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Monday, April 28th, 2008The Canadian Press: Matt Hughes to meet Thiago Alves at UFC 85 in London Ice News: A holistic approach to violence in Sweden The Ottawa Citizen: Ultimate fighters are, in fact, trained athletes The Winnipeg Sun: Great (Jason) Day, great night The Orange County Register: Rick Bassman tells about his fight in MMA The Liverpool […]
Bisping vs. McCarthy continues to draw huge press coverage
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Forbes: Ultimate Cash Machines (article includes a claim that there have been billion-dollar offers to buy the company) MMA Payout: Ken Shamrock sues Zuffa LLC The Canadian Press: Players respect MMA fighters The Globe & Mail (Canada): Montreal mayhem promises to be big hit The Telegraph (UK): Michael Bisping set for Charles McCarthy UFC clash […]
Today’s chalkboard (4/16/08)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Before we head to today’s news links, I wanted to give a tip of the cap to Michael David Smith over at AOL Fanhouse. MDS has been spearheading a big effort over at that web site to increase the volume of MMA coverage, feeling that there was clearly an underserved need for legitimate MMA writing […]
Tax day stack ‘o stuff (4/15/08)
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Eddie Goldman has a new radio show, reviewing the recent YAMMA Pit Fighting event. A preview: This show was well-received by the fans in attendance, who cheered the victors in the two Masters’ Superfights, Oleg Taktarov and Pat Smith, and the one-night, eight-man single elimination heavyweight tournament, Travis Wiuff. Onto today’s headlines.
TUF 8 tryouts take place in Boston
Friday, April 11th, 2008The Boston Herald: Aspiring fighters chase UFC glory at TUF 8 tryouts Spiked Online (UK): A bloody exciting sport The Winnipeg Sun (Canada): Stay hungry, handlers say to Joe Doerksen Sportsnet (Canada): Jason MacDonald diary The Oregonian: Matt Serra overcomes obstacles The Edmonton Metro News (Canada): Bean there, done that for Butterbean The Fayetteville Observer […]
Thursday trash talk: Roy Jones Jr. vs. Dana White
Thursday, April 10th, 2008The Canadian Press: One year after winning UFC title, Matt Serra is still looking for respect (and magazine covers) The Times-Herald Record (NY): UFC dangles upstate fights The Ilford Recorder (UK): Khalid Ismail goes into the lion’s cage Adam Swift: HDNet vs. Zuffa remanded to state court Kevin Iole: Travis Lutter gets chance for redemption […]
Wednesday’s chalkboard (4/9/08)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008The Baltimore Sun: Growing MMA from the Ground up in Baltimore with John Rallo and Binky Jones The Orlando Sentinel: Fight ’til you scream for ultimate ‘guy TV’ Bloody Elbow: Zuffa’s dangerous summer Sportsnet (Canada): Following Fedor Sherdog: Fedor confirms fight with Tim Sylvia Javno: Fedor would quickly deal with Mirko Cro Cop The Sun […]
Tuesday news clippings (4/8/08)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008The Southwark News (UK): David Haye eyeing MMA in his thirties Setanta Sports (UK): UFC top 10 pound-for-pound list The New York Daily News: Roy Jones Jr. disappointed that match-up with UFC star Anderson Silva is off Bloody Elbow: Fightlinker vs. Dave Meltzer Walrus Magazine: Roland Barthes vs. MMA MMA Predictions: CSAC releases numbers for […]
Monday morning quarterback (4/7/08)
Monday, April 7th, 2008Hayato “Mach” Sakurai will face David Baron in Shooto on 5/3 in Tokyo at JCB Hall (Tokyo Dome City). Also booked for the show is Lion Takeshi vs. Rumina Sato. The circus between Nobuyuki Sakakibara and UFC continues to grow. Luke Thomas does therapy. Eurosport: Michael Bisping’s blood is boiling Fox Sports: Kendall Grove, Evan […]
April Fool’s: Does Chuck Liddell think Kimbo Slice is one?
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Chuck Liddell says Kimbo Slice is overrated, at least according to The Sun newspaper today. Expect this to pick up some steam on the blogs, no doubt. Here is the BetUS preview for this Wednesday’s Ultimate Fight Night event. Todd Martin has an article talking about the upcoming match between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard. […]
Shamrock vs. Le attracts huge media coverage
Monday, March 31st, 2008Takashi Hasegawa of Pancrase will be fighting Musse Hasselvall in Stockholm, Sweden on April 5th in an under 60kg fight at Superior Challenge. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an article on Xyience today, titled Having it all but seeing it fall. Tomorrow is supposed to be the date of the auction for the company. This […]
Today’s clipboard of news
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Updates on state MMA regulation In Maryland and South Carolina. Interview notes With Matt Serra and Mark Cuban. Pancrase today at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo Nova Uniao’s Marlon Sandro defeated Miki Shida in the main event today in R2 in 4’19 by KO. Sandro is now the #1 contender for the KOP Featherweight crown. In […]
Wednesday weekly rundown (3/19/08)
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Todd Martin (CBS Sports): Jeff Blatnick sees MMA as viable career option for amateur wrestlers The Sun (UK): Cage Rage promoter Andy Geer says Sean Sherk should be banned for life from MMA The Seattle PI: Interview with Joe Lauzon The Canadian Press: Expect MMA sparks to fly when James Irvin and Houston Alexander meet […]
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