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Saturday, March 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold Charles Jay has an article on Fox Sports that discusses Dana White’s courting of the boxing media and the response he has been getting so far from members of the American press. The article is part of a 3-article series (here and here) by Fox Sports writers on UFC & MMA. The […]
UFC 58 Predictions
Friday, March 3rd, 2006Huy Nguyen, Fight Report, Dr. J, and Performify have excellent previews for Saturday night’s event. Meanwhile, Dana White spent Thursday in a Las Vegas court room, as the UFC & IFL are in a legal dispute.
Mark Hunt interview by the PRIDE office
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Expect an English version to be uploaded on the PRIDE site shortly. Hunt talks about the upcoming open-weight tournament show on 5/5 at the Osaka Dome. In the Japanese interview, he is asked for his thoughts about Fedor, Nogueira, Mirko, and Barnett participating in the tournament and who he would like to […]
New defense tactic – blame Inoki
Friday, March 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold The Japanese fight industry is still in shock over last week’s arrests of three yakuza members of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime family. A fourth person is a fugitive and an arrest warrant has been issued. A lot of people were awaiting the reaction from the weekly tabloids regarding this story, but it […]
Schwarzenegger not appearing at Gracie event?
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006[photopress:arnold_kgo.gif,full,centered] Screen capture from KGO home page By Zach Arnold Update: The San Jose Mercury News claims that Arnold will travel to Ohio. After receiving political heat for a scheduled appearance at the Gracie Fighting Championships show in Columbus, Ohio on Friday, Schwarzenegger has now cancelled the scheduled appearance. This conflicts with a Sacramento Bee […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 9
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006Rob Sayers, Erin Bucknell, and Zach Arnold recap the PRIDE 31 show that took place on 2/26 at Saitama Super Arena. In addition, we preview the upcoming UFC 58 show and give our positives/negatives on the business direction of the company. In addition, we play some short audio clips from Sherdog’s post-match press conference interviews […]
Schwarzenegger criticized for appearance at MMA show
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Things just got more interesting for Friday’s Gracie Fighting Championships show in Ohio. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will make an appearance at Friday’s MMA event in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. And this has the usual suspects up in arms.
3 new matches added to HERO’s Budokan show
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006Hideo Tokoro vs. Yoshinori Ikeda (Kyokushin karate), Heath Herring vs. Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge, and Jerome Le Banner vs. Jimmy Ambriz were added to the HERO’s 3/15 Nippon Budokan show in Tokyo.
Nogueira’s next match in PRIDE
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold whenever Sankei Sports has an article about someone in PRIDE wanting to face someone on an upcoming show, it’s important to at least pay attention to it because Sankei is the Fuji TV line of media (as in Fuji TV is the network paying PRIDE). You know some parts of these types […]
Japanese bloggers talk about future of fight business
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006By Zach Arnold Some people in public may be afraid to use the “y” word in Japan, but it’s not stopping the various top Japanese MMA writers on the Internet from discussing the matter. Inside (and outside) the MMA business, last week’s yakuza arrests continue to draw attention and speculation about what else may be […]
Bonjasky cancelled from K-1 New Zealand show
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006K-1 announced that Remy Bonjasky has been cancelled from the 3/5 New Zealand show due to a left leg injury (sprained knee) he suffered in practice training on 2/26. Bonjasky’s replacement in the fight against Ray Sefo is now Frans Botha. 3/5 New Zealand card line-up.
They really didn’t mean to say this…
Monday, February 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Quote of the day (from MMA Ring Report’s PRIDE 31 preview) on Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura: Barnett might be larger but in his last fight (vs. Mirko Cro Cop) he demonstrated that he has the capacity to lose any fight. KazNak is like mecha-godzilla; created by Japanese scientists to battle whatever […]
Backlash in Hawaii
Monday, February 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold Sunday’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper has an article by Charles Memminger titled Ultimate fighting tax just extortion. Money quote from the article: And in exercising once again that strange sense of entitlement state bureaucrats feel to other people’s money, Rep. Chang has introduced an odious bill shaking down the neonate fight industry in […]
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