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Monday, August 7th, 2006It appears that letting Paul Buentello become a free agent may not pay off for UFC. Tank Abbott vs. Paul Buentello has been booked for the next Scott Coker Strikeforce show on October 7th in Fresno, California at the SaveMart Center. Can this match sell 10,000 tickets?
Resolution between Mirko & PRIDE?
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Vecernji List reports (translated on Sherdog) that a resolution between PRIDE & Mirko Cro Cop may have been reached. The dispute between Mirko and PRIDE involved money, more specifically whether or not he would get paid fight money for two fights if he won his first fight against Vanderlei Silva and then […]
HERO’s admits misjudgement
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last week turned out to be bittersweet for Tokyo Broadcasting System, which televised both the Koki Kameda fight (that drew monster ratings) and the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show, featuring the debut of Kazushi Sakuraba in the K-1 MMA ring. Both of those fights had controversy, but there was another fight on […]
Bushido 8/26 updated card line-up
Sunday, August 6th, 20068/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall (4 PM) Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Cristiano Marcello (Chute Boxe) Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Luciano Azevedo Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Eric “Butterbean” Esch Jeff Curran vs. Hioki Hatsu Shin’ya Aoki vs. Jason Black Gilbert Melendez vs. Nobuhiro Obiya Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Chris Brennan Welterweight Tournament: Denis Kang vs. Amar Suloev Welterweight Tournament: […]
Mirko out of open-weight tournament?
Saturday, August 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Reaction on the Nokaut site. This Croatian report indicates that Mirko Cro Cop is not working the PRIDE 9/10 Saitama Super Arena show. Sherdog claims it is a money issue. This is a very bad sign for PRIDE, even if the end result (which is likely Yoshida filling in, creating yet […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo review
Saturday, August 5th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum results | Kakuto.com show review Anyone who gets a chance to watch some of the matches, feel free to write a comment to this post. Update: On Sunday, Akira Maeda gave comments to the media about the Sakuraba fight. Maeda stated that bad decisions were made by the referee, judge, and […]
Drama between Miletich & White continues
Friday, August 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold 2006 has publicly proven to be quite the interesting year between superstar MMA trainer/businessman Pat Miletich and UFC President Dana White. Tim Sylvia, Miletich’s top heavyweight, remains UFC champion. Miletich gave a witness deposition statement in the UFC vs. IFL court case earlier this year, in which he talked about Dana’s displeasure […]
PRIDE 10/14 Las Vegas show
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006They are marketing this show as THE REAL DEAL. Seriously. Press release: Possible participants include PRIDE Fighting Heavyweight Champion FEDOR EMELINANENKO, “THE NEW YORK BAD ASS†PHIL BARONI, KEVIN “THE MONSTER†RANDLEMAN, MIRKO “CRO COP†FILIPOVIC, MAURICIO “SHOGUN†RUA, KAZUYUKI “IRONHEAD†FUJITA, MARK “THE HAMMER†COLEMAN, and other PRIDE Fighting superstars! (Fighters and card subject […]
Kameda may vacate WBA belt
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Mainichi Daily News: Kameda may relinquish title and move on, boxing gym president hints Keiichiro Kanehira, the president of the boxing gym to which world light flyweight champion Koki Kameda belongs, has hinted that Kameda may give up his crown without defending it. Speaking in a news conference Thursday, Kanehira suggested that Kameda, who won […]
Final HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Thursday, August 3rd, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) HERO’s rules: Kotetsu Boku vs. Alexandre Franca Nogueira HERO’s rules: Semmy Schilt vs. Kim Min Soo Middleweight Tournament: Hideo Tokoro vs. Ivan Menjivar Middleweight Tournament: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. JZ Calvan (Gesias Calvancanti) Middleweight Tournament: Kazuya Yasuhiro vs. Rani Yahira Middleweight Tournament: Kaoru Uno vs. Black Mamba Light Heavyweight Tournament: […]
More MMA PPVs in America
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Two items buried in the weekly MMA column written by Carlos Arias in the Orange County Register. First, an item regarding another American MMA promotion running a PPV telecast: (Rick) Bassman, the promoter for Valor Fighting, said Valor Fighting has a pay-per-view event featuring Eric “Butterbean†Esch against Tank Abbott scheduled for Dec. 2 at […]
Brock Lesnar update
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported on Thursday that Brock Lesnar is continuing to train for MMA. Former Gophers NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion Brock Lesnar has been vigorously training near his home in Independence for an “ultimate fighting” match in October in Las Vegas. Former heavyweight boxer Scott LeDoux is training Lesnar, […]
The future of Xyience
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Xyience, which is the main sponsor of UFC telecasts (and has sponsorship deals with several fighters), may be facing some financial problems (according to a report on F4W). In what could end up being a huge story, the word in Las Vegas the last few days is that there may be major […]
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