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Monday, September 10th, 2007By Adam Underhill Every British tabloid that I picked up last Wednesday, every news bulletin that I tuned into on the BBC’s Radio 1 network; it had appeared that mixed martial arts had finally at long last reached headline news… but regrettably for completely the wrong reasons. Preceding Saturday’s UFC 75: Champion vs. Champion event […]
Monday madness with Michael Bisping
Monday, September 10th, 2007So far, the amount of North American media coverage for the UFC 75 (London) event after it took place feels similar to the coverage for UFC’s Ireland event in June. In other words, pretty light and not very much of it. There was an avalanche of previews heading into the show, but not much reporting […]
Fight Opinion Radio #62: UFC 75 review
Monday, September 10th, 2007No guests this week (the scheduled guest didn’t show). Welcome to radio. No worries, however, as we have a loaded show this week recapping the UFC 75 and WEC 30 events in Las Vegas. Plus, we’ll address the BMA’s attempt to get MMA banned, concussions in MMA, and Dana White’s statements about PRIDE’s future. Also, […]
UFC 75
Saturday, September 8th, 2007I will add results links as they are created. Results (coming soon): Yahoo Sports | MMA on Tap | Sherdog | Sprawl ‘n Brawl | Javno | Lancanshire Telegraph | Fox Sports All predictions, spoilers, news and notes go here. A funny spoiler (view it in full page mode)…
Saturday headlines: UFC 75 previews galore
Friday, September 7th, 2007Zab Judah defeated Edwin Vazquez in a rather uninspiring fight at the Hard Rock Biloxi on Friday night. Lamont Peterson defeated Frankie Santos in the main event (telecasted on ESPN2 TV). The 4th CAGE FORCE event took place today in Tokyo at Differ Ariake. Main results: In a Lightweight tournament match Kotetsu Boku defeated Eiji […]
Friday headlines: Heat-up for UFC 75
Friday, September 7th, 2007Matt Hughes joins Full Tilt Poker. Art of War 4 will take place on 10/27 at the Grand Event Center in Tunica, MS. Movement business-wise for The Fight Network. Jon Fitch made an appearance on the Any Given Saturday radio show on Thursday (audio here). Plus, a UFC 75 preview (Fitch picked Henderson, Bisping, Mirko, […]
Thursday afternoon update – 9/6/07
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Guy Mezger explains his role in Mark Cuban’s new MMA project. The Sun tries to educate people on what MMA is. UFC Junkie is rebranding itself as MMA Junkie.
Thursday trash talk: Not interested in UFC 75? You have a problem
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Adam Morgan is moving on from Fight Opinion to 411 Mania. I wish Adam a lot of luck and hope he does well with his new job. Tonight, Luke Thomas is interviewed Jon Fitch on his radio show starting at 10 PM EST. Details here. The phone number to call in is 646-478-5091. I want […]
Wednesday war room: BMA and Big Brother
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Lots of news coverage today regarding the state of Chris Benoit’s brain. ABC News has more details. Plus, check out the reader comments. On ESPN’s Outside the Lines today, they focused their 30-minute program on the Benoit brain tissue analysis and concussions in sports. Commentary on Dana White: Komikazee | Fightlinker The BBC is reporting […]
Tuesday headlines: The NFL vs. MMA
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Tomorrow (yes, Wednesday) is the next WEC event from Las Vegas and I’m looking forward to it. We will recap the event on the next edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Here is some more background information about Mark Cuban’s interest in MMA. Cuban and Fishman working together would be a hell of a deal. Kevin […]
Monday madness: Mark Cuban wants Fedor
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Your top headline of the day – Mark Cuban wants to do business with Fedor. I don’t know whether to be excited or scared about this. I’m more worried about Cuban in as far as doing business in the fight industry, especially with some of the characters we’ve seen on display from the world of […]
Saturday surprise: K-1 interested in Asashoryu?
Friday, August 31st, 2007The headline that has everyone’s attention in Japan is a report in Tokyo Sports that K-1 made an offer of one billion yen to Asashoryu for an 8-fight MMA contract. K-1 denied the report. One of the more intriguing stories coming out of Japan is the future of DEEP. DEEP is ran by Shigeru Saeki, […]
Saturday update: The road to UFC 74
Saturday, August 25th, 2007This is a primer for you to read before UFC 74 takes place. NPR (National Public Radio) did an article on MMA that was… well… it was what it was. The New York State Athletic Commission once again came out against MMA and in favor of boxing. The article also shamelessly parrots The Zuffa Myth. […]
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