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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Here’s the match order for the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena card: Pedro Rizzo vs. Roman Zentsov Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Yoon Dong Sik John Olav Einemo vs. Fabricio Werdum Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Mario Sperry Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Kiyoshi Tamura Mauricio Shogun vs. Mark Coleman […]
A hard sell
Sunday, February 19th, 2006Yosuke Nishijima had a meeting with the press on Sunday at the Takada Dojo in Tokyo. This was to push his upcoming fight against Mark Hunt on the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena show. In this photo, Nishijima is trying to show off a choke sleeper hold on Kazushi Sakuraba. Nishijima claimed that his training in […]
Nogueira’s future in PRIDE
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold In a recent interview in Brazil, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira was asked about what his future in DSE would be. He was asked specifically what his future after the Kiyoshi Tamura fight would be, and what he thought the best creative direction would be for him. His response was very interesting.
PRIDE 31 main card line-up
Monday, February 6th, 2006Mark Hunt vs. Yosuke Nishijima Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Mario Sperry Mauricio Shogun vs. Mark Coleman Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Yoon Dong Sik Jon Olav Einemo vs. Fabricio Werdum Pedro Rizzo vs. Roman Zentsov This looks brutal.
Fedor out for six months
Monday, January 30th, 2006Emelianenko Fedor’s official Japanese home page reports that he had a 90-minute operation/surgery on his right hand on 1/26 in Sankt Petersburg, Russia. Doctors & specialists have told him that he needs six months of time off for the hand to fully heal. If Fedor sticks to the doctor’s advice, that would prevent him from […]
Shogun on PRIDE 31
Thursday, January 26th, 2006Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, the 2005 Middleweight GP tournament champion, has been booked against Mark Coleman on the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena show. This appears to be Shogun’s test match to see if he would be a good fit in the open-weight GP tournament, which starts on 5/5 at the Osaka Dome. Thoughts?
Bas Rutten back in PRIDE
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold MMA Weekly says he has signed a new deal with the company. Reaction (and pictures) on Sherdog. Past related link: Bas Rutten gone from PRIDE
World Combat League in Connecticut
Monday, January 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Here is an interesting review of the show Chuck Norris produced last Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut. Money quote: All in all, it was an alright show. If the WCL wants to compete with UFC, K-1, and PRIDE FC then they’ll need to do some serious work to […]
DSE plays the “media ban” card?
Saturday, January 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold Do you remember the situation from December of 2005 in regards to the negotiations for the Naoya Ogawa vs. Hidehiko Yoshida match? If you don’t remember, use this link to refresh your memory – simple for the purpose of a timeline. Here was the situation – some of the newspapers reported that […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 3
Thursday, January 19th, 2006The third edition of Fight Opinion Radio is now online and available to download. Here are your options for listening to the show: Broadband (MP3) | Dial-up/Streaming | YouSendIt (Download MP3 file) Or you can use the great flash player to listen to it streaming (without having to use an external program). Check it out […]
PRIDE 2006 GP Tournament
Sunday, January 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold This year, it’s a 16-man tournament. Open-weight. Show schedule: 5/5 Osaka Dome (round one), July at Saitama Super Arena (round two), and September at Saitama Super Arena (semi-finals and finals). Dan Henderson & Takanori Gomi may be involved as participants. Related Links: PRIDE/DSE Planning To Hold Openweight Tournament for 2006! Update: MMA […]
Shinsuke Nakamura wants to fight with Fedor&Mirko
Saturday, January 14th, 2006Firstly please check this article(daily sports/Japanese) this is written about Tanahashi&Nakamura’event. And my title is Nakamura’answer against fan’question “who do you want to fight with?” Tanahashi’answer”Akiyama,Rikioh,Marufuji again” Nakamura”Both of Fedor&Mirko” Nakamura said”This year, I will be back ï¼ï¼ï¼¡’ring again” PRIDE has a few Japanese heavy weight fighters. So…Nakamura will be in PRIDE heavy weight GP […]
Why Hiroko？Column about HUSTLE
Friday, January 13th, 2006Firstly I don’t know whether you as readers are interested in HUSTLE or not. *laugh* And please use yahoo or excite to translate my column. Sorry about writing in Japanese text. (Rough translation by Zach Arnold). ã¨è¨€ã†è¨³ã§æœ¬é¡Œã¸ã€‚ About the subject said in translation. ãƒãƒƒã‚¹ãƒ«ã¯ã‚†ã£ãã‚Šã¨ã€ã§ã‚‚確実ã«æµã‚Œã¦ã„ã¾ã™ã€‚ Hustle flows slowly, but surely. ã¯ã˜ã‚ã¯ã‹ã¤ã¦å…¨æ—¥æœ¬ãƒ—ãƒãƒ¬ã‚¹ã¨ï¼«ï¼‘ãŒä¼ç”»ã—ãŸWRESTLEï¼ï¼‘ã¨å¤§å·®ãŒãªã„イベントã§ã—ãŸã€‚ï½¢æ ¼é—˜å®¶ã‚’ãƒ—ãƒãƒ¬ã‚¹ã®ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã«ä¸Šã’ã€æµ·å¤–ã®å¤§ç‰©(like Goldberg)を日本ã®ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã«ä¸Šã’ã‚‹å˜ç™ºçš„ãªã‚¤ãƒ™ãƒ³ãƒˆï½£ã“ã‚ŒãŒå½“åˆã®ãƒãƒƒã‚¹ãƒ«ã®å½¢ã ã£ãŸã¨åƒ•ã¯æ€ã„ã¾ã™ã€‚ The start of WRESTLE-1 […]
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