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Thursday, May 31st, 2007Japanese marketing 101. The Los Angeles Times on ticket sales for the K-1 Dynamite event at the LA Coliseum: Kogan said FEG has sold at least 40,000 tickets ranging from $10 to $100. State athletic officials argue that in an outline of ticket distribution plans, FEG officials reported they planned to sell only 10,000 tickets, […]
Thursday trash talk: Dynamite dud or surprise?
Thursday, May 31st, 2007K-1 has come up with an ingenious idea to promote star power at their upcoming Dynamite show at the LA Coliseum this weekend – give a media push to Dennis Rodman. Sports Navigator reports that they would like to see Rodman compete in MMA, as early as late June in Holland. Yes, the Japanese report […]
Wednesday media wrath: MMA’s mainstream growing pains
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007MMA California’s not-official image character, Yoda, cheerleads for Fedor Tim Dahlberg, who is a top boxing writer for the Associated Press, rips into UFC with a new column titled UFC could have used a good fight to back up the hype. He rips into the fans who paid to watch UFC 71 as “not-so-rich-and-famous” (someone […]
Barking up the wrong tree
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Warning: Very graphic and disturbing video about dogfighting Pardon the pun, but I make no bones about what we are cover on tomorrow’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio. One of the hot topics we will be discussing is the mainstream media’s fascination of trying to tie in the dogfighting allegations against Michael Vick in relation […]
Tuesday afternoon notes: More UFC 71 media skepticism
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007CNBC’s Darren Rovell has been critical of UFC in the past, stating that the company and its fighters are not attracting major blue-chip sponsors yet. Today, he deemed the UFC 71 event an ‘ultimate embarrassment’. The talented Adam Morgan pointed out this Concepts Marketing post to me about UFC. Notice that all of this traffic […]
A shining moment for Mike Goldberg
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Mike Goldberg has taken his fair share of criticism from hardcore MMA fans online for his announcing work. Some of it is fair and some of it is not fair. However, this video clip illustrates a big blunder by Goldberg during the ring introductions for the Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Chuck Liddell fight. About two […]
Tuesday TNT: Dynamite headlines
Monday, May 28th, 2007If you are wondering about the TBS TV advertising in Japan for the K-1 Dynamite show, the network is still advertising Brock Lesnar vs. Choi Hong-Man and Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Royce Gracie. On the K-1-produced Sakuraba web site, the latest entry shows Sakuraba at the Chute Boxe USA academy training. Furthermore, K-1 (on their HERO’s […]
Monday evening headlines: Rampage’s close-up on ESPN
Monday, May 28th, 2007Luke Thomas over at Bloody Elbow analyzes the activity from this past week and what it means for MMA. This guy has some talent. He appeared on ESPN Radio this morning with Colin Cowherd. Listen here. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson did an interview at 7:45 PM EST with Brian Kenny on Monday on SportsCenter (ESPN). Rampage […]
Monday headlines: Casual fans react to UFC 71
Monday, May 28th, 2007Dana White predicts 1 million PPV buys for UFC 71. MMA On Tap is compiling a list of online radio MMA shows. Tim Duncan talks UFC. Over at The Fanhouse, another critic lays in on Rampage/Liddell. I’ve been keeping my eye on what I call the ‘casual bloggers’ that Technorati indexes. They are generally more […]
Fight Opinion Weekly: How boxing should respond to the rise of MMA
Sunday, May 27th, 2007Joe Rogan on SportscenterUploaded by Beatdown77 Printable version of article here. Plus, David P. Greisman has an excellent article called “Fighting Words†– Four Crucial Weeks for Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts that I highly recommend everyone to read.
Sunday media stroll: UFC on a Rampage
Sunday, May 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold In the last media post, I mentioned how a newspaper writer in Syracuse tried to lump in dogfighting allegations against NFL QB Michael Vick in comparison to UFC. That was supposed to carry a negative connotation. Today, ESPN interviewed an anonymous source claiming that Vick was involved in dogfighting — and tried […]
Sunday morning headlines: Post-UFC 71 media coverage
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Liddell vs Rampage 2 UFC 71Uploaded by aus1121 ESPN covered the Rampage vs. Liddell fight extensively on both SportsCenter and on their MMA section of ESPN.com. There isn’t a video sharing site that doesn’t already have clips of this fight. It truly has gone viral. At 12:30 AM PST on Google News, UFC 71 coverage […]
UFC: Liddell vs. Jackson
Saturday, May 26th, 2007By Erin Bucknell Well, well, Dan Henderson is announced as the challenger for whoever wins Liddell vs. Jackson. Which is cool, but having Rogan and Goldberg announce this almost pre-show? Kinda anti-climatic, isn’t it?
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