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Friday, January 27th, 2006By Zach Arnold The fourth edition of Fight Opinion Radio is now online and available to download. Here are your options for listening to the show: Broadband (MP3) | Dial-up/Streaming | YouSendIt (Download MP3 file) Or you can use the great flash player to listen to it streaming (without having to use an external program). […]
UFC’s legal battle continues
Thursday, January 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold So much for discussion of a settlement between UFC & WFC. UFC released a press statement on Wednesday stating the following: Zuffa, LLC, owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship® brand, announced today that it secured a key legal victory in its trademark infringement lawsuit against the Worldwide Fighting Championship and Gino Carlucci. […]
Shogun on PRIDE 31
Thursday, January 26th, 2006Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, the 2005 Middleweight GP tournament champion, has been booked against Mark Coleman on the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena show. This appears to be Shogun’s test match to see if he would be a good fit in the open-weight GP tournament, which starts on 5/5 at the Osaka Dome. Thoughts?
Regulation & Insurance in MMA
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Alex J. Rhowunio’ng of the Pacific Daily News in Guam has an interesting article about how fighters on an upcoming MMA show are not insured and how this is being politically received. Ferd Lewis in the Honolulu Advertiser has a column about regulating MMA in Hawaii. A bill was passed last year […]
Bobby Ologun investigated by Japanese police
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Photo: Bobby Ologun leaves the Harajuku police station in Tokyo after being questioned by authorities (image credit: Iwate Nippo Co. Ltd. Newspaper) By Zach Arnold Bobby Ologun, the famous Nigerian TV personality in Japan who K-1 has booked for past fights, is being investigated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Nikkan Sports reports that Ologun […]
Bas Rutten back in PRIDE
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold MMA Weekly says he has signed a new deal with the company. Reaction (and pictures) on Sherdog. Past related link: Bas Rutten gone from PRIDE
Changes of address
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold I wanted to introduce everyone to two brand new writers who have recently joined the Fight Opinion family. The first writer I want to introduce is Luke Nicholson, a great Canadian and someone whose judgment I am respectful of. Luke owns the MMA Opinion blog, but has now agreed to move over […]
New match for K-1 2/4 Saitama event
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Picture credit: Yahoo Japan/Sports Navigator Andy Ologun (brother of Bobby Ologun) versus DDT pro-wrestler Kota Ibushi. Adam Summers & I will talk more about Ibushi’s pro-wrestling background on the next Fight Opinion radio show. Ibushi has an amateur kickboxing background. He trains at a gym (å¤§èª å¡¾ = Taisei-Juku in Chiba) that is […]
Fight Opinion radio – file sharing
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Gambit’s Blog has a great link to a BitTorrent client called uTorrent. I fully admit that I have zero knowledge about BitTorrent files. However, the program GB links to not only accepts BitTorrent feeds, but it also creates them. However, because I have no knowledge of how to work with BT files, I’m not sure […]
World Combat League in Connecticut
Monday, January 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Here is an interesting review of the show Chuck Norris produced last Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut. Money quote: All in all, it was an alright show. If the WCL wants to compete with UFC, K-1, and PRIDE FC then they’ll need to do some serious work to […]
Art Dore comments on MMA
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s a link to an interview conducted with Toughman boss Art Dore in the Dayton Daily News. Money quote: “I think the future of Toughman is very good. Around the country, in fact, people are complaining that it’s not tough enough compared to these other sports, like Ultimate Fighting. They’re saying, ‘You […]
DSE plays the “media ban” card?
Saturday, January 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold Do you remember the situation from December of 2005 in regards to the negotiations for the Naoya Ogawa vs. Hidehiko Yoshida match? If you don’t remember, use this link to refresh your memory – simple for the purpose of a timeline. Here was the situation – some of the newspapers reported that […]
Rumble on the Rock results
Saturday, January 21st, 2006By Zach Arnold The Honolulu Advertiser’s article on the event (with results). Some topics of discussion to talk about (regarding their 170-pound Welterweight tournament): Carlos Condit gets a win over Renato “Charuto” Verissimo. Condit was a huge underdog on the gambling/sportsbook odd-making lines. People who bet on him made a lot of money. Yushin Okami […]
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