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Thursday, February 15th, 2007ByAlly Clark The UFC today officially announced it’s return to the UK on April 21st. It’ll be the first time since 2002 that the biggest MMA promotion in the US and arguably the world has produced an event in Great Britain. In the press release posted on the UFC website President Dana White described his […]
Thursday news and links
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007I hope your Valentine’s Day went better than it did for this guy. I shouldn’t say this guy, because the guy happens to be the head of a very strong yakuza group in Japan. Not a fun time for any of the fight groups in Japan right now. Joe Rogan goes to war with comedian […]
Wednesday link-o-rama
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007YouTube users, be careful. From the IFL’s MySpace bulletin on Tuesday: If you go to Ticketmaster and put in the code BOGO you can get two tickets for the price of one to the Atlanta IFL fights on Feb 23rd. The Houston Chronicle: Premiere of Elite XC falls to UFC repeat in ratings battle MMA […]
Tuesday news review
Monday, February 12th, 2007Today’s red meat article comes to us from The Sunderland Today in the UK, which is titled Doctor’s warning to ultimate fighters. It’s full of the political correctness and nanny-state politics you’ve come to love. Also, there are many a Japanese women likely crying at the news of Masato marrying Shin Yazawa.
How high can the UFC rise?
Sunday, February 11th, 2007By Tomer Chen It’s simply amazing: a product which, five years ago, was on the verge of collapse due to ever increasing expenses as well as not being able to run in a number of prime markets suddenly became in the last two years one of the biggest businesses to shift itself from ‘Dog’ status […]
Friday media links – round two
Friday, February 9th, 2007Too much news today, so two posts. There is a new Chinese MMA blog called China Combat that you should keep your eyes on. At least, bookmark it’s RSS feed. Also, Komikazee has a new radio show up that has full audio coverage of the IFL event that happened last week in Houston. If that […]
Friday media coverage
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Red meat week here at Fight Opinion. Here’s some red meat for site readers. Bugly Blog: F.O. Radio panel not as entertaining as Sherdog’s radio team. Tasty. He clearly must not be talking about me. An update to something I mentioned on the radio show about Bruce Buffer’s continuous blunders as UFC ring announcer. Yes, […]
Thursday media topics
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Despite a report (and claim by UFC) stating that UFC is preparing to run in the state of New Jersey, information provided to us claims otherwise. The New Jersey State Athletic Control board has supposedly not been contacted with any request to hold dates, get a venue permit, or approve matches for a UFC event […]
Fight Opinion Radio #40: Big happenings
Tuesday, February 6th, 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. We’ll keep this short. We have a lot of content in our three-hour show. We have a lot of guests, including Mac Danzig, Sean Salmon, Jordan […]
Tuesday media mania
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Nevada State Athletic Commission: Injury report for UFC 67 show WSB TV: Atlanta boxer O’Neil Bell arrested for ax attack Mac Danzig: PRIDE wanted me to do a pro-wrestling style promo Mainichi Daily News: 3 shooting incidents in Tokyo believed related to killing of gang boss (story update here) MMA HQ: Heath Herring returns at […]
Monday news and notes
Monday, February 5th, 2007Red meat time. OK, maybe not. K-1 had a show today at Ariake Colosseum that completely flew under the radar. Only interesting headline was both Albert Kraus and Takayuki Kohiruimaki losing.
Can UFC control their message in Japan?
Sunday, February 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold To try to understand the Japanese politics of the fight game, you have to remember a lot of names and faces. As alluded to on the site last night, Ken Imai (who is Mirko Cro Cop’s PRIDE agent) showed up in Las Vegas for Mirko’s UFC debut against Eddie Sanchez. It is […]
Purses or: How the fighters get paid
Sunday, February 4th, 2007By: Tomer Chen One of the biggest topics of discussion throughout the hardcore MMA fan base tends to be the topic of ‘How much did _________ get paid for his last fight?’. After all, as a sports fan, one wants to imagine the glory and the riches that sports players and fighters receive for doing […]
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