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Thursday, May 31st, 2007Japanese marketing 101. The Los Angeles Times on ticket sales for the K-1 Dynamite event at the LA Coliseum: Kogan said FEG has sold at least 40,000 tickets ranging from $10 to $100. State athletic officials argue that in an outline of ticket distribution plans, FEG officials reported they planned to sell only 10,000 tickets, […]
Thursday trash talk: Dynamite dud or surprise?
Thursday, May 31st, 2007K-1 has come up with an ingenious idea to promote star power at their upcoming Dynamite show at the LA Coliseum this weekend – give a media push to Dennis Rodman. Sports Navigator reports that they would like to see Rodman compete in MMA, as early as late June in Holland. Yes, the Japanese report […]
Tuesday TNT: Dynamite headlines
Monday, May 28th, 2007If you are wondering about the TBS TV advertising in Japan for the K-1 Dynamite show, the network is still advertising Brock Lesnar vs. Choi Hong-Man and Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Royce Gracie. On the K-1-produced Sakuraba web site, the latest entry shows Sakuraba at the Chute Boxe USA academy training. Furthermore, K-1 (on their HERO’s […]
Friday chalkboard: ESPN’s wall-to-wall UFC coverage
Friday, May 25th, 2007Erin Bucknell reports that the California SAC has granted K-1 a temporary promoter’s license for their Dynamite event next week. The Orange County Register confirms the same information in Erin’s report, but also adds that Lesnar’s opponent could be Kim Min-Soo. On Thursday in Clark County, Nevada court (for the Fishman Companies vs. DSE Inc. […]
Tuesday talk: Kimbo Slice is Miami’s hottest star
Monday, May 21st, 2007Kimbo Slice gets more big press in Miami, this time with CBS 4 in a piece called Backyard fighter goes legit at South Florida gym. Luke Thomas has a defense of Kimbo Slice in MMA. Michael David Smith over at The Fanhouse will be live-blogging the UFC 71 event. Michael is one of the better […]
Wednesday notes: Where has your PRIDE gone?
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007It’s now Day 51 since the March 27th Roppongi Hills Arena press conference where UFC and DSE did a handshake agreement to buy the PRIDE assets. ESPN Page 2’s Bill Simmons w/ Adam Carolla, discussing ‘elitist’ boxing fans (audio here – start listening at the 8 minute mark). They also talk about UFC and MMA […]
Sunday papers: Fernando Vargas promoting MMA
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Dan Le Batard mentions Kimbo Slice in his NFL football column today for the Miami Herald newspaper: Have you seen the Internet fury of a Liberty City man known as Kimbo? He is a huge bare-knuckle fighter, bearded and bald and shirtless, who has been knocking fools out in street fights on shaky video cameras […]
Saturday notes: Update on Fishman-DSE lawsuit
Friday, May 11th, 2007By Zach Arnold The MMA World League web site is offering two Internet PPV shows that will be streaming today. Gryphon notes some financial trouble for Samurai TV, the 24/7 Japanese fight channel that airs on SkyPerfecTV. Here is the quick data (from Gryphon’s Japanese post NHB News) if you care for the particulars and […]
Friday flame wars: Boxing vs. MMA argument won’t die
Thursday, May 10th, 2007The fact that the Miami Herald and a couple of other newspapers (according to Google News) picked up this ridiculous article on MMA amazes me (author e-mail is here).
Thursday trash talk: Boxing is cash money
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007Sakuraba joking around at Chute BoxeUploaded by IvanCanello Ivan Canello has new Chute Boxe videos up online at Daily Motion. Check them out. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that MMA is about to be legalized in the state of Illinois. Is Forrest Griffin off of the UFC 72 Ireland card? He’s not listed as an opponent […]
Tuesday highlights: Dynamite card shaping up
Monday, May 7th, 2007As first reported on Boxing Talk, Kevin Iole at Yahoo Sports is reporting that Diego Corrales died Monday night in a motorcycle accident. Dan Rafael at ESPN is also reporting on the story. Gary Shaw has now confirmed the story to the Associated Press. K-1 6/2 LA Coliseum rumored card line-up. K-1’s web site confirms […]
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 […]
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