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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 […]
Quotes of the year – Rampage & Henderson
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007From the Orange County Register… let the media firestorm begin. I asked Juanito about the recent additions of Wanderlei Silva and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua to the UFC. Silva beat Rampage twice and Rua also holds a victory over him. Those fights were held in the PRIDE ring in Japan. Juanito said he believes Silva and […]
Tuesday headlines: Jens Pulver injured, WEC debut postponed
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Unfortunate news coming out today regarding Jens Pulver getting injured. His WEC debut against Cub Swanson is now put on hold. Luke Thomas has a preview of the upcoming UFC 74 event in audio form. Gilbert Melendez vs. Clay Guida is available for free to watch online. Kevin Iole is defending himself against charges that […]
Monday maintenance: Lots of activity in the UK
Monday, August 20th, 2007K-1 announced Masato vs. Buakaw Por Pramuk for their 10/3 K-1 World MAX tournament show in Tokyo at Nippon Budokan. Just an embarassing article in Advertising Age parroting The Zuffa Myth. The author’s e-mail address is here. Here is the Cage Rage 23 card line-up, set for 9/22 in London. IFL TV is coming to […]
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 […]
Fight Opinion Radio #59: Andy Wang
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Long before Andy Wang appeared on UFC’s reality TV show The Ultimate Fighter, he was fighting on the independent scene in California and was a previous guest on our radio show. On this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio, we catch up with Andy and talk to him about how his life has changed since […]
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 […]
Wednesday war room: More red ink for the IFL
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007The IFL filed it’s 10-Q report with the SEC (links here and here). The numbers don’t lie. Pay attention to the comments section of this post, as I expect a lot of our smart financial readers to chomp into the data here. Here’s the first thing that stands out from the latest 10-Q: For the […]
More stupid human tricks with Dana White
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007By Zach Arnold Related links: Criticism of White’s ESPN interview on steroids and Fightlinker on White’s absurd nandrolone claims When it comes to the issue of MMA’s drug culture, there are plenty of smart people who work for Zuffa LLC (the parent company of UFC) who understand how big the problem really is. Marc Ratner […]
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 […]
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