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Friday, August 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Results and review of the ESPN2 telecast can be viewed in full-post view.
Thursday’s UFC media round-up
Thursday, August 24th, 2006FoxSports.com UFC 62 event predictions FoxSports.com Chuck Liddell interview/profile article Mickey’s Brewing Co., a subsidiary of Miller Brewing Co., signs a big sponsorship deal with UFC Canadian Press: Babalu looks for revenge against the Iceman in UFC title bout On a completely unrelated news item, South Korea has a robot MMA tournament happening today.
DSE: The contract with Tyson is made
Thursday, August 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold That is the headline on Yahoo Japan’s HP today. PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara is expected to release contract details next week. Tyson’s debut will happen on the 10/21 Las Vegas event.
Newspaper: Hughes/GSP may not happen
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Jose Rodriguez in the Calgary Sun reports that an announcement is expected tomorrow from Georges St. Pierre’s manager, Stephane Patry, as to whether or not the GSP vs. Matt Hughes fight (scheduled to take place on September 23rd at the Arrowhead Pond) will take place. Update: It appears that BJ Penn will […]
UFC’s branding & competition
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Jeff Thaler has thoughts about a recent newspaper article in which UFC’s COO talks about the amount of money that the UFC fighters are paid per-fight. The Miami Herald has more on UFC’s media momentum and branding. I have seen many sentiments online about UFC facing competition in the near future. So […]
PRIDE 9/10 Saitama card line-up
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006Yosuke Nishijima vs. Evangelista Cyborg Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Yoshihiro “KISS” Nakao Reserve Match: Sergey Kharitonov vs. Emelianenko Alexander Open-Weight GP: Vanderlei Silva vs. Mirko Cro Cop Open-Weight GP: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Josh Barnett At the press conference announcing the new fights, Nishijima indicated that he wanted a chance at Mike Tyson.
K-1 9/30 Osaka Castle Hall card line-up
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006K-1 World GP 2006 in Osaka Jerome Le Banner vs. Choi Hong-Man Peter Aerts vs. Remy Bonjasky Semmy Schilt vs. Bjorn Bregy Ernesto Hoost vs. Yusuke Fujimoto Musashi vs. Chalid “Die Faust” Arrab Plus: Glaube Feitosa, Ray Sefo, Ruslan Karaev, and others. Sidenote: Genki Sudo vs. Ian Schaffa was announced for the promotion’s 9/4 Tokyo, […]
Kameda vs. Landaeta II
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006The big announcement today in Japan is that Koki Kameda, who won a very controversial decision over Juan Jose Landaeta of Venezuela (on 8/2 at Yokohama Arena), will have a re-match with Landaeta in October.
Mike Tyson in PRIDE
Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The front page of Yahoo Japan’s HP has the link to a Sports Nippon newspaper report about Mike Tyson participating in PRIDE. Tyson is being marketed to the Japanese as PRIDE’s “big surprise” for their 10/21 Las Vegas event. Also in the report, Hidehiko Yoshida continued expressing his desire to open up […]
PRIDE 10/21 Las Vegas event
Sunday, August 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion announced Mark Coleman vs. Emelianenko Fedor and Kevin Randleman vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua as two of the matches for their 10/21 Thomas & Mack Center show in Las Vegas, Nevada. What makes the Coleman vs. Fedor announcement interesting is that a few days ago, the promotion indirectly (through Sankei Sports) […]
Holyfield wins in return fight
Friday, August 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Fox Sports Net had a live telecast of the Evander Holyfield vs. Jeremy Bates fight from Dallas, Texas at the American Airlines Arena on Friday night. Holyfield defeated Jeremy Bates by TKO (referee stoppage) at the end of R2. The crowd was very large at the Arena and strongly supportive of Holyfield, […]
Calvin Ayre officially announces MMA entry
Friday, August 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last month, we reported an industry rumor online first about Bodog.net owner Calvin Ayre getting involved in the MMA business. Today, a press release was issued on the Casino City Times detailing Ayre’s plans. In short, the first MMA show series taping is underway right now in Costa Rica (where Ayre is […]
UFC Fight Night (8/17/2006)
Thursday, August 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here we go. Full show review.
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