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Thursday, June 28th, 2007By Zach Arnold WAGA TV (My FOX 5 in Atlanta) is reporting that Federal authorities (Drug Enforcement Agency) have raided the office of Dr. Phil Astin, Chris Benoit’s personal doctor. Astin publicly told the Associated Press that he saw Benoit last Friday and had prescribed testosterone. And yet another bizarre twist to this story. I […]
Thursday trash talk: The drug culture
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Results from today’s K-1 World MAX show in Tokyo at Nippon Budokan. Carter Williams tested positive for cocaine. Melvin Guillard now has some company with him. Josh Barnett’s contract with DSE will end in October.
Wednesday fight notes: More angry boxers
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Boxing trainer Tommy Gallagher quoted in a BoxingScene.com article: Gallagher has obviously seen it all in a lifetime spent in the hardest game. He’s disappointed with what he sees these days and he wonders if boxing can make it. “The commissioners are ruinin’ this business,” he laments. “The UFC lets ‘em wear condoms on their […]
MMA, wrestling, and regulation
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: Jim Rome devoted most of his radio show today on the topic of Chris Benoit and professional wrestling’s place in American culture. Michael David Smith says that perhaps the health risks of pro-wrestling have been overstated. Here are the comments I will make on the Chris Benoit story and why I […]
Chris Benoit news updates
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Comments are now closed. Mauro Ranallo, John Pollock, and Bryan Alvarez discussed Chris Benoit’s death today on the radio. TMZ is reporting the following (more here): Benoit strangled his wife, Nancy, on Saturday. Benoit smothered his son, Daniel, in his bed on Sunday. Benoit hung himself on Monday in a weight-room. WWE.com also has a […]
Tuesday headlines: K-1 signs a big deal
Monday, June 25th, 2007The top story of the day from Japan is K-1 doing a business tie-up with the Kyoei boxing gym, with the focus on K-1 using Russian boxing and MMA talent. K-1 hopes that it creates a big impact on all of their various shows in terms of boosting talent. Medical suspensions coming out of this […]
Chris Benoit dead at age 40
Monday, June 25th, 2007By Zach Arnold More on Benoit’s death can be found at SLAM! Sports, The Edmonton Sun, WWE HP, and ABC News. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WAGA-TV has further updates. Even Gambling 911 has an update. Fox News has an update with a very sad graphic photo. More details at the Observer. TMZ is also covering […]
Tuesday headlines: UFC Fight Night
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Yes, there is indeed a UFC event on Spike TV tonight. Time for you to predict the rating. Give us your prediction for the cable TV rating in the comments section (and fight predictions, if interested). Greg Sirb, the commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, has been sued. The lawsuit alleges that Sirb interfered […]
Thursday trash talk: UFC gets major media coverage
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Kakutolog: Nobuyuki Sakakibara interview in Kami no Puroresu For those who understand Japanese, here’s some video of comments from Nobuyuki Sakakibara about the PRIDE asset sale agreement. Also, site commenter Body Shots posted this over at Sherdog. IFL: UFC/PRIDE merger good for us So says Gareb Shamus in an interview with the North Jersey Media […]
Nikkan Sports: UFC & PRIDE will be like Raw & Smackdown
Sunday, March 25th, 2007By Zach Arnold Today’s edition of Nikkan Sports has an article titled UFC & PRIDE adopting the WWE method. In short, the article claims that UFC is purchasing PRIDE and that the formula for Zuffa with UFC & PRIDE will be similar to Raw & Smackdown in terms of talent distribution and operations. In other […]
Tuesday turkey talk: More debate about PRIDE sold or not sold
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Greg Savage and Josh Gross on the latest with the UFC/PRIDE rumors. The bottom part of the article is the one that I’ve focused on, which is that unless Zuffa buys DSE Inc. itself it’s going to be very difficult to enforce any of those Japanese fight contracts. Plus, a lot of the top guys […]
It’s true, it’s damn true
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007ESPN is reporting that Kurt Angle, famous pro-wrestler who wants to fight everyone in MMA, is allegedly on a client list for Applied Pharmacy, which the Feds allege is connected to an online steroids purchasing investigation. Here’s the original SI article. More details at PW Torch and at the Observer. Also true is famous Boston […]
Sunday media review
Sunday, January 21st, 2007By Zach Arnold Before we get into today’s headlines, I wanted to address the rumors regarding WWE’s interest in MMA. According to a well-placed source (that wishes to remain anonymous), WWE is still interested in adding a fourth brand (they have RAW, Smackdown, and ECW) that is MMA-themed. Despite the IFL scoring a new TV […]
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