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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007The IFL did a 0.8 rating for week three on My Network TV. 0.8, 0.7, and 0.8 for the first three weeks. I receive little to no feedback at all from readers about the IFL Battleground show. If you watch it, give me your thoughts about the program. Softbank’s sponsorship tie-up with K-1 is drawing […]
Media wars
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007By Zach Arnold Gryphon points out two excellent items in the Japanese media today. The first one involves Sakakibara on Elite XC and the second one involves Ed Fishman. On the first point, Sakakibara claims that Gary Shaw wanted to do a reverse stock merger with DSE/PRIDE but that he wouldn’t do it because essentially […]
Tuesday media turmoil: MMA wars rage on
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Today, I ask all of you to help out in terms of gathering of stories, videos, links, etc. Please add your contributions in the comments section, especially on the K-1 press conference at the LA Coliseum. That should be an interesting media session. Nobuyuki Sakakibara & Lorenzo Fertitta shake hands. The Associated Press has already […]
PRIDE at Roppongi Hills Arena
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Image credit: Livedoor By Zach Arnold Here’s a picture taken at 5 PM JST outside of Roppongi Hills Arena. The Livedoor article says that all of the seats are already filled up at the media session (and that some fans were waiting in line at 8 AM). Stephen Martinez is at the press conference. MMA […]
IFL on MNTV – Week 3
Monday, March 26th, 2007Post your comments (if you saw the show) here. First notes within the first 10 minutes – they are pushing 9 fights (again), they are using the old footage from last year pushing Renzo vs. Miletich (this was good), and they are pushing the New York Pitbulls team with Renzo doing a lot of talking […]
Insider hardball – UFC’s options with PRIDE
Monday, March 26th, 2007By Zach Arnold Sankei Sports has a report today quoting a DSE employee, denying that UFC has bought PRIDE. The staffer claims that at the Tuesday press conference at Roppongi Hills Arena in Tokyo, PRIDE will announce a tie-up with UFC. The only thing consistently said throughout the various Japanese newspapers is that DSE’s last […]
Monday media mayhem: Chuck Liddell drug tested
Monday, March 26th, 2007I am begging the fine readers of this site (and those who aren’t) to help us promote our coverage of the PRIDE & K-1 PR sessions to the blogs and other major sites. I’m amazed by the traction that the ‘big boy’ sites (and you know who you exactly are — not you, Jordan) are […]
K-1 4/28 Hawaii event
Monday, March 26th, 20074/28 Honolulu, Neil Blaisdell Arena (6 PM): K-1 Heavyweight Title match: Badr Hari vs. Yusuke Fujimoto Remy Bonjasky vs. Glaube Feitosa Randy Kim vs. Junichi Sawayashiki K-1 USA GP Tournament: Mighty Mo vs. Kim Kyoung Suk K-1 USA GP Tournament: Jan “The Giant” Nortje vs. Patrick Berry K-1 USA GP Tournament: Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge […]
Nikkan Sports: UFC & PRIDE will be like Raw & Smackdown
Sunday, March 25th, 2007By Zach Arnold Today’s edition of Nikkan Sports has an article titled UFC & PRIDE adopting the WWE method. In short, the article claims that UFC is purchasing PRIDE and that the formula for Zuffa with UFC & PRIDE will be similar to Raw & Smackdown in terms of talent distribution and operations. In other […]
Sunday news grind: Brock Lesnar may draw some fans
Sunday, March 25th, 2007We could all use a vacation. Very interesting comments from Dana White to Sherdog on Saturday night about a PRIDE asset sale. The words to focus on are “not a concrete deal.” While some readers will take a stance that the various Japanese media outlets (like Yomiuri Hochi, Miruhon, etc.) are exaggerating about what will […]
Yomiuri: Fedor in BodogFight long-term
Saturday, March 24th, 2007By Zach Arnold Today’s Yomiuri Hochi newspaper has a report claiming that PRIDE Heavyweight champion Emelianenko Fedor has signed a long-term deal with Calvin Ayre’s BodogFight promotion. The initial thought was that Fedor’s match against Matt Lindland on 4/14 in St. Petersburg, Russia would be on an individual fight contract. However, the Japanese newspaper says […]
Saturday media slam – Japanese newspapers go wild
Friday, March 23rd, 2007I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on our interview with Ed Fishman. Post a comment if you get the chance. Click full-page view to see what the Japanese newspapers and fight media are saying about UFC’s purchase of PRIDE.
Fight Opinion Radio #43: Ed Fishman
Friday, March 23rd, 2007We have an outstanding interview this week with Ed Fishman, former PRIDE USA President. In this 70-minute interview, Ed discusses the Fishman Companies lawsuit versus Dream Stage Entertainment. There are some very intriguing facts coming out of this interview that you have not heard anywhere else. We have interviewed a lot of power brokers in […]
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