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Thursday, December 27th, 2007Over at the Golden Glory message board forum, a person has posted three separate items claiming that it is a story about the events that led to the death of PRIDE. The poster claims that Bas Boon, manager of Golden Glory, contributed details to the story. You can read the posts here, here, and here. […]
Thursday trash talk: Everybody has a price
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Reminder: Listen to our Christmas 2007 radio show. There is some ad space available at Bloody Elbow for anyone interested in sponsoring that site. You should definitely check into it if you can, along with signing up for an account at BlogAds.com. Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan) is reporting that Shin’ya Aoki will fight judoka Bu-Kyung […]
TBS to air two Yarennoka matches
Monday, December 24th, 2007An official Japanese news release from the network says that Fedor vs. Hong-Man and Akiyama vs. Misaki will air on the K-1 Dynamite time block on NYE for Tokyo Broadcasting System. It makes sense, given that both Hong-Man and Akiyama are K-1 fighters. The time block for Dynamite on TBS is from 6 PM to […]
Mirko Cro Cop to appear at Hustle 12/31 Saitama event
Monday, December 24th, 2007The headline says it all, as the report claims that Hustle Entertainment is pushing Mirko’s appearance at their Hustle 12/31 Saitama Super Arena event. Comments attributed to Cro Cop were issued in a media release. The publicity stunt should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the politics of Japanese MMA, as Cro Cop’s […]
Calvan vs. Aoki officially canceled
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Sherdog’s Friday news report about the JZ Calvan vs. Shin’ya Aoki 12/31 Saitama Super Arena fight being canceled has been officially verified by the producers of the Yarennoka event. Both Calvan and Aoki appeared at a makeshift press conference at the DEEP gym to address the media regarding the match cancellation. While the Aoki/Calvan fight […]
My personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene
Friday, December 21st, 2007Warning: This is a very long post. For the last couple of months, I’ve stayed relatively quiet in terms of talking about the Japanese MMA scene and how things are lining up. For starters, I’m bored with a lot of it. Secondly, I don’t see a lot of positives right now. Here is my breakdown […]
Monday chalkboard (12/17)
Monday, December 17th, 2007For Internet Explorer users, we’ve added a feature on the top menu called “set as your HP.” Simply put, if you would like to make our site your browser’s starting page every time it loads, you can click on the link. I can’t find code that will work in Firefox and Netscape browsers, so this […]
Fight Opinion Radio #71: Renato Babalu & Wallid Ismail
Sunday, December 16th, 2007A big 100-minute show this week, so make sure you are subscribed to either our radio show RSS feed or our iTunes feed. We have three interviews on this week’s show. First, we have an interview with Jeffrey Tennen (of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in the USMC). He stopped by to tell us […]
Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena card (updated 12/13)
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Fedor Emelianenko vs. Choi Hong-Man Kazuo Misaki vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Hidehiko Hasegawa vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai Shin’ya Aoki vs. JZ Calvan K-1 announced Bob Sapp vs. Bobby Ologun for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event.
Tuesday chalkboard (12/11)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Daniel Puder is teaming up with the Cops Care Cancer Foundation. Some good news and bad news for the IFL’s 12/29 Mohegan Sun Arena event. The good news… it will air on Fox Sports World in Canada. The bad news? The promotion’s last event (11/3 Chicago) that aired on FSW drew 200 viewers, according to […]
Fedor on HDNet for NYE
Friday, December 7th, 2007A curious announcement today by HDNet that Fedor’s 12/31 Saitama Super Arena fight will air live on HDNet. Curious for a couple of reasons… There is still no opponent booked yet for Fedor’s fight. Why is HDNet so eager to telecast the Yarennoka event, an event which is backed by publicly-tainted DSE officials? Short memories, […]
Updated Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama card line-up
Thursday, December 6th, 2007The latest update: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez Hidehiko Hasegawa vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai Shin’ya Aoki vs. JZ Calvan Production ace Daisuke Sato has a new blog (in Japanese) about the event.
Fight Opinion Radio #70: Richie Hightower
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007This Saturday, The Ultimate Fighter 6 finale will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our special guest this week is Richie Hightower, who will be fighting on the card. If you’re a fan of The Ultimate Fighter, it’s an interesting interview to check out. Also on this week’s show: We discuss the politics of the […]
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