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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Warning: Very graphic and disturbing video about dogfighting Pardon the pun, but I make no bones about what we are cover on tomorrow’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio. One of the hot topics we will be discussing is the mainstream media’s fascination of trying to tie in the dogfighting allegations against Michael Vick in relation […]
Tuesday afternoon notes: More UFC 71 media skepticism
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007CNBC’s Darren Rovell has been critical of UFC in the past, stating that the company and its fighters are not attracting major blue-chip sponsors yet. Today, he deemed the UFC 71 event an ‘ultimate embarrassment’. The talented Adam Morgan pointed out this Concepts Marketing post to me about UFC. Notice that all of this traffic […]
A shining moment for Mike Goldberg
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Mike Goldberg has taken his fair share of criticism from hardcore MMA fans online for his announcing work. Some of it is fair and some of it is not fair. However, this video clip illustrates a big blunder by Goldberg during the ring introductions for the Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Chuck Liddell fight. About two […]
Tuesday TNT: Dynamite headlines
Monday, May 28th, 2007If you are wondering about the TBS TV advertising in Japan for the K-1 Dynamite show, the network is still advertising Brock Lesnar vs. Choi Hong-Man and Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Royce Gracie. On the K-1-produced Sakuraba web site, the latest entry shows Sakuraba at the Chute Boxe USA academy training. Furthermore, K-1 (on their HERO’s […]
Monday evening headlines: Rampage’s close-up on ESPN
Monday, May 28th, 2007Luke Thomas over at Bloody Elbow analyzes the activity from this past week and what it means for MMA. This guy has some talent. He appeared on ESPN Radio this morning with Colin Cowherd. Listen here. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson did an interview at 7:45 PM EST with Brian Kenny on Monday on SportsCenter (ESPN). Rampage […]
Monday headlines: Casual fans react to UFC 71
Monday, May 28th, 2007Dana White predicts 1 million PPV buys for UFC 71. MMA On Tap is compiling a list of online radio MMA shows. Tim Duncan talks UFC. Over at The Fanhouse, another critic lays in on Rampage/Liddell. I’ve been keeping my eye on what I call the ‘casual bloggers’ that Technorati indexes. They are generally more […]
Fight Opinion Weekly: How boxing should respond to the rise of MMA
Sunday, May 27th, 2007Joe Rogan on SportscenterUploaded by Beatdown77 Printable version of article here. Plus, David P. Greisman has an excellent article called “Fighting Words†– Four Crucial Weeks for Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts that I highly recommend everyone to read.
Possible Sakuraba replacements for K-1 Dynamite
Sunday, May 27th, 2007While the name Yoshihiro Akiyama has been floated as a potential opponent for Royce Gracie on June 2nd at the LA Coliseum event, Dave Meltzer is reporting tonight that K-1 has made an offer to Ken Shamrock to take the fight against Gracie on short-notice.
Sunday media stroll: UFC on a Rampage
Sunday, May 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold In the last media post, I mentioned how a newspaper writer in Syracuse tried to lump in dogfighting allegations against NFL QB Michael Vick in comparison to UFC. That was supposed to carry a negative connotation. Today, ESPN interviewed an anonymous source claiming that Vick was involved in dogfighting — and tried […]
Sunday morning headlines: Post-UFC 71 media coverage
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Liddell vs Rampage 2 UFC 71Uploaded by aus1121 ESPN covered the Rampage vs. Liddell fight extensively on both SportsCenter and on their MMA section of ESPN.com. There isn’t a video sharing site that doesn’t already have clips of this fight. It truly has gone viral. At 12:30 AM PST on Google News, UFC 71 coverage […]
UFC 71 Open Discussion
Saturday, May 26th, 2007UFC 71 PBP links: Observer | AOL Sports Blog | Sherdog | UFC Junkie All pre-UFC 71, during-UFC 71, and post-UFC 71 discussion goes here. Someone claims that Comcast is having trouble handling orders for the UFC 71 event. Is this true? Dana White claims that the PRIDE asset sale has been finalized.
Saturday media splash: UFC the hottest topic in US media circles
Friday, May 25th, 2007If you haven’t already, make sure to listen to our latest radio show (previewing the UFC 71 event) before watching Rampage vs. Liddell.
Friday chalkboard: ESPN’s wall-to-wall UFC coverage
Friday, May 25th, 2007Erin Bucknell reports that the California SAC has granted K-1 a temporary promoter’s license for their Dynamite event next week. The Orange County Register confirms the same information in Erin’s report, but also adds that Lesnar’s opponent could be Kim Min-Soo. On Thursday in Clark County, Nevada court (for the Fishman Companies vs. DSE Inc. […]
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