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Sunday, May 11th, 2008Total MMA: DREAM 3 live results The Seattle PI: Ivan Salaverry’s last stand? BC Local News (Canada): Fighting against MMA Penn Live (Entertainment): ‘Redbelt’ is an oddly intriguing Mamet mix The Denton Record-Chronicle (TX): Finding the art of fighting The Ventura County Star: Meeting Kimbo Slice The LA Times: On the mat with David Mamet […]
DREAM 3 ordered card line-up
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Featherweights: Takeshi Yamazaki vs. Shoji Maruyama Middleweight GP: Jason Miller vs. Katsuyori Shibata Middleweight GP: Melvin Manhoef vs. Kim Dae Won Lightweights: Daisuke Nakamura vs. Jung Bu-Kyung DREAM Welterweight contender’s match: Nick Diaz vs. Katsuya Inoue Lightweight GP: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Buscape Lightweight GP: Joachim Hansen vs. Eddie Alvarez Lightweight GP: Kaoru Uno vs. […]
Adrenaline MMA
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Their web site is here. Their debut event is on June 14th at the Sears Centre in the Chicago area. Matches announced for the debut show include: Jeff Monson vs. Mike Russow Terry Martin vs. Daiju Takase Brian Gassaway vs. Tony Fryklund
(Dis)organized chaos with Cro Cop
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008There are plenty of rumors that Mirko Cro Cop will face Jerome Le Banner or Sergey Kharitonov at a future DREAM event. Well, maybe that won’t happen after all.
Report: Mark Dion files lawsuit against Brandon Vera
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008When we interviewed Mark Dion recently on Fight Opinion Radio, we asked him a lot of questions relating to his arbitration case against Brandon Vera. Included in the laundry list of questions were questions regarding the way Dana White behaves when it comes to doing business. Well, according to Adam Swift, Mark Dion has plenty […]
Matt Serra goes to Albany
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Well, it’s not exactly Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but Matt Serra is getting plenty of ink in various broadsheets for appearing in Albany (New York’s state capital) on Tuesday to lobby on behalf of MMA regulation in the state.
Not much news happening…
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008If anyone can find me an RSS feed for the articles Josh Gross writes on SI, I’ll add it to our page. The one ‘interesting’ story of the day is Matt Lindland reportedly threatening to file a lawsuit against the ex-wife of politician Bob Packwood. Sports Illustrated: While the UFC dodges worry, EXC isn’t as […]
Media notes: Steve Sievert
Monday, May 5th, 2008Steve Sievert, who covered MMA for The Houston Chronicle, has left the newspaper and is now with MMA Junkie. Replacing Steve at the Chronicle is Jared Barnes. I can’t say enough good things about Steve and his writing ability.
Today’s chalkboard (5/5/08)
Sunday, May 4th, 2008I’m not dead, but mainstream media coverage of MMA sure has been the past couple of weeks. I expect that to dramatically change in the next week, as we will see the heat-up for Sherk vs. Penn and also the upcoming EXC show at the end of this month. Onto today’s headlines. The South Florida […]
Today’s chalkboard (5/1/08)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Reuters: CBS honcho rips network’s extreme fight plan Bloody Elbow: EXC on CBS – ‘not socially responsible’ Sherdog: Chris Leben turns himself in New York Newsday: Rights for UFC sought for bigger market in NY Ben Fowlkes: Mac Danzig – reality star or professional athlete? AOL Fanhouse: Sherk, Penn pass drug tests, but ‘there’s more […]
Chaos with DREAM
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Too long to translate, but the summary is that between fighters like Masakatsu Funaki losing and Kiyoshi Tamura suffering a finger injury, everything is in a state of flux right now with both DREAM GP tournaments. In other words, expect some past fighters (like JZ Calvan) to be possibly re-booked as replacements in the tournament […]
DREAM 2 (4/29 Saitama Super Arena)
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Results here. Multimedia clips from the show here. Show commentary here. MMA Predictions breakdown here.
Today’s chalkboard (4/28/08)
Monday, April 28th, 2008The Canadian Press: Matt Hughes to meet Thiago Alves at UFC 85 in London Ice News: A holistic approach to violence in Sweden The Ottawa Citizen: Ultimate fighters are, in fact, trained athletes The Winnipeg Sun: Great (Jason) Day, great night The Orange County Register: Rick Bassman tells about his fight in MMA The Liverpool […]
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