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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007When I was 13 years old, asking for secret sauce meant the mystery dipping condiment with your french fries. Now, secret sauce has a whole new meaning for 13 year olds. (Hat tip: Mikeinformer.) More reaction to this story can be found here. Plus, more discussion about steroids and UFC fighters. How MMA’s popularity is […]
Friday fight notes: More steroid comments from Dana White
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Weekly Pro is reporting that Erik Paulson has been booked for the upcoming IGF (Inoki Genome Federation) event in Nagoya. Josh Barnett, Don Frye, Kiyoshi Tamura, Mark Coleman, and other MMA names are also scheduled to appear. Dana White continues his defense of Sean Sherk: “I don’t think he’s a liar,” said UFC president Dana […]
Thursday trash talk: Rampage likes PRIDE rules best
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Mauro Ranallo interviewed Stephen Quadros on Wednesday (audio here). Plus, an MMA Madness interview with Georges St. Pierre. Dave Doyle on what to look for at UFC 74. A very interesting appearance for Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on ESPN’s SportsCenter on Wednesday. He made no bones about the fact that he would like to see the […]
Wednesday war room: Dogfighting and MMA analogies
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007The latest MMA Weekly fighter rankings. Quinton Jackson will appear on ESPN’s First Take show (formerly Cold Pizza) today. There’s a rumor (Jordan Breen says it’s no long a rumor but fact) floating around that Milton Vieira had problems with a visa interview and he will not be able to fight Satoru Kitaoka on 9/5 […]
Sunday news review: Shooto lands in Orange County
Saturday, August 18th, 2007In the next couple of days, we will be launching a new site design. I expect a mixture of both positive and negative feedback to the re-design, but I feel that the new look will help our readers gather more information quickly on a daily basis. Because the new site format will be pulling links […]
Saturday headlines: K-1 is still confused
Friday, August 17th, 2007On the K-1 web site, you can vote on two all-star fighters advancing to their 9/29 Seoul, South Korea World GP event. Guess what is option five on the voting list? Zabit Samedov, who just got busted in Nevada for failing a drug test due to taking stanozolol. Brilliant timing. Then again, it’s K-1. Do […]
Friday fight notes: A bad week just got worse for K-1
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Two more drug test failures, this time coming out of K-1’s Las Vegas show over the weekend. Check out the T/E ratio for Nordstand – 21:1. This has been a disastrous week of PR for K-1. First, the failed drug tests. Second, the allegations that they falsified the MRIs of Choi Hong-Man so he could […]
Thursday trash talk: Say no, Sakuraba-san…
Thursday, August 16th, 2007A message to the guys at Komikazee – send me the files today that you tried to send earlier in the week (but didn’t work due to broken links). We’re opening up the mailbox for this week’s radio show. Any MMA-related topic on your mind that you want us to talk about during our mailbag […]
Tuesday news and notes: Bringing the heat against Karo Parisyan
Monday, August 13th, 2007K-1 just announced that Minowaman will face Ralek Gracie at the HERO’s 9/17 Yokohama Arena show. Also on the 9/17 Yokohama card is JZ Calvan vs. Vitor “Shaolin” Ribiero and Black Mamba vs. Kaoru Uno in Middleweight tournament matches. I have a new post at Bloody Elbow talking about a topic that an advertising geek […]
Monday media marks: HBO > Spike TV for UFC
Sunday, August 12th, 2007In Japanese media circles, Ed Fishman’s appearance at the K-1 Las Vegas event on Saturday night drew some buzz. Ed said he received an invitation from K-1 to watch the show, so he did. It looks like K-1 is going to find a way to get Musashi onto the World GP show on 9/29 in […]
Sunday media stroll: Alexander wants to reach out to you
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Fightlinker needs some help with WordPress. E-mail him if you can help him out. Main results from tonight’s K-1 Las Vegas show: Stefan Leko defeated Mighty Mo after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-27 scores), Bjorn Bregy defeated Ray Sefo after 3R by a 2-1 judges’ decision, and Doug Viney (the New Zealander who […]
Thursday evening news update (8/9)
Thursday, August 9th, 2007If you aren’t a subscriber to our radio show, go subscribe now. Friendly links: iTunes feed or RSS feed. Josh Barnett was the guest on our last show. We’ll have a new radio show coming out shortly. So, go subscribe. The latest IFL filing with the SEC. Adam “Pacman” Jones had quite the appearance on […]
Sunday news snips: Hong-Man back on winning track
Sunday, August 5th, 2007K-1 8/5 Hong Kong event results. Mike Coughlin has filed a report. I saw a post over at NHB News (Japanese) that took quotes from former MMA agent Miro Mijatovic about MMA’s drug culture in Japan and attributed those quotes to the Wrestling Observer. Those quotes made by Mijatovic were made to me and the […]
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