Zach Arnold
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006In America, there has recently been a big political scandal regarding an individual named Jack Abramoff, who resided in Washington, D.C. and became very friendly with many politicians. Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (behind a firewall/subscription, sadly), in the state of Wisconsin, has a report regarding a politician using one of Mr. Abramoff’s aides to get […]
PRIDE’s Yellow Cards
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006Mike Sempervive & I have jokingly named PRIDE’s use of yellow cards as a reward for “the PRIDE executive vacation fund.” The constant use of yellow cards in PRIDE fights has drawn scrutiny as of late. Here is Mick Hammond’s latest MMA Weekly article: The yellow card has no impact on the judges’ scoring; it […]
Quarter Hour New Years Eve ratings
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006The numbers are starting to come in for certain fights in regards to which fights drew the highest ratings on New Year’s Eve in Japan on TV. Oricon has a report about the numbers. Oricon reports that the Naoya Ogawa vs. Hidehiko Yoshida fight at 9:30 PM on Fuji TV drew a 27.7% rating, which […]
Layout of postings
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006The system we are currently using allows us to either display the full text of each post or I can program a snippet of code which only shows an excerpt (quick summary) of text from each post. Which format would you like to see me implement here? Post thoughts in the comments section. I would […]
Fight Opinion Hour
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006The debut of the Fight Opinion radio network starts in a couple of days. We will have a definite newsmaker (guest) on the show. The shows will be kept to a smaller time limit due to us not having sponsorship. We will work on sponsors and other business deals over the course of this site’s […]
Trouble in Paradise
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006Gryphon reports that Dokonjonosuke Mishima is out of DSE/DEEP and that Masanori Suda is likely gone from Shooto. I can assure you that this isn’t the first that you will hear of fighters rejecting the politics of this circle of promoters. 2006 is going to be an interesting year if you can keep up and […]
Latest from Tanigawa & Sakakibara
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006Gryphon has links to recent interviews with Tanigawa (K-1 producer) & Sakakibara (DSE boss). Here is my translation of some of the information from Sakakibara’s interview: Sakakibara stated that Mirko caught a cold (had the flu) before he left Croatia to arrive in Japan to fight Mark Hunt. Sakakibara also claims Mirko hurt his ankle […]
Fight Opinion Survey
Monday, January 2nd, 2006We’re still relatively new in terms of this web site, so I wanted to take this time to thank everyone who has supported us so far with the project. I would like everyone to do me a favor and respond to this posting by giving us some survey answers in the comments section of this […]
PRIDE US PPV version of 12/31 Saitama event
Monday, January 2nd, 2006In quick discussions that I’ve had with Adam Summers and Dr. Keith Lipinski, both men told me that the US version of the PRIDE show was heavily edited. To the point that several fights were not shown at all, period. In Japan, those who saw the PRIDE show on free TV ended up seeing most […]
New Year’s Eve war: TV Ratings
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan is starting to release the TV ratings for the New Year’s Eve war from Japan. Tokushima Shimbun (newspaper) reports that the Kohaku (Red & White) Music Festival on NHK drew ratings of 35.4% (Part 1) and 42.9% (Part 2), which signals an increase from last year’s all-time record low ratings. […]
TV ratings war
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Just to notify everyone, Video Research Ltd. Co. Japan will release the initial ratings for both the K-1 & PRIDE 12/31 shows on Monday afternoon (1/2) Japanese time (late Sunday evening 1/1 American time). Per usual, I will get the information as fast as possible and break down the information released.
New Year’s Eve: Blackout
Saturday, December 31st, 2005I hope all of you (whether you are in Tokyo, Sydney, New York, London, or elsewhere) had a good New Year’s Eve. After doing 7 hours of PBP for the PRIDE Man Festival 3 show, a major storm hit the area that I live at and caused a massive power outage. 70,000 residents of approximately […]
New Year’s Eve (Preview)
Saturday, December 31st, 2005I watched the PRIDE 12/31 Saitama Super Arena show on the Japanese feed. If you want results, go to the Puroresu Power web site. Likely, if you are reading this, you’re trying to avoid spoilers, so let me give you a personal preview of what you can expect or look forward to on the upcoming […]
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