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Thursday, December 29th, 2005In an update to our post (Drafting wrestlers for a new company), Ivan Trembow has a new post today revealing what Pro Wrestling Torch readers voted on for their Top 10 draft for professional wrestlers. In my eyes, here’s a money quote from Ivan’s post: Edge is in a constant cycle of being punished by […]
Ad Campaign
Thursday, December 29th, 2005I want to thank some people who helped us out in setting up the new web site and giving us ideas of how to integrate tools for interactivity. First and foremost, Joe and Wiggly at Smart Wrestling Fan are tremendously smart people when it comes to technology and multimedia. Wiggly helped me try to create […]
More on MMA legislation in California
Thursday, December 29th, 2005One day after a major Los Angeles Times article on MMA becoming legal in California, the Los Angeles Daily News has an article in their Thursday paper written by Harrison Sheppard. Sheppard’s report starts out with this interesting news item: California State Athletic Commission director Armando Garcia said mixed martial arts events technically became legal […]
Bas Rutten makes PRIDE predictions
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005Bas Rutten makes his predictions for the 2005 Man Festival. Most interesting paragraph from his predictions article: Nakamura/Kondo Nakamura is a star on the rise, but Kondo faced more opponents in MMA and fought better guys, so you would think that Kondo is going to do it. Than again, Nakamura is getting better and better […]
Los Angeles Times discusses MMA in California
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005In Wednesday’s edition of the LA Times newspaper, Alan Abrahamson has an article about California regulating MMA so that events will start taking place in 2006. Nate Quarry is mentioned a lot in the article, mainly as the article’s storyline theme in terms of fighting and also what happens to someone who takes a beating […]
Drafting wrestlers for a new company
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Ivan Trembow has an interesting article about creating a Top 50 draft list of who you would select for wrestlers if you were building a new company. Read Ivan’s thoughts here. Ivan picks his #1 choice and… 1. Samoa Joe— As I wrote in my review of TNA’s Turning Point pay-per-view, it’s hard to fathom […]
Fighters start to arrive in Japan
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Royce Gracie is already in Japan, training and preparing at the Gracie Academy in Tokyo for his upcoming fight against Hideo Tokoro. Ernesto Hoost arrived in Japan and said that he was in very good condition. He said that he would win his fight without fail. Sankei Sports reported that Hoost’s tentative retirement fight is […]
Dana White strikes back
Sunday, December 25th, 2005A couple of days ago, we linked to an article on MMA in the Sacramento Bee that, as you expected, drew strong reaction. Flashback: The American media’s MMA boogeyman Well, today (Sunday), the Sacramento Bee posted a response from UFC President Dana White. Enjoy.
The MySpace Phenomenon
Sunday, December 25th, 2005I am fully willing to admit this – I do not understand the appeal of MySpace. Yes, I have always been one who has valued the power of networking online and “community software” as Jeff Jarvis puts it. However, for the life of me, I do not understand why MySpace is so appealing. Nonetheless, it […]
The Game Plan
Saturday, December 24th, 2005As I prepare for the launch of this new site and get everyone ready to post on it, I wanted to fill in everyone on the activities for the first two weeks of the web site. For reference, the PPH MMA show will be moved over to the Fight Opinion web site and renamed under […]
PRIDE 12/31 Saitama Super Arena card line-up
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005A bank account-busting budget of $8-10 million USD provides us with the following on New Year’s Eve: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Ikuhisa Minowa Emelianenko Alexander vs. Pawel Nastula James Thompson vs. Giant Silva Free-weight Fight: Ken Kaneko vs. Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett Middleweight Title Match: Vanderlei Silva vs. Ricardo Arona 2005 Lightweight Tournament Finals: Takanori Gomi […]
The American media’s MMA boogeyman
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005Today’s Sacramento Bee newspaper has a long article on MMA now being legalized in the state of California. If you notice, the main critic for MMA in the article is Dr. Peter Carmel. Here is what Carmel says in the Sacramento Bee article: Big purses are not worth the price ultimate fighting extracts from its […]
Bas Rutten gone from PRIDE
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005The hits just keep on coming from DSE. Today, Bas Rutten announced that he is gone from the promotion. He stressed that it was problems with the US office (Yukino Kanda, Hideki Yamamoto, etc.) and not with the Japanese office. Frank Trigg now replaces him. This is an interesting story to pay attention to, as […]
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