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Friday, January 4th, 2008For the last month, you’ve probably seen countless articles online from various MMA media writers whining and complaining about Fedor Emelianenko’s career direction. You know about the boilerplate rhetoric — he’s afraid of fighting the best competition, his reputation is taking a hit, etc.
Friday fight notes: IFL’s ambitious schedule
Friday, January 4th, 2008If you have extensive WordPress experience and would be interested in helping me out on a new project, please contact me. Fightlinker supposedly has dirt on Matt Hamill. Look at the amount of big IFL shows on the East Coast in 2008. The Izod Center in East Rutherford (Continental Airlines Arena in the Meadowlands) is […]
NYE MMA fallout
Friday, January 4th, 2008Ratings-wise for the K-1 Dynamite show on Tokyo Broadcasting System, the first round of Kid Yamamoto vs. Rani Yahya drew the highest quarter-hour rating of the night, drawing a 20.9%. The Fedor vs. Hong-Man fight on South Korean cable drew a reported 13.4% rating. Hong-Man’s active fighting career is also reportedly on hold due to […]
2007 NYE ratings
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008According to Sports Navigator: Hustle drew a 4.0% rating on TV-Tokyo. K-1’s Dynamite event drew the following: 6:00-8:30 PM – 11.1% 8:30-11:00 PM – 14.7% 11:00-11:34 PM – 11.1% In other words, not very strong across the board. Kohaku (Red & White Music Festival) drew a 32.8% rating in part one and 39.5% rating in […]
Quote of the Day – Jake Rossen
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008UFC politics: UFC President Dana White and owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta were alleged to be openly ecstatic at cageside over Griffin’s submission win over Rua in September. Matchmaker Joe Silva passed a note to announcer Joe Rogan during Lyoto Machida’s mauling of Sokoudjou on Saturday, saying the bout’s outcome was indicative that “This ain’t […]
The story of Choo Sung-Hoon
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008South Korean friend and correspondent Yeo Jong-Hoon tells the story about Yoshihiro Akiyama and why Kazuo Misaki’s comments to Akiyama after their MMA bout was over are drawing a lot of heat. By Yeo Jong-Hoon I watched K-1 Dynamite! and Yarennoka last night. Both aired in Korea cable TV, network XTM. (Dynamite was delay, Yarennoka […]
Tanigawa: K-1’s ‘large coalition’ will continue
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Today, Kazushi Sakuraba and Sadaharu Tanigawa held a press briefing in Osaka. (Picture here.) If Fedor’s face looked like he suffered from road rash, then Sakuraba’s face is twice as bad. However, the big story coming out of the press conference involved Tanigawa proclaiming that the ‘large coalition’ that K-1 was a part of would […]
Thoughts on the Japanese NYE 2007 MMA events
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008(I want to apologize for not responding to e-mails sent to me today, as Hotmail for some reason is acting up and giving some weird error messages when I send replies or try to delete mails.) “The message you selected could not be found. It may have been moved or deleted. Please click the folder […]
Hustle & Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Hustle Matsuri (Festival), afternoon show at SSA TV: TV-Tokyo Yarennoka (DSE), evening show at SSA TV: SkyPerfecTV PPV, HDNet Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel […]
Interview: White gave Mirko permission to attend Hustle event
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Tokyo Sports mobile (the newspaper) conducted an interview with Dana White on a number of subjects. The focus was on Takanori Gomi and Mirko Cro Cop. According to the newspaper’s interview, White said that Mirko Cro Cop asked for permission to attend the Hustle event on 12/31 in Saitama and that his request was granted. […]
Image of the day – Yoshihiro Akiyama
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Now, this is bad fashion.
Audio previews of this week’s MMA events
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Check out Mike Coughlin’s new edition of Five Star Radio here. Oliver Copp and Mike Sawyer of Tough Talk Radio went to the IFO show on Friday at the Riviera in Las Vegas. They have a recap of the event in audio form (listen to the show here). Jarry Park has an interview with Damon […]
Bout order for Yarennoka card
Friday, December 28th, 200712/31/2007 Saitama Super Arena: Mike Russow vs. Roman Zentsov Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Makoto Takimoto vs. Murilo Bustamante Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Kazuo Misaki vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa Shin’ya Aoki vs. Bu-Kyung Jung Fedor Emelianenko vs. Choi Hong-Man
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