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Saturday, April 12th, 2008Main matches from today’s IGF event at Osaka Prefectural Gym: Naoya Ogawa defeated Travis Tomko in 11’43 with a choke sleeper and Josh Barnett defeated The Predator in 11’01 with a cross heel-hold (photo here). Jan “The Giant” Nortje defeated Montanha Silva in 4’44 by disqualification. The Peterborough Examiner: UFC jitters take toll on first-time […]
This has been a great week for fight fans
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Save your arguments about pro-wrestling for another time. If you are a pro-wrestling fan or an MMA fan, this has been a hell of a week for you. On Monday night, the greatest television segment in the history of American professional wrestling happened on WWE TV with Ric Flair’s farewell address. There is no one […]
Namedropping: Bob Sapp & BALCO
Monday, March 31st, 2008(Hat tip: Mikeinformer.) As if things couldn’t get any worse for the giant from Seattle: Novitzky said 30 athletes were called to testify before the grand jury in 2003. Novitzky didn’t identify any of the athletes, but testified there was “some evidence” that professional wrestler Bob Sapp — who briefly played in the NFL — […]
Report: Angle to make ‘MMA debut’ in Osaka
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Nikkan Sports has a report claiming that Antonio Inoki is interested in Kurt Angle making his MMA debut on the IGF 4/12 Osaka Prefectural Gym show. According to Inoki, Angle will likely participate with open-fingered gloves and that it may be a 3-way MMA match involving Naoya Ogawa & Josh Barnett. Making this story even […]
Sunday news review (3/9/08)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008If you haven’t read my article previewing the DREAM project, go read it. New radio show should be available by tonight or tomorrow morning. The Cincinnati Enquirer: For Rich Franklin, fighting only part of the agenda The Ottawa Sun: Jason Day drops the hammer Great Reporter: Body by choke hold The Sweet Science: End of […]
Results of Yuji Nagata’s medical tests
Friday, February 22nd, 2008As it reportedly stands: CT scan – negative MRI – negative MRA (angiography) – showed some slight hemorrhaging of blood on the right side of his brain due to cumulative head trauma over many years of wrestling matches The good news is that doctors don’t think Nagata will need surgery, but it’s unknown when he’ll […]
Is there a difference between Frank Shamrock & Kimbo Slice?
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008In a round-about way, that’s the question Mauro Ranallo and Bryan Alvarez discussed today in regards to marketing in MMA (audio here). Speaking of marketing, I made an appearance on MMA Predictions radio a few days ago to talk about the possibility of WWE buying UFC and how WWE would market MMA differently than Zuffa […]
Kintaro Kanemura sexual harassment scandal
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Update: Here’s a scan of Tokyo Sports today that Kakutolog has posted. The big question raised now is whether or not Big Japan tried to cover-up the incident. The newspaper speculates on whether criminal charges will be filed. Update II: Kanemura’s bookings on two upcoming LOCK-UP shows (2/24 Korakuen Hall & 2/29 Osaka, IMP Hall) […]
Floyd Mayweather heading to WrestleMania
Monday, February 18th, 2008That was the obvious conclusion after watching tonight’s angle on RAW with The Big Show. If the rumor is true that Mayweather broke Big Show’s nose yesterday in Las Vegas, then I have to give credit to Show for putting up with that physical abuse. I chuckled at the fact that WWE crowds in both […]
Yuji Nagata to undergo medical tests for stroke-like symptoms
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Update: More details added to the post. For most hardcore MMA fans who don’t follow professional wrestling, Yuji Nagata is known as the poor guy who got his clock cleaned by Mirko Cro Cop on NYE 2001 at the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye show in Saitama and by Fedor on NYE 2003 at the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye event […]
Fight Opinion Radio #74: Judge Jeff Thaler
Friday, February 1st, 2008We’re 24 hours away from UFC 81 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we have you covered with a full preview of this weekend’s event. How much interest is there really in the show? Will Brock Lesnar be able to become a major star? Not only do we have our own predictions, but Caleb from MMA […]
Now I’ve seen it all…
Friday, January 25th, 2008On Friday’s night edition of WWE Smackdown on The CW Network, noted MMA fan The Undertaker finished off his opponent (Big Daddy V, a 500-pounder) with a gogoplata. Initially, ‘Taker went for the rubber guard and failed in applying a triangle choke. However, he ended up applying the gogoplata and V busted out the fake […]
Report: WWE star Bobby Lashley gone from company
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008All the details here. Why bother reporting this story on Fight Opinion? Because Bobby Lashley has great amateur wrestling credentials, and it has long been rumored that he will get into MMA. Interesting that three of the top amateur wrestling stars that Vince McMahon recruited (Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar, and Bobby Lashley) all are interested […]
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