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Monday, October 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold To say that the UFC hype machine was in full effect on American cable television would be an understatement. Read the article in full-post view to read how much coverage UFC got on Monday night.
HERO’s 10/9 Yokohama event results
Monday, October 9th, 2006The promotion claimed 10,631 paid for the event. A night of surprises. Results can be viewed in full-post mode. Strong ratings for HERO’s Report of Japanese ratings revised by source report. Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan (via Sports Navigator) reports that the HERO’s 10/9 Yokohama Arena show on TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) drew an 14.6% […]
Monday & Tuesday MMA media notes
Monday, October 9th, 2006It’s going to be three chaotic days for media coverage of MMA (primarily UFC). So we’ll use this as the all-purpose thread for all mainstream media coverage of MMA these next three days.
Meet the new Evan Tanner
Sunday, October 8th, 2006Image credit: IronLife.com Here’s the old Evan Tanner (here and here). Now meet the new Evan Tanner (here and here). Notice Evan’s impersonation of Randy Savage in the second picture. At least Evan isn’t causing trouble and being a hooligan like the the fine folks near Lincoln, Nebraska at an MMA show. Obviously these fans […]
Fight Opinion Weekly
Sunday, October 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold We know many of you visit this site while you are at work. Therefore, if you missed out on any site updates this past week, consider this your week-in-review (along with a news item or two). We even have been getting donations from readers to our site. You can, too. Gain a […]
Sunday brunch of MMA news & notes
Sunday, October 8th, 2006I’ll update this post throughout the day (or someone else will, anyhow). Sherdog: Strikeforce draws 5,000 in Fresno, Sherdog says, “…few fans were there to watch (Paul) Buentello.” Don’t fear me, fear the consequences! Strikeforce’s promoter sure did. (Ed. That’s uncalled for. I apologize. We didn’t even think Tank would get knocked out that fast.) […]
Boxing doubleheader fun
Saturday, October 7th, 2006News reports and reviews on: Joel Casamayor vs. Diego Corrales: Reuters | The Sweet Science | Fox Sports | Associated Press Nikolay Valuev vs. Monte Barrett: The Sweet Science | Associated Press | Eastside Boxing | Fight Report
Make your HERO’s event predictions
Saturday, October 7th, 2006Yahoo Japan HP: Front page mentions Ken Kaneko Monday features two relatively big shows in Japan (one MMA, one pro-wrestling), with the MMA event being the HERO’s show produced by K-1 at Yokohama Arena. There has been a very high volume of press coverage for this event in the last two weeks, and most of […]
Saturday MMA media notes
Saturday, October 7th, 2006Update: PRIDE 11/5 Bushido card line-up added to this article (view it in full-post mode). Post updated at 5:45 PM EST. The MMA calendar for October is off the charts in terms of activity. There has been a full-court press this last week (and going into the weekend) for the HERO’s event that will take […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 27 (with Total-MMA.com staff)
Friday, October 6th, 2006One of our strongest shows yet in terms of overall content (news, humor, interview, etc.) Iain Liddle from Total-MMA.com is with us to review the Cage Rage 18 event. Plus, a long UFC roundtable breaking down the UFC Ken/Tito III & UFC 64 events, along with Erin Bucknell undergoing the grueling questions asked by Joe […]
Was the Sherdog site hacked?
Friday, October 6th, 2006I subscribe to the RSS feeds from Sherdog’s site. This morning, in my RSS reader, this showed up (the link is to a screen capture of the RSS feed). So, was their site actually hacked? Or was this the case of some minor-league hacker attempting to screw around with their site and/or RSS feeds?
Tito Ortiz: Put boxing match with Dana on PPV
Thursday, October 5th, 2006Dave Doyle at Fox Sports has a very good interview/article piece on Tito Ortiz. Dave also gives his thoughts on the promoting styles of both UFC & PRIDE: UFC models itself after boxing promotions. PRIDE’s roots trace back to pro wrestling. Rarely has this been more obvious than in the buildup to PRIDE’s The Real […]
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 8
Thursday, October 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: The Boston Herald tells you what you didn’t see on TUF with Jorge Rivera’s post-fight speech. I realize that he was personal in the information he relayed in his interview, but why would TUF TV producers edit this out of the show? It would have really been interesting to watch and […]
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