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Friday, March 16th, 2007Click on full-page view to see how fellow Fight Opinion writer and Bear Pit Japan member Tetsuya Sano did in his amateur shootboxing tournament today in Tokyo. Notes from a Sherdog video clip with IFL co-owner Kurt Otto: He says Bas Rutten will “make a special announcement” at the LA Forum show on Saturday (and […]
Friday funhouse: No Josh Barnett for you at PRIDE
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Bas Rutten has more to say about PRIDE, Josh Barnett likely won’t be fighting in Japan any time soon, Tim Sylvia speaks out, Art of War says they made more than the IFL, and video links to Forrest Griffin’s staph infection shown on camera.
PRIDE 4/8 Saitama card
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Today, DSE announced three fights for their 4/8 Saitama Super Arena event — Shin’ya Aoki vs. Brian Lo-A-Njoe, Makoto Takimoto vs. Zelg Galesic, and Ricardo Arona vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou. Nobuyuki Sakakibara stated that the PRIDE 35 event (4/28 Las Vegas) was cancelled and that they would reschedule it for either early June in Japan […]
Thursday tabloid: Kiyoshi Tamura heading to HERO’s
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I’ve decided to use Feedburner for the RSS feeds. I will add these links and recommend you use them as opposed to the raw WP feeds on our site now, and hopefully the FeedBurner podcasting feed works out fine. Here are the links to use: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion – RSS for posts http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinion/qHJU – RSS for comments […]
Report: Names will be named in HGH probe
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007TJ Quinn in the New York Daily News is reporting on Wednesday that Albany (New York) district attorney David Soares will give names of athletes involved in buying drugs from two online pharmacies to the leagues that those athletes compete in. Furthermore, those named athletes may be asked to testify in court. The big question […]
Wednesday fight notes – don’t make Bas Rutten angry
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I want to give special thanks to all of our readers in Singapore. If you are reading this and/or have any regional MMA-related news items, send me an e-mail. Congratulations to Aaron Crossen for becoming Editor-in-Chief of The Valley Vanguard newspaper. Now add more fight game coverage to the publication. Jeff Monson wrote on his […]
Tuesday MMA notes – Wanderlei Silva returns
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007A note to all F.O. Radio listeners. Boxer Johnny Tapia overdoses on cocaine.
IFL on MyNetwork TV
Monday, March 12th, 2007Post your feedback to this week’s show here. And I’ve also added a poll on the right side of the page. I want nothing more than to see a second promotion cement itself as a successful MMA operation in the United States. I have friends who work in the IFL. However, there comes a time […]
Gilbert Aldana dead at age 29
Monday, March 12th, 2007A very sad story reported in The Arizona Republic notes that a 29-year old man (later identified as UFC fighter Gilbert Aldana) drowned in a waterskiing accident. News broke about this on various MMA message boards, but there was no confirmation until Monday morning about Aldana’s death. More coverage here, here, here, and here.
Monday Torture Rack: Why you like ultimate fighting
Monday, March 12th, 2007Andy Kaufman talked about Memphis pro-wrestling fans the same way American media outlets talk about MMA fans today Another article about MMA’s increasing popularity… Public Torture — Preparing the Audience: We also have the rise in popularity of Ultimate Fighting in the past few years. People will always pay to see two people beating on […]
Meet Joe Schoenmann
Sunday, March 11th, 2007By Zach Arnold On Sunday, Las Vegas Sun writer Joe Schoenmann wrote what easily could be the most detestable article about MMA in the mainstream media for the year 2007. Schoenmann’s article, titled Evolution or Devolution?, featured as many baseless and/or conspiracy-laden arguments against the popularity of MMA in America as you could possibly read […]
Sunday headlines – TUF 5 fighters displayed
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Sadaharu Tanigawa announced at a press conference today that an announcement would be made at the end of March in regards to HERO’s running an event in California later this year. The rumor is that the first event will happen in the middle of June. If there is anyone out here reading this that keeps […]
Red meat Saturday
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Fun video of the day – a young Akira Maeda vs. Giant Haystacks I lead off today’s news update with two interesting links. First, in honor of our beloved PizzaChef, I found this just for you. Second, there is an article at Boxing Scene titled The Great Debate – Boxing vs. MMA. I want you […]
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