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Saturday, August 4th, 2007A big 90-minute show this week. First, we go through the MMA calendar this month and preview some of the upcoming big fights in WEC & UFC. Second, we take a look at some of the absurd claims that Dana White made in a recent ESPN The Magazine interview. Our stance is pretty clear in […]
Thursday trash talk: North Carolina ready to regulate MMA
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The IFL enters into $12.7 million USD financing. Update: The stock went down to $0.65 USD/share the morning after this news was released. Here are the weigh-in results for the IFL show that will take place tonight in New Jersey. If you haven’t already done so, head on over to MMA Predictions and make your […]
Saturday headlines: WWE versus Congress
Saturday, July 28th, 2007If you haven’t already subscribed to Fight Opinion Radio via iTunes, go subscribe here. Both Koki Kameda and Daiki Kameda won their fights today in Tokyo at Ariake Colosseum. The results of both fights were unanimous decision wins. ShootBoxing had their event today at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Top matches featured Adam Higson (King of […]
Benoit toxicology report
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007If you aren’t interested, don’t read any further. If you’re interested, post any and all related replies to this post. Information in full-post mode.
Tuesday talking points: 8,622? 8,622!
Monday, July 9th, 2007Underground cage fighting. Plus, Xyience Training Center Grand Opening. UFC 73 attendance, gate, and purse information. Look at the figures – 8,622 paid. They did a little under 8,000 in Ireland. This may sound like piling on here, but I’ve been saying far and wide in media outlets that once UFC gets out of the […]
Latest updates on Chris Benoit story
Friday, July 6th, 2007I’m putting all Benoit-related articles here in this post so that the MMA-only readers can bypass it easily if they want to. Channel News Asia (Singapore) has an article titled Fans to pay tribute to wrestler Chris Benoit at S’pore show. WWE has a show scheduled at the Indoor Stadium on July 28th. Royal Burnell […]
Thursday trash talk: The road to UFC 73
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Dave Doyle is starting to write columns over at Yahoo Sports on MMA. The RSS feed for his columns is here. The RSS feed for Kevin Iole’s columns is here. Here are the odds over at Bodog for the UFC 73 event. The obvious odd that sticks out is Marquardt at +140. Ortiz comes into […]
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 […]
Regulating professional wrestling
Monday, July 2nd, 2007By Zach Arnold I’ve written a new article over at CBS Sportsline regarding the issue of whether or not regulation (state and/or federal) of professional wrestling is feasible. I was able to talk to a couple of athletic commissions and was hopefully able to paint an accurate picture as to whether or not regulation would […]
Sunday news review: Sakakibara hanging around
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Antonio Inoki rap song from the IGF show The Feds went after Al Capone on taxes. The Nevada State Athletic Commission reportedly wants their tax money from DSE, this according to The Fight Network. The commission is threatening license revocation. That’s it?
Saturday media slum: Dumpster diving
Friday, June 29th, 2007Royal Burnell has a report about an upcoming Art Dore “Extreme Cage Combat” event in Michigan in which Royal claims that fighters are using the dumpster area of a Hooter’s restaurant to set up a ‘locker room.’ Royal’s report includes pictures. Get ready for Congress to start asking WWE some questions — The Associated Press […]
Fight Opinion Radio #54: Ken Shamrock speaks out
Friday, June 29th, 2007Dana White recently stated that he released Ken Shamrock from his UFC contract because he didn’t feel that Shamrock could be competitive in the UFC. However, Ken Shamrock and his manager/attorney Rod Donohoo dispute this claim. On this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio, both men appear on our show to talk about the supposed […]
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 […]
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