K-1 Dynamite 2007
By Zach Arnold | December 30, 2007
TV: Tokyo Broadcasting System (6 PM-11:35 PM JST)
Fight card here
All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section.
If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel free to post links.
Notes on the show can be found at Fightlinker and The Fight Network. Running commentary in Japanese over at Kakutolog.
Claimed paid attendance for the event at the Osaka Dome was 47,918.
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Hustle & Yarennoka 12/31 Saitama Super Arena
By Zach Arnold | December 30, 2007
Hustle Matsuri (Festival), afternoon show at SSA
TV: TV-Tokyo
Yarennoka (DSE), evening show at SSA
TV: SkyPerfecTV PPV, HDNet
Fight card here
All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section.
If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel free to post links.
PBP at Fightlinker, The Fight Network, Sherdog, MMA Junkie, and Cage Potato.
Claimed paid attendance for the MMA event at Saitama Super Arena was 27,128.
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Real man of genius: Roy Jones Jr.
By Zach Arnold | December 30, 2007
We have a boxing page on our site that is automatically updated with the latest news, but I do apologize for not talking more about boxing on the main page here at Fight Opinion.
With that said, this is a story I can’t pass up.
Roy Jones Jr., who loves cockfighting, apparently loves dogfighting as well.
“I was (letting them fight) to a degree, but not like that serious,” Jones Jr. told the Daily News after reporters had peppered the light-heavyweight with questions about the Knicks and his fight with Trinidad. “I just let my dogs get down five, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. Maybe like the longest I let them go was a half-hour, but I never let them fight to the death ’cause I can’t take that.
“I knew about it, but I wasn’t going to take it that seriously. I couldn’t see my dogs fight to the death ’cause they were too close of friends to me.”
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Interview: White gave Mirko permission to attend Hustle event
By Zach Arnold | December 30, 2007
Tokyo Sports mobile (the newspaper) conducted an interview with Dana White on a number of subjects. The focus was on Takanori Gomi and Mirko Cro Cop.
According to the newspaper’s interview, White said that Mirko Cro Cop asked for permission to attend the Hustle event on 12/31 in Saitama and that his request was granted.
What makes this news item interesting is that Gomi appeared at UFC 79 and his agent is supposedly Ken Imai… as in the same Ken Imai who ‘controlled’ Mirko in Japan for many years in DSE after Mirko left agent Miro Mijatovic. Is Imai attempting to create an image to Japanese fighters as someone who can be a ‘wirepuller’ to get into UFC, similar to what Koichi Kawasaki has been doing?
One other interesting item in the Tokyo Sports interview involved MMA on NYE. White was asked if he was going to watch the DSE event on HDNet and he responded by saying that he wasn’t interested in watching the event. Furthermore, he said that he didn’t watch any other MMA outside of UFC (not enough time in his schedule), but he will watching boxing events. White admitted that he did watch the StrikeForce 6/22 San Jose Arena event because it featured an old friend (Phil Baroni) fighting Frank Shamrock and that he hates Frank.
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Image of the day – Yoshihiro Akiyama
By Zach Arnold | December 30, 2007
Now, this is bad fashion.
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‘I want NFL Network’ TV ad mocks ‘cage fighting’
By Zach Arnold | December 29, 2007
In a thinly-veiled attack on UFC (and WEC), Saturday night’s NFL Network broadcast (simulcasted on NBC and CBS) of the New York Giants vs. New England Patriots featured a TV ad spot for “I want NFL Network.”
The ad features actors mocking cable companies that claim people don’t want to pay for the NFL Network, with the spot featuring Earl from “Joe Schmo 2” Spike TV fame saying that he is subjected to four different women cable channels.
However, ‘cage fighting’ was attacked the most during the ad, with the last actor in the ad asking why cable companies think ‘cage fighting’ is more popular than the NFL.
Patriots over Giants, 38-35.
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UFC 79 event results
By Zach Arnold | December 29, 2007
All thoughts about the show (event recaps, results, liveblogging of the show) will go here in this post.
Kevin Iole reports that Liddell will make $500,000 USD for his fight at UFC 79, while his opponent Wanderlei Silva will make $150,000 USD.
CompuStrike.com is doing live stats of tonight’s UFC 79 event in Las Vegas.
Event results: MMA Weekly | Sherdog | MMA Junkie | MMA Mania | Five Ounces of Pain | UFC Daily | MMA on Tap | Fightlinker | Cage Potato | Observer | F4W Online | BJJ Monkey (Matt)
Here is audio of the UFC 79 post-show press conference. Plus, Greg Jackson spoke with Steve Cofield after GSP’s big win.
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IFL 12/29 Mohegan Sun Arena
By Zach Arnold | December 29, 2007
For those watching the event on HDNet tonight, post your thoughts about the event here.
Event results: Sherdog | The Fight Network | MMA on Tap | F4W Online
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Audio previews of this week’s MMA events
By Zach Arnold | December 29, 2007
Check out Mike Coughlin’s new edition of Five Star Radio here.
Oliver Copp and Mike Sawyer of Tough Talk Radio went to the IFO show on Friday at the Riviera in Las Vegas. They have a recap of the event in audio form (listen to the show here).
Jarry Park has an interview with Damon L. Sayles of The Dallas Morning News.
Steve Cofield has a ton of audio interviews on his site that you should check out:
Tim Sylvia | Mac Danzig | Neil Davidson | Chuck Liddell | Kevin Iole | Sokoudjou
Written media coverage for UFC 79
The Canadian Press has an article on Eddie Sanchez. Pramit Mohapatra has an electronic postcard from Las Vegas (here is a bonus one). The Boston Herald has a puff piece on Dana White and UFC’s 2008 plans. The Los Angeles Times has a UFC 79 preview here.
John Philapavage has a UFC 79 event preview here. Make sure to get your picks in before the start of the dark matches (5 PM PST) at MMA Predictions.
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Friday fight notes: Preparation for NYE MMA in Japan
By Zach Arnold | December 28, 2007
If anyone is going to be able to record the TV-Tokyo feed of the Hustle show, the Tokyo Broadcasting System feed of the K-1 Dynamite show, or the SkyPerfecTV PPV feed of the DSE show in Saitama, please get a hold of me using the contact form. Thanks.
Here is an excerpt from Matt Hughes’ new book, in which he talks about the infamous Tito Ortiz/Lee Murray altercation in England.
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Bout order for K-1 Dynamite 2007 card
By Zach Arnold | December 28, 2007
As it stands for the Osaka Dome event:
U-18 tournament reserve fight: Ryo Murakoshi vs. Arata Fujimoto
K-1 rules: Takashi Tachikawa (former Chiba Lotte Marines baseball player) vs. Yoshihisa Inoue
- U-18 tournament: HIROYA vs. Kizaemon Saiga
- U-18 tournament: Kenji Kubo vs. Yudai
- HERO’s 70 kg: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Joachim Hansen
- HERO’s 85 kg: Melvin Manhoef vs. Yosuke Nishijima
- HERO’s MMA: Minowaman vs. Zulu
- HERO’s MMA: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Hideo Tokoro
- U-18 tournament finals
- K-1 rules: Musashi vs. Bernard Ackah
- K-1 rules: Nicolas Pettas vs. Kim Young-Hyun
- K-1 rules: Masato vs. Choi Yong-Soo
- HERO’s MMA: Bob Sapp vs. Bobby Ologun
- HERO’s MMA/135 pounds: Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Rani Yahya
- HERO’s MMA/85 kg: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki
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Bout order for Yarennoka card
By Zach Arnold | December 28, 2007
12/31/2007 Saitama Super Arena:
- Mike Russow vs. Roman Zentsov
- Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo
- Makoto Takimoto vs. Murilo Bustamante
- Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez
- Kazuo Misaki vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama
- Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa
- Shin’ya Aoki vs. Bu-Kyung Jung
- Fedor Emelianenko vs. Choi Hong-Man
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Mother of Drew McFedries found dead
By Zach Arnold | December 27, 2007
Story here in The Quad City Times.
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