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Monday, March 12th, 2007Andy Kaufman talked about Memphis pro-wrestling fans the same way American media outlets talk about MMA fans today Another article about MMA’s increasing popularity… Public Torture — Preparing the Audience: We also have the rise in popularity of Ultimate Fighting in the past few years. People will always pay to see two people beating on […]
Friday media funhouse
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Heat. Nuclear heat. I have no idea why the feeds for the radio show are not updating, but I will try to work on it today. Download our newest show here directly rather than wait for the feeds to update. It’s a good show. I give you read meat for what was a slow Friday […]
Saturday news snippets
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Your comment of the day from Sherdog writer Mike Sloan: It’s pretty much common knowledge that the some MMA fans here in America aren’t too keen on the growing number of superb fighters born and raised in the Land of the Rising Sun. Now where have I have seen this reasoning of logic before… Onto […]
Liverpool Olympia seminar cancelled
Friday, February 23rd, 2007By Mark Pickering Only hours after the Ultimate Fighting Championship held a press conference in Manchester, England to the announce the fight card for the organisations April 21st event at the MEN Arena, it has emerged that their assault on the British market has already taken a setback.
UFC Officially Announce UK Show
Thursday, February 15th, 2007ByAlly Clark The UFC today officially announced it’s return to the UK on April 21st. It’ll be the first time since 2002 that the biggest MMA promotion in the US and arguably the world has produced an event in Great Britain. In the press release posted on the UFC website President Dana White described his […]
Roster complete for Superstar Seminar in Liverpool, England
Saturday, January 6th, 2007By Mark Pickering As the UFC prepares for a pending assault on the British market a superstar seminar featuring a plethora of the organisations leading combatants has been confirmed for February 10th and 11th at the Liverpool Olympia, England Light-Heavyweight king Chuck Liddell, who last year headlined Europe’s biggest combat sports event, SENI, will star […]
FightSport UK Magazine Launches
Thursday, December 14th, 2006By Mark Pickering FightSport Magazine, a staple publication in France and more recently America, premiered its British adaptation at Cage Warriors’ Enter The Rough House event, before a capacity crowd at the Harvey Hadden Sports Centre, Nottingham, on December 9th.
Cage Rage set to debut on The Wrestling Channel
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006By Mark Pickering London’s Cage Rage have signed a contract with The Wrestling Channel to produce a daily magazine TV show, Cage Fighter, premiering on December 4th. After weeks of stringent negotiations, it has emerged that Cage Rage will front a shift in programming for the Dublin-based channel, with co-promoters Andy Geer and Dave O’Donnell […]
Superstar Seminar in the UK
Saturday, October 14th, 2006By Mark Pickering As the UFC looks to make in roads in the European market ahead of their British expansion, a superstar seminar featuring light-heavyweight king Chuck Liddell and an abundance of Ultimate Fighter alumni has been arranged for February 10th and 11th at the Liverpool Olympia, England.
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 26 (with Total-MMA.com staff)
Thursday, September 28th, 2006It has been a very busy week for MMA news, and we cover all of it in this week’s edition of FOR. Our special guest is Iain Liddle from Total-MMA.com, who previews the upcoming big Cage Rage event (Mark Pickering has a preview of the event on our site). Show update: Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Marvin […]
Cage Rage 18 “Battleground” Preview
Thursday, September 28th, 2006By Mark Pickering Coming off a stellar second installment of feeder event Cage Rage: Contenders, the London-based promotion returns with their premiere pugilists and “Battleground†on Saturday, September 30th, at the new Wembley Arena. The marquee match-up features an all-English affair as Britain’s most celebrated fighter Ian Freeman challenges Cage Rage British Light-Heavyweight Champion, heavy […]
CageWarriors Showdown Results
Saturday, September 16th, 2006By Ally Clark British MMA promotion CageWarriors returned to action tonight after a couple months off with it’s newest event “Showdown”. The results from the show, held in Sheffield, are as follows…
Tennis star Murray to make Muay Thai bow
Thursday, September 14th, 2006By Mark Pickering Teenage tennis sensation Andy Murray will leave the baseline and enter the squared circle when he competes in the Thailand Open this month. The British number one will don a weighty set of boxing gloves and combat attire in exhibition Muay Thai bouts against two of the sport’s finest combatants.
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