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Sunday, February 11th, 2007The Deseret News: How the Sydney Olympics changed wrestler Rulon Gardner’s life (key line in the article is that PRIDE keeps calling him with offers to fight Fedor at $500,000 USD) Observer: Reader challenges Eddie Goldman in regards to the ‘ground rule’ in effect at the Elite XC show The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: MMA is not […]
Elite XC 2/10 Southaven, MS
Saturday, February 10th, 2007This is the open post for everyone who is watching tonight’s event. ProElite.com will be airing their undercard fights (starting at 7 PM EST) on their web site, but the catch is that you have to sign up for an account first. The main card will air on Showtime in America and The Fight Network […]
Saturday news round-up
Saturday, February 10th, 2007Top story of the day (outside of Elite XC’s debut show) is that Sven Bean’s Ring of Fire promotion has signed a deal with HDNet to air all of its MMA shows. Onto today’s headlines. Multichannel News: Ultimate Fighter – Dana White took on boxing and pro-wrestling KG: At the balance of a very lousy […]
Michigan looks to ban all MMA
Friday, February 9th, 2007The headline says it all. The worst fears of those who did not want to see Toughman linked to MMA may be coming true. While ‘ultimate fighting’ is already prohibited in Michigan, this new action seeks to eliminate amateur MMA fights and any boxing promoters who are using modified boxing fights to slip MMA bouts […]
Friday media links – round two
Friday, February 9th, 2007Too much news today, so two posts. There is a new Chinese MMA blog called China Combat that you should keep your eyes on. At least, bookmark it’s RSS feed. Also, Komikazee has a new radio show up that has full audio coverage of the IFL event that happened last week in Houston. If that […]
Friday media coverage
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Red meat week here at Fight Opinion. Here’s some red meat for site readers. Bugly Blog: F.O. Radio panel not as entertaining as Sherdog’s radio team. Tasty. He clearly must not be talking about me. An update to something I mentioned on the radio show about Bruce Buffer’s continuous blunders as UFC ring announcer. Yes, […]
Thursday media topics
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Despite a report (and claim by UFC) stating that UFC is preparing to run in the state of New Jersey, information provided to us claims otherwise. The New Jersey State Athletic Control board has supposedly not been contacted with any request to hold dates, get a venue permit, or approve matches for a UFC event […]
PRIDE notes
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007MMA Weekly reports that PRIDE will air their next Japanese show live in the US on PPV. (Ed. — I’ve done PBP before of PRIDE shows. The last Bushido show, 11/3/06 Yokohama Arena, lasted 6 hours. It started from 11 PM-12 AM PST. Nobody in large numbers is staying up this late to watch a […]
Wednesday fight notes
Tuesday, February 6th, 200722 articles linked to.
Fight Opinion Radio #40: Big happenings
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Add us as your MySpace friend. Potential sponsors (web sites, fighters, teams, companies) – if you want to have ads on our show (paid or barter), e-mail us immediately. We’ll keep this short. We have a lot of content in our three-hour show. We have a lot of guests, including Mac Danzig, Sean Salmon, Jordan […]
Tuesday media mania
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Nevada State Athletic Commission: Injury report for UFC 67 show WSB TV: Atlanta boxer O’Neil Bell arrested for ax attack Mac Danzig: PRIDE wanted me to do a pro-wrestling style promo Mainichi Daily News: 3 shooting incidents in Tokyo believed related to killing of gang boss (story update here) MMA HQ: Heath Herring returns at […]
Monday news and notes
Monday, February 5th, 2007Red meat time. OK, maybe not. K-1 had a show today at Ariake Colosseum that completely flew under the radar. Only interesting headline was both Albert Kraus and Takayuki Kohiruimaki losing.
Can UFC control their message in Japan?
Sunday, February 4th, 2007By Zach Arnold To try to understand the Japanese politics of the fight game, you have to remember a lot of names and faces. As alluded to on the site last night, Ken Imai (who is Mirko Cro Cop’s PRIDE agent) showed up in Las Vegas for Mirko’s UFC debut against Eddie Sanchez. It is […]
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