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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold There is a lot of press coverage this week in the media for this Thursday’s season-opening show for The Ultimate Fighter: Season 4. Neil Davidson in the Canadian Press (article here at Canada.com) has an article, along with The Dartmouth Online, the UK’s News & Star, The Boston Herald, and Multichannel News. […]
Promoting 101: How to burn a town
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold For the last few days, Erin Bucknell at MMA California has been following the events surrounding a Stockton, California MMA show last Saturday that was supposed to be headlined by Nick Diaz. On Saturday morning, Erin caught a newspaper report about Diaz not having an official weigh-in. Hours later, various MMA sites […]
Inoki has advice for Kameda
Monday, August 14th, 2006By Zach Arnold Antonio Inoki has had a storied career, and some of those highlights include his friendships with dictators. Before you consider that statement harsh, history shows that Mr. Inoki likes to extend himself to various characters — such as the Hussein sons in 1990 in Iraq (when he went there to get Japanese […]
Top Oregon city proposes MMA ban
Monday, August 14th, 2006Update: The Eugene Register-Guard has more details. Make your voice heard. KVAL-TV in Eugene, Oregon is reporting that the city is preparing a ban on MMA. “It is not a professional sport. It doesn’t have requirements around weight or age or anything that sets up fair competition,” says Piercy. If you would like to (politely) […]
K-1 World GP in Las Vegas
Sunday, August 13th, 2006The return of Stefan Leko was a successful one. Bellagio show results (from the K-1 Japanese HP): Alexey Ignashov defeated Imani Lee after 3R by a 2-1 judges’ decision (30-27, 27-30, 29-28). Michael McDonald defeated Ariel Mastov after 3R by a 3-0 judges’ decision (30-26 three times). Stefan “Blitz” Leko defeated Scott Lighty in R3 […]
PRIDE rolls the dice in Las Vegas
Saturday, August 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion in Japan announced that Emelianenko Fedor, Mauricio Shogun, Mirko Cro Cop, Kazuyuki Fujita, Josh Barnett, Mark Coleman, Kevin Randleman, Phil Baroni, Kazuhiro Nakamura, and Pawel Nastula will work their 10/21 Las Vegas show at the Thomas & Mack Center. Not surprisingly, the promotion is also running a special tour event […]
UFC makes another acquisition
Friday, August 11th, 2006Multichannel News is reporting that InDemand programming executive Marshall Zelaznik will join UFC and head up their UK opertaions. MN says this move is a precursor of UFC expanding into Europe. Meanwhile, an update on the Silva/Liddell story that was first reported by CP (Canadian Press) in the Calgary Sun – the CP wire report […]
Dana says Liddell/Silva unlikely to happen
Friday, August 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold CP (Canadian Press) reports that UFC is now postponing plans for a fight in November between Chuck Liddell and Vanderlei Silva. This news comes one month after Dana White announced on PPV (in Las Vegas) that Silva would fight Liddell. He cited problems in dealing with the Japan-based Pride Fighting Championships that […]
Big talk, little interest
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Consider this an opinion piece, if you liked to be warned in advance. For the last week or so, I’ve seen reports online about comments PRIDE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara has been making about how his guys would beat the UFC fighters. UFC, to their credit, has literally said nothing about any sort […]
K-1 & Lesnar in Las Vegas
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion has a show this weekend at the Bellagio Hotel, and Brock Lesnar is expected to appear at a press conference to announce his participation in an MMA match for HERO’s. 8/12 Vegas card line-up here. I know that there were several other promotions interested in his services, including one group […]
Updated K-1 9/4 Ariake Colosseum card
Wednesday, August 9th, 20069/4 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum: Kazuya Yasuhiro vs. Andy Ologun Genki Sudo vs. TBA Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Hiroki Shishido Hiroshiki Ishii vs. Ian Schaffa Hiroyuki Maeda vs. Remigijus Morkevicius Drago vs. Naoki Samukawa TATSUJI vs. Mike Zambidis HAYATO vs. Artur Kyshenko Takayuki Kohiruimaki vs. Andy Souwer Yoshihiro Sato vs. Albert Kraus
Techno Goliath versus The Paparazzi
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Digital Chosun has a report (in Japanese) about comments recently made by Choi Hong-Man. Hong-Man went on a SBS variety TV show (South Korean) on Monday and talked about being followed by the paparazzi. He told a story about how a Japanese magazine took a snapshot of him and a woman at […]
PRIDE’s new big signing
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Yeo Jong-Hoon (long-time correspondent) reports that Lee Tae Hyun (born on 1/17/1976, 196 cm, 138 kg) announced at a press conference today that he would fight in PRIDE. (Sports Navigator report here). Nobuyuki Sakakibara & Nobuhiko Takada were present at the media briefing. Tae Hyun is considered one of the great Ssirum […]
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