Fabricio Werdum wants to be your friend on MySpace
By Zach Arnold | August 14, 2008
Why don’t you become his friend?
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Bobby Gunn is going to save boxing from the onslaught of MMA
By Zach Arnold | August 14, 2008
Don’t know who Bobby Gunn is? Read all about him.
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IGF 8/15 Ryogoku Kokugikan (Tokyo)
By Zach Arnold | August 14, 2008
Announced for the show: Josh Barnett vs. Tank Abbott and The Predator vs. Bobby Lashley.
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Enough of the Fedor/Couture talk already!
By Zach Arnold | August 13, 2008
I’m getting as tired of the Randy Couture/Fedor talk as I am of the nonstop discussion of Brett Favre these days in the sports media.
Bas Rutten gave a lecture to the SF 49ers football team. They’re going to need all the help they can get this season.
- Matt (Fightlinker): Interview with Caleb from The Fightworks Podcast
- The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia): Sooner or later, Vancouver must drop its guard and let in the UFC
- Strikeforce PR: Kazuo Misaki collides with Joe Riggs at Playboy Mansion event on 9/20
- Bloody Elbow: Matt Serra — ‘I had Jon Fitch picked to win’
- Minnesota City Pages: UFC 87 – the fight of Roger Huerta’s life
- The Record (Canada): Ex-Olympian Roman Hatashita remains a competitor, this time in MMA field
- The Moncton Times-Transcript (Canada): MMA makes waves in Moncton – 8/23 card at Dundee Sports Dome already half sold out
- The Washington Times: In offseason, Santana Moss uses MMA approach for training (he’s a fan of Kimbo Slice)
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PR: Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski Joins For Pits’ Sake to Combat Dog Fighting
By Zach Arnold | August 13, 2008
UFC Former Heavyweight Champion Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski joins the For Pits’ Sake “Knock Out Dog Fighting” program to combat the cruel and illegal activity of dog fighting.
Los Gatos, CA (PRWEB) August 13, 2008 — Ever since Andrei Arlovski’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) career began, he has been proud to carry “The Pit Bull” nickname. Arlovski is showing his love for the breed by joining forces with the nonprofit organization For Pits’ Sake, Inc. (http://www.forpitssake.org) to bring awareness to the cruel and illegal activity of dog fighting and its oft-maligned victim, the American Pit Bull Terrier.
The award-winning (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1174374.htm) “Knock Out Dog Fighting” program is part of an educational campaign designed by For Pits’ Sake founder Kris Crawford to bring awareness to the abhorrent activity of dog fighting. “When the story of Michael Vick’s dog fighting business came out, the general public was given a glimpse of the sadistic world of dog fighting,” said Crawford. “They were horrified to learn that dog fighters not only force these animals to fight to the death, many also engage in violence against the dogs by means of electrocution, strangulation, kicking, and other unimaginable acts of cruelty. The public had known there were evil people out there who trained dogs to fight, but it took a big media event to take the barbaric practice of dog fighting to the forefront of their consciousness.”
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Today’s chalkboard (8/12/2008)
By Zach Arnold | August 12, 2008
A slow news day, so this counts as the the top headline of the day:
A little birdie says Ultimate Fighting Championship officials weren’t pleased about the 10 percent tax on their show that drew 15,082 to Target Center on Saturday, and if they return to the Twin Cities next year, the Xcel Energy Center could be the site.
- Matt (Fightlinker): Leozinho Vieira interview in Gong Kakutougi
- Fox Sports: Thales Leites to face Goran Reljic at UFC 90 in Chicago
- Jason Probst: For BJ Penn, Lightweight is right weight
- 411 Mania: An interview with photographer Tracy Lee
- The UNLV Rebel Yell: ‘Ultimate Fighter’ coach Cameron Diffley creates MMA career
- Dave Meltzer (Yahoo Sports): Brock Lesnar answers questions, raises more
- Ben Fowlkes: Brock Lesnar’s here to stay… so get used to it
- Arash Markazi (SI): Q & A with MMA fighter-turned-actor Randy Couture
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Brand new MMA social networking site launched
By Zach Arnold | August 11, 2008
http://www.knowyourmma.com. Bookmark it.
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Kimbo Slice in Madden ’09 TV ad
By Zach Arnold | August 11, 2008
Now I’ve seen it all.
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Fight Opinion Radio #88: Jake Shields, Renato Babalu, & Daniel Puder
By Zach Arnold | August 11, 2008
A great show for you this week, as we have three high-energy guests on the program. First, Jake Shields stopped by to talk about his latest win (over Nick Thompson), the prospects of facing Georges St. Pierre and how he thinks he could do against GSP, and why KJ Noons vs. Nick Diaz may not happen after all. Check out Jake’s MySpace page for contact information. Second, Renato Babalu joins us (from the supermarket) to talk about Tito Ortiz, the prospects of facing Ortiz, and how training in America has gotten so much better over the last few years. Third, Daniel Puder stops by to talk about his upcoming charity event at The Playboy Mansion on August 23rd. For more information on Daniel’s charity event, visit puderpro.com for more information.
The 88th edition of Fight Opinion Radio is now online and available to download. Download this week’s show here.
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Topics: Affliction, Fight Opinion Radio, Jeff Thaler, Media, MMA, podcasts, Pro Elite, Zach Arnold | 4 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback |
UFC 87 (8/9 Minneapolis)
By Zach Arnold | August 9, 2008
Event reports: Sherdog | NBC Sports | MMA Junkie | Bloody Elbow | MMA Frenzy | MMA on Tap | Yahoo Sports
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Mark Davies: Does it matter if Gina Carano wins?
By Zach Arnold | August 9, 2008
By Mark Davies
Several months ago, while waiting for the tantalizingly inevitable pictures of Gina Carano’s latest weigh-in, I had a thought. No, not the same thought hundreds of teenaged MMA fans were having as they waited for those same pictures…
Most fight fans are aware of Gina’s routine failures to make weight, primarily because those failures lead to bikini pictures of the comely kickboxer, but how many people could tell you what weight she is failing to make? Or any of the weight classes in female fighting?
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Sengoku 9/28 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I
By Zach Arnold | August 8, 2008
Announced for the event are: Kazuhiro Nakamura, Evangelista Cyborg, Jorge Santiago, and Siyar Bahadurzada.
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Dana White’s curious admission about Mirko Cro Cop
By Zach Arnold | August 7, 2008
Read this item about what Dana White said in regards to the motives of UFC signing Mirko Cro Cop.
Maybe White is telling his version of the truth as he sees it. Who knows?
What’s interesting about the story is the timeline. Remember, PRIDE lost their Fuji TV deal in June of ’06. They ran a show on 7/1 in Saitama and then another show at Saitama Super Arena in September of ’06 (where Mirko beat Wanderlei Silva & Josh Barnett in one night). At that point, we already knew that DSE was bleeding cash heavily to put on shows. Ken Imai, Mirko’s agent, found himself painted in a real corner. There was no way at the time that he was going to be able to do business with K-1 because he burned that bridge with Kazuyoshi Ishii. (Ishii and Imai were very close at one time, but Imai ‘betrayed’ Ishii and that relationship soured around the time of the corporate tax evasion scandal.) With PRIDE losing money hand-over-fist and the writing being seen on the proverbial wall, Imai didn’t have much negotiating leverage at all in terms of his future in the MMA business. White may have felt that signing Cro Cop was the final nail in the coffin to force a sale of the PRIDE assets, but it was Imai and Mirko who fled to UFC because that was (in my view) the only steady play for big money left for Mirko at the time.
The one comment White made that was incredibly stupid was this one:
“It wasn’t like we brought Cro Cop in and thought he was going to take over the heavyweight division or anything. I think that’s what the fans thought—the hardcore fans who really knew a lot about PRIDE—but it was a business move to kill PRIDE.”
No one, in our view, with a straight face could possibly believe this coming out of Dana White’s mouth.
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