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Saturday, April 7th, 2007Sherdog reports that the attendance for the IFL show tonight at Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, Illinois is a little under a 50% house. The IFL on FSN show last night showed fights between the San Jose Razorclaws (Frank Shamrock) and the LA Anacondas (taped 3/17 from the LA Forum). The opening fight […]
IFL 5-day stock plunge
Friday, April 6th, 2007The picture from Yahoo Finance says it all. Let’s hope they have better karma for their event tomorrow in Moline, Illinois at Mark of the Quad Cities. For those of you curious, my article on what the IFL needs to do to change their business strategy around to start building momentum is available at MMA […]
UFC 69 weigh-ins
Friday, April 6th, 2007I didn’t get everyone’s weight that was listed (video stalled part of the time), but here’s what I took down for notes: Tickets still available for UFC 69. Rogan did the hard-sell both before and after the weigh-ins.
Dana White: UFC can replace boxing in the Olympics
Friday, April 6th, 2007NBC Sports has a pretty remarkable interview with UFC President Dana White. He sounds an awful like Vince McMahon here. You must read the interview in full to get a flavor of what other MMA organizations are dealing with in UFC.
Friday media fix – Another Japanese love call for UFC
Friday, April 6th, 2007K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa issued a challenge to have a re-match between Royce Gracie and Matt Hughes for the LA Coliseum June 2nd event. The underlying theme of the challenge is Tanigawa provoking Dana White after Dana said on March 27th at Roppongi Hills Arena that any MMA group outside of UFC & PRIDE is […]
UFC Fight Night
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Everything UFC-related on Thursday night goes here. Multi-purpose post. Results from the UFC Fight Night event. No real surprises. Except that internet hardcores are buzzing about Kenny Florian faking the process of drinking from a Xyience can. FWIW, there is one surprise. Our iTunes feed for the radio show is magically working now. If you […]
Report: Fedor not locked to a PRIDE contract
Thursday, April 5th, 2007By Zach Arnold On March 24th, Yomiuri Hochi (Shimbun) reported that PRIDE Heavyweight champion (Emelianenko) Fedor was not under lock-and-key with PRIDE (DSE) and that he was going to fight in BodogFight long-term. Today, the estimable Sam Caplan at CBS Sportsline is reporting that a contract extension to stay in PRIDE was not ‘officially completed.’ […]
Bas Rutten reacts to CSAC drug report
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Like Cesar Gracie, Bas Rutten states his frustration online towards the California State Athletic Commission. Full-page view gets you Rutten’s personal statement. One interesting item in his statement is his claim that he has video that will back him up in defense of some of the charges.
Thursday talking points: Dana White says UFC fans are rich
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007A very interesting report from KamiproHand (Kami no Puroresu), which claims that PRIDE producer Daisuke Sato (who worked closely with Nobuyuki Sakakibara & DSE for PRIDE event production) will stay on with Zuffa under the ‘new’ PRIDE. Sato was the man behind PRIDE Bushido events and part of the core matchmaking group of DSE. Will […]
Cesar Gracie: I didn’t use marijuana
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007A busy day here at Fight Opinion headquarters. I didn’t use marijuana: That is Gracie’s claim on Sherdog. This is in response to Ivan Trembow’s MMA Weekly story yesterday about 23 MMA fighters failing drug tests (most of them marijuana-related).
K-1 4/4 Yokohama Arena event results
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Ameba presents K-1 WORLD MAX 2007 4/4 Yokohama Arena (claiming 11,628 paid) Results in Japanese Full-page view gets you the results.
Wednesday War Room: The Japanese message to UFC about PRIDE
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold Printable version of this post at BoxingScene.com. Caleb (of The Fightworks Podcast fame) on whether or not UFC’s purchase of PRIDE is good for the sport for MMA. If the message sent by Shukan Gendai on Monday wasn’t loud enough to Zuffa management to hear, then the message sent by Akira Maeda […]
Akira Maeda calls out PRIDE
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007By Zach Arnold On the RINGS HP blog, HERO’s supervisor Akira Maeda wrote a controversial posting discussing PRIDE and the company’s behind-the-scenes activities. Maeda did so in a roundabout way. Gryphon noticed this posting and he thinks the mystery man Maeda is alluding to is Sakakibara. However, my personal guess he’s alluding to the now […]
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