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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007A new poll has been added to the right sidebar of the page. It’s an interesting one, given that all three situations are serious. Poll results from our last site question: What is the biggest MMA-related story for 2006? UFC explodes in popularity, creates big business boom – 53% PRIDE gets negative campaign from Shukan […]
New Jersey commission to use instant replay
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007State of New Jersey State Athletic Control Board P.O. Box 180 Trenton, NJ 08625-0180 PRESS RELEASE Date: January 3, 2007 Subject: Use of Instant Replay for Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, and Kickboxing Matches
Wednesday weekly notes
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007UFC Junkie: An alert to MMA writers about plagiarism (it sounds pretty much like spam blogs set up to take RSS feeds and pass off the content as their own) Tales from Inside Japan: Live PRIDE 12/31 Saitama event report TC Palm: Jupiter (Florida) gym on ground floor of growing popularity of Ultimate Fighting Gambling […]
PRIDE 2007 schedule notes
Monday, January 1st, 2007The promotion announced the formation of a Super Heavyweight division (creating a Monster GP tournament). Schedule of event dates this year: 2/24 Las Vegas (PRIDE 33), 4/8 Saitama Super Arena (PRIDE 34), 4/28 Las Vegas, May (Saitama Super Arena – Lightweight GP), June in Los Angeles at the Staples Center (PRIDE 36), July in Nagoya […]
Ratings data
Monday, January 1st, 2007Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan announced the ratings for the Red & White Music Festival (Kohaku) program in Japan. The first part drew a 30.6% rating in the Kanto area (28.5% in the Kansai area), and the second part drew a 39.8% rating in the Kanto area (37.6% in the Kansai area). The numbers are […]
Happy New Year headlines
Monday, January 1st, 2007Lots of news links, headlines, and interesting items.
K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome Dynamite event
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Main card results here. If you have more results links, video clip links, etc. anything related to this show, post contributions in the comments area. Official show results can be seen in full-post view. The claimed attendance was 50,930 at the Osaka Dome. Genki Sudo indicated that he would retire after his fight with Jackson […]
PRIDE 12/31 Man Festival event results
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Full-post view gets you the latest match results. The claimed attendance for the Saitama event was 48,709. The Yoshida vs. James Thompson fight grabbed top headlines for PRIDE coverage (the K-1 event took a majority of the media coverage in Japan). PRIDE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara fielded questions from the media about Mirko Cro Cop leaving […]
Open UFC thread
Saturday, December 30th, 2006Have at it in the comments section. Talk about the ongoing UFC 66 show taking place in Las Vegas, or discuss the entry of Rampage and Mirko into UFC.
Saturday news slate
Friday, December 29th, 2006Click on full-post view to see the media story links and the K-1 12/31 Osaka Dome card line-up in match order.
News round-up
Friday, December 29th, 2006The Fight Network says that the NSAC has filed for visa paperwork to get Mirko Cro Cop’s work visa in time to fight on the UFC 67 event on 2/3. At tonight’s IFL event at Mohegan Sun Arena, Pat Miletich’s Silverbacks faced off against Matt Lindland’s Wolfpack team. Event results here.
Mike Tyson arrested in Arizona
Friday, December 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold It sure looks like former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was undergoing rigorous training for his upcoming PRIDE fight in Macau, which was to be part of PRIDE’s triangulation plan to make inroads into the casino world. OK, so Tyson got arrested early Friday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona on charges of DUI […]
Order of matches on PRIDE 12/31
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Full-post view gets you the ordered line-up.
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