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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008The Las Vegas Review-Journal: UFC show excites ‘quiet jerk’ Forrest Griffin The Canadian Press: Ontario commissioner Ken Hayashi says MMA is illegal under Criminal Code The Canadian Press: UFC delivers punch at the box office in first foray into Canada Todd Martin: Nogueira proves his mettle again The St. Petersburg Times (FL): Body in pond […]
Quote of the Day – comparing MMA to waterboarding
Monday, February 4th, 2008What a job it must be to be the public editor of The Sacramento Bee: “I strongly object to the glorification of the ‘sport’ of cage fighting,” said Hill-Weld’s e-mail. As for the detailed description of the guillotine hold, he said, “This hold sounds a lot like ‘waterboarding,’ which most people consider torture. “While this […]
Thursday news crash course
Thursday, January 24th, 2008CBS Sports (Sam Caplan): Q & A with WEC VP Peter Dropick The Orange County Register: UFC 81 conference call audio clips The Seattle Times: Bob Sapp returns to Washington, ready to mix it up Hardcore Sports Radio: Bob Sapp audio interview ESPN Video: Randy Couture video interview Yahoo Sports: Roy Jones Jr. vs. Felix […]
Report: Stefan Leko out 7 months due to knee injury
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Pro Fight Store is reporting that Stefan Leko will be out of action for 7 months due to knee surgery. Leko fought this past weekend. Mauro Ranallo and Don King interview each other. Heaven help us all. Frank Trigg was the color commentator for yet another Fox Sports Net Best Damn Toughman presentation on Monday […]
Thursday night notes (1/10/08)
Thursday, January 10th, 2008More on the story of the day in full-page mode (read on)… World Victory Road announced Sanae Kikuta vs. Phil Baroni for their 3/5 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I event. K-1 announced a “World Youth 2008 ~ International Team Competition” format for their 2/2 Nippon Budokan event, with the theme of Japan vs. Holland. […]
WEC 2/13 New Mexico event announced
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008The promotion announced their main card line-up today for the next event: Carlos Condit vs. Carlo Prater Rob McCullough vs. Jamie Varner Chase Beebe vs. Miguel Torres The show will take place at the Santa Ana Star Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Saturday fight slate: Josh Barnett wins again in Japan
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007K-1 announced Yoshihisa Inoue vs. Takashi Tachikawa (former Chiba Lotte Marines baseball player) for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event.
Fight Opinion Radio #71: Renato Babalu & Wallid Ismail
Sunday, December 16th, 2007A big 100-minute show this week, so make sure you are subscribed to either our radio show RSS feed or our iTunes feed. We have three interviews on this week’s show. First, we have an interview with Jeffrey Tennen (of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in the USMC). He stopped by to tell us […]
The WEC Ticket
Thursday, December 13th, 2007WEC 31 tickets must have cost half a million dollars. That’s the only financially reasonable thing I can think after watching another Zuffa promoted WEC card out of The Hard Rock in Vegas. Keep in mind that this was the third WEC show at the 1,000 seat venue, and the last one on 9/5 was […]
Thursday trash talk: IFL 12/29 card suffers setbacks
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Steve Cofield has a WEC post-fight event wrap-up on his site. If you have not subscribed yet to our Fight Opinion Radio RSS feed, go sign up now. Next week, we will be preparing for our annual Christmas Show marathon special. Now’s the time to get on board and subscribe to the feed. Abdul Mohamed […]
WEC 12/12 Las Vegas
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Event reports: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | The Fight Network | MMA Junkie | MMA Mania All comments about the event go here. I’m sure there is a lot to talk about regarding the finish of the Paulo Filho/Chael Sonnen fight. Plus, that was quite the showing for Jens Pulver. According to Kevin Iole, Chael […]
Wednesday war room: WEC on Versus tonight
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Jeff Hamlin talks about Jens Pulver. Plus, everyone made weight for tonight’s WEC event. Check out this WEC event preview and make sure to get your fight predictions in at MMA Predictions. Video of Kimbo Slice on ESPN’s E:60 show yesterday. Two MMA HQ notes: 1) Go vote in the MMA HQ 2007 year-end MMA […]
Tuesday chalkboard (12/11)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Daniel Puder is teaming up with the Cops Care Cancer Foundation. Some good news and bad news for the IFL’s 12/29 Mohegan Sun Arena event. The good news… it will air on Fox Sports World in Canada. The bad news? The promotion’s last event (11/3 Chicago) that aired on FSW drew 200 viewers, according to […]
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