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Friday, May 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold Click on the post link to read the show results.
The IFL has new ownership
Thursday, May 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold After a somewhat rocky debut on April 29th in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the IFL announced in a press release that the company has merged with Paligent Inc., a former biotech company. In short, the IFL is under new ownership before their first TV show (scheduled for May 21st on Fox Sports […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 17 (Sakuraba leaves PRIDE)
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Kazushi Sakuraba & Akira Maeda (5/4/2006). Photo credit: Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan). This week’s one-hour show with Rob Sayers and Zach Arnold focuses on Kazushi Sakuraba’s departure from PRIDE to HERO’s. The original intent of this week’s show was to preview the PRIDE 5/5 Osaka Dome show, but Sakuraba’s departure clearly has overshadowed everything else […]
Sakakibara’s new response to Gendai & Kawamata
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara issued a statement on the PRIDE HP about Shukan Gendai & Seiya Kawamata. In the statement, Sakakibara says the following: DSE & PRIDE are not backed by yakuza money Kawamata’s testimony and claims are one-sided and false The statements that Kawamata & Gendai have made are frustrating and […]
Sakuraba jumps from PRIDE to HERO’s
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold A few hours ago, rumors were flying about an “explosive surprise” that K-1 boss Sadaharu Tanigawa promised to have at the Yoyogi show. The first word of this came in a Tarzan Yamamoto column. The rumors are substantiated now, and that Kazushi Sakuraba (who, over the weekend, left the DSE-ran Takada Dojo) […]
PRIDE 5/5 Osaka preview show
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Tomorrow, Rob Sayers & I will do a quick preview of the 5/5 Osaka Dome show. We’ll go over the last-minute line-ups, the arrival of fighters in Japan, the media coverage, the circumstances surrounding the booking of the show and money, plus we’ll keep our eyes on whether or not Yosuke Nishijima […]
HERO’s 5/3 Yoyogi final card
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1/HERO’s announced that Yoshihisa Yamamoto & Gilbert Melendez are off the card due to injuries. They are replaced respectively by Kazuhiro Hamanaka & Rani Yahya. WAKASHOYO vs. Kazuhiro Hamanaka Antonio Silva vs. Tom Erikson Akebono vs. Don Frye Middleweight Tournament: Ivan Menjivar vs. Taiyo Nakahara Middleweight Tournament: Ryuki Ueyama vs. Rani Yahya […]
Media Notes
Monday, May 1st, 2006Ryan Bennett (MMAWeekly.com) signs with The Fight Network. The Denver-based ACF (American Championship Fighting) promotion has signed a deal with HDNet to air footage of ACF MMA shows. The heavy push starts this weekend at the Denver Coliseum. Over 5,600 fans show up in Halifax on Saturday for their first MMA event. Chronicle Herald writer […]
Full 5/5 PRIDE Osaka Dome card
Sunday, April 30th, 2006Yuji Shimada (pictured above): Photo credit — DSE official HP (Japanese) By Zach Arnold DSE has been marketing the Open-Weight tournament as a 16-man tournament, but it appears that it will be a 14-man tournament with Emelianenko Fedor getting a bye into the second round. Card line-up: Non-Tournament: Gilbert Yvel vs. Roman Zentsov Alistair Overeem […]
Brock Lesnar’s MMA debut
Sunday, April 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold Brock Lesnar made an appearance at the K-1 Las Vegas event (attendance claimed was 6,730) on Saturday night, and the Japanese press is reporting that Lesnar’s MMA debut is going to happen for Akira Maeda/K-1’s HERO’s promotion. Lesnar becomes yet another IWGP champion and star under the New Japan banner to be […]
K-1 4/29 Las Vegas results
Sunday, April 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold Ironically, the promotion has not listed the Las Vegas show results on their American site, but posted them on their Japanese site. Here are the results…
He’s baaaaack…
Saturday, April 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold Earlier in the week at Puroresu Power, we talked about Antonio Inoki’s attempt to get into the IFL or be associated with the new MMA project. Sherdog reports that Inoki is now the IFL’s “Global Ambassador.” IFL 4/29 Atlantic City results. Maybe this Jitsuwa Knuckles article would be informative for those associated […]
Akebono on the HERO’s show
Friday, April 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Golden Week is about to start in Japan, and HERO’s has announced Akebono vs. Don Frye in an MMA fight on their 5/3 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I show that will air on Tokyo Broadcasting System. Also announced for the 5/3 Yoyogi show is Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. WAKASHOYO.
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