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Monday, November 5th, 2007For the MMA insiders and hardcore fans, today’s big news item is a report that Xyience and Zuffa are supposedly linked together much more closely than apparently first thought. Luke Thomas elaborates on why this is an important story to follow. The one thing I don’t understand is that if the report is true that […]
Report: Old DSE staff wants to book Fedor in Japan
Sunday, November 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports is reporting that old DSE staff is preparing for a double-header on New Year’s Eve at Saitama Super Arena (with a Hustle pro-wrestling show during the afternoon and an MMA event at night). The paper claims that there is great interest in booking Fedor for the MMA event. The news […]
Saturday headlines: Steroids and birth defects
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007The negative effects of using performance-enhancing drugs and how it effects the children of users. The Fight Network has reached a deal with K-1 and Fuji TV to air the 12/8 World GP Yokohama Arena event live. Luke Thomas talks about Phil Baroni’s appeal with the CSAC board. Kevin Iole has more comments about UFC […]
Quote of the week
Friday, November 2nd, 2007On the next edition of Fight Opinion Radio, we discuss the masterful job of public relations that Zuffa has done in the last week in regards to their contractual dispute with Randy Couture. As I argued in my latest Bloody Elbow column, the mainstream media focus and portrayal of Randy Couture right now is of […]
UFC will not strip Sean Sherk of Lightweight title
Friday, November 2nd, 2007By Zach Arnold Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports is reporting that Dana White will not strip Sean Sherk of his UFC Lightweight title. Sean Sherk is going to remain the UFC’s lightweight champion, but B.J. Penn and Joe Stevenson will fight for a lightweight belt at UFC 80 in January in Newcastle, England, UFC president […]
Friday fight news: IFL GP is tomorrow
Friday, November 2nd, 2007New MMA figurines. Jens Pulver and Frankie Edgar will be participating in a charity event in Trenton (New Jersey) on 11/7. Rashad Evens garnering headlines in The Sun. Tomorrow is the IFL’s live television event (MyNetworkTV). American viewers will see one hour live, while Canadian viewers will get to watch two hours of live programming. […]
Thursday trash talk: Japan’s tough guys
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Todd Martin took on a big task in writing his new CBS Sports column, which is talking about the evolution of MMA in Japan. There are two points that I felt Todd missed talking about in the article: 1) The infamous ‘cement’ (cement is a term that the Japanese use for a ‘shoot’) incident between […]
Wednesday war room: UFC winning the PR battle?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Well, we know the Couture vs. White feud has jumped the shark when Time Magazine starts covering it. Here is the video of ESPN’s E:60 TV segment yesterday covering Miletich Fighting systems. Trevor Prangley talks about the upcoming Strikeforce Middleweight tournament in November. Here’s an interview with Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua. Meet Matt Gudgeon, who is […]
Din Thomas arrested
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007By Zach Arnold The Vero Beach Press-Journal in Florida is reporting that Din Thomas was arrested by local police on Tuesday for running ‘illegal cage fighting’ matches at his training facility. More details at MMA HQ. Read the comments already posted on that article. Update: Things are not looking good for Din Thomas: Robert Vega […]
UFC press conference about Randy Couture
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007This will be the open post for all discussion relating to the 1 PM PST press conference UFC is holding on this subject. Feel free to post story links, recaps, and anything related to this story in the comments section of the post. Also, if anyone manages to capture the audio from the press conference, […]
M-1 management team announced
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Five minutes ago, Sibling Sports issued a press release announcing who is part of M-1’s management team. Monte Cox is the M-1 Global President and CEO. Vadim Finkelchtein is appointed to the M-1 Global Executive Committee. Bob Clark is the COO. Joost Raimond will be President of M-1 Eurasia and be appointed to the M-1 […]
Tuesday turmoil: More war games
Monday, October 29th, 2007Mike Sawyer & Oliver Copp have a new edition of Tough Talk radio w/ guest Brad Imes. Kevin Iole praises Frank Warren. There’s a brand new MMA statistical site called FightMetric.com. Good news – Windy Tomomi is coming back. Yet another press conference about the Randy Couture/Dana White situation, this time on the UFC side. […]
Monday media notes: Setting the agenda
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Yahoo has officially separated it’s boxing and MMA pages. You can access their MMA home page here. Sam Caplan means business. BBC Sports is reporting that Joe Calzaghe will be retiring within the next 12 months. Taking a look at upcoming fights and challenges in UFC for 2008. Fightlinker needs your help with WordPress issues. […]
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