFL Portland & PRIDE Saitama events from this past weekend. Also, a preview […]
Random PRIDE thoughts
Monday, September 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Thoughts after watching the Saitama event…
PRIDE 9/10 Saitama results
Saturday, September 9th, 2006Click on full-post link to read results. Special thanks to Burning Spirit for specific match times. A more detailed report of show results can be found here. The claimed paid attendance was 47,410. Post updated at 6:30 PM EST on 9/10.
Pride Final Conflict Absolute 2006: analysis and predictions
Friday, September 8th, 2006By Stephan Marceau I enjoy doing these reviews, but I’m no expert, just a fan! If you want a more qualified review, check out a great preview by Stephen Quadros. First of all, wow, what an amazing card! I really hope that Pride survives, they do have the best fighters. Here are the fights that […]
PRIDE event in Saitama
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Time to get predictions from everyone on the Grand Prix tournament fights. a) Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira – pick a winner b) Mirko Cro Cop vs. vanderlei Silva – pick a winner c) winner of a vs. winner of b – your tournament winner? Jeff Thaler commented on his site that the PRIDE […]
K-1’s message to PRIDE
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Today is the start of the heat-up for this weekend’s PRIDE show in Saitama (with two mega-matches on the card). Instead, K-1/HERO’s cleverly scheduled a press conference for today to announce a fight between Kazushi Sakuraba and Yoshihiro Akiyama in the second round of the HERO’s Light Heavyweight tournament (10/9 Yokohama Arena event). Shungo Oyama […]
Internal media speculation on Tyson
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Kakutolog (in Japanese) has a very interesting post about a Gendai Net report on PRIDE & Mike Tyson working together. More specifically, the supposed motives on PRIDE’s behalf for booking Tyson. The Gendai Net article claims that PRIDE’s real motive behind signing Mike Tyson (to an exhibition boxing match) is to try […]
Media focus on Mike Tyson
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold ESPN aired a segment on the Tuesday edition of their Outside the Lines: First Report show, focusing on the rise and fall of Mike Tyson. The segment, titled Split Decision by Jeremy Schaap, profiled Tyson’s latest antics in Las Vegas and whether or not his retirement from boxing was permanent. Tyson is […]
Dana White talks about PRIDE – again
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold From an interview in the Chicago Sun-times: Pride is coming to Vegas. How will that affect the UFC? Not at all. They’re having financial trouble. They lost their TV distribution in Japan. There are a lot of accusations they’re not good guys. Could you guys merge? We could buy them. I’m starting […]
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