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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold As predicted by Dr. J on Friday, the IFL has announced a TV deal with Fox Sports Net. Three TV shows will air on the network in May & June. In the press release, the IFL stressed how they were a national company. Expect a lively debate on next week’s radio show […]
Truth serum
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold Mainichi Daily News reports that former tabloid writer Takashi Nishizawa will have to testify on Tuesday, April 4th in front of the members of the Diet. As we’ve discussed in the last few days, this could be fun to watch. On a media sidenote, today the press was focused on the upcoming […]
New developments in Nova Scotia
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006Tuesday night is when the Halifax City Council debates Councilmember Bob Harvey’s plan to ban MMA in the city. CBC Nova Scotia has more on the story. In the article, Harvey admits that he has received over a dozen e-mails since his proclaimation last week of trying to ban MMA in the area. Meanwhile, The […]
Media round-up
Tuesday, March 28th, 20063/28 media links: Surprise, PRIDE US PPV customers. 3 of the 10 Bushido fights will air on Fox Sports Net on 4/9, including Baroni vs. Kondo (a fight that definitely could sell some PPV buys). Bushido 10 fighter Denis Kang interviewed on MaxFighting. New Hampshire is ready to host it’s first sanctioned MMA event. If […]
More mainstream media malfeasance
Monday, March 27th, 2006An article just published on the USA Today web site manages to lump Toughman boxing with MMA. Toughman, Ultimate Fighting, Kage Kombat and other forms of brawling are full of surprises. But the biggest may be that “extreme fighting,” a sport once on the verge of being banned, is enjoying increasing regulatory approval and drawing […]
Alliances & recruitment
Monday, March 27th, 2006We have reached a deal with the staff of MMAFighting.com to work together on promoting each other’s sites. This includes exchanges of links, stories, and other content. It’s important to make deals with allies, and MMA Fighting certainly qualifies as a very good independent site. Expect a lot more in the future. Second, I am […]
Wakuda: Testifying is violation of rights
Monday, March 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Friday, we documented the hot political case in Japan over a phony e-mail and how the scandal had tangential connections to the fight industry. We noted that in the phony e-mail case, lawyer Osamu Wakuda was representing Takashi Nishizawa, who is accused to writing the fake e-mail. The reason we noted […]
Bushido 4/2 Ariake Colosseum match order
Monday, March 27th, 2006This week is likely going to be low-key in regards to Japanese PR for the Bushido 10 event. The gaijin will fly in on Tuesday and Wednesday (Narita Airport). DSE boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara has not been seen in front of the cameras (so far). The match order for this Sunday’s line-up: Yves Edwards vs. Seichi […]
The YouTube Conundrum
Sunday, March 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold On our Fight Opinion forum, Al Yu points out a story about UFC contacting YouTube to remove a person’s multimedia video package featuring UFC fight footage. It’s pretty fair to say that YouTube has become an absolute nightmare for copyright lawyers and programming executives. On one hand, there is blatant copyright violation […]
UFC’s next targets: New York & Chicago
Sunday, March 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Dana White has New York & Chicago penciled in as his next big media targets. It puts the hiring of Marc Ratner into perspective. The article was originally a piece about Andrei Arlovski, but the quotes from White about UFC’s future plans are the bigger story. It […]
Big Saturday
Saturday, March 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Saturday night in America proved to be a good one for business in the MMA industry. In Atlanta, over 3,000 fans showed up (paying $50 and $75 for a ticket) for an MMA event. The Hook ‘n Shoot event at the Evansville Coliseum in Evansville, Indiana had a standing room-only crowd. Hook […]
Politicians versus the people
Saturday, March 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold There was a level of negative feedback for the proposed MMA event in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 4/29. Then, Boxing Canada stepped in and announced their opposition to the event (mainly because it would hurt a local boxing card scheduled in May in Halifax). And now, according to The Chronicle Herald in […]
Tonight’s Hook ‘n Shoot event
Saturday, March 25th, 2006If you’re in the Evansville (Indiana) area, go see the show. The Courier Press in Evansville has an article previewing the show. However, as predicted by the entire Fight Opinion staff (on the radio show this week), last week’s death of local boxer Kevin Payne has put the spotlight on MMA’s track record for safety. […]
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