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Friday, March 23rd, 2007If anyone out there is an expert with WordPress on the technical side, e-mail me. Thanks. PRIDE’s Japanese HP is promoting a press conference for 3/27 (Tuesday) at 6 PM JST at Roppongi Hills Arena. It’s being marketed as an “important announcement” to be made to both fans and the mass media.
Meltzer: Sakakibara tells PRIDE staff the company is sold
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007Report here: –Nobuyuki Sakakibara yesterday told several members of the U.S. Pride staff that the company is in the proces of being sold to Lorenzo & Frank Fertitta. He said the agreement in principal is done but there are still some minor points to be worked out and the contract is not signed. Sakakibara said […]
Wednesday media workout – DanHen mania
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007It’s a busy media story day. The venerable Mike Sawyer sent me a ridiculous press release for Cage Fury Fighting Championship 5 show on June 16th at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Why is it ridiculous? The main event is a fight under MMA rules between boxer Ray Mercer and Kimbo Slice. We hear from […]
Tuesday turkey talk: More debate about PRIDE sold or not sold
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Greg Savage and Josh Gross on the latest with the UFC/PRIDE rumors. The bottom part of the article is the one that I’ve focused on, which is that unless Zuffa buys DSE Inc. itself it’s going to be very difficult to enforce any of those Japanese fight contracts. Plus, a lot of the top guys […]
Monday MMA madness
Monday, March 19th, 2007News and notes We hear PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara is traveling to Las Vegas (and perhaps Brazil as well) in the coming days. I’m glad to see Japan is ahead of the curve on racial issues. The real black man in the picture is Andy Ologun. There is a brand new web site called MMA […]
Sunday (Kimbo) Slice of News
Saturday, March 17th, 2007Liddell vs. Rampage II booked for May 26th. After losing today to Ryo Kawamura in the main event of Pancrase’s March 18th event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Hiromitsu Kanehara announced his intentions of retiring from active fighting in the near future. Kanehara stated that he felt he could physically still fight, but mentally wasn’t […]
Saturday news slate: More fighter unrest in PRIDE
Friday, March 16th, 2007Click on full-page view to see how fellow Fight Opinion writer and Bear Pit Japan member Tetsuya Sano did in his amateur shootboxing tournament today in Tokyo. Notes from a Sherdog video clip with IFL co-owner Kurt Otto: He says Bas Rutten will “make a special announcement” at the LA Forum show on Saturday (and […]
Thursday tabloid: Kiyoshi Tamura heading to HERO’s
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I’ve decided to use Feedburner for the RSS feeds. I will add these links and recommend you use them as opposed to the raw WP feeds on our site now, and hopefully the FeedBurner podcasting feed works out fine. Here are the links to use: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion – RSS for posts http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion/qHJU – RSS for comments […]
Wednesday fight notes – don’t make Bas Rutten angry
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I want to give special thanks to all of our readers in Singapore. If you are reading this and/or have any regional MMA-related news items, send me an e-mail. Congratulations to Aaron Crossen for becoming Editor-in-Chief of The Valley Vanguard newspaper. Now add more fight game coverage to the publication. Jeff Monson wrote on his […]
Tuesday MMA notes – Wanderlei Silva returns
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007A note to all F.O. Radio listeners. Boxer Johnny Tapia overdoses on cocaine.
Gilbert Aldana dead at age 29
Monday, March 12th, 2007A very sad story reported in The Arizona Republic notes that a 29-year old man (later identified as UFC fighter Gilbert Aldana) drowned in a waterskiing accident. News broke about this on various MMA message boards, but there was no confirmation until Monday morning about Aldana’s death. More coverage here, here, here, and here.
Monday Torture Rack: Why you like ultimate fighting
Monday, March 12th, 2007Andy Kaufman talked about Memphis pro-wrestling fans the same way American media outlets talk about MMA fans today Another article about MMA’s increasing popularity… Public Torture — Preparing the Audience: We also have the rise in popularity of Ultimate Fighting in the past few years. People will always pay to see two people beating on […]
Building A Fighter
Sunday, March 11th, 2007By: Luke Nicholson Rashad Evans beat Sean Salmon via brutal KO on January 25th at the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida. The show ended up drawing a 1.7 cable rating on Spike TV. It was a showcase fight for Rashad, who had been brought along slowly by Dana White and Joe Silva to eventually be […]
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