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Thursday, May 29th, 2008What a weekend this is going to be for MMA action, with the Elite XC special Saturday night on CBS and then Jens Pulver vs. Urijah Faber in front of 10,000+ fans at Arco Arena in Sacramento on Sunday night (TV: Versus Network). Expect a ton of broadsheet media coverage. Some of it will be […]
Tax day stack ‘o stuff (4/15/08)
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Eddie Goldman has a new radio show, reviewing the recent YAMMA Pit Fighting event. A preview: This show was well-received by the fans in attendance, who cheered the victors in the two Masters’ Superfights, Oleg Taktarov and Pat Smith, and the one-night, eight-man single elimination heavyweight tournament, Travis Wiuff. Onto today’s headlines.
Monday morning quarterback (4/7/08)
Monday, April 7th, 2008Hayato “Mach” Sakurai will face David Baron in Shooto on 5/3 in Tokyo at JCB Hall (Tokyo Dome City). Also booked for the show is Lion Takeshi vs. Rumina Sato. The circus between Nobuyuki Sakakibara and UFC continues to grow. Luke Thomas does therapy. Eurosport: Michael Bisping’s blood is boiling Fox Sports: Kendall Grove, Evan […]
The one-year anniversary of PRIDE’s death
Sunday, March 30th, 2008It was a year ago when the death of PRIDE, Japan’s largest MMA play, became a reality. A company that was ultimately sunk by charges of corruption eventually met its fate. That fate is still playing out in a Clark County, Nevada courtroom with PRIDE FC Worldwide Holdings LLC suing Nobuyuki Sakakibara and his production […]
Update on PFCWW vs. Sakakibara lawsuit
Thursday, March 6th, 2008On February 19th, PRIDE FC Worldwide Holdings LLC issued a summons to DSE Inc. to respond to the lawsuit filed in Clark County court. On Monday (3/3), PFCWW LLC counsel filed a motion to demand a jury trial in the company’s case against Nobuyuki Sakakibara. Sakakibara and company have not responded yet to the lawsuit […]
A DREAM of returning to glory
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008When K-1 mouthpiece Sadaharu Tanigawa announced that K-1 and DSE officials would work together in ‘a large coalition’ to produce a modified version of PRIDE, you could see the old PRIDE marks suddenly appear on Sherdog and MMA Fighting message boards. When Nobuyuki Sakakibara sold the PRIDE assets to Lorenzo Fertitta, it was as if […]
PRIDE, Xyience, Zuffa, and you
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Special guest opinion/editorial by Leland Roling of MMA-Analyst.com One of the bigger stories so far this year has been the emergence of two scandals that have earned the attention of hardcore fans and the MMA community as a whole. The purchase of PRIDE from Dream Stage Entertainment in the early part of last year sent […]
Fight Opinion Radio #76: Thaler family MMA get-together
Friday, February 15th, 2008Jeff Thaler and Thaler family members join us this week to recap the WEC 32 event from Wednesday night in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Does Carlos Condit deserve the praise that he is receiving online? Where does he stand in terms of worldwide rankings in his weight class? Plus, what’s the best sports analogy to use […]
K-1 & DSE/PRIDE staff join to create DREAM
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008A big press conference was held today in Tokyo at the Metropolitan Edmont hotel with 500 fans in attendance to announce a new promotion called DREAM. Mirko Cro Cop was in attendance and was quoted by the Japanese press as saying that “cage fighting doesn’t suit me” and that Japan is really his second home. […]
Six degrees of Ken Imai
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008On the eve of what appears to be Mirko Cro Cop showing up in Tokyo for the K-1/DSE joint press-conference in Japan to announce their new promotion, I thought that I would take a brief respite here and put on my historian cap to talk about a certain individual. To understand the various scandals and […]
Eddie Goldman sounds off on UFC’s lawsuit against DSE
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Start at the 16 minute, 30 second mark (audio here) and listen. Cross-reference: Two-part interview with Tadashi Tanaka (part one and part two) In our earlier news post today, we linked to an article that Charles Jay wrote about regarding UFC’s lawsuit against Dream Stage Entertainment over the PRIDE asset sale deal. MMA Memories, the […]
Tuesday reading material (2/12/08)
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Popular Japanese MMA writer Hiroshi Nielsen caught this screen capture of Yahoo Japan’s main page today. Kazuyuki Fujita’s signing with World Victory Road was a main story on the site. Hiroshi thinks that it’s not so much a sign that MMA is hugely popular in Japan right now, but rather a testament to the power […]
Fight Opinion Radio #75: The return of Judge Jeff Thaler
Monday, February 11th, 2008We’ve now officially reached the point where Judge Jeff Thaler may become a weekly segment on our radio show, thanks to the millions of MMA-related lawsuits being filed in the United States. This week, the Judge takes a close look at PRIDE FC Worldwide’s lawsuit against Dream Stage Entertainment. What are some of the unique […]
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