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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010No major surprises at today’s show, other than Jerome Le Banner putting on quite the show in more ways than one.
Bad judging continues to plague MMA, causing severe paranoia for everyone
Friday, October 1st, 2010Bad judging struck again, this time in the Bellator 115-pound women’s tournament semi-finals.
K-1 makes official announcement on Andrei Arlovski
Sunday, September 19th, 2010Andrei Arlovski is now officially fighting for K-1.
K-1 9/26 Seoul, South Korea
Saturday, September 26th, 2009K-1 has a stacked line-up for their September 26th rally in Seoul, South Korea.
Today’s chalkboard: HDNet buys IFL assets, Patry leaves TKO, WEC 11/5 Florida card
Thursday, October 30th, 2008HDNet buys out the IFL’s assets, Stephane Patry has left the TKO promotion, and WEC’s November 5th Florida event has a great line-up on the card. Plus: Satoshi Ishii to announce his entry into MMA officially and Yoshihiro Akiyama wins a Style Icon Award.
K-1 South Korea ratings report
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Report by Yeo Jong-Hoon K-1 aired live at XTM & TVN this past weekend. PM 4:00 ~ 9:40. almost 5 hours. XTM & TVN are popular cable tv channels. CJ Media owns both channels. XTM rating = 3.39% (share 14.79%) No.1 at that time on cable. Peak: Choi Hong-Man vs Badr Hari 3 round’s last […]
K-1 9/27 Seoul World GP 2008 results
Saturday, September 27th, 2008All match results here. Claimed attendance was 15,729. This site has videos of the Seoul fights. 12/6 Yokohama Arena (final eight) GP card line-up: Peter Aerts vs. Badr Hari, Ewerton Teixeira vs. Errol Zimmerman, Gokhan Saki vs. Ruslan Karaev, and Remy Bonjasky vs. Jerome Le Banner.
Report: Several DREAM fighters allegedly owed money
Friday, September 12th, 2008Assist in reporting from Yeo Jong-Hoon According to a report at Sports Seoul, there is growing criticism about FEG delaying or not giving fighters money that they owed. “Fighter A” claimed in the article that he didn’t receive money for his last two fights, and “Fighter B” who is preparing for an upcoming fight also […]
UFC 86 media heat-up
Friday, July 4th, 2008The headline of the day is K-1 announcing Semmy Schilt vs. Peter Aerts for their 9/27 Seoul, South Korea World GP 2008 event. The flood of media coverage for UFC 86 is starting today…
Choi Hong-Man has successful surgery to remove tumor
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Nikkan Sports published a story today claiming that Choi Hong-Man had a successful operation to remove the tumor in his pituitary gland that caused him to be blocked from fighting in California at the LA Coliseum last year. Hong-Man is expected to be in the hospital for about a week in recovery and may appear […]
Josh Barnett profiled on NHK
Monday, June 9th, 2008NHK recently did a profile of Josh Barnett. His favorite word? Fight. The Fightworks Podcast: Your turn to interview Xande Ribeiro, BJJ world champion USA Today: Jeff Monson pulled off of this Saturday’s Adrenaline MMA event The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (CA): There will be blood… and when there is, fight doctor Gary Furness will be […]
Reports: Choi Hong-Man out of the fight game for three years
Monday, April 14th, 2008From Yeo Jong-Hoon News story and interview. It appears that Choi Hong-Man will head to the Korean army training center on April 21st. He decided to head to the army and not postpone because he could have been in trouble with South Korea’s military laws. It is very difficult to get a visa for him. […]
Monday news & notes (2/25/08)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Jan “The Giant” Nortje makes quick work of Bob Sapp For those of you in the Reno area, supposedly there is going to be an MMA event at the Grand Sierra Resort on April 5th. The promoter is High Roller Productions. Anyone have details on this show?
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