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Sunday, October 28th, 2007Card line-up here. Live results (in Japanese) here. Shungo Oyama defeated Carlos Newton in R3 in 2’40 by tap-out. Marcelo Garcia lost to Kim Dae Won in R2 in 20 seconds by TKO (doctor stoppage). Katsuyori Shibata lost to Heo Min-Seok in R2 in 1’31 by KO. Poai Suganuma defeated Bernard Ackah in R1 in […]
Sunday news & notes: Money, money, money
Saturday, October 27th, 2007Chael Sonnen wants to fight Frank Shamrock. An interview with Carlos Newton. Taking a look at UFC’s PPV bonus scale. Plus, two interesting posts (here and here) at the Xtreme Couture MMA site. I went to the UFC 78 web site and noticed that the folks at Zuffa sure like the blood splattering effect a […]
Fight Opinion Radio #66: The war of words
Saturday, October 27th, 2007The last week of MMA news and events has contributed to information overload. We’re here to help you out. Adam Swift of MMA Payout stops by to talk about the dueling press conferences between Dana White & Randy Couture. Imagine being locked in a room with two legal analysts talking about UFC contracts and the […]
Friday fallout: More confusion than clarity
Friday, October 26th, 2007Oh yeah, there’s a ShoXC event tonight. Shayna Baszler is fighting on the card. Watch the show. So, there were dueling press conferences between UFC and Randy Couture on Las Vegas on Thursday. Here is the audio from Couture’s press conference. Kevin Iole was at the Randy Couture press conference and Dave Meltzer covered the […]
Thursday trash talk: Head to head in Las Vegas
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007That whole drug testing thing in California for MMA… what can you say. Lots of big talk and proclamations about M-1 over at Russian MMA. Sean Salmon vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller is set for December 15th in Dallas for HDNet Fights. The latest IFL SEC filings. Plus, their updated prospectus. NBC Sports has a video […]
Wednesday war room: Do you care about Liddell vs. Silva?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I want to send my regards to Jeff Comstock, who will moving a lot of his columns over to Bloody Elbow. You can check out Jeff’s latest BE article here. The IFL stock this morning has plunged down to $0.33/share. The UFC 77 payscale. Bleacher Report calls Randy Couture a joke. The author continues to […]
Tuesday news & notes: Sakuraba vs. Funaki officially booked
Monday, October 22nd, 2007The big news of the day is that K-1 announced Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki for their 12/31 Osaka Dome event. Regarding the M-1 situation, there are two separate SEC dockets related to Sibling Entertainment (here and here). Which docket should we be paying more attention to? Mistaken translations at the M-1 NYC press conference. […]
Monday afternoon news update (10/22)
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Jeff Comstock will be working on a longer article tonight for the site about the new backers of M-1. What a strange situation that is. To prepare you for Jeff’s longer article, here are the news developments from today: Monte Cox, agent of a lot of MMA stars, will be the company’s CEO. MMA Analyst […]
Monday headlines: The next big thing… in MMA
Sunday, October 21st, 2007So, there are a lot of MMA sites marking out right now over UFC’s signing of Brock Lesnar. For those who don’t know Lesnar’s past track record in the fight industry, read here. Adam Swift has further thoughts. So does MMA Analyst and his alter-ego, Leland Roling. Luke Thomas has more thoughts on the UFC […]
Sunday hangover: Day after UFC 77
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Video of Dana White’s comments from the UFC 77 post-fight press conference. Over at The Fightworks Podcast, they have a new audio interview with Ricardo Almeida. Don Frye is not a man you want to fight on the street or in a bar. Someone tried to do this, inexplicably. Over at MMA Predictions, not a […]
UFC 77
Saturday, October 20th, 2007All thoughts, spoilers, reviews, etc. goes here. Feel free to post thoughts about the show in the comments section. Event results: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | MMA Junkie | UFC Mania | Yahoo Sports | Steve Cofield | F4W Online | Observer | The Canadian Press | The Sweet Science | CBS Sports | Dayton […]
More on White/Couture dispute
Friday, October 19th, 2007Dana White addressed the topic today on ESPN TV. Adam Swift has further analysis. Meanwhile, Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports is firing back at his ‘critics’ (audio here). The Dayton Daily News: Dana White is a visionary. The Wilmington News Journal says that Dana White needs to learn how to cope with competition. Steve Cofield […]
Heat-up for UFC 77
Friday, October 19th, 2007Everyone made weight for the UFC 77 show. More weigh-in notes at Yahoo Sports and NBC Sports. Gregg Doyel at CBS Sportsline has an article about some of the wacky hijinx at the weigh-ins. Here is an article on Jason MacDonald and here is your quote of the day from MacDonald as to why his […]
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