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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold More information here. In short, Zuffa told Sherdog to leave their public fighter weigh-ins event. Note the word public. If you are an MMA fan and not a pro-wrestling fan or historian, I strongly urge you to research just exactly what happened to the American pro-wrestling scene in 1985 when Vince McMahon […]
It’s 1985 all over, again
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Ultimate Fighter 3 finale show on Spike TV last Saturday night drew a 2.04 cable rating, blowing away all expectations. The UF3 show was panned for not having enough “star power” with Kenny Florian vs. Sam Stout in the main event, but all criticism was clearly blown away by the strong […]
Ultimate Fighter 3 Finale show
Saturday, June 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Results/recaps: Sherdog | Observer | MMA Toronto | MMA Snark | Fight Report
Bill O’Reilly on MMA
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold Bill O’Reilly on the Fox News Channel had a 6-minute segment called “Ultimate Brutality” (in the “Back of the Book” segment block) during his O’Reilly Factor program on Wednesday night, in which O’Reilly focused on MMA. There were two teases for this segment during the show. The first: “They call it ultimate […]
UFC 61 PPV available online
Saturday, June 17th, 2006The Boston Herald reports that the July 8th event will be available for purchase on the Internet (use this link). Here’s more information about the good numbers UFC is doing on conventional American PPV distribution.
K-1 gets knocked publicly
Saturday, June 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold For those who have spent years covering K-1, one thing is for sure — they can tell some great stories in the press (such as their multiple accounts of trying to book Mike Tyson), but don’t put your life savings on the claims always being 100% accurate. On May 31st, I noted […]
The Return of ROSS~!
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson This week on The Utimate Fighter, Ross Pointon, the Brit who lost to Kendall Grove back in week three, will return to the show to fight at LHW against Mike Bisping because Matt Hamill was forced out due to injury. Most people aren’t picking Ross to beat Mike, and I don’t think […]
“K-1 & UFC Strong Tag Alliance”
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold Today’s Nikkan Sports newspaper has a bombastic article talking about an “aggressive” tag team between K-1 & UFC, with both sides starting heavy co-promotional deals. The article talks about Chuck Liddell maybe working the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show in Tokyo (or the August K-1 Las Vegas show), with Kazushi Sakuraba and […]
CBC Newsworld – MMA Feature Story
Monday, May 29th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson CBCNews Sunday with Evan Solomon, had a feature story on Mixed Martial Arts, or as they called it, Extreme Fighting. Throughout the piece they used both terms. It was discerning because “Extreme Fighting” gives it a more rogue sound than Mixed Martial Arts. MMA sounds much more professional. Evan talked about how […]
Royce Gracie for Japanese new MMA fan
Monday, May 29th, 2006By Tetsuya Sano 今更僕ãŒè¨€ã†ã¾ã§ã‚‚ãªãホイス・グレイシーã¯ãƒžãƒƒãƒˆãƒ»ãƒ’ューズã«æ•—ã‚ŒãŸã€‚ 完敗ã€æ–‡å—通りã®å®Œæ•—。 ä¼èª¬ã¯ç¾å®Ÿã«å…¨ãã¨ã„ã£ã¦ã„ã„ã»ã©æ•µã‚ãªã‹ã£ãŸã€‚ Royce Gracie lost to Matt Hughes, and that was a totally complete defeat. The legend was no match for reality. ブãƒãƒƒã‚¯ãƒ»ãƒ¬ã‚ºãƒŠãƒ¼ã«è¡€ã‚’åã‹ã•ã‚ŒãŸãƒãƒ«ã‚¯ãƒ»ãƒ›ãƒ¼ã‚¬ãƒ³ã®ã‚ˆã†ã«æ•—ã‚ŒãŸãƒ›ã‚¤ã‚¹ã¯åŠ›ç„¡ã‹ã£ãŸã€‚ Like Hulk Hogan spitting blood by Brock Lesnar. ã ã‹ã‚‰ã¨è¨€ã£ã¦æŸ”è¡“ã€ãã—ã¦ç·åˆæ ¼é—˜æŠ€ã®ãƒ‘イオニアã§ã‚るホイスã®åŠŸç¸¾ã¯ãƒ›ãƒ¼ã‚¬ãƒ³ã®ãã‚ŒåŒæ§˜å…¨ã色ã‚ã›ã‚‹ã“ã¨ã¯ãªã„。 The distinguished service of Royce as the pioneer of kakutougi (MMA) and jiu-jitsu does not fade (similar to Hogan […]
UFC in Canada?
Monday, May 29th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson There was an interesting story by Neil Davidson of the CP, talking about UFC coming to Canada. Obviously, as a Canadian, this is very exciting. With the high Canadian dollar, and with MMA’s growing popularity in the Great White North, it only would make sense for UFC to expand beyond their borders, […]
UFC mania in Japan
Sunday, May 28th, 2006Photo credit: Sankei Sports By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports has two articles today (here and here). The first one talks about the photo-op that Kazushi Sakuraba, K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa, and UFC President Dana White had. The hope is that Sakuraba will work in UFC soon. The second article talks about Ryo Chonan training with […]
UFC 60 – Aftermath
Saturday, May 27th, 2006By Rob Sayers Perhaps it was the fact that I wasn’t expecting a great show, but I left the UFC PPV very satisfied and slightly surprised at the high level of entertainment we saw tonight. Coming into the event, only a few of the undercard bouts interested me, and the main event I feared would […]
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