We’ve had a change in our feed source of the K-1/DREAM Dynamite! show from Tokyo–our coverage will begin at 2 AM Pacific/5 AM Eastern…for some reason, HDNet couldn’t work out a deal to air the show live and our secondary source didn’t pan out either. We’re now having to rely on a South Korean …
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 …
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 …
Legendary chanteuse Eartha Kitt died last night at the age of 81. She most definitely lived all of those 81 years….
Over at THE SWEET SCIENCE, Ron Borges has an excellent article about Saturday’s brutal (and not in a good way) matchup between the 2nd tallest fight sport competitor in the world (behind Hong-Man Choi) Nikolai Valuev and Evander Holyfield:
Evander Holyfield was right. So were the people who said he can’t fight any more.
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Calling Jake Morris the “next Urijah Faber” might be getting ahead of ourselves a bit–he’s barely 18 and has one amateur match under his belt. He’s a fighter to watch but, man, he sure does look a lot like Faber….
Is Jake Morris the next Urijah Faber @ Portland Examiner
Boxing has Teddy Atlas and Emmanuel Steward, we’ve got the MMA answer in Grady Roy–he masterfully breaks down both fighters’ keys to victory in the UFC 92 main event between Rashad Evans and light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin:
Forrest Griffin/Rashad Evans to headline ‘Ultimate 2008′ @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE
World Victory Road has added another match to their 1/3/09 Sengoku Non Ran card:
Eiji Mitsuoka vs. Sergey Golyaev
Mitsuoka lost to eventual champion Satoru Kitoaka in the semifinals of the lightweight GP tournament at Sengoku 6. His biggest accomplishment is likely a decision victory over reigning DREAM lightweight GP champ Joachim Hansen on a Shooto …
Just posted–Ralph Gonzalez profiles UFC competitor Brodie Farber who’ll seek to bounce back from a highlight reel KO loss as he faces Luigi Fioravanti at the ‘Fight For The Troops’ event on Wednesday night.
Brodie Farber looks to bounce back from knockout loss @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE
Since we’ve been accused of not “giving both sides” of last night’s K-1 final–not that we were aware that stomping a guy and behaving like a punk resulting in a DQ was a bimodal issue–we thought that we’d take a quick look at other responses to Badr Hari’s actions to see if we’re somehow a …
