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Friday, November 9th, 2007MMA HQ has a preview for this weekend’s EXC event. An update on Josh Koscheck. Eddie Goldman analyzes the latest sanctioning body attempt in MMA. Evan Tanner in UFC. An about-face about the CSAC from UFC. A British take on the UFC. Doogan says that the current sports editor at the Sunday Times refuses to […]
Thursday random notes (11/8)
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Hotmail has changed over to its new Windows Live format (which is hideous). Does anyone know how to turn off the “rich text” format for e-mails and go to a text-based format? I didn’t see it anywhere in the options panel. From the CSAC: Jennifer Tate, who last competed for Pro Elite on October 26, […]
Quotes of the week
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Mike Pyle on Elite XC: Mouth: I would assume this is the final fight on your contract? Pyle: Yes, to answer your question from before, this is the final fight on my contract. Gary Shaw and those guys might be under the impression, because I haven’t really had a chance to talk with them, that […]
Tuesday news and notes (11/6)
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Your tabloid headline of the day. Pramit Mohapatra has a brand new article at Sports Illustrated talking about Kimbo Slice. Dan Henderson is coming to Winnipeg on November 30th. Dave Meltzer has two new articles on Yahoo (here and here) talking about last week’s CSAC appeals hearing. An interview with Big John McCarthy. Plus, an […]
Fight Opinion Radio #67: Adam Swift
Monday, November 5th, 2007Adam Swift of MMAPayout.com and Sherdog.com has been a busy man lately. Last week, he published an article talking about what a standard Zuffa contract looks like. Therefore, we had to bring him on the show to further elaborate on his article and the North American MMA scene in general. Do other promoters use similar-type […]
Monday musings: Zuffa & Xyience
Monday, November 5th, 2007For the MMA insiders and hardcore fans, today’s big news item is a report that Xyience and Zuffa are supposedly linked together much more closely than apparently first thought. Luke Thomas elaborates on why this is an important story to follow. The one thing I don’t understand is that if the report is true that […]
Friday fight news: IFL GP is tomorrow
Friday, November 2nd, 2007New MMA figurines. Jens Pulver and Frankie Edgar will be participating in a charity event in Trenton (New Jersey) on 11/7. Rashad Evens garnering headlines in The Sun. Tomorrow is the IFL’s live television event (MyNetworkTV). American viewers will see one hour live, while Canadian viewers will get to watch two hours of live programming. […]
Thursday trash talk: Japan’s tough guys
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Todd Martin took on a big task in writing his new CBS Sports column, which is talking about the evolution of MMA in Japan. There are two points that I felt Todd missed talking about in the article: 1) The infamous ‘cement’ (cement is a term that the Japanese use for a ‘shoot’) incident between […]
Wednesday war room: UFC winning the PR battle?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Well, we know the Couture vs. White feud has jumped the shark when Time Magazine starts covering it. Here is the video of ESPN’s E:60 TV segment yesterday covering Miletich Fighting systems. Trevor Prangley talks about the upcoming Strikeforce Middleweight tournament in November. Here’s an interview with Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua. Meet Matt Gudgeon, who is […]
Sunday news & notes: Money, money, money
Saturday, October 27th, 2007Chael Sonnen wants to fight Frank Shamrock. An interview with Carlos Newton. Taking a look at UFC’s PPV bonus scale. Plus, two interesting posts (here and here) at the Xtreme Couture MMA site. I went to the UFC 78 web site and noticed that the folks at Zuffa sure like the blood splattering effect a […]
Friday fallout: More confusion than clarity
Friday, October 26th, 2007Oh yeah, there’s a ShoXC event tonight. Shayna Baszler is fighting on the card. Watch the show. So, there were dueling press conferences between UFC and Randy Couture on Las Vegas on Thursday. Here is the audio from Couture’s press conference. Kevin Iole was at the Randy Couture press conference and Dave Meltzer covered the […]
Thursday trash talk: Head to head in Las Vegas
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007That whole drug testing thing in California for MMA… what can you say. Lots of big talk and proclamations about M-1 over at Russian MMA. Sean Salmon vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller is set for December 15th in Dallas for HDNet Fights. The latest IFL SEC filings. Plus, their updated prospectus. NBC Sports has a video […]
Evening news update (10/18)
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Fox News Fight Game (video here) has a review of the latest edition of The Ultimate Fighter. MMA Madness has a Q & A with Matt Hughes. Here is the latest IFL SEC filing. The controvery over Randy Couture’s depature from UFC continues to heat-up. Randy Couture’s agent has officially responded, laughing at Kevin Iole’s […]
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