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By Zach Arnold | May 5, 2007
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Red meat Saturday: More angry media writers
By Zach Arnold | May 4, 2007
By Zach Arnold
Let’s focus on good things, first. Charles Jay has an excellent must-read article on MSN about the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight and how it ties in with what is happening with MMA. Read this article and make sure to listen to CJ’s interview on this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio.
Here’s the latest edition of Fox News’s Fight Game. Always fun to watch. Plus, ESPN Radio host Dan Patrick on boxing & MMA (starts at 10 minute mark). He continues here (starting at the 9 minute mark). Also, here is ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd from Thursday on boxing and MMA (27:15-32:25). He claims that Shaquille O’Neal’s agent (Perry Rodgers) was instrumental in getting UFC on Spike TV.
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Fight Opinion Radio #47: Charles Jay
By Zach Arnold | May 4, 2007
A hard-hitting 90-minute show this week covering an extraordinary amount of insider hardball topics. This week’s show is brought to you by Monster Wrestling Rings and Kakuto Store.
The 47th 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
Or you can use the great flash player to listen to it streaming (without having to use an external program). Check it out (down below).
[audio:http://www.fightopinion.com/podcasts/foradio-5-04-2007.mp3]Podcasting: Use http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinionradio. This link should work for all RSS programs and podcatching programs. You’ll never miss another show again.
If you have iTunes, do the following:
- In your iTunes program, go to Advanced. Then choose the Subscribe to Podcast option.
- Type in http://feeds.feedburner.com/fightopinionradio.
- The newest edition of Fight Opinion Radio will be automatically downloaded and future editions of FOR will download for you as well, hassle-free.
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Topics: Boxing, Erin Bucknell, Fight Opinion Radio, IFL, Japan, Jeff Thaler, Media, MMA, podcasts, PRIDE, UFC, Zach Arnold | 5 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback |
Friday fight headlines: More MMA talk in boxing articles
By Zach Arnold | May 3, 2007
By Zach Arnold
Here is the CompuBox Analysis of De La Hoya vs. Mayweather for this Saturday night.
Pro Elite Inc. stock – four times the price as the IFL stock and 200 times the price as the Art of War stock. How will the Pro Elite stock hold up to future scrutiny?
Results from our latest site poll question: In a UFC Heavyweight title fight, who wins?
- Challenger: Gabriel Gonzaga – 53%
- Champion: Randy Couture – 47%
Hmm… I guess if I were an oddsmaker, Gonzaga would be -160 and Couture would be +140.
We have a new poll question on the right side of the main page. I want you to vote honestly on it.
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The Ultimate Fighter Season 5, Episode 5
By Erin | May 3, 2007
This is not a PG-13 post for language. OK, you’ve been warned.
Recap of Andy paying no attention what-so-ever to his corner.
BJ is less than pleased with his team and their losing ways. Especially Noah and his less than seriousness in training. Assistant Coach Tony has an impromptu grappling match with Noah, who doesn’t seem too pleased with this plan.
Team Penn thinks that Gabe is getting called next and with his weight at 176 lbs, he’s a bit worried. He then has a big ass piece of cake at the house.
Good grief we’re getting the fight announcement already, with Pulver playing Faux-Dana again. Either this is going to be one long ass fight, or we get to spend oodles of time with Gabe trying to cut weight. Yea Zombie!Gabe.
After a suitably dramatic pause Cory announces that he’s fighting Gabe, who busts out with a table to stand on.
Team BJ is not so much on the “Gabe takes a nap†strategy for him to lose weight. Noah says that the guys are prepared to lock Gabe in the sauna until he loses weights.
18 hours away from the weigh in, Gabe is at 173. 2 hours later he’s lost about 5 lbs. Geez, I can’t even lose 5 lbs in 2 months. Then again I don’t pay attention to what I eat and I hate being dehydrated. The next morning he’s at 163. I officially hate him.
Roommate Jen thinks that marinating in your own sweat is gross. I can’t say that I disagree.
Gabe has issues staying in the sauna. Look guys, you are in Nevada. Just buy the man a hooker, toss her in the sauna with him and the time and weight will fly by. Ain’t no man running away from a blow-job. We are now at 1:30 until the weigh in. Gabe is pretty much at the “Fuck You†stage. And apparently at the passed out naked stage. Alrighty then.
Corey is loving the world and Jens tells his team to go back to the house.
Gabe gets hauled off in an ambulance and everyone talks shit about him. Gabe comes back to the house and the guys give him a less than warm reception. Gabe apologizes to Cory for not making weight.
BJ thinks that this may have all been a scheme for Gabe to not fight. BJ wants to have someone takes Gabe’s place and Jens is hoping to just have Cory advance.
Roommate Jen: This is Dana’s Not Amused face.
Not surprisingly Dana kicks Gabe out of the house. He then gives the rest of the guys a pep talk and says that Emerson is back in the competition.
Fight picking, 2nd try. Brian is fighting Joe and Cory is fighting Emerson. I’m assuming that due to a lack of fights this episode, we get two next week.
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Thursday trash talk: Angry media writers
By Zach Arnold | May 3, 2007
Mike Freeman, the CBS Sportsline writer who did that ridiculous column on UFC as compared to boxing yesterday, was the subject of news himself in 2004 when he was fired by the Indianapolis Star for falsifying his resume. Freeman, after being told to resign three days before he was going to start as a sports columnist, apologized, said he knowingly stated in an interview that he graduated from the University of Delaware. In fact, he attended the school, but didn’t get a degree. Freeman had worked from 1994-2004 with the New York Times covering the NBA and NFL before moving to Indianapolis.
The boxing media can’t stop talking about UFC as the big, bad wolf. Wally Matthews (of New York Newsday and Versus boxing telecasts) joins the chorus:
Everyone in the world, it seems, will stop to watch two guys fighting in the street, but lately, not too many people have paused to watch two guys fighting in a ring.
Unless Oscar de la Hoya is one of them.
Now, it [boxing] falls victim to another menace, the fad of mixed martial arts, which is a video-game version of professional boxing, complete with cartoonish, but ultimately less damaging, violence. Boxing left the door open for that one by its own hubris and self-neglect.
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May 2nd bonus round of links
By Zach Arnold | May 2, 2007
By Zach Arnold
ESPN was in full non-MMA fan mode today for their sports programming. On the Jim Rome is Burning program, guests Randy Sklar and Andrew Siciliano both put down MMA as a replacement for boxing (they are right) and called boxing more technical and a science. On Pardon the Interruption, Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon talked about the theme of De La Hoya vs. Mayweather being “Will this fight save boxing?” and then went into their usual UFC tirades about how it’s bare-knuckled fighting from the 1800s that ‘happens on barges’. Kornheiser and Wilbon said boxing is dead after this fight. E-mail PTI.
Of course, if you talk to people like Keegan Walsh, you know that boxing is not dead. It may not be in great shape in America, but in places like Japan (with the Kameda brothers) and Germany (big growth there) it is doing well. Very well.
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Wednesday headlines: No child’s play
By Zach Arnold | May 1, 2007
By Zach Arnold
Take a look at photos today for an angle ran by Hustle Entertainment (aka Hustle, the pro-wrestling product produced by Dream Stage Entertainment). Hustle, which DSE claims was transferred to a new company called Hustle Entertainment (tickets for Hustle’s 5/9 Korakuen Hall show are still being sold officially by DSE), is using the same facilities to do business in as Dream Stage Entertainment did in the past. This isn’t the first time that it has been noticed since Zuffa LLC reached an agreement for the PRIDE asset sale with Dream Stage Entertainment.
Huh. I wonder what UFC (who supposedly retained the services of ex-DSE employees) thinks about their PRIDE facilities being used by those same ‘ex-DSE’ employees to continue running a pro-wrestling operation?
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Barnett: No fight in place for HERO’s
By Zach Arnold | May 1, 2007
By Zach Arnold
In a direct conversation with Josh Barnett on Tuesday, he stated that the reports of him fighting Sergey Kharitonov at the Dynamite event at the LA Coliseum on June 2nd are not true. Barnett further stated that there is no verbal or written agreement for him having a fight against Kharitonov at that event.
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Chute Boxe training video
By Zach Arnold | May 1, 2007
The video includes Rafael Cordeiro, Thiago Silva, Daniel Acacio, and Kazushi Sakuraba.
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Tuesday headlines: Deadline Day
By Zach Arnold | April 30, 2007
Today is supposed to be the day that the PRIDE asset transaction sale between DSE Inc. and Zuffa LLC occurs.
The Idaho Statesman is reporting that Mike Kyle will be facing Patrick Smith on May 12th at Qwest Arena in Boise, Idaho. Does anyone know if Kyle’s suspension from the California State Athletic Commission has expired or not? The 5/12 scheduled fight date would be just over a year after Kyle’s infamous WEC incident.
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Monday highlights – Cage Force in May
By Zach Arnold | April 29, 2007
The IFL stock tumbled downwards on Monday, down to $3.00 USD/share. On January 24th (three months ago), this stock was at $16.50 USD/share. Your eyes are not deceiving you when you read that sentence.
The stock has plummeted 80% in three months.
Daizo Ishige vs. Dan Hardy booked for the Cage Force May 27th show in Tokyo at Differ Ariake (CF Welterweight tournament). Plus, Yoshiyuki Yoshida vs. Justin Turtle in a tournament match.
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Meet Thiago Silva
By Zach Arnold | April 29, 2007
He’s fighting at UFC 71 against James Irvin. This video is Jordan Breen-approved.
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