Pro-Wrestling
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008If you don’t think UFC takes pro-wrestling’s cross-over appeal seriously, well… TNA has made a business deal with UFC regarding promotion of UFC’s 2/2 PPV show, and in particular the Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir match. Next week’s Impact will include a Brock Lesnar training package, as well as a Kurt Angle interview, where he […]
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 […]
Video of the Day – Mirko Cro Cop does the Hustle
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Setting the scene: Ryoji Sai & Erica (the legendary Aja Kong) are facing Kintarman (Kintaro Kanemura) & Kurodaman (Tetsuhiro Kuroda) in a Dynamite Hardcore Hustle weapons match. The last time Kintarman & Kurodaman participated in this match format (Hustle Mania on 11/25 at Yokohama Arena), their ‘weapon’ of choice was Mark Hunt coming to the […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sunday news review: Recapping the weekend’s action
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007RSS Wish List – Part 2 I am looking for any and all RSS feeds relating to UK MMA news or European MMA news. On most of the UK MMA sites, I have not been able to find any feeds at all. I want some RSS feeds covering this scene. Today’s news Thomas Hauser of […]
Monday media notes: MMA media’s changing landscape
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Sprawl ‘n Brawl is changing. This makes sites like MMA Opinion more important in terms of recruiting and developing writing talent. If you are ever interested in becoming an MMA writer, I strongly suggest talking to some of the mid-sized MMA blogs and see if you can get a writing spot. This way, you can […]
Sunday news review: Law and order
Sunday, November 25th, 2007The lead story of the day comes to us from Nikkan Sports. The newspaper claims that due to the damage inflicted on K-1’s public image from two recent incidents (Masaaki Miyamoto going to jail for possession of marijuana and Hiromi Amada facing charges for assault), the company is basically reading the riot act to both […]
Black Friday: Matt Serra out of UFC 79
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Just when you thought the momentum was swinging in a negative direction comes news that Matt Serra has had to pull out of his UFC 79 fight against Matt Hughes due to a back injury. The Grinch has made an early appearance to try to ruin Christmas. But don’t worry, Dana White says that Chuck […]
Wednesday war room: Sean Sherk put on hold, again
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Jeff Thaler & Zach Arnold appeared at the first annual Jarry Park MMA awards. Well, as much as you can appear on an Internet radio show. Ken Shamrock made an appearance on Fight Network Radio (audio here). Spike TV is home to UFC and Takeru Kobayashi of Major League Eating. (Hat tip: Mikeinformer.) Todd Martin […]
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