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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Pro Elite puts money into Cage Rage. Not a bad plan. Plus, Nick Diaz returns September 15th in Hawaii. Kevin Iole is reading your letters and responding back. To e-mail him with MMA-related topics, use [email protected]. Plus, he made an appearance Tuesday on Fight Network Radio. Audio here. Lots of interesting odds and ends in […]
Friday fight notes: Who will sign Denis Kang?
Friday, July 13th, 2007Bad luck for the IFL – Chris Horodecki has a broken hand and won’t fight Bart Palaszewski on August 2nd in New Jersey. BodogFight tapings are coming to Vancouver soon. John Griffin says that the UFC 73 On Demand service was a horrible experience. The new UFC video game.
Wednesday war room: Mirko brings in the artillery
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007The guys at profightstore.com are reporting that Sergey Kharitonov will arrive in Croatia on July 20th to train with Mirko Cro Cop (for Mirko’s upcoming fight against Cheick Kongo). How anxious is the media for more dirt on the Chris Benoit story? Read here. Sadaharu Tanigawa supposedly said that Armando Garcia told him that Choi […]
Friday fight notes: Dana White’s media messages
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Peter Aerts vs. Bob Sapp last weekend from Amsterdam Dana White sends a message to Jeff Sherwood. Also, The Oregonian reports on the war featuring UFC vs. Sherdog and Internet MMA web sites. More thoughts here. Ken Shamrock also got a media message from Dana White and he’s not happy about it. We’ll be hearing […]
Saturday slice-and-dice: Kimbo vs. UFC vs. Hatton vs. K-1
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Somehow, I totally missed or skipped over the comment Dana White made about WEC & PRIDE in yesterday’s Entreprenur article. Luckily, both UFC Mania and Jeff Thaler (he’s back blogging!) picked up on what I missed. In order for White’s statement to come true (that WEC will be bigger than PRIDE), WEC would need to […]
Wednesday night fight headlines
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Lots of links, little time to digest.
Fight Opinion Radio #52: Dynamite
Monday, June 11th, 2007Start your week off the right way by listening to this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Our guests this week are Dave Doyle of FoxSports.com and John Alessio of World Extreme Cagefighting. Dave relives his experiences at the K-1 Dynamite show at the LA Coliseum. A bigger question is also asked – did K-1 […]
Wednesday notes: Tito Ortiz talks (again)
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Post updated with Dana White’s comments made today on The Jim Rome Show on radio. WEC drew a 0.39 rating on its live debut on The Versus network. Hey, look, another energy drink sponsoring an MMA company. Actually, the fact that Steele Cage Promotions thinks they should create a sanctioning body within a promotion (the […]
Media notebook: The evils of MMA
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007All the latest on the IFL here and here. Frank Warren (British boxing promoter) claims that the UFC offered a commentating job to BBC personality (and boxing writer) Steve Bunce, but he turned it down due to it not being enough money. Read the post for Warren’s anti-UFC rant as well. Luke Thomas at Bloody […]
Tuesday talk: Dynamite in Japan
Monday, June 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold The K-1 Dynamite!! show on Tokyo Broadcasting System (show was on June 2nd, aired June 4th from 9:00 PM-10:54 PM in Japan) drew an 11.1% TV rating. Not terrible at all considering the circumstances regarding the show. In other words, no real damage for K-1 in Japan. In fact, because the Japanese […]
Monday lowlights: A pathetic display by K-1 and the Japanese media
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007By Zach Arnold K1 Dynamite SuckedUploaded by djdocsavage The MySpace page of the K-1 Dynamite DJ? I would copy some text from the following Japanese articles, but apparently WP 2.2 doesn’t support the Japanese text unlike past versions of WP. How the Japanese media covered the K-1 Dynamite show (Part II): Part I discussed how […]
Sunday media review: All UFC, all the time
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Tonight is WEC from Las Vegas on The Versus Network. The Versus Network is the home of the National Hockey League and has long been a media punchline due to supposedly nobody knowing what the channel is or being able to get it on a basic cable package. Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs […]
Saturday media splash: Only UFC exists
Friday, June 1st, 2007The latest edition of Fight Game on Fox News. More Internet rumors about Xyience. Hope the reporting is solid, because there are some pretty heavy allegations being made there. Today’s Globe & Mail newspaper in Canada has a story called Ultimate Fighting: Blood, guts, and PPV. The author’s e-mail is here. As we’ve discussed on […]
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