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GC 27: 'FightFest 2'
June 3, 2004
California, USA


Dan Evensen defeats Julius Askew by unanimous decision.
Rashad Evans defeats Jaime Jara by unanimous decision.
Cal Worsham defeats Terry Avis by TKO, RD 1.
Dan Severn defeats Ruben Villarreal by split decision.
Urijah Faber defeats David Velasquez by unanimous decision.
Nick Ertl defeats Anthony Rios by unanimous decision.
Dan Quinn defeats Mike Macgregor by TKO at 4:08, RD 1.
Dan Evensen defeats Mike Wolmack by TKO at 2:57, RD 1.
Julius Askew defeats Dan Molina by KO at 0:44, RD 1.
Jaime Jara defeats Anthony Ruiz by armbar at 2:05, RD 2.
Rashad Evans defeats Hector Ramirez by unanimous decision.

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GC 26: 'FightFest 1'
June 2, 2004
California, USA


James Fanshier defeats Shannon Ritch by heel hook at 2:34, RD 1.
Shannon Sams defeats Ceasar Gutierrez by TKO at 4:50, RD 1.
Adrian Garcia defeats David Marshal by unanimous decision.
Anthony Ruiz defeats Bryan Pardoe by TKO at 2:25, RD 1.
Mike Wolmack defeats Anthony Fuller by TKO at 2:57, RD 1.
Dan Evensen defeats Jonah Broad by rear naked choke at 0:51, RD 1.
Dan Molina defeats Frances Miles by armbar at 0:42, RD 1.
Julius Askew defeats Carlos Cantu by choke at 1:17, RD 1.
Brian Sleeman defeats Alex Berneck by rear naked choke at 0:43, RD 1.
Jaime Jara defeats Anthony Ruiz by armbar at 1:36, RD 1.
Hector Ramirez defeats Dave Vitkay by TKO at 1:38, RD 1.
Rashad Evans defeats Bryan Pardoe by TKO at 3:24, RD 1.

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Jorge Patino "Macaco" (left)

Meca World Vale Tudo 11
June 5th, 2004
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Below is the updated Meca 11 card:

Luiz Azeredo vs. Tony de Souza
Nilson Castro vs. Gustavo 'Ximu'
Jadyson Costa vs. Milton Vieira
Daniel Acacio vs. Eric Tavares
Jorge Patino 'Macaco' vs. Delson 'Pe de Chumbo'
Junior Besouro vs. Luiz Brito
Luciano Cardoso vs. 'Parazinho'
Ivan 'Batman' vs. Alexandre 'Baixinho'
Suyan Queiroz vs. Luciano Azevedo
Alex Gaze vs. Andre Bispo
Wataro Takashima vs. TBA
Jenigleison Tibau vs. TBA

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IC 7: 'The Crucible'
June 5, 2004
Hammond Civic Center
Hammond, Indiana


Gideon Ray vs. Jason Black
Miguel Torres vs. Mustaffa Hussani
Stephan Bonnar vs. Moacir Oliveira
Kieth Wisniewski vs. Sam Morgan
Henry Matamoros vs. Rick Davis
Tommy Lee vs. Christian Allen
Joe Jordan vs. Mike Haltom

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K-1 World GP 2004
June 6th, 2004
Nagoya Aiichi Rainbow Hall
Nagoya, Japan


K-1 vs. Boxing matchups:
Remy Bonjasky vs. Francois Botha
Alexey Ignashov vs. Ray Mercer
Musashi vs. Arthur Williams

K-1 rules matchups
Peter Aerts vs. Gary Goodridge
Carter Williams vs. Petr Vandrechek
Martin Holm vs. Marvin Eastman
Micheal McDonald vs. Takeru
Jan Nortje vs. Tom Erikson

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By Tape Lord

Randy Couture and Vitor Belfort.

Hello my friends, as I reported last month, K-1 is very interested in signing the winner (and possibly the loser too) of the Randy Couture vs. Vitor Belfort title fight coming up in UFC 49.

More information is now coming out from inside sources, and are telling me that PRIDE may now get in a bidding war with K-1 for the services of both Couture and Belfort.

According to these sources, K-1 would like to make a rematch between Couture and Josh Barnett. They would also like to match Belfort against 'Lyoto' Machida.

According to these same sources, PRIDE would like to match Couture against Hidehiko Yoshida, Quinton Jackson, and Vanderlei Silva. They would also like to match Belfort against Vanderlei Silva, Quinton Jackson, and Mirko 'Cro Cop' Filipovic.

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Pedro Rizzo (right)

The Japanese media is reporting what Fightsport.com first reported a few months back, that Pedro Rizzo has signed on with K-1.

According to inside sources, Rizzo's first opponent will be against a Japanese pro-wrestler.

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Brock Lesnar

WWE superstar Brock Lesnar announced to the media that if his attempt to make it in the NFL does not work out, that he is considering an offer to join K-1.

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Mario Sperry

SportsNavi is reporting that the theme for the PRIDE Bushido 4 show on July 19th will be the Brazilian Top Team vs. Team Japan.

Possible BTT participants that were mentioned were Rogerio 'Minotoro' Nogueira, Mario Sperry, Murilo Bustamante, and Paulo Filho.

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Vanderlei Silva

PRIDE announced that light heavyweight champion Vanderlei Silva will defend his title in October against the winner of the Ricardo Arona vs. Quinton Jackson fight.

Arona and Jackson will face each other this month on the PRIDE Heavyweight GP card on June 20th.

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Randy Couture

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Randy Couture confirmed what Fightsport.com first reported over a month ago, that he will be facing Vitor Belfort for the light heavyweight title in UFC 49 on August 21st.

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By Scoop McTroll

Phil Baroni (far right) after striking referee Larry Landless.

Word on the street is that UFC president Dana White has demanded that Larry Landless never ref another UFC fight again.

This is strictly unofficial because the NSAC are supposed to be the ones who nominate the referees for each show. Apparently Dana was furious with Landless for not stopping the Tanner-Baroni fight when Tanner was on queer street. He couldnt believe that Landless let Tanner recover and then tried to stop the fight when Baroni was mounted.

"Dana said Landless was like a bizarro version of Big John McCarthy, stopping the fight to give the wrong fighter the win" said a UFC informant.

"Dana personally did not care that Baroni punched Landless but he had to make out as though he was pissed with Phil. The truth is that he blames the whole incident on Landless, not Baroni." - said the same source.


Apparently he let Landless work on the following show to make it look like there were no hard feelings. But where has Larry been lately....?

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By Jake R


In yet another exclusive for Fightsport.com, this reporter has learned from reliable sources in a well known Iowa fighting school that the UFC has finally reached a television deal. In addition, for the first time, the details of the television show will be revealed.

As my long-term reliable sources have informed me, the television show will not be the expected fight event similar to boxing's Tuesday or Friday Night Fights. Instead, the UFC television show set to appear on the Spike TV station will take on a reality based theme. Rather than focusing on actual UFC fights, the show will center around relatively unknown fighters attempting to make it into the UFC.

As it is now planned, the show will start with tryouts and will quickly be narrowed down to six contestants from casting interviews. The selections will be made after fighters send in audition tapes to Zuffa, similar to the Tough Enough reality based wrestling show airing on MTV. In addition, UFC legends Ken Shamrock and Pat Miletich will serve as coaches for the six remaining fighters, along with Toughman and UFC veteran Phil Baroni.

Spike TV plans on airing the show once a week, with a heavy emphasis on the training routines of the remaining fighters as Shamrock, Miletich, and Baroni coach them. As it is currently planned, the ending will result in at least one fighter getting an actual fight in the UFC.

As always, stick to Fightsport.com and Jake R for exclusive reporting and inside UFC information the rest of the MMA websites are afraid to report.

*Exclusive Jake R report. Must credit the Jake R report when discussing this story*

This exclusive Jake R report was filed on June 1, 2004.

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Nobuhiko Takada, Vanderlei Silva and son Thor (middle).

Brazilian magazine Tatame reports that PRIDE executives are currently in Brazil to scout for potential prospects at the upcoming Meca 11 show on June 5th.

Nobuhiko Takada even brought one of his Takada Dojo fighters, Wataro Takashima, to compete on that card. The Fuji TV crew is also present and filming many spots for Japanese television.

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Jorge Patino "Macaco" (left)

Meca World Vale Tudo 11
June 5th, 2004
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Below is the updated Meca 11 card:

Luiz Azeredo vs. Tony de Souza
Nilson Castro vs. Gustavo 'Ximu'
Jadyson Costa vs. Milton Vieira
Daniel Acacio vs. Eric Tavares
Jorge Patino 'Macaco' vs. Delson 'Pe de Chumbo'
Junior Besouro vs. Luiz Brito
Luciano Cardoso vs. 'Parazinho'
Ivan 'Batman' vs. Alexandre 'Baixinho'
Suyan Queiroz vs. Luciano Azevedo
Alex Gaze vs. Andre Bispo
Wataro Takashima vs. TBA
Jenigleison Tibau vs. TBA

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Last week's WEC 10 will be televised over two shows on HDNet.

The first part will air this Wednesday, June 2nd. The replay will air just after midnight on Sunday, June 6th, at 12:30 PM Eastern time.

HDNet is carried by DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight Communications, Mediacom Communications, Time Warner cable, and several NCTC cable affiliate companies carry it. You must have a high definition receiver to watch it.

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Wakashoyo

The Japanese media report that Pancrase has signed 38-year old ex-Sumo wrestler Wakashoyo.

Wakashoyo is 5'11 (1.81 m) and 350 pounds (160 kg). He was also an elder pupil of Sumo grand champions Takanohana and Wakanohana.

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Dhira "The Candyman" Yesufu (right)

Total Combat 3
Sunday, May 30th, 2004
Baby Rock Night Club
Tijuana, Mexico


Dhira 'The Candyman' Yesufu defeats Matt Hendricks by decision.
Robert Emerson defeats Justin Berkley.
Ronnie Major drew with Chris David.
Justin Levens defeats Hector Carrillo by TKO at 2:00, RD 1.
Alex Garcia defeats Keith Sutton by armbar at 0:39, RD 3.
Akbarh Areola defeats Steve Barnett by triangle choke at 0:50, Rd 1.
Mike Martinez defeats 'Kadillac' by TKO at 2:20, RD 2.
Matt Taira defeats Adam Hutchins by decision.
Jess Bouscal defeats Leonel Beta by TKO at 0:45, RD 1.

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Super Brawl and Extreme Challenge will come togeher again to promote a tournament which will feature some of America's top up-and-coming 155-pounders.

The tournament is scheduled for June 18 at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii. The final card will be announced on Tuesday.

Also featured will be a main event featuring Falaniko Vitale.

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Jorge Patino "Macaco" (left)

Meca World Vale Tudo 11
June 5th, 2004
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Luiz Azeredo vs. Roan Carneiro
Daniel Acacio vs. Carlos Baruch
Jadyson Costa vs. Milton Vieira
Ivan 'Batman' vs. Alexandre 'Baixinho'
Luciano Cardoso vs. 'Parazinho'
Nilson Castro vs. Gustavo 'Ximu'
Junior Besouro vs. Luiz Brito
Jorge Patino 'Macaco' vs. Delson 'Pe de Chumbo'
Suyan Queiroz vs. Luciano Azevedo
Alex Gaze vs. Andre Bispo

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IC 7: 'The Crucible'
June 5, 2004
Hammond Civic Center
Hammond, Indiana


Gideon Ray vs. Jason Black
Miguel Torres vs. Mustaffa Hussani
Stephan Bonnar vs. Moacir Oliveira
Kieth Wisniewski vs. Sam Morgan
Henry Matamoros vs. Rick Davis
Tommy Lee vs. Christian Allen
Joe Jordan vs. Mike Haltom

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K-1 World GP 2004
June 6th, 2004
Nagoya Aiichi Rainbow Hall
Nagoya, Japan


K-1 vs. Boxing matchups:
Ernesto Hoost vs. Francois Botha
Alexey Ignashov vs. Ray Mercer
Musashi vs. Vassily Jirov

K-1 rules matchups
Peter Aerts vs. Gary Goodridge
Carter Williams vs. Petr Vandrechek
Martin Holm vs. Marvin Eastman
Alistair Overeem vs. Takeru
Jan Nortje vs. Naoufal Bennazouz

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Francisco Filho

The Japanese media is reporting that K-1 wants to make an MMA matchup of Francisco Filho vs. Kazuyuki Fujita for their next 'Romanex' show, which is tentatively scheduled for September.

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Fedor Emelianenko (right)

PRIDE Heavyweight GP
June 20th, 2004
Saitama Super Arena
Saitama, Japan


Heavyweight GP quarterfinals (official):
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Kevin Randleman
Rodrigo 'Minotauro' Nogueira vs. Heath Herring
Semmy Schilt vs. Sergei Karitonov
Naoya Ogawa vs. 'Giant' Silva

Single matchups (official):
Ricardo Arona vs. Quinton Jackson
Hiedhiko Yoshida vs. Mark Hunt
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Nino Schembri

Other fighters scheduled to participate (unofficial):
Dan Henderson

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Jake Rossen

Below is an unaltered screenshot of the e-mail that former comic book reviewer/MMA internet journalist/known gambler Jake Rossen sent in to Fightsport.com, with the request that it be posted on this newspage.

His e-mail shows that he clearly made a $USD3,000 wager to Shiloh McIver, which Fightsport.com posted on this newssite on July 22nd, 2003. McIver then accepted the wager the very next day, which Fightsport.com posted on July 23rd, 2003.

Both the Rossen wager and McIver's acceptance of the wager can be viewed in the Fightsport.com archives by clicking here. Once there, scroll down to the articles for July 22nd to July 23rd.

To view the e-mail screenshot below in its entirety (recommended), click here



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Filho vs. Bonjasky

K-1: 'Ichigeki'
May 30th, 2004
Nippon Budokan
Tokyo, Japan


Francisco Filho defeats Remy Bonjasky by unanimous decision.
Glaube Feitosa defeats Alistair Overeem by KO at 2:13, RD 1.
Alexandre Pitchkounov defeats Seth Petruzelli by TKO at 2:18, RD 2.
Makoto Akaishi defeats 'Mavrick' by TKO at 2:11, RD 2.
Ewerton Teixeira defeats Peter Majstorovic by unanimous decision.
Lechi Kurbanov defeats 'Big Fam' by KO at 1:00, RD 1.
Kentaro Tanaka defeats Hanse Nijman by DQ at 1:49, RD 1.
Igor Peplov defeats Hajime Moriguchi by KO at 0:37, RD 2.
Artur Hovhannisian defeats Masayuki Fujita by unanimous decision.
Maxim Dedik defeats Joji Hibino by unanimous decision.
Magnum Sakai defeats Takashi Ohno by unanimous decision.
Alejandro Navarro defeats Taichi Furuta by TKO at 2:15, RD 1.
Fabiano Da Silva defeats Sveto Dekovic by TKO at 3:00, RD 1.

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Bob Sapp

K-1 is continuing to say to the Japanese media that they have lost contact with Bob Sapp since his loss to Kazuyuki Fujita.

Sapp was scheduled to do a pro-wrestling matchup this coming Thursday, but noone have been able to contact him.

Sources in the Japanese media are saying that this whole scenario is most likely a K-1 angle to ease Sapp's work load without upsetting his many pro-wrestling fans. K-1 have already stated they wanted Sapp to do less pro-wrestling matches so he can concetrate more on his K-1 rules and MMA fights.

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Yoshihiro Akiyama (right)

Yomiuri Sports reports that K-1 has signed Japanese judo star Yoshihiro Akiyama.

Akiyama made controversial news at the judo world championships when his first three opponents complained that his judo jacket had some slippery substances applied to it. This was a charge he had also been accused of in the Japanese selction tournament.

After being ordered to change his jacket to an IJF issued jacket, Akiyama lost and ended up without a medal.

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In yet another Fightsport.com exclusive, my source, who goes by the name of 'In the know', has informed me that if Ken Shamrock defeats Kimo Leopoldo, he will get a rematch with Tito Ortiz.

As you all know, the first match between Shamrock and Ortiz was the highest grossing fight under the Zuffa regime. UFC president Dana White feels that a rematch would have the same success in ticket and pay-per-view sales.

Also, many websites have been incorrectly reporting that Matt Hughes vs. 'Charuto' Verissimo will be a title fight. This is not true as the title fight will be held at a later show. The winner of the Matt Hughes vs. Charuto Verissimo matchup will face the winner of the Dennis Hallman vs. Frank Trigg to determine the welterweight title at a later show.

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