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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006We are accepting guest audio clips to air on the next edition of Fight Opinion Radio. Pick one of the following topics and record a 2-3 minute audio clip about it. Your predictions and analysis for the upcoming UFC 63 show. Thoughts about the future of PRIDE after their 9/10 Saitama event. After the IFL’s […]
Weekly Fight newspaper collapses
Monday, September 11th, 2006Yahoo Japan HP: “Pro-wrestling publication ‘Weekly Fight’ is ended” By Zach Arnold Kakutolog (in Japanese) has a shocking post about a media report in regards to the future of Weekly Fight, the weekly newspaper produced by Shin-Osaka Shimbun. The paper is being discontinued as of September 27th, which will apparently be the last issue of […]
Random PRIDE thoughts
Monday, September 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold Thoughts after watching the Saitama event…
PRIDE 9/10 Saitama results
Saturday, September 9th, 2006Click on full-post link to read results. Special thanks to Burning Spirit for specific match times. A more detailed report of show results can be found here. The claimed paid attendance was 47,410. Post updated at 6:30 PM EST on 9/10.
The mass media exodus continues
Friday, September 8th, 2006First, it was the Torch. Now, it’s 1wrestling.com.
PRIDE event in Saitama
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Time to get predictions from everyone on the Grand Prix tournament fights. a) Josh Barnett vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira – pick a winner b) Mirko Cro Cop vs. vanderlei Silva – pick a winner c) winner of a vs. winner of b – your tournament winner? Jeff Thaler commented on his site that the PRIDE […]
Update on UFC DVDs
Thursday, September 7th, 2006First Look keeps UFC distribution. First Look Home Entertainment last week won the rights to continue distributing Zuffa’s UFC Fighting Championship DVDs for the next 3½ years, while Zuffa won the rights to audit First Look’s books. First Look Studios acquired the assets of Ventura Distribution earlier this year. Zuffa had been distributed by Ventura […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 23
Thursday, September 7th, 2006This edition of Fight Opinion Radio turns a new leaf, as we welcome in new lead host Jeff Thaler. Jeff is a former agent of many fighters (including Babalu), and he brings a unique perspective to the radio show that I think you will enjoy. On this week’s show, we have a recap of the […]
Did Jim Ross point the finger at K-1?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Several years ago, WWE announcer Jim Ross used to have a weekly column on the WWE site called “The Ross Report” that became controversial for many reasons, with one of those reasons being some of the cryptic comments he made in the reports. No matter what you thought about Ross and his […]
Holyfield’s next fight
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold It was annouunced on Thursday that Evander Holyfield’s next fight would take place on November 10th at the Alamodome against Fres Oquendo. This AP report suggests the fight will air live on Fox Sports Net, while this report suggests that Fox Sports Net is getting into the PPV business and will promote […]
K-1’s message to PRIDE
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Today is the start of the heat-up for this weekend’s PRIDE show in Saitama (with two mega-matches on the card). Instead, K-1/HERO’s cleverly scheduled a press conference for today to announce a fight between Kazushi Sakuraba and Yoshihiro Akiyama in the second round of the HERO’s Light Heavyweight tournament (10/9 Yokohama Arena event). Shungo Oyama […]
Internal media speculation on Tyson
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Kakutolog (in Japanese) has a very interesting post about a Gendai Net report on PRIDE & Mike Tyson working together. More specifically, the supposed motives on PRIDE’s behalf for booking Tyson. The Gendai Net article claims that PRIDE’s real motive behind signing Mike Tyson (to an exhibition boxing match) is to try […]
Report: Bonnar tests positive for steroids
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Source: MMA Weekly. Boldenone is an anabolic steroid that is intended for use only by veterinarians, specifically to help rehabilitate injured horses. It has several brand names for veterinary use, including Equigan, Equipoise, Ultragan, and Ganabol. It is on the banned substances list of all the major athletic commissions and sports leagues. If you recognize […]
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