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Friday, October 5th, 2007This week’s one-hour show features special guest Steve Sievert of The Houston Chronicle to talk about the latest happenings in UFC. Is UFC starting to suffer negative effects from oversaturation of shows in the MMA marketplace? Plus, discussion about the future of The Ultimate Fighter reality TV program. We are pleased to announce of the […]
Friday frenzy: Another HGH scandal in boxing
Friday, October 5th, 2007Here’s a discussion starter – the latest Middleweight rankings and analysis at Bloody Elbow. When we interviewed Frank Shamrock a couple of weeks ago on Fight Opinion Radio, he noted that the IFL was having some financial trouble. According to Steven Molen of The NHB Show, Shamrock is quoted as saying that he might be […]
Open media post (10/5)
Friday, October 5th, 2007If any big stories break, feel free to post links or opinions in the comments section. I will be doing the media rounds today. A new Fight Opinion Radio show will be posted this evening. (Subscribe to the show’s iTunes feed here.) There was a firestorm of reaction from various players in the Japanese MMA […]
Japanese media coverage of PRIDE’s death
Thursday, October 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Mauro Ranallo on Fight Network Radio yesterday (audio here) compared the mass firings of PRIDE staffers and the abrupt closing of the PRIDE office similarly to what happened with the Baltimore Colts when they moved to Indianapolis via Mayflower trucks in the middle of a snowy night in 1984. Well, the reaction […]
PRIDE office in Tokyo shut down, all workers fired
Thursday, October 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan) is reporting tonight (Thursday night Japanese time) that Jamie Pollack, the Zuffa-appointed legal advisor who went to Japan shortly after Lorenzo Fertitta purchased the assets of PRIDE from Dream Stage Entertainment, has shut down the PRIDE FC Worldwide office in Tokyo. Furthermore, the report claims that Pollack fired […]
Thursday trash talk: K-1 GP TV ratings down from past years
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Dave Meltzer at Fox Sports asks if Michael Bisping is a big-enough name to headline a UFC show in Newark, New Jersey. Rashad Evans has comments about his upcoming fight in The Newark Star-Ledger. Take a look at the ticket prices UFC is asking for at the event. Adam Morgan shares the same sentiments as […]
10/3 CSAC news & notes
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Jon Fitch, Diego Sanchez, Mauricio Shogun, Forrest Griffin, Keith Jardine, and Chuck Liddell all tested negative for anabolics, masking agents, diuretics, or drugs of abuse. Adam Smith, who last competed for StrikeForce on September 29, 2007 at the Playboy Mansion, has been suspended for testing positive for Cocaine and Marijuana. He has been fined $1,500. […]
Wednesday war room: Bickering about UFC’s money
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Adam Swift has a new article about some alleged political tension between Zuffa LLC (UFC) and certain fighters. One thing I will comment on regarding the PRIDE fighters getting paid fairly well for guaranteed money is that the way UFC treated the top PRIDE guys is similar to how Vince McMahon treats outsiders he wants […]
Tuesday (10/2) reading material
Monday, October 1st, 2007Kazuhiro Nakamura ended up being the only fighter (so far) from the UFC 76 show suspended for failing a drug test (marijuana). Anthony Johnson, Rich Clementi, Thiago Tavares, Tyson Griffin, and Ryoto Machida tested negative for anabolics, masking agents, diuretics, or drugs of abuse. A third batch of testing results from fighters on the show […]
Monday meltdown: Bob Arum attacks UFC again
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Yoshihiro Akiyama is returning soon. It’s interesting to see just how hard K-1 is making a push in South Korea and not in Japan. Bob Arum goes off on UFC once again, this time declaring Kelly Pavlik’s recent win “the biggest blow to UFC.” Money quote: “I just think that he’s going to revive boxing […]
A Look Behind the Curtain: Zuffa’s Finances Come Into Focus
Sunday, September 30th, 2007By Adam Swift – Author, PAYOUT: The Business of MMA As a privately held company, Zuffa is under no public reporting obligations. As a result very little financial information is made public. The numbers that do see the light of day are carefully screened and released only when convenient to tout the growth and success of […]
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is UFC bound
Sunday, September 30th, 2007By Jeff Comstock MMAMovement.com has discovered that submission grappling phenom Ronaldo Souza has signed a contract with the UFC. A post made on the Portal do Vale Tudo forums claims that Jacare’s manager and Amazon Challenge promoter Andre Cabral made the announcement during yesterday’s Amazon Challenge event. The announcement was apparently big enough to make […]
Friday fight notes: Fedor turns 31
Friday, September 28th, 2007Today is Fedor’s 31st birthday. If you haven’t already listened to this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio, go listen now. Quietly, K-1 is preparing for their World GP event in Seoul, South Korea this weekend. The latest on Kazuhiro Nakamura: Though he resisted, Nakamura was taken to a hospital for precautionary measures after complaining […]
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