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Monday, October 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold What an exhausting last week that was if you were an MMA or professional wrestling fan. Oversaturation of good and bad programming, indeed. But don’t worry, relive some of the good, the bad, and ugly highlights from the week that was in the fight industry.
Updated Bushido 11/5 Yokohama Arena card line-up
Sunday, October 15th, 2006In no specific match order. Welterweight GP: Akihiro Gono vs. Denis Kang Welterweight GP: Kazuo Misaki vs. Paulo Filho Welterweight GP Reserve Match: Gegard Mousasi vs. Hector Lombard Lightweight Title Match: Takanori Gomi vs. Marcus Aurelio Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Mike Barton Shin’ya Aoki vs. Gilbert Melendez Nobuhiro Obiya vs. Luis Buscape Murilo Bustamante vs. Yoon […]
Sunday newspaper review
Sunday, October 15th, 2006Update: Mark Pickering reports that K-1 is trying to book retired boxer Vitali Klitschko. Lots of UFC coverage. Lots. This will be updated throughout the day. If you click to read this in full-post view, you will see that we have added a poll question that anyone can vote on. Please vote. Yahoo Japan HP: […]
Fight Opinion goes to the movies
Saturday, October 14th, 2006OK, not really. We just find a lot of mass media article links about John Cena’s new movie, The Marine, and let you read them. You’re going to want to, for sure. I am daring you, Erin, to go see this movie and give us your thoughts. For that matter, anyone reading this who has […]
Sensational Saturday media round-up
Saturday, October 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Donate to FightOpinion.com This week has been insane for media coverage. Click the full-post view to read today’s links. Please give us feedback to the various media stories. We want to read your opinions.
All is not good in UFC land
Friday, October 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold With people reflecting upon the success of UFC’s 3.1 rating for Ken vs. Tito III, the obvious question asked by everyone was whether or not that rating meant that UFC would be able to create new fans that would watch their other programming. The first test was Thursday’s Ultimate Fighter show, which […]
The Friday MMA media marathon
Friday, October 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Donate to FightOpinion.com Update: The one big media story today are the rumors/reports (here and here) that Mirko Cro Cop has undergone surgery and will not fight on New Year’s Eve for PRIDE. I think this is the direct link to the newspaper report. If you use an RSS reader (or service […]
Thursday media link-o-rama
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Time to take a deep breath (hopefully the news cycle slows down). If you have any MMA news-related media links you would like to contribute to this article, post them in the comments section. We’re definitely looking for fresh links, especially from the various blogs. You can see all of today’s links in full-post view. […]
Ken vs. Tito III draws huge ratings
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006Spike TV press release says that Tuesday night’s event from Florida drew a 3.1 rating cable, and also beat the Oakland A’s vs. Detroit Tigers game that aired on FOX in the male 18-34 year old demographic. Ratings breakdown here. “Last night was a turning point for the UFC. This will further drive the evolution […]
Response to UFC & WWE article
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold The comments and mail in regards to Luke Nicholson’s article were voluminous. I generally agree with his position and the tone of his article. I also view his article not as just an American wrestling fan, but as a Japanese wrestling fan. The history that has transpired in Japan does somewhat translate […]
Tanigawa focuses on Sapp & Melendez
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Gryphon has more details. Here’s a screen capture from Dave Meltzer’s Wednesday news update. Would K-1 use this as evidence in court of a breach of contract? As I noted over at Puroresu Power today, K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa held a press conference to focus on upcoming action the company would […]
Wednesday MMA media round-up
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006Hint: A massive amount of mainstream media coverage for UFC. And check out the link to Rick Telander’s column in the Chicago Sun-Times. Yes, another one of the “old guard” of sports writers (from Chicago) who was a boxing supporter and isn’t supportive of UFC’s rise as a sport. Maybe Telander is in competition with […]
Is this the big Japanese arrest?
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold I am strongly encouraging our Japanese readers to help out with gathering information for this story. Please contribute if you can. In the last several years, times have been tough for the various Japanese media outlets. As business has declined, so have profits and ultimately many publications have had to restructure their […]
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