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Saturday, May 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today’s show in Holland at the Amsterdam Arena proved to be quite a long show. How long? Try 16 matches. No results on the English K-1 page, but they had them on the Japanese page. Results (well, most of them anyways, K-1’s Japanese page didn’t report on all the fights) from today’s […]
Lennox Lewis getting involved in MMA?
Saturday, May 13th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here are his words in an interview with The Record (based out of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada): I am also getting involved in Super Fighters; it’s a new thing that is launching in Australia. It’s basically like Ultimate Fighting but it’s three, four-minute rounds and you may have three fights in a day.
Oscar equals buyrates
Friday, May 12th, 2006By Zach Arnold FightReport.net is reporting that the Oscar De La Hoya vs. Ricardo Mayorga boxing fight last Saturday night drew 875,000 PPV buys.
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 18 (Writer’s Roundtable)
Friday, May 12th, 2006This week’s one-hour show is presented by MMACalifornia.net, a brand new web site focused on the fight scene in the Golden State. Rob Sayers has a special segment this week with amateur fighter Tim Moore. Ever wonder what it’s like to be an amateur fighter? How do you get into the fight game? What kind […]
PRIDE 6/4 Bushido show in Saitama
Thursday, May 11th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion announced Makoto Takimoto vs. Gegard Mousasi (Red Devil International) and Ryo Chonan vs. Joey Villasenor as the first two matches on the 6/4 Saitama Super Arena show. The fighters slotted for the Welterweight tournament are: Akihiro Gono, Kazuo Misaki, Yoon Dong Sik, Denis Kang, Paulo Filho, Phil Baroni, Murilo Ninja, […]
MMA fighting robots
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The trend is gaining traction in Japan and South Korea. Meet your new fighting robots. Here’s a SK article in Japanese talking about South Korean & Japanese fight robots, specifically in regards to a recent tournament called the Robo-One Grand Prix 2006 in which the Japanese robot won by KO. The event […]
Gendai: Company supplied PRIDE owner with mansion
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold A summary transcript of this week’s Shukan Gendai article about PRIDE, Fuji TV, and Nippon TV.
Are changes coming on New Year’s Eve?
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold The MMA wars (K-1 and PRIDE, with Inoki in 2003) have become a TV programming staple in Japan on New Year’s Eve since 2001. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent by the major networks (Tokyo Broadcasting System, Nippon TV, and Fuji TV) to compete with NHK’s Kohaku (Red & White […]
Who will fall next?
Monday, May 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold Earlier this morning, reports surfaced that major members of the powerful Goto-gumi yakuza group were arrested. Just minutes ago, Nikkan Sports released a more detailed news article. The news outlet discusses, in passing, the influence of Goto-gumi on the fight game in Japan (something I alluded to on the message board). The […]
TV Ratings
Sunday, May 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold There’s a wrestler in Puerto Rico named “Mr. Raytings” Ray Gonzalez. Now, meet Japan’s version of Mr. Ratings. 19-year old boxing star Koki Kameda, who’s May 5th fight was broadcasted on Tokyo Broadcasting System, drew a 40.8% QH peak rating according to Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). The overall average rating was a […]
UFC’s “boxing” movement continues
Saturday, May 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold Most people, by now, know that Dana White takes a lot of cues from boxing. It’s a positive on some levels, but unfortunately Zuffa’s latest move is not such a positive step if you’re an MMA fan. Boxing has, for the most part, relegated itself to a PPV-only product with exorbitant PPV […]
Gendai fires back at DSE
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara responded with legal threats a couple of days ago in response to the long-term campaign of allegations made against him by Shukan Gendai in relation to yakuza influence. However, these new threats clearly have not deterred Kodansha (the publisher of Gendai) from their aggressive article series against DSE. […]
Battle of Giants set in K-1
Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Digital Chosun reports that “Techno Goliath” Choi Hong-Man will face Semmy Schilt on June 3rd in Seoul, South Korea in the K-1 Asia Grand Prix tournament. Update: An article in The Korea Times about the upcoming match.
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