UFC
« Previous Entries Next Entries »PRIDE’s latest idea for UFC
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Daily Sports reports on comments made by PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara in regards to UFC. Sakakibara stated that Mirko Cro Cop would be a suitable replacement for Vanderlei Silva to send to UFC to fight this November. Sakakibara said that despite Mirko’s name and image being printed for PRIDE’s 10/21 Las Vegas show poster, he […]
PRIDE’s big picture
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold Note: As stated after PRIDE’s 9/10 Saitama event, the promotion will run their New Year’s Eve show at Saitama Super Arena. The idea with Mike Tyson is to have him fight in another country. That country is now thought to be Macau. For those who have followed PRIDE’s m.o. on a business […]
Media heat-up for IFL & UFC
Monday, September 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold This weekend is going to be action-packed for MMA, as UFC 63 takes place in Anaheim, California with Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn. carlos Arias in The Orange County Register has a preview for the upcoming show. Pat Miletich, who normally would be in Matt’s corner, will instead be at the IFL […]
UFC media round-up
Friday, September 15th, 2006The Houston Chronicle has an interesting post about Dana White’s reaction to Silva vs. Mirko in the PRIDE ring. Yes, Mr. White apparently is paying close attention to PRIDE these days. Definitely a must-read link. Also, Dave Doyle has two good articles (here and here), detailing some quotes he did in an interview with Georges […]
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 5
Thursday, September 14th, 2006By Erin Bucknell We REALLY didn’t need a recap of the staph infection, thanks. The coaches discuss how they thought having Smith fight Lutter was a weird decision. Clementi speculates that it was Serra trying to protect Sell. Shonie backs up this idea. Serra makes it known that if he is going to be fighting […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 24
Thursday, September 14th, 2006Instant punditry this week from Jeff Thaler, Luke Nicholson, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold on a variety of topics. Erin has a road report of The Malice at the Cow Palace MMA event she went to, along with a review of the IFL Portland & PRIDE Saitama events from this past weekend. Also, a preview […]
Update on UFC DVDs
Thursday, September 7th, 2006First Look keeps UFC distribution. First Look Home Entertainment last week won the rights to continue distributing Zuffa’s UFC Fighting Championship DVDs for the next 3½ years, while Zuffa won the rights to audit First Look’s books. First Look Studios acquired the assets of Ventura Distribution earlier this year. Zuffa had been distributed by Ventura […]
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 4
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Erin Bucknell Recap of Team Mojo’s asskickery from the past three episodes. And the really odd submission from last week. Patrick Cote and his large Canadian Leafed hat say that he is ready to be the next fighter. Team No Love picks up on this and McCarthy says that he’s ready to fight. I’m […]
Report: Bonnar tests positive for steroids
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Source: MMA Weekly. Boldenone is an anabolic steroid that is intended for use only by veterinarians, specifically to help rehabilitate injured horses. It has several brand names for veterinary use, including Equigan, Equipoise, Ultragan, and Ganabol. It is on the banned substances list of all the major athletic commissions and sports leagues. If you recognize […]
BJ Penn vs. Matt Hughes II
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Luke Nicholson In case you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, UFC is having a HELL of a year. Coming off UFC 61, where a re-match between Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock drew 775 thousand buys on PPV, and UFC 62 which will probably do in the range of 450-500 thousand PPV buys, UFC […]
UFC 63 card line-up
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006September 23rd at the Anaheim Pond in California. Press release here: Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn Mike Swick vs. David Loiseau Jens Pulver vs. Joe Lauzon Rashad Evans vs. Jason Lambert Gabe Ruediger vs. Melvin Guillard
Media quote of the day
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006Dana White in the Miami Herald on an impending HBO deal: ‘There’s never a deal until a deal is done, . . . but, yeah, we’re going to do a deal with HBO,” White said. “HBO is getting pulled, kicking and screaming, into this thing. They’ve obviously spent millions of dollars on boxing. [HBO Sports […]
Dana White on Wrestling Observer Live
Monday, September 4th, 2006By Luke Nicholson Dana White joined Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Live last night, and came off better in that hour than I think Dana has come off in quite some time. The interview covered a range of topics, which didn’t include PRIDE’s foray into the United States, but they touched on Tito Ortiz, BJ […]
« Previous Entries Next Entries »