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Friday, June 8th, 2007By Zach Arnold The Grand Rapids Press newspaper has taken a beating this week over an anti-MMA article published by writer Brian VanOchten, who has been ridiculed across-the-board by both MMA writers and fans. However, the newspaper has published a new article today by author David Mayo titled Safety ignored in rush to OK ultimate […]
Friday fight notes: Heat-up for Baroni/Shamrock
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Sam Caplan on the K-1 Dynamite attendance numbers. More notes at The Fight Network. More K-1 show numbers analysis from The Long Beach Press-Telegram. MMA Weekly breaks down all the information. In short, the amount of paid tickets not bought by K-1 was 3,674. The amount of paid tickets bought by K-1 to distribute was […]
Thursday trash talk: Bad behavior does not pay
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Best Chute Boxe Highlight ever !Uploaded by IvanCanello “The Stephen Quadros Show” on Sherdog makes its debut on Tuesday, June 12th at 12 PM PST. Steve Sievert of The Houston Chronicle is reporting that Marlon Sims and Noah Thomas have been kicked out of the UFC. Read Steve’s post in its entirety. This has not […]
Claim: UFC rejects web site sponsorship for Jon Fitch
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007By Zach Arnold Related posts at Lay and Pray and Cage Today. UFCMania.com announced that UFC has told Jon Fitch to cancel his sponsorship deal with UFCMania.com. If the facts in this story are true, it is an outrageous PR blunder on the part of Zuffa. UFCJunkie.com helped sponsor Sean Salmon and both parties in […]
Wednesday notes: Tito Ortiz talks (again)
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Post updated with Dana White’s comments made today on The Jim Rome Show on radio. WEC drew a 0.39 rating on its live debut on The Versus network. Hey, look, another energy drink sponsoring an MMA company. Actually, the fact that Steele Cage Promotions thinks they should create a sanctioning body within a promotion (the […]
Dana White: Coke needs us, we don’t need them
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007By Zach Arnold Yesterday, I wrote a post about the situation with sponsors in the UFC. The primary focus was to point out that two of the four main UFC sponsors, Amp’d Mobile and Xyience, are in reported trouble. The other two, Toyo Tires and Mickey’s malt liquor, are not the biggest of corporate names […]
Media notebook: The evils of MMA
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007All the latest on the IFL here and here. Frank Warren (British boxing promoter) claims that the UFC offered a commentating job to BBC personality (and boxing writer) Steve Bunce, but he turned it down due to it not being enough money. Read the post for Warren’s anti-UFC rant as well. Luke Thomas at Bloody […]
Canadian MMA backyarders gone wild
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007The Chronicle Herald’s Josh Visser (e-mail) in Halifax, Nova Scotia is reporting that East Coast Street Fights, an outlaw group of individuals who do backyard-style MMA brawls in parking lots and lawns, has found a ‘millionaire’ money mark that will convert them into a ‘legitimate’ promotion. The Halifax RCMP is not amused. The article also […]
Another UFC/dog-fighting analogy
Monday, June 4th, 2007I warned about this topic on the latest edition of Fight Opinion Radio. The Newark Star-Ledger quotes New York Giants MLB Antonio Pierce on the issue of Michael Vick and allegations of dog-fighting (he hates it). Unfortunately, Pierce made the dreaded UFC/dog-fighting analogy: Pierce, who said he knew a few individuals involved in dog fighting […]
Tuesday talk: Dynamite in Japan
Monday, June 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold The K-1 Dynamite!! show on Tokyo Broadcasting System (show was on June 2nd, aired June 4th from 9:00 PM-10:54 PM in Japan) drew an 11.1% TV rating. Not terrible at all considering the circumstances regarding the show. In other words, no real damage for K-1 in Japan. In fact, because the Japanese […]
Trouble for UFC sponsors
Monday, June 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold If you’ve followed the MMA scene on the Internet for the last couple of years, you’ve heard all the gossip and innuendo about the trouble that Xyience, UFC’s primary sponsor, allegedly has been in. Well, today, another shoe dropped as Amp’d Mobile filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The New York Times […]
DSE rumor mill – 6/4
Monday, June 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Last Thursday, judge Timothy Williams in Clark County, NV. court denied without prejudice DSE Inc.’s attempt to dismiss (motion to dismiss) the lawsuit filed by Fishman Companies. Today, Williams also rejected DSE Inc.’s motion for a summary judgment in the case. Therefore, the path is now clear for Fishman Companies to start […]
Writer: MMA fans are cave dwellers
Monday, June 4th, 2007From the hometown of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the state of Michigan (home to Art Dore and Toughman), troll writer Brian VanOchten of The Grand Rapids Press doesn’t like MMA or the people that support it. Hint: He’s an angry boxing fan. Mixed martial arts is a cultural plague. I promise this is the last […]
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