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Friday, January 20th, 2006Spike TV issued a press release (via PR Newswire) regarding the ratings that the UFN 3 show drew on Monday night. There are a lot of micro-rating numbers in the release, so here’s the key one to focus on: Overall, Spike TV’s presentation of “UFC’s Ultimate Fight Night(TM) Live,” delivered a 1.7 HH/1.6 million and […]
New Japan rumors
Thursday, January 19th, 2006Gryphon on his blog reports some rumors (in Japanese, via the infamous 2ch gossip Japanese message board system) regarding the relationship between New Japan & TV-Asahi. The rumors claim that TV-Asahi wants to discontinue airing NJ’s weekly television show. Here’s a more direct link (in Japanese). The reality of the situation for New Japan is […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 3
Thursday, January 19th, 2006The third 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). Check it out […]
A birthday wish
Thursday, January 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold Today is my birthday. Which naturally means that it’s one of the few days in the calendar year in which I work on the Puroresu Power and Fight Opinion sites for less than 6 hours. Or at least I try to. Nonetheless, I do have a birthday wish that I would like […]
TV ratings battle
Thursday, January 19th, 2006Here they are: WWE RAW – 4.3 rating, UFC Ultimate Fight Night – 1.7 rating. That is strong. Very strong. Debate the implications in the comments section.
Upgrading the site
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006As fast as this site is growing, leave it up to the good folks at WordPress to decide to upgrade their system. I have managed to now integrate their new 2.0 system onto the conversational side of Fight Opinion, and needless to say it does operate a bit differently on the posting side. I will […]
MARS 2/4 Ariake Colosseum card
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold From GCM Communications (the company promoting the event): Takumi vs. Arai Kenji Yuji Hoshino vs. Yasunori Kanehara Hironaka Kuniyoshi vs. Ryan Schultz Takumi Yano vs. Rani Yahira Osami Shibuya vs. Thales Leites (Nova Uniao) Akitoshi Tamura vs. Ian Loveland (Team Quest) Mikko Rupponen vs. Antony Rea Eiji Mitsuoka vs. Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro […]
Team Quest mania
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold Here’s a recent string of Internet articles regarding Team Quest and Randy Couture. Enjoy. And post responses or other TQ press links/articles here. Question of the Day: Which fight club/team is the best organization right now? I’m not talking about PRIDE, K-1, UFC, etc. I’m talking about groups such as American Top […]
UFC Plans California Debut
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006Alan Abrahamson in the Los Angeles Times reports on Tuesday that UFC will run an event in Anaheim, California on April 15th at the Arrowhead Pond arena (the same building used by the NHL team, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks). This confirms the initial rumors we discussed last week about UFC running Anaheim and not Los […]
The Carnival of UFN Reaction
Monday, January 16th, 2006By Zach Arnold Update on 1/17 at 9:00 PM EST This is going to turn into one huge, massive post of links. I will update this throughout the next day or two, as there should be a lot of opinions about Monday night’s UFC Ultimate Fight Night live event. MMA Opinion – Booking For Money […]
Live review of Ultimate Fight Night on Spike TV
Monday, January 16th, 2006By Rob Sayers & Zach Arnold This is where we will be doing live note-taking on UFC’s UFN special on Spike TV. Last-minute links to read before the show: Fight Blog – Ultimate Fight Night live MMA Opinion – The Big Announcement~!~! Wrestling Press Box – Ultimate Fight Night 3 Preview No Holds Barred – […]
A fight game’s wiki
Sunday, January 15th, 2006There’s a new fight-based wiki-type site that has been created called Kakuwiki. The creator, Tom, e-mailed me and asked me to help him promote the site. He’s also looking for contributions on fighter pages. Tom would like to make it a true community site. Entries for the new sites are needed on: disciplines, techniques, fighters, […]
PRIDE 2006 GP Tournament
Sunday, January 15th, 2006By Zach Arnold This year, it’s a 16-man tournament. Open-weight. Show schedule: 5/5 Osaka Dome (round one), July at Saitama Super Arena (round two), and September at Saitama Super Arena (semi-finals and finals). Dan Henderson & Takanori Gomi may be involved as participants. Related Links: PRIDE/DSE Planning To Hold Openweight Tournament for 2006! Update: MMA […]
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