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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Daily Sports has an article today talking about the future between PRIDE & the TV network that supports them, Fuji TV. As we noted a couple of days ago, 19-year boxing star Koki Kameda announced that he would have a fight on 5/5 at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Today, it was announced […]
Four new matches for Bushido event
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE announced four new matches for their 4/2 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum event. The new matches are: Akihiro Gono vs. Kim Dae Won, Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Paul Rodriguez, Murillo Ninja vs. Paulo Filho, and Dennis Kang vs. Mark Weir. Also, the participation of Ikuhisa Minowa & Seichi Ikemoto. At the press conference, the […]
Weekly publications start talking – part two
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold In part one of this two-part post series, I posted a summary of a Weekly Taishu publication article about the recent yakuza arrests in Japan and the history of the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 event. It’s an event that will become a historical show if the police can prove that certain people involved […]
Weekly publications start talking
Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Shukan (Weekly) Taishu, one of the various weekly Japanese publications, has published an article about the recent yakuza arrests in relation to the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 show. I read the Japanese article and at first glance, a picture of Antonio Inoki was shown along with the question about morals at Nippon TV […]
PRIDE’s worst nightmare
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Photo credit: Sports Nippon (newspaper) By Zach Arnold 19-year old Koki Kameda, Japan’s hottest boxer in terms of business, is going to make things very hard on DSE on May 5th. Kameda’s camp announced that his next fight will happen on 5/5 in Tokyo at Ariake Colosseum. The fight will likely be carried on live […]
Phil Baroni back in the PRIDE ring
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE announced Yuki Kondo vs. Phil Baroni and Luiz Azeredo (Chute Boxe) vs. Joachim Hansen for their Bushido show on 4/2 at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Add these fights to the three matches already announced. Also scheduled to work the show is Dennis Kang, Ikuhisa Minowa, & Akihiro Gono. PRIDE boss Nobuyuki […]
Bad news for Shogun
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Full Contact Fighter reports that medical tests reveal that Mauricio “Shogun” Rua’s elbow is fractured, and all ligaments in the elbow are ruptured. He is out for an estimated six months.
Mark Hunt interview by the PRIDE office
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Expect an English version to be uploaded on the PRIDE site shortly. Hunt talks about the upcoming open-weight tournament show on 5/5 at the Osaka Dome. In the Japanese interview, he is asked for his thoughts about Fedor, Nogueira, Mirko, and Barnett participating in the tournament and who he would like to […]
Sakakibara: I hope to have Nishijima fight in May.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Rob Sayers In a recent interview on PrideFC.Com. DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara gave his own thoughts on the PRIDE 31 event, the post fight mele, and the upcoming open weight GP.
Nogueira’s next match in PRIDE
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold whenever Sankei Sports has an article about someone in PRIDE wanting to face someone on an upcoming show, it’s important to at least pay attention to it because Sankei is the Fuji TV line of media (as in Fuji TV is the network paying PRIDE). You know some parts of these types […]
They really didn’t mean to say this…
Monday, February 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Quote of the day (from MMA Ring Report’s PRIDE 31 preview) on Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura: Barnett might be larger but in his last fight (vs. Mirko Cro Cop) he demonstrated that he has the capacity to lose any fight. KazNak is like mecha-godzilla; created by Japanese scientists to battle whatever […]
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka Vacates Super Heavyweight K.O.P Title!
Friday, February 24th, 2006In an official announcement from the King of Pancrase Committee earlier today, they accepted an offer in which Tsuyoshi Kohsaka wanted to vacate the super heavyweight King of Pancrase title as of January 20th 2006. Kohsaka aims to fight Mario Sperry at the next PRIDE event on February 26th in an attempt at a fresh […]
New Fedor Interview
Friday, February 24th, 2006Contrary to previous reports, Fedor has stated in his most recent interview with Pride FC, that his hand may be healed in time to participate in the Openweight GP. He also said that if he is unable to compete, he will support his younger brother, Alexander’s efforts to win the Grand Prix. Original Interview
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