Hunt & Eastman canceled from PRIDE card
By Zach Arnold | October 17, 2006
Sherdog reports that Mark Hunt & Marvin Eastman will not appear on PRIDE’s 10/21 Las Vegas card. Instead, we will get Butterbean vs. Sean O’Haire in a match of former gaijin who worked in K-1.
The new opponent for Kazuhiro Nakamura, according to PRIDE’s Japanese HP, is Travis Galbraith. On the HP, PRIDE is pushing him as a guy who faced Georges St. Pierre (in 2002).
Here’s a PRIDE fan accusing UFC of sabotaging the upcoming Las Vegas show. I bring this link up because it represents one of the following outcomes:
- The charges against UFC are true.
- Some of the charges against UFC are true, but people will not care and say, “Well, PRIDE came to UFC’s home town, what did they expect to happen?”
- None of the charges are true, and it comes off like a political article before an election in which the writer is either trying to say “See, I told you so” or come up with an excuse for a negative outcome.
I expect the general reaction online will fall into category #2.
Meanwhile, Daily Sports is reporting that despite the reports about Mirko Cro Cop having foot surgery, PRIDE is still planning on Emelianenko Fedor vs. Mirko Cro Cop as the main event of their 12/31 Saitama Super Arena event. Also tentatively planned is Vanderlei Silva vs. Ricardo Arona and Dan Henderson vs. Kazuo Misaki in a re-match from the Bushido 8/26 Nagoya Aichi Rainbow Hall show.
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Updated K-1 12/2 Tokyo Dome card line-up
By Zach Arnold | October 17, 2006
Here it is. No particular match order.
- Peter Aerts vs. Musashi
- Ray Sefo vs. Choi Hong-Man
- Badr Hari vs. X (to be announced)
- Semmy Schilt vs. Jerome Le Banner
- Ernesto Hoost vs. Chalid “Die Faust” Arrab
- Ruslan Karaev vs. Glaube Feitosa
- Remy Bonjasky vs. Stefan Leko
- Semi-finals and finals
World GP 2006 Tournament Matches
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UFC Media Links
By Luke | October 16, 2006
Here’s a sample of the media coverage UFC is getting today. My favourite is the Couture piece by Neil Davidson of the Canadian Press. The other two are good articles as well, about Silva’s destruction of Rich Franklin, and what it means for UFC’s business.
One quick link to point out is this list of fighter suspensions by the Nevada State Athletic Commission coming out of the UFC 64 event. Both Rich Franklin & Jon Fitch are medically suspended with nasal fractures until 4/9/2007 (unless medically cleared by a doctor sooner).
Update: Poor Joe Rogan. He won’t have Wesley Snipes to push around anymore.
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Fight Opinion Weekly
By Zach Arnold | October 16, 2006
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What an exhausting last week that was if you were an MMA or professional wrestling fan. Oversaturation of good and bad programming, indeed.
But don’t worry, relive some of the good, the bad, and ugly highlights from the week that was in the fight industry.
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Updated Bushido 11/5 Yokohama Arena card line-up
By Zach Arnold | October 15, 2006
In no specific match order.
- Welterweight GP: Akihiro Gono vs. Denis Kang
- Welterweight GP: Kazuo Misaki vs. Paulo Filho
- Welterweight GP Reserve Match: Gegard Mousasi vs. Hector Lombard
- Lightweight Title Match: Takanori Gomi vs. Marcus Aurelio
- Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Mike Barton
- Shin’ya Aoki vs. Gilbert Melendez
- Nobuhiro Obiya vs. Luis Buscape
- Murilo Bustamante vs. Yoon Dong Sik
- Sanae Kikuta vs. Jean Francois Lenogue
- Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. David Bielkheden (from Stockholm, Sweden – member of BTT)
- Yoshiro Maeda vs. Joe Pearson (Miletich MA)
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Sunday newspaper review
By Zach Arnold | October 15, 2006
Update: Mark Pickering reports that K-1 is trying to book retired boxer Vitali Klitschko.
Lots of UFC coverage. Lots. This will be updated throughout the day.
If you click to read this in full-post view, you will see that we have added a poll question that anyone can vote on. Please vote.
Yahoo Japan HP: Mirko, long-term succession due to left foot surgery
The news about Mirko’s medical situation has made it in the Japanese media.
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UFC 64: Unstoppable
By Erin | October 14, 2006
For additional coverage of this event, check out Dave Doyle at FoxSports.com.
Spencer Fisher vs. Dan Lauzon
Spencer has some very interesting entrance music. Very, umm, subdued.
Wow, Lauzon’s a bit of a youngen isn’t he? “The Upgradeâ€? Wow that’s worse than “The Athlete.†(Ed. — At least he didn’t call himself ‘The Marine’.)
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Superstar Seminar in the UK
By Mark Pickering | October 14, 2006
As the UFC looks to make in roads in the European market ahead of their British expansion, a superstar seminar featuring light-heavyweight king Chuck Liddell and an abundance of Ultimate Fighter alumni has been arranged for February 10th and 11th at the Liverpool Olympia, England.
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Fight Opinion goes to the movies
By Zach Arnold | October 14, 2006
OK, not really. We just find a lot of mass media article links about John Cena’s new movie, The Marine, and let you read them. You’re going to want to, for sure.
I am daring you, Erin, to go see this movie and give us your thoughts. For that matter, anyone reading this who has seen the movie — please post your thoughts in the comments section.
Keep your eyes open for updates at the BoxOfficeMojo.com web site to see what kind of business this new movie draws.
Reviews can be seen in full-post mode. You will be entertained.
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Sensational Saturday media round-up
By Zach Arnold | October 14, 2006
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This week has been insane for media coverage. Click the full-post view to read today’s links. Please give us feedback to the various media stories. We want to read your opinions.
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All is not good in UFC land
By Zach Arnold | October 13, 2006
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With people reflecting upon the success of UFC’s 3.1 rating for Ken vs. Tito III, the obvious question asked by everyone was whether or not that rating meant that UFC would be able to create new fans that would watch their other programming. The first test was Thursday’s Ultimate Fighter show, which had been lagging in the ratings this year.
On Friday, the ratings news came out for Thursday’s edition of TUF. It was bad. Real bad. They nearly lost to TNA. Repeat after me… they nearly lost to TNA wrestling.
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The Friday MMA media marathon
By Zach Arnold | October 13, 2006
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Update: The one big media story today are the rumors/reports (here and here) that Mirko Cro Cop has undergone surgery and will not fight on New Year’s Eve for PRIDE. I think this is the direct link to the newspaper report.
If you use an RSS reader (or service like Bloglines), you can view our site’s RSS feeds to get the latest updates (Radio shows, posts and comments). Let me know if you encounter any issues with the RSS feeds.
This weekend has some MMA events (including UFC 64 in Las Vegas and Shooto in Yokohama on 10/14). Here are Friday’s media links (view in full-post mode).
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The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 9
By Erin | October 12, 2006
Well keeping the teams as is seems kinda pointless what with only Travis surviving from his team. Though I must say for the most part I’m definitely more of a MoJo fan, simply so I can have Serra’s “Hamma-Fist!!!†to snark at.
“Mollywob� And it’s another wierdass Shonie-ism.
Matt Hughes randomly shows up at the training center. GSP has a fabulously blingy hat that is obviously made by Shonie.
As the semi finals are now upon us, we get the “who do you want to fight†interviews.
It’s announced that not only do the fighters get the contract and title shot, but a one year contract with Xyience. That is, of coarse, if Xyience lasts out the year.
The Middleweight matchups are Sell vs. Lutter and Dewees vs. Cote. Geek points to Serra for making a Jedi council reference. Shonie feels the need to give a big ole long monologue before making his choice. Welterweight matches are Thomas vs. Lytle and Shonie vs. Serra.
Everyone goes out to dinner and I pause the Tivo when GSP’s arms get shown. Woof.
Matt replays his dickishness of season 2 by talking mild shit to GSP. Thou shalt not make fun the GSP, damnit!! GSP, if you need a comfort hug, I’m totally here for you buddy.
I pause the Tivo again to rush to Blockbuster online as I just saw an ad for a horror flick starring Henry Rollins. No, I don’t care what it’s actually about, it’s Henry Rollins.
Thomas and Lytle explain that they are friends and will continue to train together even though they are scheduled to fight.
Thomas guarantees that this will be the best fight of the season. Seeing as its only 7:30, it will, at least, be one of the longest.
Welterweight fight – Din Thomas vs. Chris Lytle
Round 1. Thomas goes for a takedown relatively early but Lytle reverses it and ends up in Thomas’s guard. There seems to be a dramatic lack of Serra yelling, but that makes sense as they are both on his team. Both guys throw some shots but after a while of not doing much, the ref stands the up. Thomas goes in for a takedown again and Lytle reverses it on the way down again with them ending up by the fence this time. Din gets a guillotine from the bottom, but doesn’t do anything with it and the ref stands them. Umm, did the time keeper pass out because we hit the end of the round a while ago… According to Roommate Jen there was almost an additional extra minute in there before someone realized that the timekeeper was apparently dead. Longest five minutes in the history of ever.
Round 2. Thomas goes for a kind of sideway body scissors not-takedown and ends up on the mat. Ref stands them up as per usual. Both guys seem about even on the stand up with neither guy getting any real damage in. Finally a bit of a change as they clinch against the cage and Lytle busts out with the foot stomps. Not really sure why, but I love foot stomps. Kinda the foot equivalent of the bitchslap, I guess.
Burger King Commercial. Referring to the mushrooms as “shrooms†is really not a good plan.
Round 3. Thomas finally gets his takedown, but Lytle reverses it fairly quickly. They go back to standing against the fence and Din has a bit of a bloody nose. They separate and we get some fairly spirited punch exchanges before they both kinda gas out and clinch again. Lytle gets a takedown and stays on to until the ref stands them up. Lytle immediately goes for a takedown and scrambles for an ankle as the round ends.
Lytle wins by unanimous decision. Next week Serra shows his dislike for Liamon, Shonie drives the house crazy and Serra and Shonie fight.
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