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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007Gryphon: Akira Maeda – married man The News Herald (Ohio): Putting a Dent in Ultimate competition (article about Jason Dent) The Los Angeles Times: UFC 68 title fight is pumping ire SLAM! Sports: Randy Couture would like to see UFC and PRIDE unite The Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): Jason MacDonald steps up in class […]
Friday news flash
Thursday, March 1st, 2007On the NSAC Agenda List for 3/5 (Monday), the following is listed: Randy Couture is applying for an MMA license and Dana White is applying for a pro-boxing license. Also, Zuffa LLC is applying for a permit for a boxing match (between Dana White & Tito Ortiz) for March 24th at the UFC Training Center […]
Thursday media notes
Thursday, March 1st, 2007This is an interview Dana White did with Fox News for their Fight Game video news series. Inside the UFC placed on hiatus by Spike TV. Onto today’s headlines.
Wednesday workweek notes
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007The story of the day comes from Japan, with an announcement that Gong Magazine (both the wrestling and MMA editions) will likely discontinue after March. Now the question is whether or not they will keep their mobile news service wire going. Also, a report on Sherdog that the PRIDE 33 event drew 8,334 paid and […]
Tuesday tough talk
Monday, February 26th, 2007MMA Weekly: Pennsylvia state athletic commission preparing to regulate MMA in its state Sherdog: Greg Savage has unkind words for Jerry Millen IFL HP: Dear Don – advice from “The Predator” The Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): The Iceman (Liddell) ready to get back to training, looks forward to Sylvia-Couture Vegas Pop: Star PRIDE (celebrities […]
Monday morning media quarterback
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Today’s top story obviously is Rulon Gardner and two others surviving a small plane crash. More details here. Bloomberg news reports that the Fertitta Brothers have been successful in making a bid to take Stations Casino private (it was a publicly traded company). The majority of Japanese fight fans did not see PRIDE 33 on […]
Saturday news snippets
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Your comment of the day from Sherdog writer Mike Sloan: It’s pretty much common knowledge that the some MMA fans here in America aren’t too keen on the growing number of superb fighters born and raised in the Land of the Rising Sun. Now where have I have seen this reasoning of logic before… Onto […]
Liverpool Olympia seminar cancelled
Friday, February 23rd, 2007By Mark Pickering Only hours after the Ultimate Fighting Championship held a press conference in Manchester, England to the announce the fight card for the organisations April 21st event at the MEN Arena, it has emerged that their assault on the British market has already taken a setback.
Friday media fever
Friday, February 23rd, 2007UFC signs Fabricio Werdum to fight Andrei Arlovski on 4/21 in the UK. Tough fight for Arlovski. The Werdum signing makes sense considering that he was brought into Mirko’s camp and that Ken Imai would be representing them in UFC (like he did in PRIDE). “PRIDE is in deep trouble. We’ve snatched away half their […]
Monday MMA headlines
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Here’s your laugh track of the day – Ed Fishman says if PRIDE won’t sell, he’ll start his own MMA company. Here’s another knee-slapper from the article: Dream Stage Entertainment CEO Sakakibara is believed to be the majority owner of the PRIDE brand and its assets. Let’s introduce Loretta Hunt to this and this to […]
Fight Opinion Radio #41: Old-School
Saturday, February 17th, 2007Add us as your MySpace friend. Potential sponsors (web sites, fighters, teams, companies) – if you want to have ads on our show (paid or barter), e-mail us immediately. Use the e-mail also if you Want to write guest op-eds for the site. We have a show this week that I think both MMA fans […]
The value of records
Saturday, February 17th, 2007By Tomer Chen The name of Rocky Marciano invariably brings up his record: 49-0 with 43 KOs. After all, Rocky is the only World Champion in Boxing history to ever retire with such a high record without any losses or draws to ‘mar’ it. True, there have been numerous champions who won more bouts than […]
Friday news and notables
Friday, February 16th, 2007If you are interested in writing a guest op-ed or two for the site, e-mail me. From Josh Thomson’s MySpace: KNOXX GEAR WILL BE GIVING AWAY FREE PRIDE TICKETS!! FREE KNOXX GEAR and PRIDE FC will be at 40055 Mission Blvd Fremont, Ca 94539 at 3:00-4:00pm in the Main Plaza on Sunday, Feb. 18th!!!! There […]
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