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Saturday, April 28th, 2007By Zach Arnold A typical, boilerplate article on MMA in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune called Ultimate fighting: bloody but popular. The one interesting aspect to the article is that it was Toughman-style promoters using MMA as their gimmick is what has led to the heavy criticism of MMA in the state. This is what we are […]
Exclusive: Big names listed for Fishman deposition
Friday, April 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold According to a source with information related to the Fishman Companies vs. DSE Inc. lawsuit filed in Clark County, Nevada, Fishman Companies lawyers are reportedly preparing a list of witnesses for future deposition. The source claims that the list has over 50 big-named players in the MMA industry, including all top players […]
Friday notes: UFC’s plans for PRIDE
Thursday, April 26th, 2007Sherdog.com to provide content for ESPN. An update on Operation Cleanup 3. IFL 6/16 Las Vegas event poster. Vernon “Tiger” White vs. Mike Whitehead a top match on the show. Here is this week’s edition of the Fox Fight Game.
Update on Ed Fishman lawsuit (4/26)
Thursday, April 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold Quick notes from the latest legal proceedings this week in the Fishman Companies vs. DSE Inc. lawsuit: A meeting set last week (scheduled for Wednesday) was held in regards to the plantiff’s motion for a hearing on waiving compliance. In short, Fishman Companies attorney Lawrence Semenza III is arguing to the court […]
Report: No drug testing for UFC 69 or UFC 70
Thursday, April 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold Update: The Chronicle report is now discussed on the AOL Sports Blog. And here’s the inevitable Sherdog thread on the topic. Further links: UFC Mania, UFC Junkie. Here are some reasons why I think this is an important story. Steve Sievert in the Houston Chronicle drops a bombshell this morning in a […]
Thursday trash talk: Proxy wars in Japan
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007By Zach Arnold Gryphon has more details on Motoichiro Takasu’s story about Ken Imai causing a scene at the BodogFight 4/14 Russia event. The IFL stock jumped up nearly 70 cents/share to close at $4.59. Is there some good financial news about the IFL that hasn’t been said publicly? And what is this?
FO Radio 4/25 mailbag
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007You give us questions, we answer them on the radio show. If you use automatic downloaders to get our weekly shows (and haven’t seen this message yet), read the following. We are using FeedBurner to distribute our shows. The link specifically for the radio show is http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinionradio and the default subscription link is for iTunes. […]
Wednesday notes: UFC draws 1.84 cable rating
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Is this the kind of ‘fake professional wrestling’ that Eddie Goldman criticizes?
Tito Ortiz on Rashad Evans
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007You’ll see what I mean when you click on that link. Don Imus says hello to Mr. Ortiz. Tito is showing, shall we say… anImus towards Rashad on a message board thread. I should be fired from my own site for writing that pun.
A bad year for Ken Imai
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007By Zach Arnold Ken Imai is the famous Japanese agent for Mirko Cro Cop. He was the wirepuller who brought Cro Cop from K-1 to PRIDE, essentially getting Cro Cop away from power agent Miro Mijatovic (who had both Mirko and Fedor as clients). Imai became close to DSE (Sakakibara) and with the PRIDE assets […]
Tuesday trouble: TBS producer in hot water?
Monday, April 23rd, 2007A story under the radar right now that could make some major waves is an article in the latest edition of Shukan Post, which claims that “Mr. X” could be in a lot of trouble (my personal guess is that they are referring to Ushio Higuchi, the main producer of K-1 events on Tokyo Broadcasting […]
Latest IFL news
Monday, April 23rd, 2007They announced this morning that they are moving their June 16th event from Reno, Nevada (at the nice Reno Events Center) to the Las Vegas Hilton hotel & casino. I think it’s unfortunate that they are moving the event away from Reno. The IFL could have done steady business from some pretty loyal local fans […]
Monday review: The Gabriel Gonzaga Show
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007By Zach Arnold I saw a Japanese article at innolife talking about a recent 5 vs. 5 series with South Korean vs. ATT fighters. Is there any more information available about that event? Gambling 911 on the Dana/Fedor contract dispute, if you want to call it that. Plus, they acknowledge some of the questions we’ve […]
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