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Friday, January 13th, 2006The show is on February 26th at Saitama Super Arena. Tickets go on sale to the general public this weekend. List of workers being advertised: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Kevin Randleman, Mauricio Shogun, Sergey Kharitonov, Mark Coleman, and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. Mario Sperry of BTT is also expected to booked on the show, along with Yosuke […]
Who’s Next For Fedor Emelienenko?
Saturday, January 7th, 2006“Throw Him To The Russian!” Who’s Next For Fedor Emelienenko? By Adam Underhill I do not think even PRIDE could have predicted their big ratings war win over fellow Japanese fight organisation K-1. Even though the percentage margins were tighter than the close fight between Mirko and Fedor back in August, are PRIDE the real […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 1
Thursday, January 5th, 2006The first edition of Fight Opinion Radio (part of the Fight Opinion Radio Network) is now online and available to download to listen to. Here are the options you can use to listen to the show (22 MB MP3 file, 1 1/2 hours long): Dial-up/Streaming | Broadband (Direct Download) | YouSendIt (Download) The streaming and […]
Hunt: I want to fight Fedor
Thursday, January 5th, 2006DSE posted an interview today on their web site with Mark Hunt. Hunt stated that he wanted a chance to face Emelianenko Fedor in 2006. After his fight with Mirko Cro Cop, Hunt said that he went to Yoshinoya and ate a Japanese beef bowl meal before going back to his hotel to rest. Hunt […]
PRIDE’s Yellow Cards
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006Mike Sempervive & I have jokingly named PRIDE’s use of yellow cards as a reward for “the PRIDE executive vacation fund.” The constant use of yellow cards in PRIDE fights has drawn scrutiny as of late. Here is Mick Hammond’s latest MMA Weekly article: The yellow card has no impact on the judges’ scoring; it […]
Ikuhisa Minowa Signed For Cage Rage 15!
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006It has been reported that PRIDE fighter Ikuhisa Minowa has been signed by Cage Rage to fight on their 2/4/06 Adrenalin Rush card at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, U.K. He has been booked to fight Dave Legeno. Legeno’s last fight was against Alan Murdock at Cage Rage 14 on 12/3/05 where he lost […]
Quarter Hour New Years Eve ratings
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006The numbers are starting to come in for certain fights in regards to which fights drew the highest ratings on New Year’s Eve in Japan on TV. Oricon has a report about the numbers. Oricon reports that the Naoya Ogawa vs. Hidehiko Yoshida fight at 9:30 PM on Fuji TV drew a 27.7% rating, which […]
Trouble in Paradise
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006Gryphon reports that Dokonjonosuke Mishima is out of DSE/DEEP and that Masanori Suda is likely gone from Shooto. I can assure you that this isn’t the first that you will hear of fighters rejecting the politics of this circle of promoters. 2006 is going to be an interesting year if you can keep up and […]
Latest from Tanigawa & Sakakibara
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006Gryphon has links to recent interviews with Tanigawa (K-1 producer) & Sakakibara (DSE boss). Here is my translation of some of the information from Sakakibara’s interview: Sakakibara stated that Mirko caught a cold (had the flu) before he left Croatia to arrive in Japan to fight Mark Hunt. Sakakibara also claims Mirko hurt his ankle […]
PRIDE US PPV version of 12/31 Saitama event
Monday, January 2nd, 2006In quick discussions that I’ve had with Adam Summers and Dr. Keith Lipinski, both men told me that the US version of the PRIDE show was heavily edited. To the point that several fights were not shown at all, period. In Japan, those who saw the PRIDE show on free TV ended up seeing most […]
I think why did PRIDE beat K-1
Sunday, January 1st, 2006this is news source(Japanese) PRIDE:15.3% 　K-１：14.8% ã¨è¨€ã†è¨³ã§ç”·ç¥ã‚Š(8時～)ã¯15.3ï¼…ã€Dynamite!ã¯14.8ï¼…ã¨åƒ…å·®ã§ç”·ç¥ã‚ŠãŒå‹åˆ©!! æ£ç›´ã“ã®çµæžœã¯æ„外ã§ã—ãŸã。 Otoko Matsuri won by a little difference! Honestly, this result was unexpected. 番組ã¨ã—ã¦ã®ã¾ã¨ã¾ã‚Šã¯Dynamite!!ã®æ–¹ãŒä¸Šã£ã¦æ›¸ãã¾ã—ãŸã—実際視è´çŽ‡ã§ã¯Dynamite!!ãŒä¸Šå›žã‚‹ã ã‚ã†ã¨æ€ã£ã¦ã„ã¾ã—ãŸã€‚(I thought Dynamite is better than PRIDE as Tv show,not as fight event so,I thought K-1 beated PRIDE in Tv rating war…) ã¨è¨€ã†ã®ãŒé ˆè—¤Ã—ＫＩＤãŒã‚„ã£ã¦ã„ãŸæ™‚é–“ã«ã¯ã™ã§ã«ç”·ç¥ã‚Šã¯æ™‚é–“ã‚’æŒã¦ä½™ã—ã¦å†æ”¾é€ã«å…¥ã£ã¦ã„ã¾ã—ãŸã— (Fuji tv broadcasted replay when TBS broadcasted Sudo-san vs KID-san) ã“ã®æ™‚間帯ã§Dynamite!!ãŒå¤§ããリードã™ã‚‹ã‚“ã˜ã‚ƒãªã„ã‹ãªã¨ã€‚ ãŸã ã€ãれ以上ã«æ›™Ã—ボビーã®ã‚°ãƒ€ã‚°ãƒ€æ„ŸãŒéŸ¿ã„ã¦ã—ã¾ã£ãŸã‚ˆã†ã§ã™ã。 […]
New Year’s Eve war: TV Ratings
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan is starting to release the TV ratings for the New Year’s Eve war from Japan. Tokushima Shimbun (newspaper) reports that the Kohaku (Red & White) Music Festival on NHK drew ratings of 35.4% (Part 1) and 42.9% (Part 2), which signals an increase from last year’s all-time record low ratings. […]
TV ratings war
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Just to notify everyone, Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan will release the initial ratings for both the K-1 & PRIDE 12/31 shows on Monday afternoon (1/2) Japanese time (late Sunday evening 1/1 American time). Per usual, I will get the information as fast as possible and break down the information released.
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