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Friday, March 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold Shukan (Weekly) Taishu, one of the various weekly Japanese publications, has published an article about the recent yakuza arrests in relation to the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 show. I read the Japanese article and at first glance, a picture of Antonio Inoki was shown along with the question about morals at Nippon TV […]
PRIDE’s worst nightmare
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Photo credit: Sports Nippon (newspaper) By Zach Arnold 19-year old Koki Kameda, Japan’s hottest boxer in terms of business, is going to make things very hard on DSE on May 5th. Kameda’s camp announced that his next fight will happen on 5/5 in Tokyo at Ariake Colosseum. The fight will likely be carried on live […]
UFC 58 Medical Suspensions
Thursday, March 9th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Nevada State Athletic Commission has just released the official results & medical suspensions from the UFC 58 show. Here is the PDF file. Suspensions of note: Rich Franklin is suspended until 9/1 (unless he gets clearance by a doctor), mandatory suspension until 5/4 David Loiseau is suspended until 5/4 Spencer Fisher […]
Bear Pit Japan in America
Thursday, March 9th, 2006[photopress:sano_and_josh_small.jpg,full,centered] Wednesday night was a very interesting night. Mr. Tetsuya Sano, who is an amateur Shoot Boxer (with a very good record), made the trip from Japan to Seattle to train at AMC Pankration. Mr. Sano is a representative of the Bear Pit Japan team, and I made sure that he took the opportunity to […]
Phil Baroni back in the PRIDE ring
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold DSE announced Yuki Kondo vs. Phil Baroni and Luiz Azeredo (Chute Boxe) vs. Joachim Hansen for their Bushido show on 4/2 at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Add these fights to the three matches already announced. Also scheduled to work the show is Dennis Kang, Ikuhisa Minowa, & Akihiro Gono. PRIDE boss Nobuyuki […]
Rich Franklin medical update
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006By Zach Arnold The UFC says he is out for 6-8 months due to a broken left hand. Question of the day: Do you classify this injury as just part of the game, or does the equipment that fighters use (i.e. gloves) need to be improved?
Bad news for Shogun
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Full Contact Fighter reports that medical tests reveal that Mauricio “Shogun” Rua’s elbow is fractured, and all ligaments in the elbow are ruptured. He is out for an estimated six months.
Bushido 4/2 Ariake Colosseum card line-up
Monday, March 6th, 2006Three matches announced so far: Takanori Gomi vs. Marcus Aurelio Dan Henderson vs. Kazuo Misaki Masakazu Imanari vs. Jens Pulver An interesting storyling going into this card line-up is that Henderson is also scheduled for the 5/5 Osaka Dome open-weight tournament show.
UFC 58 reviews
Monday, March 6th, 2006Dr. J, Fight Report, and CP writer Neil Davidson have reviews of the show. Meanwhile, UFC’s new “rival” (the IFL) has issued a press release about their new company.
Schilt loses in New Zealand
Sunday, March 5th, 2006On Sunday, K-1 drew 8,800 paid at Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand for their Oceania GP tournament show. On an interesting side note, WWE also ran shows on the island this weekend. Here are the 3/5 New Zealand results, plus a show review. The promotion spent two days of press coverage on the Badr […]
Open thread – next Fight Opinion Radio show
Sunday, March 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold I have a feeling we are going to be seeing a lot of positive and negative reaction in regards to what happened on the UFC 58 card re: judges’ decisions. That would be easy material for us to cover on our radio show, but I suspect that every other show is going […]
Coker: We may break US attendance records
Sunday, March 5th, 2006By Zach Arnold K-1 US promoter Scott Coker, quoted in today’s excellent San Jose Mercury News article written by Mark Purdy, claims that over 12,500 tickets have been sold for the Frank Shamrock vs. Cesar Gracie MMA event at the HP Pavilion (San Jose Arena). “We are past the 12,500 mark in tickets sales right […]
California politics & MMA
Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did not attend the Gracie Fighting Championships show on Friday night in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. He took a lot of heat for his image being used on promotional posters for the event. Here is some of the criticism that Schwarzenegger has been dealing with. Today, […]
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