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Sunday, October 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold The five major free TV networks in Japan (Tokyo Broadcasting System, TV-Tokyo, Nippon TV, Fuji TV, & TV-Asahi) are starting to get their New Year’s Eve programming plans ready. Based on what is publicly known, here is the information that we know of so far: TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting) – K-1 Dynamite!! Fuji […]
Sunday & Monday is media fun-day
Sunday, October 29th, 2006Consider this an open post to talk about any stories MMA-related you see in the media or just anything in general MMA-related you want to talk about. Look at the prices on Ticketmaster for tickets for UFC’s TUF 4 Finale show. $175-$495 USD per ticket. Sunday and Monday headlines can be read in full-post view.
Kiyoshi Tamura appreciation day
Saturday, October 28th, 2006The obstinent man in red pants. A man who calls his daily journal the Full Nude Blog. It’s impossible to hate him. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Kazushi Sakuraba (UWF-International) Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (6/27/1998 at Tokyo Bay NK Hall – RINGS promotion) Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Frank Shamrock (4/23/1999 Osaka Prefectural Gym – RINGS promotion) Kiyoshi […]
Trevor Berbick murdered
Saturday, October 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Associated Press reports a disturbing crime scene in Jamaica. Bloomberg has more details. As noted in a Wikipedia entry, Berbick was involved in a famous double-crossing in 1991 against Nobuhiko Takada for the UWF-International promotion. Other related links: ESPN (Dan Rafael): Berbick ‘the other guy’ in the career of others The […]
Mike Tyson’s PPV value in 2006 is…
Friday, October 27th, 2006Half of what Total Nonstop Action wrestling draws. Oleg Maskaev has his Christmas card ready to send and mail off to Iron Mike now. Even he is laughing at Tyson’s buyrate power. PRIDE looks to be very smart by marketing Tyson in Macau and not in America. If you click on full-post view, you can […]
Drug test failures draw no Japanese media attention
Friday, October 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold When news broke that both Vitor Belfort & Pawel Nastula apparently failed the NSAC-sanctioned drug tests, it was certainly a story with some traction on the various English MMA web sites. However, the story is a completely different one in regards to the Japanese press.
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 29 (PRIDE in Las Vegas)
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Right after we taped our newest show (reviewing the PRIDE Las Vegas event), news broke that both Vitor Belfort and Pawel Nastula failed their drug tests (issued by the NSAC). Will the company recognize the drug testing suspensions worldwide? We’ll have a lot more on this story on next week’s show. On this week’s show, […]
Thursday and Friday multipurpose thread
Thursday, October 26th, 2006This will be updated throughout the next two days. If you click full-post mode, you’ll read comments made by Dave Meltzer in an interview on Thursday in regards to how UFC is reacting to PRIDE’s first Las Vegas event. Plus (updated Friday), Tito Ortiz finds new ways to create controversy.
Will BoDog be able to book Fedor away from PRIDE?
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Gryphon comments on the story. Emelianenko Fedor, the PRIDE Heavyweight champion, is certainly one of the most coveted fighters in the industry today. In 2003, when Miro Mijatovic was his agent in Japan, he worked the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 event at Kobe Wing Stadium. That event became part of the larger […]
Wednesday media round-up
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Dave Doyle: Showbiz and MMA (a fantastic article about Vince McMahon’s past failures and what it would mean in MMA) UFC HP: Nick Diaz prepares to fight at UFC 65 near his hometown Complete Vale Tudo Access: Pancrase 10/25 Korakuen Hall event results Nevada State Athletic Commission: Medical suspensions coming of PRIDE 32 event (take […]
Tuesday media circus
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006The big news of the day (reported by Channel News Asia) is that King of the Cage will have an event on November 30th in Singapore. The report does not list what venue the show will take place at. If it happens at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, that is an estimated 10,000-12,000-seat building. If you […]
UFC 65 Sacramento card line-up
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Nine fights are scheduled. Here are the fights announced so far: Welterweight Title Match: Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre Heavyweight Title Match: Tim Sylvia vs. Jeff Monson Brandon Vera vs. Frank Mir Alessio Sakara vs. Wilson Gouveia Brad Imes vs. Antoni Hardonk James Irvin vs. Hector Ramirez Nick Diaz vs. Gleison Tibau Joe Stevenson […]
The Echo Chamber
Monday, October 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold I realize that by writing this article, it is going to draw significant heat with a lot of PRIDE fans. I accept that premise going into this. However, this article has to be written because a few things need to be pointed out about PRIDE’s Las Vegas event that haven’t been mentioned […]
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