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Sunday, July 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold Childs Walker in the Baltimore Sun has a very extensive and accurately-written article about UFC, titled UFC Fighting To Be Ring Leader. Outside of the quotes from Jim Lampley and a man that I nicknamed The American Media’s MMA Boogeyman, it’s a very good mainstream media article on MMA. Check it out.
UFC on rematches
Friday, July 28th, 2006By Stephan Marceau Many of us (us includes me, yes) have been complaining that all we have been getting lately in the UFC is rematches, well the UFC itself has posted an article analyzing that very fact. The rematch is a strange beast to figure out. In boxing (with obvious exceptions, of course), it can […]
The Zuffa Myth – revisited?
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article for their Thursday newspaper on UFC titled UFC traveled bumpy road to mainstream. The article (at the bottom) admits that it’s a re-write of material already written by Andrew Levine in the Washington Post, Ron Borges in the Boston Globe, and information pulled from UFC’s web […]
MMA a threat to boxing?
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006By Stephan Marceau The Boxing press must really feel threatened these days, I keep coming across these types of articles from the boxing world. Check this article out, in it Dan Morgan is trying to rationalize that boxing is not threatened by the growth of the UFC. He should be a little more open and […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 22 (The Return)
Friday, July 21st, 2006We’re back (hopefully on a normal schedule) this week with a brand new Fight Opinion show, as the entire crew (Rob Sayers, Luke Nicholson, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold) discuss the latest news stories in MMA. We have an overlook on the UFC vs. PRIDE interpromotional battle, a preview of the WFA Los Angeles PPV […]
UFC 61 Payouts
Thursday, July 20th, 2006By Stephan Marceau The following are the official pay outs from the UFC 61 “Bitter Rivals” pay-per view from July 8th. Keep in mind that a few, definitely Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz, also received a percentage of the PPV sales profits. Tito Ortiz ($210,000) def. Ken Shamrock ($100,000) Tim Sylvia ($120,000) def. Andrei Arlovski […]
UFC 62 card firming up
Monday, July 17th, 2006By Stephan Marceau So far the card has: Chuck Liddell Vs. Renato “Babalu” Sobral Can Babalu withstand Chucks kicks and hits? Can he take down Chuck long enough to take care of him? I’m looking forward to this rematch. The UFC clearly thinks that Chuck will win easily to then face Wanderlei Silva. Chuck should […]
Developing revisionist history
Friday, July 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Friday, Josh Gross wrote an article on Sherdog titled Liddell vs. Silva: Why now? talking about the upcoming co-promotional matchmaking between PRIDE & UFC. The PRIDE source Gross quotes (and doesn’t dispute in the article) is engaged in amazing spin-doctoring, to the point that you start laughing at the claims being […]
UFC 61 medical suspensions
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Information courtesy of the Nevada State Athletic Commission PDF filing: Andrei Arlovski suspended until 9/7, Tim Sylvia suspended until he is cleared by a doctor Ken Shamrock suspended until 8/8 Josh Burkman suspended until 1/5/07 (nasal fracture & big right toe injury) unless a doctor clears him, Josh Neer suspended until 8/23 Dan Christison suspended […]
Interview with Sam Stout
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Stephan Marceau A short and interesting interview, post defeat for Sam. He has the right attitude and is learning from his defeat, hopefully he will progress from there. Meanwhile it has been reported that Kenny Florian turned down a title fight against Sherk at UFC 62 (August 26). It used to be nobody would […]
Boston Globe article on UFC
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Jeff Thaler responds. Ron Borges, one of the more famous mainstream media boxing writers, attended the UFC 61 show and filed a report in the Boston Globe newspaper. (A second article by Borges can be found here.) For those who have been frustrated about the way the media covers the “transformation” […]
PRIDE vs. UFC heading toward all-out war
Monday, July 10th, 2006By Stephan Marceau I didn’t make this title up, this comes from this article on the PRIDE web site. Well, if you missed Saturday’s UFC, the big news, Wanderlei Silva is to fight Chuck Liddell! Apparently Chuck has been asking for this matchup. So, I wasn’t exactly sure why Wanderlei Silva was wearing a Pride […]
Josh Barnett comments
Monday, July 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here are some comments that PRIDE heavyweight fighter Josh Barnett gave to me in a brief Q & A session.
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