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Friday, March 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold For the last month, the biggest political story in Japan has revolved around a phony e-mail. Liberal Democratic Party politician Hisayasu Nagata made the claim that he had an e-mail implicating a financial link between the son of an LDP politician and former Livedoor President Takafumi Horie. See the reports in The […]
A cozy relationship
Friday, March 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Just how tight is the relationship between the UFC and the Nevada State Athletic Comission? Tight enough that the NSAC’s executive director, Marc Ratner, has now signed a deal to become a vice president for UFC. John Ryan in the San Jose Mercury News equates Ratner working for UFC on a similar […]
IFL aims for free TV
Friday, March 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Dr. J has done everyone a service by providing a summary of an interview that IFL co-owner Kurt Otto did with Eddie Goldman. In the interview, Otto claims that the IFL is on its way to securing a free TV deal for their 4/29 Atlantic City, NJ. show. Dr. J brings up […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 12
Friday, March 24th, 2006Two special guests this week on Fight Opinion Radio, as Rob Sayers & Zach Arnold interview both UFC lightweight star Yves Edwards and PNWMMA.com‘s Eric Fredericks. Erin Bucknell joins us this week to talk about the latest situation in Cage Rage (fighters not being signed to contracts), the upcoming IFC 4/1 Sacramento show, and the […]
NPR report on California MMA scene
Friday, March 24th, 2006By Rob Sayers & Zach Arnold Shia Levitt of National Public Radio (USA) has a Thursday audio update (now available on the NPR site) about California legalizing MMA. If you cannot get the Real Media or Windows Media audio file from the NPR site to play on your computer, use this link. This MP3 file […]
Two HERO’s tournaments in 2006
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006Akira Maeda announced two tournaments in HERO’s for 2006 – an 85 kg tournament and a 70 kg tournament. The tournament start will happen on 5/3 in Tokyo at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I. This is the show that Akebono will also work. Tokyo Broadcasting System will carry the events on TV. The 85kg tournament […]
Updated K-1 4/5 Yoyogi card line-up
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006The updated card line-up (all World MAX World Tournament matches for the 4/5 Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I show: Andy Souwer (Holland/Shootboxing) vs. SHINOBU Tsogto Amara (Mongolia/kickboxing) Albert Kraus (Holland) vs. Ali Gunyar (Turkey/kickboxing) Takayuki Kohiruimaki vs. Chi Bin Lim (South Korea) Ole Laursen (Denmark/Muay Thai & BJJ) vs. Drago (Armenia/Muay Thai – IT’S SHOWTIME) […]
A public service announcement for Sacramento fans
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Erin Bucknell & I had heard rumblings about a big MMA show taking place at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California for a couple of weeks. It turns out that Erin found a notice on Ticketmaster about the IFC promotion running a show on April 1st at the building. So, I decided […]
Ultimate Fight Night live 4/6 card line-up
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006The card looks very intriguing. The event is two weeks away (with the show leading into The Ultimate Fighter w/ Ken Shamrock & Tito Ortiz). Stephan Bonnar vs. Keith Jardine Rashad Evans vs. Sam Hoger Joe Stevenson vs. Josh Neer Chris Leben vs. Luigi Fioravanti Luke Cummo vs. Jason Von Flue Josh Burkman vs. Jon […]
Did weight-cutting contribute to boxer’s death?
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold The Indianapolis Star (via the Associated Press) has an article talking about a panel investigation into the death of 34-year old boxer Kevin Payne. In the article, trainers claim that they had noticed some troubling signs about Payne’s health a month before the fight. Specifically, dehydration due to weight cutting to make […]
Content wanted
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006As you can likely tell, there’s a lot of posts on Fight Opinion. However, outside of Mr. Ken Pishna, we surprisingly don’t hear from many promoters or fighters in regards to press releases, e-mails, phone calls, etc. trying to promote their latest ventures. This post is an open invitation for promoters, fighters, and insiders in […]
Big business in Nova Scotia
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold Chris Cochrane, who last week wrote a negative piece about the Nova Scotia boxing commission regulating their first MMA show, finds himself humbled in his op-ed today for The Chronicle Herald newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Why is he humbled?
Mainstream media link o’rama
Monday, March 20th, 2006By Zach Arnold Mike Moore: Journal Times (on Racine, Wisconsin event) Beth Cochran: The Arizona Republic (on Joe Riggs) Manchester Evening News: WCFC review (should cage fighting be allowed?) Dayton Morinaga: Marcelo Tigre turns anger into X-1 championship The “yellow press” in the UK has been brutal about coverage on MMA (of course, some of […]
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