IFL Confirms Passing of Condors' Jeremy Williams

http://www.ifl.tv/Press-07May06-Jeremy-Williams-Passing.html

NEW YORK, May 6, 2007 – The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world’s first team-based professional mixed martial arts league, is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Southern California Condors middleweight Jeremy Williams, 27, of Laguna Niguel, Calif. The Orange County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department – Coroner Division confirmed that Williams died Saturday and that an autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death.

“This is a very sad day for the Williams family, Jeremy’s teammates and all of the Mixed Martial Arts community,” IFL Co-founder and Commissioner Kurt Otto said. “Jeremy was a tremendous competitor and teammate, as well as being a very strong person who lifted the spirits of everyone around him. Our thoughts and prayers are with Jeremy’s wife, Lauren, their young daughter and the rest of his family, as well as his coaches Marco Ruas and Debi Purcell and all his teammates. Everyone at the IFL, as well as the entire MMA community, will do everything we can to support them in their hour of need.”

Williams owned a professional record of 7-2 and was undefeated in his first two IFL fights, last competing at the Forum in Los Angeles on March 17, when he defeated the Tokyo Sabres’ Kazuhiro Hamanaka. One of the rising stars of the first-year league, Williams was going to miss the Condors’ next matchup at the Sears Centre in Chicago on May 19, due to a recent recurrence of a sternum injury.

Memorial details will be announced as they become available.

About the IFL

International Fight League™ (IFL) is the world’s first professional mixed martial arts sports league. IFL has its headquarters in New York, NY and offices in Las Vegas, NV. For more information about IFL, please see: www.ifl.tv.
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Pro Wrestling/Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 5/02/07

By Art Shimko
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-- Pro Wrestling/Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 5/02/07

-- Stanley Shenker, whose company provided licensing for WWE, and James K. Bell, a senior VP of licensing and merchandising in WWE, were both sentenced to prison in Bridgeport federal court for taking part in a kickback scheme that cost WWE $1 million. The sentencing that took place on Tuesday resulted in Shenker receiving 33 months in prison, three years of probation and owing $2.8 million in restitution to WWE and Bell receiving an eight-month sentence, three years of probation and must pay a $6,000 fine and more than $950,000 in restitution. Both men defrauded WWE when Shenker paid Bell close to $1 million between 1998-2002 and concealing the payments, and Shenker used fake invoices to write off the expenses when filing taxes. The fake invoices had stated that Bell had earned the money for consultation.

-- From WWE.com: Matt Cappotelli, former Tough Enough winner and Ohio Valley Wrestling Champion, underwent brain surgery today to remove a growing brain tumor. Doctors called the surgery a success.

-- Following a Raw house show at Freedom Hall in Johnson City, TN this Friday, an after-party will be held at Gatsby's with metal bands Down From Up, Seventh Seal, and Shadows Of Light performing. Admission is $7 and the bands begin at 10:30PM.

-- The Las Vegas Sun has an article on Mike Tenay discusses how he became interested in wrestling and also reveals that Tenay hit a milestone in his broadcasting career by appearing on his 2,000th wrestling show on TV recently. "I have considered every day I have been on TV a bonus," Tenay says. "I consider myself fortunate to have fallen into this job. But I don't think of myself as having been lucky. I was opportunistic. And when my time comes to leave, I hope I can be the gentleman Gordon Solie was."

-- The opening match for CZW's Tournament Of Death VI this June will be Necro Butcher vs. "Simply Marvelous" Mitch Ryder in a no rope barb wire match. The finals will be 200-light tube lumberjack match where the participants will have to go through the lumberjacks, retrieve the TOD trophy and bring it back to the ring.

-- Mike Quackenbush will be wrestling at ROH's 6/9 show in Philadelphia.

-- J.R.'s latest blog

-- Aspiring professional wrestlers, and their fans, live their dreams in Lawrenceville

-- Wrestling Reality power slams Shiretown

-- Wrestle-mania in Decatur

-- Ex-doctor reaches deal in steroid case

-- Tito Ortiz will be a special guest at an Armed Forces Day program at the Banning Armory [99 E. Ramsey St.] in Banning, CA on 5/19 where he'll speak at a ceremony and do a meet and greet with soldiers. The event begins at 9AM PST. "It is a privilege for me to be invited to this event," said Mr. Ortiz. "I try to support our troops in any way I can and will continue to do so. Whatever I do, however, doesn't even come close to what our guard and other soldiers do for us every day. My heart is always with the families of those who serve our country and especially with those whose loved ones have made the ultimate sacrifice."

-- Tito makes an appearance on MadTV this Saturday (11PM EST) where he'll be in a mock deodorant commercial.

-- Five Ounces of Pain: Conversation with Tito Ortiz, Part I

-- Sean Sherk on fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. in an MMA match: I don't think that fight would last longer than a minute, to be honest with you. And I don't think he should be talking about something that he can't back up, because I'll fight him tomorrow. I literally would, if they called and asked me to fight Floyd Mayweather, Jr. tomorrow, it's done. He's not going to fight me though, and he's just running his mouth. I don't really respect that a whole lot."

-- Matt Lindland will be hosting the The Team Quest Northwest World Team Grappling Qualifying Trials on 5/19 at Olympia High School in Olympia, WA. 15 men and 12 women will qualify for the U.S. Grappling World Team Trials in Las Vegas on 6/8-6/10. From there wrestlers will advance to the World Wrestling Games in Antalya, Turkey on 9/7-9/9.

-- I.D. Systems, Inc chairman and CEO Jeffrey M. Jagid joined the IFL Board of Directors on Tuesday. Jagid, who joined I.D. Systems, Inc in 1995, became the company's CEO in 2000 and chairman in 2001.

-- An IGN interview with FL Battleground co-host and former Miss Georgia and 2005 Playboy Playmate of the Year Tiffany Fallon.

-- Mixed Martial Arts Coming to the Big Screen

-- Local promoter not keen to have King of the Cage come and 'invade his territory'

-- The Iceman looks to end UFC string of upsets when he meets Rampage Jackson
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Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 4/28/07

-- By Art Shimko
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-- Just like Thursday's pro wrestling update we're catching up with all the latest news in MMA...

-- Last weekend in Manchester, fans watching UFC 70 on TV and at the MEN Arena saw quite the upset in the main event as Gabriel Gonzaga (who Casey, Euan and myself ignorantly gave no chance in hell of winning) defeated Mirko Cro Cop using Cro Cop's finishing move, a devastating high-kick which KILLED him and was sent into oblivion. At 4:51 of the first round Mirko landed in a very awkward position to the point that his leg buckled underneath and was bent in a way that a leg isn't supposed to.
If I remember correctly referee Herb Dean quickly dashed to put Cro Cop's leg in the proper position, I thought for sure that he fucked up his knee and ankle but reports stated that he was walking around fine after the match. So now Gonzaga advances to fight heavyweight champ Randy Couture, and if you think a Cro Cop/Couture encounter sounded scary for Couture's fate, one with Gonzaga will be even more insane, not only can he fight on his feet but if it goes to the ground Couture will be working overtime trying to keep up with Gonzaga.
The rest of the show was good, nothing spectacular but historic nonetheless. The David Heath/Lyoto Machida match, which was scheduled to air on the Spike TV broadcast in the States, was said to be so fucking boring that it didn't even make onto Spike.
Instead Spike showed the Matt Grice/Terry Etim dark match which made sense as Liverpool-based Etim got the victory and was the second Brit of the evening to score a victory for the crowd as Michael Bisping won his match against Elvis Sinosic.
The most BORING matches were the Andrei Arlovski/Fabricio Werdum and Assuerio Silva/Cheick Kongo fights, both of which went the distance. Kongo bored me again, not sure what the deal is because I could've sworn the first time I saw him in UFC I thought Kongo was a killer and could be a major deal in the heavyweight division but after seeing his recent fights I'm not sure what's going on. By the way Kongo won via majority (split) decision.
Remember when I said that the Heath/Machida fight was so bad that it didn't make the airwaves in the States? Well as Casey brought up on a recent podcast, one can wonder why the Arlovski/Werdum fight was aired when this had to be a fucking boring-ass fight. The crowd hated it booing like crazy and Joe Rogan was on Arlovski's back during commentary regarding his mundane performance. Arlovski won via unanimous decision but I have this feeling that he'll be going the route that Heath Herring did and work dark matches on Fight Night specials. Complete results can be read on UFC's site.

-- Attendance for the show was reported to be a sell-out at 14,921 with £1.3 million ($2,600,000 US) in ticket sales making UFC 70 MEN Arena's third highest-grossing event. The show did well on Spike TV which drew a 1.84 rating (2.8 million viewers) and peaked at 3.5 million viewers during the main event.

-- Gonzaga received a hero's welcome when the Ludlow, MA native arrived at the Marco Alvan Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training Center earlier this week and was greeted and congratulated by proud students and Alvan. "I want to thank all my teammates," Gonzaga said through his manager and translator, Alvan. "No one can be in the best of shape without their partners." Gonzaga's fight with Couture has been reported to take place on 8/25 but Gonzaga couldn't confirm that date.

-- If only Melvin Guillard was booked on UFC 69 or UFC 70... The Houston Chronicle reports that fighters who participated in UFC 69 and 70 weren't drug tested as according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation stated that was the responsibility of "sanctioning body" of the event, that being the UFC who ran UFC 69 in Houston earlier this month. As far as what happened at UFC 70 regarding testing: "We were ordering tests, but found we had no legal means to do it," said [UFC rep Marc] Ratner. "They had no commission there. There was no drug testing there." I was under the impression that Zuffa was going to fly people out to England to take care of this, those fighters who may have dabbled in any type of questionable substance better count their lucky stars and not fuck around with fate next time.

-- Matt Serra and Matt Hughes have been announced as the coaches for season six of The Ultimate Fighter. That will be GREAT~!

-- UFC 71 on 5/26 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena: (matches announced so far) Chuck Liddell Vs. Quinton Jackson; Josh Burkman Vs. Karo Parisyan; Thiago Silva Vs. James Irvin; Sean Salmon Vs. Eric Schafer; Jeremy Stevens Vs. Din Thomas

-- Chuck Liddell discusses his upcoming battle with Quinton Jackson on KCAL 9 in L.A. this morning, no NyQuil malfunction this time.

-- UFC 72 on 6/16 at the Odyssey in Belfast: (matches announced so far) Rich Franklin Vs. Martin Kampmann; Rory Singer Vs. Jason MacDonald; Scott Smith Vs. Ed Herman

-- Tickets are now on sale for The Ultimate Fighter 5 finale which takes place on 6/23 at the Palms Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas featuring TUF 5 coaches BJ Penn and Jens Pulver in the main event.

-- An interview with Tito Ortiz on MMANews.com.

-- Rashad Responds to Tito Ortiz

-- the Iowa Senate is looking to end state regulation of MMA claiming that the sport's so dangerous it cannot be regulated. Are these guys dipshits or what? “We’ve got a serious problem with shoot fighting. We’re either going to regulate it or we’re not,” said Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, the leading backer of the plan. The Senate had passed a deregulation bill last month but the House was indecisive on passing the bill so early this week the MMA proposal was lumped in with a larger budget bill to be voted on this week. The budget bill was passed but the MMA proposal was not discussed or settled. Throughout this tug of war on coming to a conclusion the state basically doesn't want to be liable for injuries and such resulting in fights. “I’ve got e-mails from Las Vegas and Canada telling me I’m a dummy,” [Sen. Bill Dotzler] said. “They don’t understand the bill. All it says is in Iowa, you can do all your events, just the state isn’t going to be liable for it because we can’t make the sport safe.”

-- Meanwhile in Nebraska, Legislative Bill 471 to regulate MMA events received first-round approval making the State Athletic Commission oversee the sport and events run in the state. State Sen. Ernie Chambers, who actually propsosed the bill, is not a fan of the sport and doesn't think the state should run events but states, "We should not want to drive it underground," he said. "Regulation is better than ignoring it or banning it."

-- Cage fight in legal gray area

-- MMA in Philly? After red tape

-- This coming Monday's IFL Battleground will feature DEAR DON~! as a regular segment, I so hope it's as great on TV as it has been on IFL's site. Here's a sample that may not make it to television.

-- IFL has moved its 6/16 show from Reno to the Las Vegas Hilton making it the first ever MMA event held there. “We were presented an opportunity for this breakthrough event in Las Vegas, and we felt it is an opportunity we could not pass up,” said IFL CEO and co-founder Gareb Shamus. The event, which will be the last of nine regular season IFL events, features the Nevada Lions against the Tucson Scorpions and the New York Pitbulls against the Toronto Dragons.

-- Seattle Tiger Sharks coach Maurice Smith will be fighting for the first time in almost seven years when he takes on SoCal Condors coach and rival Marco Ruas on 5/19 at the Sears Centre in Chicago.

-- WEC at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas on 5/12: Doug Marshall vs. Justin McElfresh; Lightweight Bout: Rich Crunkilton vs. Jamie Varner; Middleweight Bout: Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Hiromitsu Miura; Light Heavyweight Bout: Gary Padilla vs. Ariel Gandulla; Lightweight Bout: Marcus Hicks vs. Sergio Gomez; Welterweight Bout: Tom Speer vs. Sidney Silva; Bantamweight Bout: Brandon Foxworth vs. Manny Tapia; Lightweight Bout: Ed Ratcliff vs. Johnny Sampaio; Middleweight Bout: Eric Schambari vs. Art Santore

-- Frank Trigg has a new MMA radio show that airs daily from 9-10AM PST at www.taggradio.com.

-- Zach Arnold of Fight Opinion has the latest on the Ed Fishman/DSE lawsuit.

-- Total Fighting Alliance's War on the Shore event will be broadcast live online for free. The event takes place on Saturday between 6-9PM PST at the Santa Monica Civic Center an can be viewed at www.totalfighting.net.

-- Rumble in Round Up City II at the Pendleton Convention Center on Saturday , go to www.thefcff.com for more info.

-- Palace Fighting Championships hold its first title fight on 7/19 at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, CA when David Espinosa fights Shawn Klarcyk for the bantamweight (135 pounds) title. Other fights include: Jason Von Flue vs. Chris Botelho, Ruben Villareal vs. Rafael Del Real, Kenny Ento vs. Palika Drummondo, Jeremy Freitag vs. Lamont Lister and Angelo Antuna vs. Seth Dikun. Tickets are priced at $20, $30 and $40, on-sale date is 5/18 at 10AM at tickets.com outlets, the Palace Gift Shop or by calling (800) 225-2277.
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WWE news including plane fire, Austin at the CMT Awards, Tickets for upcoming events, Hogans drama, UFC/HBO deal, IFL/Shamus, lots more

By Art Shimko
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-- WWE.com reports that the Raw roster experienced quite the flight scare Monday night when a charter plane they were on originally en route from Milan to Rome experienced an engine fire, fortunately there weren't any catastrophes that resulted. As WWE agent Tim White stated, “Thankfully, the engine blew on the ground and not over the Atlantic.” While the plane was on the runway its engine was revved up to an extreme level causing engine fumes over 900 degrees. With the flight grounded the wrestlers had to make a mad dash for any flights available in order to make the Rome show.

-- Steve Austin was on hand Monday night at the 2007 CMT Music Awards in Nashville where along with country singer Gretchen Wilson presented the award for Male Video of the Year award which went to Kenny Chesney for “You Save Me.”

-- GameDaily has an interview with Steve Austin.

-- Attenion gamers: Want a chance to play against Shelton Benjamin and Johnny Nitro via Xbox Live in WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007? You can do so before next Monday's edition of Raw from London by sending the following info to wwewrestlers@gamewithfame.net: Name, Age, Nationality, Gamertag. This takes place 4/23 at 13.00 – 15.00 GMT / 14.00 – 1600 CET.

-- Tickets for this year's Survivor Series (11/18) at the America Airlines Arena in Miami go on sale Saturday at Ticketmaster locations, the AAA box office, or on WWE.com.

-- Smackdown and ECW are back in Philadelphia on 6/12 at the Wachovia Center, tickets are on sale Saturday at 10AM.

-- PWInsider.com have both ECW Spoilers and Smackdown spoilers.

-- The Hogans make PAGE SIX~!

-- Wichita mother Barbara Stewart may be charged with child endangerment for letting her son and his friends do backyard wrestling. "I've had lightbulbs in my face," says Alex Whaley. "My lip has been split open, had 32 stitches." Remember everyone, that's the future right there... future of what I have no idea. Stewart's thoughts? "I feel like I failed as a mother."

-- Alan Wojcik will be back with TNA spoilers for the 4/30 Impact tapings as well as the Sacrifice pay-per-view.

-- Champion Christian happy to be back in Bristol

-- DOI has the latest in CZW's utter stupidity... as you can see, it's always easier to fix the small, easy problems.

-- During a UFC 70 pre-teleconference president Dana White revealed that the company struck a deal with cable giant HBO, a move discussed and contemplated for some time now. Expect a UFC broadcast on HBO sometime this summer although it won't be UFC 72 taking place 6/16 in Belfast, Northern Ireland as that will either be on pay-per-view or Spike TV. HBO will be using its own production team and announcers for the broadcasts, which announcers are used will be interesting and when asked if HBO boxing commentator Jim Lampley would be used White shot that down immediately.

-- UFC on Spike this week: (Times EST) Unleashed tonight at 9PM; Ultimate Fighter on Thursday at 10PM; UFC 70 Countdown: Cro Cop vs. Gonzaga on Thursday at 11PM, Friday at midnight and Saturday at 6PM; Unleased at 7PM and 8PM, UFC 70 at 9PM on Saturday.

-- Ticket info for UFC 72: UFC Fight Club Presale Wednesday 4/18 - 9am GMT [http://www.ufcfightclub.com]/4am ET/1am PT. UFC Newsletter Presale Friday 4/20 - 9am GMT [Join UFC Newsletter]/4am ET/1am PT. General public on-sale begins Saturday 4/21 - 9am GMT/4am ET/1am PT

-- Myself, Casey, Euan and possibly Ric (all of CARE Preview fame) will be recording a podcast previewing UFC 70 on Wednesday. I doubt it'll be as WACKY as the TNA Lockdown podcast was

-- IFL CEO Gareb Shamus was named one of Brandweek Magazine’s 10 “Marketers of the Next Generation”. Shamus is the only sports-oriented subject on the list, others included Senior Vice President of Marketing for Hilton Hotels Amy Spatz; Ryan Clarke, director of marketing for Kraft Foods’ South Beach Brand; and Eric Kintz, vice president of global marketing strategy & excellence, Hewlett Packard.

-- The Fight Network Teams With MediaMen to Assist in International Expansion

-- Pavilion scores one of its top crowds ever with cage fight

-- HIGHLAND: Mixed martial artist leads by example
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Weekend Wrestling/MMA news & notes (4/13/07)

By Art Shimko
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PRO WRESTLING NEWS
-- From WWE.com: For the first quarter of 2007, individual episodes of WWE Monday Night Raw accounted for six of the top ten highest rated cable telecasts among households, according to Nielsen Media Research. Among adults 18-49, individual episodes of WWE Raw accounted for eight of the top ten highest rated cable programs with Raw achieving the second, third and fourth highest individual ratings in that demographic finishing only behind the NBA All-Star game.

-- This Friday night edition of Smackdown is the 400th episode.

-- Steve Austin will be the Grand Marshall at Sunday's 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup at the Texas Motor Speedway in Dallas/Fort Worth.

-- Edge has an NHL blog here.

-- Where Are They Now? Percy Pringle

-- Wrestler Foley's Lecture Packs a Punch

-- Cheats and codes for the WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007

-- The Times Herald out of Port Huron, MI has an article on D'Lo Brown and the Springfield Stallions, a Continental Indoor Football League team that he co-owns with Justin Gettys, who are currently 0-1. Brown, a defensive end at the University of Maine during early 90s, has been wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling but took some time off to help with the team. "Things are going very well," said Brown, 36, a former World Wrestling Entertainment grappler. "It was an easy mix to lend myself to the team and become part of the organization. They're still trying to get me on the field."

-- The Torch's James Caldwell has an article about the Don Imus controversy.

-- IGN has an interview with Christopher Daniels.

-- Myself, Casey Trowbridge and Euan Taylor (both from Old Country Times) recorded a podcast to attempt previewing this Sunday's TNA Lockdown pay-per-view. You listen to the podcast here but if you get easily offended then don't listen.

-- Christian Cage, Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle will be appearing at Wrestlefest on 4/22 at Bristol Central High School in Bristol, CT at 5PM. The show will feature 8 matches and a meet-and-greet with Joe, Christian and Angle at 3PM. Tickets can be purchased at: FYE Music and Video stores; Bristol Central High School' main office; Tropical Suntan Center [194 Main St]; the Webster Bank on Queen Street in Southington; S & S Sports Apparel [117 Broad St.]; Curves for Women on Farmington Avenue; Southington's Modern Formals and Fazo's Deli in Waterbury; through www.northwestwrestling.com or by calling (860) 874-1244.

-- IWA Mid-South Saturday night at Southwestern High School in Shelbyville, IN: Demolition Ax vs. Tank; Honky Tonk Man vs. "Marvelous" Mitch Ryder; Danny Basham vs. Ian Rotten; Josh Abercrombie vs. Brandon Thomaselli (Tables, Ladders & Chairs match for the IWA Light Heavyweight Title); Chuck Taylor vs. Drake Younger (IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Title); "Spyder" Nate Webb vs. C.J. Otis; Mickie Knuckles vs. Kristy Summers (IWA Mid-South Women's Title); Puppet vs. T.O.; Iron Saints vs. Billy Roc & Tony Kozina; Vortekz vs. Diehard Dustin vs. xOMGx, Jack Thriller vs. Ricochet vs. ?

-- Mike Quakenbush will be special guest referee for Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero's match at Chikara's Rey de Voladores event on 4/22 at the New Alhambra Arena (Viking Hall) in Philadelphia.

-- Director Lovestruck on wrestling

-- A 64-year-old pro wrestler set to perform in Newbury

-- Power Team spreads message in Statesboro

-- MCRD Parris Island sailor lived professional wrestling dream

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS NEWS
-- A post-fight piss test revealed that Melvin Guillard tested positive for cocaine following his 4/5 Fight Night match with Joe Stevenson. This is just plain fucking stupid. So far we've seen two stoners compete in MMA, guys who don't make weight three months before a title fight and don't make weight for a TV show where 155-pounders are competing and guys doing blow before their matches... recreation is great and all, but god damn these guys know they have a fight coming up and that the commission tests for drugs or that they MUST make weight for a fight... like Ric James said, "that cocaine is a helluva drug!"

-- In a CBS Sportsline interview with Brock Lesnar, when asked how Kurt Angle would do in MMA, he replies: I think Kurt would do rather well in the 205 category, but I think father time has caught up to him rather quickly because of the demand of professional wrestling and what he gave to professional wrestling, and what he gave his body to. I think that he might have a couple of fights in him but ... poor guy, he's given his life and his heart, mind, and soul to be a professional wrestler and he's hurt himself.
Lesnar's spent the last 10 months training and between 265-270lbs., he's trained with Pat Miletich and currently trains at Minnesota Mixed Martial Arts Academy. As far as training with Royce Gracie Lesnar says their schedules are unable to accomodate time to train together but maybe after the K-1 6/2 event at the L.A Coliseum they'll get to train. Lesnar confirms that his K-1 contract is for one fight only and says that Vince McMahon attempted to arrange Lesnar and Kurt Angle to have individual fights with Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson but the boxers nixed that idea.

-- Dana White loves Canada~! "Canada's been a phenomenal breakthrough market for us, the sleeper market," White told The Canadian Press in an interview. "When we were looking at this thing, when we first purchased it, we had no idea that Canada would become so huge."

-- Matt Serra talks about his recent win against Georges St. Pierre and has some words about Matt Hughes in this video interview.

-- Serra on rise in UFC after stunning St. Pierre

-- Here's an article on Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou; Prior to Sokoudjou's recent victories in Pride over Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Ricardo Arona he fought just three times for the Total Combat promotion in San Diego and Sportfight in Portland, OR. Sokoudjou arrived in the States six years ago to train for Olympic judo competition when he met Pride Middleweight and Welterweight Champion Dan Henderson as he was training to fight judo practitioner Kazuhiro Nakamura. From there Sokoudjou got into MMA but admits the transition wasn't so smooth: "I thought it would be easy, but it was really hard for me to kind of understand that judo and mixed martial arts are two different things," he said. "I thought, 'I know judo so I can go ahead and judo everybody." Sokoudjou has modest aspirations in this sport: "I would love to say I'm going to get a bunch of belts. Lots of people out there have a bunch of belts, but they suck," he added. "My goal is to put on a good show and make sure everyone who comes and watches me fight is always satisfied."

-- From the IFL: The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world’s first team-based professional mixed martial arts league, and USA Wrestling, the National Governing Body for wrestling in the United States, today announced a strategic partnership between the two organizations aimed at increasing the awareness level and creating unique grassroots programs and branding opportunities for both groups. “This is a great day for the IFL and for the sports of Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling,” said IFL Commissioner and Co-Founder Kurt Otto.“This partnership will give us the platform to reach a very passionate demo with one of the most respected National Governing Bodies. This cooperative program will help us further our mission to expose these great IFL athletes to a larger audience and show how they can use their wrestling skills as part of MMA.”

-- Dragons Cage at the Williamson County Pavilion in Marion, IL on Saturday 4/14. For more info long onto www.dragonscage.com or call (618) 699-4374.

-- There's an MMA show at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi on Saturday. Go to www.fightforce.org or www.bomberpromotions.com for more info.

-- Mixed martial arts notebook: Lindland ready for the fight of his life

-- Average Joes go head to head

-- Ex-Delawarean mixes hip-hop style with mean right cross

-- Local man using martial arts, religion to reach out to TYC youths

-- When in Rome...do as the Romans do
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Kingston/CZW, Gilberti arrested, Foley at MIT, WWE injuries, Cena races, Naked women wrestling, ROH, PWG, Rogan interview, UFC press, Baroni arrest

By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- Tons of Pro Wrestling/Mixed Martial Arts news from the last week...

PRO WRESTLING NEWS
-- Combat Zone Wrestling is involved in a feud, but it's not with another wrestling federation, it's with some of CZW's fanbase and some of its wrestlers. On Saturday night at CZW's Out With The Old, In With The New show following the Chris Hero/Eddie Kingston Loser Leaves Town match, owner John Zandig came out to get into it with Kingston following his win over Hero. Kingston left the ring and Zandig ended up "firing" Kingston from the company, later on Zandig came out "shooting" on the fans, particularly criticizing "5 to 10 people" on the CZWFans message board who he felt leave negative posts about the company bringing everyone down.
First off, it more than 5-10 people (as seen in this thread which is one of many) bitching about how shitty CZW's quality has been as far as booking run-in after run-in to finish matches, bringing in no-name no-talent wrestlers while pushing out wrestlers fans actually want to see and other dipshit ideas.
I haven't been to a CZW show since December 2006, and before that I was at maybe two or three shows throughout last year which is the least number of CZW events that I've attended. I have not decided to boycott the product entirely yet I'm not sure when I'll be at another show, this sentiment is shared by many fans on the board who feel cheated and shat upon by an owner who instead of listening to some feedback from fans just looks the other way thinking that such criticism is just negative internet ranting.
Eddie Kingston later left a two-part YouTube interview on all that went down Saturday night, it's since been taken down by Kingston's request but I did get to see it and some points included:
- Kingston arrived at the building early Saturday and was asked by wrestlers in the back if he was talking to Tod Gordon of PWU. Kingston said the last time he talked to Gordon was last summer when he and some members of BLK OUT (Sabian, and Joker) were to work for PWU.
- Kingston saw on the sheet that there were run-ins booked in his match with Hero which he shot down. He was then approached by Zandig and told that he would clothesline Kingston in the ring afterwards, Kingston said ok.
- After the match, Kingston told security that his hand was numb and to tell Zandig not to clothesline him, Zandig then suggested that he slap Kingston. Kingston saw this as an insult and later questioned why a supposedly "retired" wrestler who's not involved in this feud would come out and steal the heat from Kingston and Hero's moment. Kingston left the ring and later heard he was "fired" from a company that he wasn't even contracted with as he left the building.
- Kingston also confirmed the events that transpired resulting in Jigsaw also leaving the company that night as reported on Declaration Of Independents. Jigsaw wanted to drop the Jr. Heavyweight title to Vortekz clean, run-ins again were suggested and Jigsaw has to politic to drop the title without any screwjob finish. Jigsaw was told he would be needed for this year's Best Of The Best show, then it was announced in the ring that the loser of the match would not be in Best Of The Best which not only confused Jigsaw but made him feel as if he was forced out of the company, Kingston also noted that the Chikara-CZW relationship was rocky from the start and that the Chikara wrestlers felt like outsiders in the CZW locker room. Kingston was classy when he said no matter who much you hate the product and/or one person (being Zandig of course) not to take it out on the boys and boycotting the shows takes money out of the boys' pockets. The only thing with that is that ONE PERSON is approving of the goofball shit going on in that ring an as hard as the wrestlers work it's hard to have to sit through nonsensical booking and storylines and wrestlers who don't know how to get themselves over...
Well I'm not sure what's going on with this company, I may not be going until Cage Of Death this December unless I hear or read that the company's shows are getting better. The whole deal with Jig and Kingston really puts a sour taste in my mouth, Zandig and company need to take their heads out from their asses and figure something out. A new booker? Wrestlers (not necessarily big names) who can work the crowd as well as match? It's more than one thing that needs to be fixed, but first things first: Promoters should not ever insult their fanbase, you know, the folks who are willing to put money in your pocket for a decent product.

-- Glen Gilberti (aka WCW's Disco Inferno) was arrested in an illegal gambling operation in Roswell, GA Monday night. Along with Dan Tyre, a homeowner who was running high-stake poker games in his residence, Gilberti face commercial gambling charges which is a felony; in total 27 people were arrested. There's also a dispute about how much players had to pay in order to play, "All the more serious stuff they're talking about, that's circling around $10,000 buy-ins, it's a bunch of garbage," said Troy Gibson, one of those arrested. But the Roswell Police Department believe that indeed was the buy-in amount and they retrieved $45,000 at the scene.

-- Mick Foley spoke at M.I.T. today for the Comparative Media Studies: American Professional Wrestling course, he will be speaking again tomorrow in Building 54, Room 100 from 5-7PM.

-- SMACKDOWN AT MIT

-- Bob Holly has surgery on 4/16 to release a nerve entrapment in his elbow, he's expected to be out for 3-4 months.

-- Smackdown spoilers from Providence

-- J.R.'s latest blog

-- John Cena will be starring on ABC's Fast Cars & Superstars - Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race reality show beginning 6/7 at 8PM. Other celebrity racers include: singer Jewel, actor William Shatner, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, actress Krista Allen, 7-time World All-Around Rodeo Champion Ty Murray, former NBA Champion John Salley, former NFL Super Bowl Champion John Elway, World Wrestling Entertainment Champion John Cena, tennis star Serena Williams, volleyball great and model Gabrielle Reece, legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, and former NFL Super Bowl-winning Head Coach Bill Cowher. Gillette Young Guns are Jimmie Johnson, Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch and Jamie McMurray.

-- Jim Cramer on WWE Stock: Cramer also likes World Wrestling (WWE - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), calling it an "international growth story" with "great yield." Cramer said the dividend "keeps a bottom on the stock" and that he sees 2 or 3 points of upside from the recent $17.

-- The Chicago Sun-Times has an article on chiropractor Aaron Wolfe who helped WWE wrestlers get adjusted before their during Wrestlemania 23, "Before their matches, they get the alignment of their spines done. They get chiropractic adjustments, help them stretch out. Stuff like that," Wolfe said. However, Wolfe couldn't reveal exactly which wrestlers he worked with, "They put me in the VIP locker room, which was basically the 10 main guys. I got to hang out with them the whole time."

-- WWF Hall of Famer Walter "Killer" Kowalski is among three athletes (along with former major league pitcher Ray Sadecki and Olympic swimmer Chet Jastremski) to be inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame on 6/14 at the American Polish Cultural Center in Troy, MI. For more info call (248) 588-5333 or log onto www.polishsportshof.com.

-- The New York Times has an article on Diamond Dallas Page and his Yoga for Regular Guys DVDs.

-- The first 25 fans through the door at MCW's Aggravated Assault 2007 show on 4/21 will receive a pass to the advance screening of Steve Austin's new movie The Condemned on 4/24 at 7:30 pm @ the AMC Loews White Marsh Theatre in Baltimore.

-- Goldust will be taking Jake "The Snake" Roberts' place (who's "injured") AT CWA's second anniversary show when he takes on CWA champ Timber. "We had signed Jake to a multi-show contract," said CWA co-owner David Garrick. "Injuries are part of the game, but he should be ready to go by May 10." Jeez, is this guy are mark or what?? The show is at Southern Methodist College in Orangeburg, SC on Satuday at 6PM, there's a luncheon at 1PM. For more info contact Roger Gleaton at 803-707-4072.

-- Mayhem in Melbourne II on 5/12 in Clemente Center at Florida Tech will feature: Virgil, One Man Gang, Kamala, Marty Jennetty, Tito Santana, legends Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik and WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, Jerry "The King" Lawler. Go to www.FloridaExtremeWrestling.com for more info.

-- ROH this weekend:
Friday 4/13 @ the Sports Plus Entertainment Center in Lake Grove, NY:
- Takeshi Morishima & Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney & Tank Toland vs. Nigel McGuinness & Doug Williams
- Austin Aries, Matt Cross & ??? vs. Roderick Strong, Davey Richards & Rocky Romero
- Homicide vs. Brent Albright
- Jack Evans vs. SHINGO
- Jay Briscoe vs. Claudio Castagnoli
- Colt Cabana vs. Delirious
- Daizee Haze vs. Sara Del Rey
- El Generico vs. Jason Blade vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Erick Stevens
- Kevin Steen vs. Pelle Primeau

Saturday 4/14 @ Inman Sports Club in Edison, NJ
- ROH World Title Match: Takeshi Morishima defends vs. Nigel McGuinness
- Colt Cabana vs. Doug Williams
- Jack Evans & Delirious vs. Roderick Strong & Davey Richards
- Shingo vs. Matt Cross
- Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. Erick Stevens & ROH World Tag Team Champions Jay Briscoe with Mark Briscoe
- Rocky Romero vs. Claudio Castagnoli
- Top of the Class Trophy: Shane Hagadorn vs. Pelle Primeau
- Chris Hero & Tank Toland vs. Jason Blade & Eddie Edwards

-- PWG All Star Weekend results:
Night One (4/7)
- El Generico (C) def. PAC to retain the PWG World Championship
- Low Ki def. Davey Richards
- Kaz Hayashi def. Alex Shelley
- Joey Ryan & Scott Lost & Chris Bosh & Karl Anderson def. Frankie Kazarian & TJ Perkins & Ronin & Top Gun Talwar
- Kevin Steen def. Jack Evans
- Kikutaro def. Matt Classic
- Human Tornado def. Claudio Castagnoli
- Rocky Romero def. Roderick Strong
- Disco Machine def. NOSAWA

Night Two (4/8)
- Kevin Steen def. Joey Ryan
- TJ Perkins, Rocky Romero and Ronin def Lil Cholo, Karl Anderson and Nosawa
- Davey Richards def. Chris Hero
- Colt Cabana and Top Gun Talwar def. Disco Machine and Kikutaro
- Claudio Castagnoli vs. Alex Shelley
- Kaz Hayashi def. Pac
- Roderick Strong and Jack Evans vs. Chris Bosh and Scott Lost went to a No Contest when Super Dragon and Davey Richards
- El Generico def. Human Tornado to retain the PWG title
- Samoa Joe def. Low Ki

-- Carmen Electra's Naked Women's Wrestling League has a pay-per-view on Events iNDemand that airs until June.

-- Electra-fying Naked Women Wrestling

-- Some jouralism advice from The Torch, take it for what it's worth...

-- Do you smell what Paco is cooking?

MIXED MARTIAL NEWS
-- The New York Post has an interview with Joe Rogan talking about his stand-up career and thoughts on UFC: It's already eclipsed boxing in terms of pay-per-view dollars. The real question is can it eclipse football!? Can it eclipse soccer? I think the answer to that is yes. It's a more exciting sport. The UFC has had problems in the past getting guys from overseas. There's not just the UFC, there's also Pride, a huge international organization that a lot of people believe has the best fighters in a couple of different weight classes. But now the UFC purchased Pride. We're going to get to see incredible match-ups now that weren't available just six months to a year ago.

-- Tim Sylvia will be signing autographs at the Country Rose [2221 E. 4th St.] in North Platte, NE beginning at 9PM.

-- Paris Hilton throwing a UFC 69 party??

-- More UFC press:
- UFC rising among nation's sports
- UFC packing a punch in '07
- Mixed Martial Arts: No more perfect career for Sanchez
- LIer Serra grabs title, stuns UFC
- Ultimate Regimen

-- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira signed with UFC last Saturday, he was in attendance at last week's Fight Night sitting with Dana White.

-- Phil Baroni was arrested Sunday night in Miami following a altercation in front of a restaurant. He was released on $5,000 bond and is scheduled in court on 4/30 to be arraigned on a felony count of threatening a police officer and misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and resisting officers without violence. "Phil was with only his girlfriend at that time and engaged in an altercation with multiple assailants," said Baroni's agent Ken Pavia. "When all the facts come out I think you will find that Phil was reasonably justified in his actions."

-- The Black Athlete Sports Network interviewed IFL Seattle Tiger Hawks coach Maurice Smith.

-- Steve Cory pissed off a lot of local fighters after running an MMA event in Oklahoma City and not paying them. Two brothers who fought on the show had thousand dollar checks from Cory that bounced, he also got money from sponsors for a bogus upcoming event, even UFC fighter Andrei Arlovski who signed autographs got stiffed for $7,500 but the lowest of the low was that Cory's check for the event's insurance premium bounced so any fighters seeking medical treatment will have to pay out of their pocket because of this dipshit. A background check on Cory showed that he's a convicted felon with a long rap sheet and crimes including possession of forged instruments, writing bogus checks, and jumping bail. Cory or his wife wouldn't comment to the media.

-- The Nevada State Athletic Commission changed the match result of Nick Diaz and Takanori Gomi's Pride fight from February to a "no-contest" after Diaz tested postive for Delta-9-THC (the shit in pot that gets you high as a kite). Diaz is suspended until 8/24 (six months from the date of his last fight) and was fined $3,000 (20% of his purse), it was also determined by NSAC Chair Dr. Tony Alamo that Diaz was high when he fought and that helped him win. Diaz replied, "I wasn't under the influence when I was fighting. I don't abuse drugs normally; it was a one-time thing. It was very embarrassing for me to test positive."

-- SUN Sports & Entertainment Inc. presents Art Of War II on 5/11 at the Austin Convention Center and is being sponsored by the US Army.

-- Scientific wrestling looks to capture piece of mixed martial arts market

-- Academy moves, expands schedule

-- CraveOnline Teams with Sherdog to Punch Up Sports Channel

-- PrimEdge, Inc. Negotiates Exclusive Licensing Rights for Broadcast and Media Distribution of the "Absolute Fighting Championships" -- the Fastest Growing Spectator Sport in the U.S. and Worldwide

-- Willmar man postpones Ultimate Fighting event

-- Mackay’s ECC win will stand

-- Local fighters itching to get in the cage

-- Boxing is fast becoming obsolete
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Cabana signs with WWE, UFC-Mania on TV this week, Lashley saluted, WSX update, Jacobs at IWA, Serra article, IFL, more

By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- Colt Cabana has signed with WWE thus his final date with ROH will be 4/28 in his hometown Chicago facing Adam Pearce. "For the past four and a half years the only consistent thing in my life has been ROH," Cabana said. "ROH has been my home and family. The Chicago show on April 28th is not going to be a farewell, but a celebration. We are going to celebrate how great ROH is and will continue to be. It's not going to be a good bye, its going to be a "Seeya later". Thanks for all the good time, and great memories!" During his ROH run, which began in 2002 at Philadelphia's Murphy Rec Center with best friend and current ECW wrestler CM Punk, Cabana has been ROH Tag Team Champion twice with Punk and has been involved in many great moments with the promotion including his heated feud with Homicide and the recent great angle with Lacey and Jimmy Jacobs. Let's hope Cabana gets to display his unique sense of humor and excellent ring work in the big leagues.

-- Lots of UFC programming on Spike this week:
- Tonight: Unleashed from 9-11PM EST
- Wednesday: UFC 69 Countdown: St-Pierre vs. Serra @ 10PM EST and UFC All Access: Georges St-Pierre @ 11pm EST
- Thursday: Unleased @ 6 and 7PM EST; Fight Night LIVE @ 8PM EST; The Ultimate Fighter 5 Premiere @ 10PM EST; All Access: Georges St-Pierre replay @ 11PM EST
- Saturday: All Access: Georges St-Pierre replay @ 11:30AM EST; UFC 69 Countdown: St-Pierre vs. Serra replay @ 6PM EST

-- Bobby Lashley is on the cover of this month's Salute magazine.

-- Last week Linda McMahon was at a presentation in Washington, DC that honored first lady Laura Bush with a a lifetime achievement award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington. Linda presented the first lady a championship title belt that read “USO Champ: Laura Bush” beforehand.

-- WWE The Music: Vol. 7 is now available on iTunes.

-- MTV doesn't plan on airing the tenth and final episode of WSX as they treated the 3/13 airing of episode nine during a marathon as the final episode. Unless the WSX wrestlers' contracts are extended to 6/13 it looks as if those on the roster will become free agents as seen with the recent signing of Colt Cabana (Matt Classic) to WWE. [source: www.pwinsider.com]

-- IFL this Friday at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT @ 8PM EST:
- Dragons [coach: Carlos Newton] vs Scorpions [coach: Don Frye]:
- Wagnney Fabiano vs. Santino Defranco (155 lbs.)
- Gideon Ray vs. Gabe Casillas (170 lbs.)
- Brent Beauparlant vs. Seth Baczynski (185 lbs.)
- Wojtek Kaszowski vs. Mike Whitehead (205 lbs.)
- Rafael Custodio vs. Chad Griggs (265 lbs.)

- Pitbulls [coach: Renzo Gracie] vs Wolfpack [coach: Matt Lindland]:
- Erik Owings vs. Ryan Schultz (155 lbs.)
- Delson Heleno vs. Mike Dolce (170 lbs.)
- Fabio Leopoldo vs. Gerald Harris (185 lbs.)
- Jamal Patterson vs. Matt Horwich (205 lbs.)
- Bryan Vetell vs. Devin Cole (265 lbs.)

-- Jimmy Jacobs takes on The Barbarian this Friday at IWA Mid-South in Plainfield, IN

-- Flashy Wrestling Shows Grab the World by the Neck and Flex

-- Women’s wrestling: dirty business

-- That's what I call entertainment!

-- 20 years of dorkdom

-- THQW smacks down wrestling game

-- Serra revels in the underdog role in preparing for St. Pierre
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Pro Wrestling/Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 4/2/07

By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- As expected, the whole Donald Trump/Vince McMahon head shaving bit from Sunday night's Wrestlemania 23 show made it to various press and news outlets including both men appearing on the Today show Monday morning. Ric Gillespie wrote on his site CanvasChronicle.com: Got a chance to catch Vince McMahon and Donald Trump on 'Today.' Wasn't a whole lot to it, but the public did get its first look at McMahon's completely bald pate, and also saw a shiner on McMahon's left eye, courtesy of Trump's punches at 'WrestleMania.'

-- Final tally for Wrestlemania: Attendance announced was 80,103 at Detroit's Ford Field and brought in a live gate of $5.38 million making it the highest grossing one-day live event in company history.

-- Raw will be in Dayton tonight, expect insanity that only Vince McMahon can deliver now that he's been humbled on the grandest stage of them all and other follow-up from Mania with Cena, HBK and more.

-- Injury report from ROH's shows this weekend from ROHWrestling.com: Mark Briscoe suffered a concussion after landing bad on a shooting star press to the floor. He was in the hospital for the entire weekend. He is now questionable for 4/13 & 4/14. We hope to have an update later this week. BJ Whitmer will be forced to miss 4/13 & 14 for a neck injury he suffered in the Steel Cage Showdown against Jimmy Jacobs last Saturday. Fans are calling this brutal match the greatest cage match in ROH history. Unfortunately both Whitmer and Jacobs paid the price. Jacobs suffered worst of all. He had half of one of his front teeth chipped. Worst yet, he will need major surgery to repair a completely torn my Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in his left knee. Jacobs will miss 6-9 months of action, but will still have a role on most of the ROH shows.

-- The Evening Tribune out of Hornell, NY has an article on ‘Leapin' Lanny Poffo about his appearance at the 34th Annual Sports Night on Saturday. Poffo also discusses his SNME with Hogan, what he did to stand out amongst the typical WWF wrestler look, his wrestling family and his literary career where Poffo wants to help today's youth from taking up smoking which he states is part of the five nightmares of youth which also includes dropping out of school, teenage pregnancy, drugs and suicide.

-- TNA will hold its Slammiversary pay-per-view on 6/17 in Nashville.

-- TNA has a show this Saturday at The Crossroads Arena [2800 South Harper Road] in Corinth, MS featuring NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage, Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, Abyss, “The War Machine” Rhino, X Division Champion Chris Sabin, “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Petey Williams, “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels, Team 3D, Sonjay Dutt, The Naturals, “Wildcat” Chris Harris and “Cowboy” James Storm. Tickets available at particpating Subway restaurants or call (662) 287-7779.

-- Sting on retirement: “Last year, I said 2006 probably would be my last year, my last hurrah in wrestling. But then (TNA President) Dixie (Carter) started talking to me about 2007, as well as other TNA executives. So I figured I’d go another year. But, after 2007, I can’t make any promises. I have a feeling this, 2007, will be it,” said Sting. “I’m not a commentator or manager type. Not in my blood. Wrestling is the only thing in my blood.”

-- The Best Of AJ Styles DVD Vol. 2 is available on Tuesday which will cover:
- AJ as a kid growing up
- Memories and stories about his family and friends
- Excelling in sports in high school and college
- How and why he got into wrestling
- Stories about his time in NWA Wildside and WCW
- Finding faith and religion in his life
- Meeting his wife and beginning their family
- The birth of his first son and what it meant to him
- His career in TNA, including his favorite matches and stories
- His love of video games and more

-- Female wrestlers: Friends outside ring, foes inside

-- Patrick Stoetzer of Carroll County Times reminisces about old-school WWF wrestling and pay-per-views

-- Father charged with assaulting son - An East Pennsboro Twp. man faces charges after police said he punched his 11-year-old son and made him run laps around their vehicle because he cried on the mat during a wrestling practice, police said.

-- Multiplayer: Putting Up A Fight

-- It's a busy week in mixed martial arts as we have two UFC events (Fight Night this Thursday night on Spike TV followed by the premiere of The Ultimate Fighter 5, UFC 69 on Saturday) and Pride 34 on pay-per-view this Sunday. Myself, Casey and Euan from Old Country Times and Ric from Canvas Chronicle will be recording a podcast to review only a few of the fights from each card (although we're each picking three to review so we can either have a bunch of different fights to discuss or talk about the same ones, we'll see), that will take place on Wednesday so expect to be posted maybe by Thursday. Fight cards: UFC Fight Night; UFC 69: Shootout; Pride 34: Kamikaze

-- Swick discusses UFC 69, Okami and going home

-- Penn wants to pulverize rival

-- Here's some interesting build-up for the Josh Koscheck/Diego Sanchez fight this Saturday:
- Five Ounces of Pain: An interview with Josh Koscheck
- The Fringe: An interview with Diego 'The Nightmare' Sanchez

-- The Iowa Senate voted 35-12 last Wednesday to end state regulation for mixed martial arts. Democratic senator Bill Dotzler, who spearheaded this move, states that the bill would ban any MMA event to take place and will protect the state from any liability due to a fighter's death or injury, the bill is a result of not enough senators being able to agree whether to ban the sport or not. Promoter Monte Cox stated, "De-regulating it is the biggest pansy way out of this situation," and is concerned that de-regulation will encourage fly-by-night promoters to run shows and cause more chances of injuries or death for fighters. The state obviously is covering their ass over fighters' safety and regulations would be more of a help to the sport so that jack-ass dishonest promoters don't come in and make money without any regard to fighters' safety. The bill is headed to the House.

-- IFL ratings info:
“IFL Battleground” has achieved record numbers for MyNetworkTV in just its first three weeks.

Those numbers include:

• A 60% increase in overall audience size over MyNetworkTV February sweeps prior program numbers, including a 250% increase in males 18-49.

• A three-telecast viewer reach of over 6.1 million, the best first three telecast cume for any show since the Network launched last September.

• The February 26 “IFL Battleground” show featuring the New York Pitbulls set a record for males watching MyNetworkTV, delivering a 0.7 in the male 18-49 category.

On the sports cable side, the IFL’s weekly Friday night matchup on FSN has seen:

• An impressive 24% increase in the 11 p.m. window from other programming that has held that time slot in the first quarter of 2006 (FSN’s “Best Damn Sports Show Period”).

• Overall the program rose in all key male demos, with men 18-34 up 41%, men 18-49 up 15% and men 25-54 up 27%.

-- DEAR DON~!

-- Robbie Lawler won the Icon middleweight champion Saturday night when he KO'ed Frank Trigg at Honolulu's Blaisdell Arena making him the promotion's first ever two-time middleweight champ.

-- One-on-one with UFC heavyweight Heath Herring

-- TV schedule for WEC on Versus Network this summer:
6/3/2007 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
6/3/2007 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING
6/6/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
6/13/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
8/5/2007 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
8/5/2007 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING
8/8/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
8/15/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
9/5/2007 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING

-- HBO looking outside the boxing ring

-- Florian ready for comeback

-- Former baseball player Welker wins debut in cage match

-- Mayweather/De La Hoya Conference Call Transcript

-- De La Hoya adds bit of Sugar to his training regimen
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IFL Report/Results from Los Angeles Forum 3/17: L.A. Anacondas defeat San Jose Razorclaws

IFL.tv: Full Report/Results below:

Anacondas defeat Razorclaws (5-0)

Alex Schoenauer defeats Brian Ebersole via split decision
Benji Radach defeats Brian Foster via TKO (guillotine choke) at 1:04 of round 1
Chris Horodecki defeats Josh Odom via unanimous decision
Jay Hieron defeats Donnie Liles via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:49 of round 1
Krzysztof Soszynski defeats Dan Christison via unanimous decision

Sabres defeat Condors (3-2)

Savant Young defeats Adam Lynn via KO (punch) at 0:21 of round 2
Antonio McKee defeats Rodrigo Ruas via unanimous decision
Jeremy Williams defeats Kaz Hamanaka via TKO (triangle choke) at 0:59 of round 1
Vladimir Matyushenko defeats Justin Levens via TKO (ref. stoppage) at 3:53 of round 1
Antoine Jaoude defeats Wayne Cole via KO at 0:56 of round 2

Pro Wrestling/Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 3/16/07

By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- Well two days ago it was 70 degrees here in the City Of Brotherly Love and today it's in the 30's with a shitty combination of rain, snow, sleet and slush. So with all this bullshit going down let's take a look at lots of news from the last few days...

-- Lots of national press on the passing of Ernie Ladd this past week including articles in The New York Times, The Orange Leader, The Washington Times and The Los Angeles Times.

-- SLAM! Wrestling: Arnold Skaaland dead at 82

-- CZW wrestler Andrew Gulak left a hilarious blog regarding someone naming him as the current booker for the company. CZW fans have been talking about the shitty booking the promotion has delivered throughout 2006 and are curious of who's been responsible. The CZWFans board has been interesting lately to say the least.

-- I was on The Dark Match with James Young Thursday night to discuss WWE's global expansion, Undertaker's Mania streak, Jeff Hardy and much more. James also had special guests Baby Doll and Timber. A great show that you can download here. Listen to The Dark Match with James Young and Wacko Bob every Thursday at 7PM EST.

-- Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com reports that WSX's season finalé which features an exploding cage match will not air this coming Tuesday and there's no definitive answer if it will ever air.

-- Ring Of Honor holds its biggest shows on Wrestlemania weekend in Detroit:
"All Star Extravaganza III"
Michigan State Fairgrounds & Expo Center "Michigan Mart"
March 30th, 2007- 8:00pm belltime
1120 W. State Fair Ave.
Detroit, MI 48203

Tickets are available at www.rohwrestling.com, by calling (215) 781-2500, or at www.tickets.com.

-The legendary Bruno Sammartino will be at the March 30th event only and he will be available for autographs!!!

Eight Man All Star Dragon Gate Rules Match
Austin Aries, Delirious, Rocky Romero, & Claudio Castagnoli
vs.
CIMA, Susumu Yokosuka, Dragon Kid, & Ryo Saito

World Tag Team Title Match
Naruki Doi & Shingo defend vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe

Former Partners Collide
Roderick Strong vs. Jack Evans

ROH vs. Dragon Gate
Davey Richards vs. Masaaki Mochizuki

Special Attraction
Christopher Daniels vs. Homicide

Anything Goes Mixed Tag Team Match
BJ Whitmer & Daizee Haze take on Jimmy Jacobs & Lacey
Four Corner Survival
Matt Sydal vs. Colt Cabana vs. Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney vs. Adam Pearce with Shane Hagadorn

Plus: Nigel McGuinness, Brent Albright, Pelle Primeau, Yamato Onodera & more!!!

"Supercard Of Honor II"
Michigan State Fairgrounds & Expo Center "Michigan Mart"
March 31st, 2007- 7:30pm belltime
1120 W. State Fair Ave.
Detroit, MI 48203

Tickets are available at www.rohwrestling.com, by calling (215) 781-2500, or at www.tickets.com.

Dragon Gate Rules Six Man Match Of The Year Rematch
CIMA, Shingo & Susumu Yokosuka vs. Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito & Masaaki Mochizuki

FIP World Heavyweight Title Match
Roderick Strong defends vs. Austin Aries

Steel Cage Match
BJ Whitmer w/Daizee Haze vs. Jimmy Jacobs w/Lacey

Fifth Year Festival Rematch
Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe

Special Challenge Tag Team Match
Jack Evans & Naruki Doi vs. Davey Richards & the newest member of the No Remorse Corps

Grudge Match
Homicide vs. Brent Albright

Plus more with Delirious, Colt Cabana, Yamato Onodera, Nigel McGuinness, Chris Hero with Larry Sweeney, Adam Pearce with Shane Hagadorn, Pelle Primeau and more.

Please note that some matches for 3/31 will not be signed until after the happenings of 3/30.

-- Fat Frank Iadevaia assures his fans that JAPW will run its show in Rahway, NJ on Saturday despite the inclimate conditions in the Northeast. Go to Jersey All Pro's site for more info.

-- From an M.I.T. press release: "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross will be speaking to students on Wednesday, March 21, and Thursday, March 22, to share his thoughts on the growth of pro wrestling into a global phenomenon through his experience as one of the greatest wrestling announcers ever in the business, as well as his role in handling talent relations and business development for World Wrestling Entertainment® (WWE). Ross will share experiences from his many years in the television industry, as the wrestling industry has moved from TV syndication to cable to pay-per-view to prime time broadcast television, and now to digital media, including DVD, video on demand, the web and mobile phones.

His appearance will culminate in a lecture to students and the public in Room 4-370 at 5 p.m. on March 22 entitled, "This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker: A Q&A with WWE's "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross," moderated by Sam Ford, the class instructor.

-- Speaking of J.R., here's his latest blog.

-- Hunter gives his thoughts on Mania.

-- Great Khali will have a part in the upcoming Get Smart movie which also stars Dwayne Johnson, the movie will be out in Summer 2008. When asked to compare himself to his Mania opponent Kane on the big screen, Khali replied, “I am a much bigger star than Kane.” Shit, I wonder who had to translate for Khali.

-- Even though this has been the plan for some time now, WWE put out a press release stating the company will begin combining the RAW, Smackdown and ECW rosters for pay-per-views following Wrestlemania. This is in response to the low buyrates of the brand-specific pay-per-views last year and probably a way to compete with UFC's high buyrates.

-- WWE.com's Where Are They Now?: Catching up with Luna Vachon

-- You can recieve complimentary tickets to the premiere of Steve Austin's The Condemned movie from Ticketmaster. The premiere takes place at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on 3/30 at 8PM and you must be there no later than 7:30PM.

-- Rhodes, Bockwinkel, Hennig, Lawler & Mr. Fuji to WWE Hall of Famee3

-- Trump vs. McMahon made it on Sports Illustrated's site.

-- America Supports You: WWE Stars Come Out for Wounded Troops

-- Sgt. Slaughter will be at Riley Park in Charleston, SC on 5/16 for Military Appreciation Night.

-- An interview with Rey Mysterio during his tour of Mumbia.

-- Alex Marvez interviews Bill Goldberg.

-- Exposition Continues Without Wrestling Bear

-- Production Company Secures Film Rights to Pro Wrestling Legend’s Autobiography

-- Season 5 of The Ulimate Fighter premieres on Spike TV on 4/5 at 10PM EST, the coaches are Jens Pulver and B.J. Penn and the fighters competing will be: Allen Berube, Nate Diaz, Robert Emerson, Manuel Gamburyan, Brian Geraghty, Corey Hill, Joseph Lauzon, Gray Maynard, Brandon Melendez, Cole Miller, Gabe Ruediger, Marlon Sims, Noah Thomas, Andy Wang, Wayne Weems, and Matt Wiman.

-- Tryouts for TUF Season 6 take place on 4/10 at 8AM PST at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, click here to download the application in PDF format and must be postmarked no later than 4/7.

-- Baltimore Sun: One-on-one with UFC's Tim Sylvia

-- From a press release for FightTV: MeTV Network, Inc. the niche Internet protocol television (IPTV) programming specialist, announced today that it has teamed with the IFC, one of the oldest and best regarded mixed martial arts promoters, and Fighting.com to launch “FightTV™”, a 24/7 mixed martial arts channel. FightTV shows some of the best fights from the biggest names in MMA including Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell, Tim Sylvia, Caesar Gracie, Jens “Little Evil” Pulver, Renato “Babalu” Sorbral, Anthony “Mad Dog” Macias, and Vladimir “The Janitor” Matyushenko. The channel contains countless hours of great, hard hitting fights. As an added bonus for viewers, for the first thirty days, FightTV™ will be entirely commercial free!

-- Five Ounces of Pain: Interview with Joe Riggs

-- Fights announced for Pride 34 on 4/8 at the Saitama Super Arena: SOKOUDJOU vs Ricardo Arona; Shinya Aoki vs Brian Lo An Joe; Makoto Takimoto vs Zelg "Benkei" Galesic.

-- Frank Shamrock's Razorclaws take on Bas Rutten's Anacondas Saturday night at the L.A. Forum beginning at 7:30PM PST.

-- SUN Sports & Entertainment Inc., the promoters of the Art Of War MMA show that took place last week in Dallas reported that the show grossed $500,000 and a profit of $150,000 which according to their press release the revenues from the 3/9 American Airlines Arena event 60% greater than the average revenues per match of the International Fight League according to the financial information in the IFLI S-1 filing of February 12, 2007.

-- Mixed martial arts sees spike in popularity
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IFL Battleground TV Report 3/12

-- From our pal Casey Trowbridge: 03/12/2007 IFL Battleground Coverage

Weekend Pro Wrestling & Mixed Martial Arts news and notes

By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- My report on last night's Pride show is posted here. Again, I recommend the replay, it was a great show with some historic moments. The announced attendance was 13,180 and the arena didn't look completely sold out as its capacity for boxing events is 19,522.

-- Henderson ends Silva's title reign

-- At a UK press conference on Friday promoting UFC's 4/21 show at Manchester's MEN Arena, Dana White announced Pride fighter Fabricio Werdum as the company's latest acquisition. Matches announced for UFC 70 include Mirko Cro Cop Vs. Gabriel Gonzaga; Michael Bisping Vs. Elvis Sinosic; Andrei Arlovski Vs. Fabricio Werdum and Forrest Griffin Vs. Lyoto Machida. Fight card for UFC 68 is here and UFC 69's card is here.

-- Randy Couture has an ageless story

-- Don Frye's back with some advice.

--IFL Results from Friday night in Atlanta:
Portland Wolfpack defeat Toronto Dragons (3-2)

Wagnney Fabiano (Dragons) defeats Ian Loveland via submission (side choke) at 0:59 of round one.
John Krohn (Wolfpack) defeats Wojtek Kaszowski via unanimous decision.
Matt Horwich (Wolfpack) defeats Brent Beauparlant via submission (kimura) at 0:28 of round two.
Mike Dolce (Wolfpack) defeats Jim Abrille via TKO (strikes) at 0:19 of round one.
Rafael Feijao (Dragons) defeats Devin Cole via TKO (ref. stoppage) at 0:26 of round two.

New York Pitbulls defeat Chicago Red Bears (4-1)

Erik Owings (Pitbulls) defeats Peter Kaljevic via submission (rear naked choke) at 3:03 of round two.
Delson Heleno (Pitbulls) defeats Mark Miller via unanimous decision.
Fabio Leopoldo (Pitbulls) defeats Chris Albandia via submission (guillotine choke) at 1:48 of round one.
Time Kennedy (Red Bears) defeats Dante Rivera via submission (strikes) at 2:29 of round two.
Bryan Vetell (Pitbulls) defeats Mo Fowzi via submission (keylock) at 0:45 of round one.

Superfight

Robbie Lawler defeats Eduardo Pamplona via TKO (ref. stoppage) at 1:36 of round three.

-- Undisputed Arena Fighting Championships hold its first show on 3/9 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, the main event scheduled is Pedro "The Rock" Rizzo [14-7] vs Justin "The Hammer" Eilers [14-5-1]. Ticket prices are $300, $100,$75, $50 and $30 and can be purchased at ticketmaster.com and the American Airlines Center box office.

-- Young and old, they stand a fighting chance

-- Ultimate "barn" fighting

-- Canadian John Alessio to fight for World Extreme Cagefighting title

-- From a recent press release: For the second time in three weeks, World Wrestling Entertainment® again proved to be a prime time triple threat with its three prime time programs -- “Monday Night RAW®,” (USA, 9/8C), “Friday Night SmackDown®,” (CW, 8/7C)and “ECW®: Extreme Championship Wrestling™” (Tuesdays, SCI FI, 10/9C) -- all achieving No. 1 status on their respective networks the week of February 12. The WWE also achieved that feat during the week of January 29.

WWE programs were No. 1 in households and total viewers for their respective networks, reaching more than 16.9 million total viewers in more than 11.6 million homes. RAW continued to demonstrate its ability to draw an audience wherever it appears on the USA schedule. The program aired on Thursday the week of Feb. 12 instead of Monday to accommodate USA’s presentation of the Westminster Dog Show.

-- Three Consecutive Sellouts Highlight WWE's Road To WrestleMania(R) Through California

-- Tomorrow night's Raw preview includes Donald Trump's pick for Wrestlemania, John Cena and Shawn Michaels against Edge and Randy Orton for the tag titles, another Money In The Bank qualifying match and maybe some type of confrontation between Melina and Ashley. Tuesday's ECW preview is here.

-- WSX makes its return on MTV at 10:30PM EST, a preview was posted here last week.

-- Phil Mushnick's thoughts on the Trump/McMahon deal.

-- Former WCW wrestler Alex Wright has a school in Nuremberg, Germany called The Wright Stuff Pro Wrestling School. For more info go to www.prowrestlingschool.de.

-- Add Awesome to seemingly endless list of early deaths

-- The latest ROH Video Wire is available here.

-- Results from ROH Friday night in Dayton: Colt Cabana & Nigel McGuinness d. Jimmy Jacobs & Brent Albright; Jimmy Rave d. Sterling James Keeenan; Lacey d. Daizee Haze; Homicide d. Christopher Daniels and Jay Briscoe; Matt Sydal d. Austin Aries; Tank Toland d. Mitch Franklin; Claduio Castagnoli d. Roderick Strong, Shingo, Mark Briscoe, Matt Cross, and Pelle Primeau; Samoa Joe d. Davey Richards; Takeshi Morishima d. BJ Whitmer and retains the ROH World title

-- ROH results from Chicago on Saturday night: Brent Albright over Claudio Castagnoli; Allison Danger & Sara Del Ray over Serena & MsChief; Matt Cross over C.J. Otis & Shingo Takai & Trik Davis; Jimmy Rave over BJ Whitmer; The Briscoes over Matt Sydal & Christopher Daniels in 24:50 to win the ROH tag team championship; Matt Cross & Austin Aries over Davey Richards & Roderick Strong; Colt Cabana over Jimmy Jacobs; Takeshi Morishima & Nigel McGuinness over Samoa Joe & Homicide. [Keith Lipinski]

-- CZW "Redemption" 3/10 at the New Alhambra Arena (Viking Hall): Vortekz vs. Grim Reefer in a TLC match, Justice Pain and mystery partner vs. Adam Flash and Messiah of Pandora's Box in a tag team grudge match, Blk-Out vs. Checkmate for the Tag Team Titles, TCB vs. Mitch Ryder and new Ironman Champ DJ Hyde

-- IWA Mid-South results for February 23 in Midlothian, IL: Jack Thriller def. Diehard Dustin Lee; Joker & Sabian def. Michael Elgin & Ash to qualify for the Candido Cup; Brandon Thomaselli def. Vortekz, Billy Roc and Devon Moore; Z-Barr def. Teddy Fine; Drake Younger def. CJ Otis in the No Holds Barred Matchup via tapout; Mickie Knuckles def. Steve Corino by DQ after Corino hit her with a chain; North Star Express def. Iron Saints in the Texas Tornado Tag; Low Ki defeats Arik Cannon

-- IWA Mid-South on 3/2 at the Captial Sports Center [1915 Gladden Road] in Plainfield, IN: Mike Quackenbush vs. Claudio Castagnoli; IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Title Match: Josh Abercrombie vs. Brandon Thomaselli; IWA Mid-South Death Match Championship Match: Drake Younger vs. Insane Lane; Death Match Title Contenders Match: Ian Rotten vs. Freak Show; The Iron Saints (Vito & Sal Thomaselli) vs. The Basham Brothers; Jack Thriller vs. Tarek the Great; Tony Kozina vs. Billy Roc

-- Jersey Shore Wrestling 3/3 at the AWA Wrestling School/Arena [725 Sip Street] in Union City, NJ featuring Monsta Mac, EC Negro, Danny Demanto, Kevin Matthews, The Female Tag Team of Alicia & ChaCha, "The Suicidal Demon" Azreial, Archadia, The Sheanky Silver Bullets, Corvis Fear, Gavin Quest, Bandido Jr, Deranged, Dixie, Anwar Abdul-Aziz and so many others.

-- ACPW on 3/10 at the Northeast Community Center [2840 Holme Ave] in Philadelphia: White Lotusvs Teddy Fine; Mikey Raw vs D-Craze; ACPW Heavyweight Champion "Complete" Pete Hunter vs Patch; ACPW Womens title: champion Annie Social vs Cha Cha; Brian Benoit vs Greg Spitz; Z-Barr vs Breaker Morant; Korpse vs Vinny Hoffa; Devon Moore/Joker vs Aramis/KJ Hellfire

-- Grappling with life

-- A Heart For The Ring

-- Wrestling's toughest tour - northern Manitoba
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