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Sunday, May 20th, 2007Kazushi Sakuraba vs Quinton JacksonUploaded by Panabas This is certainly one of the more memorable matches in PRIDE’s history, featuring established Japanese ‘ace’ Kazushi Sakuraba against (at that time) relative newcomer Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. I’ll never forget the storyline that DSE established to introduce Jackson to the Japanese public. In newspaper and TV outlets, DSE […]
Sunday snark: A new Zuffa Myth for 2007
Saturday, May 19th, 2007Chuck Liddell vs Quinton JacksonUploaded by thepitbull By Zach Arnold Last year (and still ongoing), American newspapers push(ed) the dreaded original Zuffa Myth (more here). We need to make a wikipedia entry for the various myths soon. This year, the new Zuffa Myth appears to be that the PRIDE asset sale between UFC & DSE […]
Saturday media splash: Another Tito Ortiz PR blunder?
Friday, May 18th, 2007The Andy Wang remix from The Ultimate Fighter Angry Andy Wang discussion between MMA fighters online. Day 54 since the March 27th handshake deal between UFC & DSE for the PRIDE asset sale… with no sale finalized at the moment. Tickets for Hustle’s 6/14 Korakuen Hall show are on sale through ‘Hustle Entertainment’, but the […]
Friday fight notes: The return of Akebono
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Stock ticker: IFL | Art of War | Pro Elite More talk on the Kermit Cintron/Dana White PR battle. Words cannot describe how great this article is. Yomiuri Hochi reports that Akebono will return to HERO’s in July at the promotion’s Yokohama Arena event. He would have supposedly fought on the June 2nd LA Coliseum […]
Thursday trash talk: Which sport is more fan friendly – the NBA or UFC?
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007The IFL stock price is declining. On Wednesday night, I was in an irritable mood during the tapings of our latest edition of Fight Opinion Radio. However, I work with talented (nice) professionals like Jeff Thaler and Erin Bucknell who tolerate me every single week. For that, I thank them. With that stated, after my […]
Tuesday media talk: Tim Allen in MMA movie
Monday, May 14th, 2007How should fans react to the fact that Tim Allen will be the lead star in Sony’s new MMA movie Redbelt? Onto today’s headlines.
Thursday trash talk: Angry media writers
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007From Dave Meltzer: Mike Freeman, the CBS Sportsline writer who did that ridiculous column on UFC as compared to boxing yesterday, was the subject of news himself in 2004 when he was fired by the Indianapolis Star for falsifying his resume. Freeman, after being told to resign three days before he was going to start […]
May 2nd bonus round of links
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007By Zach Arnold ESPN was in full non-MMA fan mode today for their sports programming. On the Jim Rome is Burning program, guests Randy Sklar and Andrew Siciliano both put down MMA as a replacement for boxing (they are right) and called boxing more technical and a science. On Pardon the Interruption, Tony Kornheiser and […]
Report: No drug testing for UFC 69 or UFC 70
Thursday, April 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: The Chronicle report is now discussed on the AOL Sports Blog. And here’s the inevitable Sherdog thread on the topic. Further links: UFC Mania, UFC Junkie. Here are some reasons why I think this is an important story. Steve Sievert in the Houston Chronicle drops a bombshell this morning in a […]
Thursday trash talk: Proxy wars in Japan
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007By Zach Arnold Gryphon has more details on Motoichiro Takasu’s story about Ken Imai causing a scene at the BodogFight 4/14 Russia event. The IFL stock jumped up nearly 70 cents/share to close at $4.59. Is there some good financial news about the IFL that hasn’t been said publicly? And what is this?
Wednesday notes: UFC draws 1.84 cable rating
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Is this the kind of ‘fake professional wrestling’ that Eddie Goldman criticizes?
Tuesday trouble: TBS producer in hot water?
Monday, April 23rd, 2007A story under the radar right now that could make some major waves is an article in the latest edition of Shukan Post, which claims that “Mr. X” could be in a lot of trouble (my personal guess is that they are referring to Ushio Higuchi, the main producer of K-1 events on Tokyo Broadcasting […]
Monday review: The Gabriel Gonzaga Show
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007By Zach Arnold I saw a Japanese article at innolife talking about a recent 5 vs. 5 series with South Korean vs. ATT fighters. Is there any more information available about that event? Gambling 911 on the Dana/Fedor contract dispute, if you want to call it that. Plus, they acknowledge some of the questions we’ve […]
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