Archive for December, 2008
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Here’s episode 2 of the Arlovski 360 series with a special guest appearance by the legendary boxing trainer Freddy Roach:
While we’re at it, here’s AA and his pitbull Maximus in their PSA for “Knock Out Dog Fighting”:
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Mick Foley brutalizes Sports Illustrated and writer Adam Duerson. Duerson discussed Foley in his review of “The Wrestler”, referring to Foley as a “sad wrestling tragedy” as well as a “homeless-looking fellow.” Turns out that Duerson omitted basically every fact that was inconvenient to his meme that Foley = Randy the Ram (that’s Mickey [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
As our editor in chief correctly surmised earlier this evening, Satoshi Ishii’s visit to Las Vegas for UFC 92 at the invitation of Dana White is the biggest fight story in Japan today. All of the articles linked below are in Japanese but should give you a good idea of what a big deal [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Kinniku Mantaro, or as the Japanese spell it ‘Kinnikumantaro’, has publicly revealed his “fighting mask” for the first time during an open workout scheduled by Kazushi Sakuraba. According to the DREAM website, Sakuraba’s workout had just ended when out of the dressing room unannounced comes ‘Kinnikumantaro’. He gets in the ring with [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
There’s a lot of coverage in the Boise area on the death of Justin Eilers. Local law enforcement are describing his death as a domestic situation that escalated to an “unfortunate end”. Eilers is being remembered by the local MMA community as a guy who never forgot his roots:
Eilers’ training partner, Mitch Coats, [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Our friends at Knock Out Dog Fighting have just redesigned their website, so go check it out. They’ll also be featured in a forthcoming episode of Arlovski 360, which documents AA’s preparation for the toughest fight of his life against Russian fighting god Fedor Emelianenko.
You’ll notice a big SavSci logo on their [...]
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
All fighters make weight for UFC 92:
main card:
C.B. Dollaway (186) vs. Mike Massenzio (184)
Cheick Kongo (233) vs. Mostapha Al-Turk (237)
Quinton Jackson (206) vs. Wanderlei Silva (203)
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (246) vs. Frank Mir (251) for interim heavyweight title
Forrest Griffin (205) vs. Rashad Evans (203) for light heavyweight title
prelims:
Pat Berry (233) vs. Dan Evenson (242)
Ryo Chonan (171) [...]
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
Justin Eilers, most recently seen in EliteXC where he lost to Antonio Silva to crown the promotions’ first heavyweight champion, was killed in what is being described as a “domestic disturbance” in Nampa, Idaho on Christmas night. His mother’s boyfriend has been taken into custody:
Justin Mark Eilers, 30, of Boise, the man shot and [...]
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
It hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, but there’s a lot of talk in the Japanese fight community that “Minowaman” aka Ikuhisa “Punk” Minowa will be added to the Fields Dynamite! card within the next day or two. The most frequently mentioned opponent is Errol Zimmerman, but with every suggestion that the fight would be [...]
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
We’ve received a few emails thanking us for the improved site appearance in Firefox of late. As much as we’d love to take credit for it, we can’t. Firefox dramatically improved its font rendering in version 3.0 and that’s why the text on the site looks better.
Most of us here at [...]
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