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Ken Shamrock

Sources close to Ken Shamrock have confirmed that Shamrock tore his rotator cuff during his victory against Kimo Leopoldo in UFC 48.

Shamrock will undergo corrective surgery for the injury and will be out of action for at least 4-6 months.

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By Tape Lord

"Tank" Abbott

Hello my friends, my postal connections in the DSE/PRIDE organizations are telling me that PRIDE is currently negotiating with 'Tank' Abbott.

Accodring to these sources, PRIDE is very interested in matching Tank up against Mirko 'Cro Cop' Filipovic for one of their upcoming shows in 2004.

Tank has also been in talks with K-1, but inside sources say he is more interested in signing with PRIDE.

More info to come in the next few weeks.

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SHOOTO
July 4th, 2004
Kitazawa Town Hall
Tokyo, Japan


Class-A bouts:
Kohei Yasumi vs. Yoichi Fukumoto

Class-B bouts:
Ganjo Tentsuku vs. Tomonari Kanomata
Kenji Osawa vs. So Tazawa
Seiki Uchimura vs. Takahiro Kajita
Tiger Ishii vs. Atsushi Takeuchi
Tsuyoshi Irokawa vs. Tenkei Fujimiya
Wataru Miki vs. Kabuto Kokage
Takeshi Matsushita vs. Kyotaro Nakao

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Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro (top)

SHOOTO
July 9th, 2004
Hawaii, USA

Vitor 'Shaolin' Ribeiro vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida
Alexandre 'Pequeno' Nogueira vs. TBA
Jens Pulver vs. Stephen Paling
Rumina Sato vs. Bao Quach
Masanori Suda vs. Dustin Denes
Jake Shields vs. Ray Cooper

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The Pancrase show scheduled for July 17th in Seoul, Korea, has been cancelled due to financial trouble on the side of the Korean promoter.

The Josh Barnett vs. Ron Waterman main event that was scheduled for thr show will now be re-scheduled for a future Pancrase show in Japan.

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Fabricio Werdum (right)

Heavyweight BJJ phenom Fabricio Werdum announced to Brazilian magazine 'Tatame' that he will go to Croatia to train with Mirko 'Cro Cop' Filipovic.

Werdum will arrive there on September 1st and stay for a good four months leading up to his PRIDE debut, which is scheduled for December 31st.

As Fightsport.com reported a few days back, Werdum has signed a 3-year contract with PRIDE. Werdum and Cro Cop also have the same agent now in Japan, Ken Imal.

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PRIDE president Nobuyuki Sakakibarastated to the Japanese media that the PRIDE Bushido promotion may be cancelled by next year if the numbers for the show don't pick up by the end of the year.

According to sources in the Japanese media, the cancellation of PRIDE Bushido is not a serious reality. But if the show does get cancelled, it is only because DSE/PRIDE will introduce a new concept show.

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Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic

PRIDE Bushido 4
July 19th, 2004
Nagoya Aiichi Rainbow Hall
Nagoya, Japan


Brazilian Top Team vs. Japan matchups:
Rogerio 'Minotoro' Nogeuira vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura
Paulo Filho vs. Akira Shoji
Fabio Mello vs. Takanori Gomi

Single fight matchups:
Mirko 'Cro Cop' Filipovic vs. Shungo Oyama
Dean Lister vs. Amar Suloev
Hayato Sakurai vs. TBA
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Ken'ichi Yamamoto
Marcus Aurelio vs. D. Mishima
Luis 'Buscape' Firminho vs. Hiroyuki Abe
Kyosuke Sasaki vs. Eiji Mitsuoka

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Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira

PRIDE Heavyweight GP Finals
August 15th, 2004
Saitama Super Arena
Saitama, Japan


Below are some of the matchups that the Japanese media are saying will take place on the PRIDE Heavyweight GP card on August 15th. A total of eight matchups are expected to be officially announced next month:


Heavyweight GP semifinals:
Rodrigo 'Minotauro' Nogueira vs. Naoya Ogawa
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Sergei Kharitonov

Single fights:
Vanderlei Silva vs. Yuki Kondo
Mirko 'Cro Cop' Filipovic vs. Alexander Emelianenko
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. TBA

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Fabricio Werdum

Brazilian magazine 'Tatame' reports that Fabricio Werdum has signed a 3-year contract with PRIDE.

According to Tatame, Werdum will fight about four fights a year in PRIDE until the end of the year 2007. The entire contract will see him participate in about twelve PRIDE fights.

Tatame added that Werdum will make his PRIDE debut on the December 31st show.

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Dean Lister (center)

The Japanese media reports that Dean Lister vs. Amar Suloev will take place on the PRIDE Bushido 4 card on July 19th.

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Akebono breaking 15 tiles for the media.

Former Sum0 champion and Hawaii native Akebono will return to the K-1 ring on July 17th in K-1's inaugural Asian GP event in South Korea.

Akebono let the Japanese media watch his training at the Seidokaikan headquarters in Japan, and even did a karate demonstration in which he broke fifteen tiles.

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Ray Sefo

K-1: 'Battle At The Bellagio III'
Saturday, August 7th, 2004
Bellagio Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, NV


K-1 announced Ray Sefo, Carter Williams, Gary Goodridge, Dewey Cooper, and Cung Le as the first five competitors to be appointed to the 'Battle At The Bellagio III' card.

The show will feature an eight-man single-elimination tournament, as well as several single superfights. Sefo, Goodridge, and Le will be competing in separate Superfights against opponents who have yet to be determined.

Williams and Cooper will be competing in the tournament. The winner of the tournament will qualify for a chance to make the World GP finals.

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Bob Sapp

The Japanese media announced that Bob Sapp will be fighting on the K-1 World GP card on September 25th.

Sapp will then return to fighting in 2005, but will only be competing in K-1 rules fights.

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Mike Tyson

It is now official that Mike Tyson will be facing Englishman Danny Williams on Friday, July 30th, 2004. The fight will be staged at the Freedom Hall Arena at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Laila Ali is also scheduled to be on the card against a yet-to-be-named opponent.

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Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos (top)

Brazilian magazine 'Tatame' reports that Evangelista 'Cyborg' Santos has joined the Chute Boxe team, and has been training with them since last Tuesday.

Ironically, Cyborg is described by most as a younger unpolished version of Vanderlei Silva. Now he will get to train with Silva on a daily basis at the Chute Boxe academy.

Cyborg also lost to Chute Boxe's rising star Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua last year in Meca 9, but both fighters say that there are no bad feelings. They trained hard all last week without any problems.

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By Jake R.

Ken Shamrock

Longtime reliable sources familiar with day-to-day operations inside the Zuffa organization have informed me that during the planning stages of Shamrock/Tito II, a surprising developement occurred. While UFC president Dana White and the top Zuffa brass have long thought Tito Ortiz was their main pay-per-view draw, recent pay-per-view numbers have made them think otherwise.

PPV numbers thus far for UFC 48 indicate it has outdrawn every Tito Ortiz headlined event other than UFC 47 and UFC 40. UFC 40 featured Ken Shamrock on the card, and it is now becoming more evident to the Zuffa organization that Ortiz was not nearly as responsible for the massive PPV buyrates as they had once thought.

As one longterm Zuffa source in Vegas informed me, these numbers are very surprising to them for several reasons. Most importantly, Zuffa has invested a great deal of money in advertising and promoting Tito Ortiz before every event he headlines, not including the fortune Zuffa has put into hyping Ortiz since ownership of the UFC changed hands.

As it was explained to me, UFC 48 with Shamrock/Kimo did not receive anywhere near the same level of paid advertising that Ortiz regularly does whenever he fights, yet it outdrew every Ortiz show he has headlined other than UFC 47. In addition, I was told the top Zuffa brass have realized the combination of heavy paid advertisement and events such as the Direct TV documentary were responsible in large part for UFC 47's buyrate, not Tito Ortiz himself as Zuffa once believed.

Zuffa has finally begun to lose faith in Ortiz, leaving what little bargaining power Ortiz once held over the UFC virtually diminished. Ken Shamrock is now seen as Zuffa's most valuable fighting asset, in direct contrast with Zuffa's thoughts just several months ago.

As usual, to find out what is really going on behind the scenes at Zuffa, stick to reading the report other sites are either too corrupt or too incompetent to report.



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

This Jake R Report was filed on Sunday, June 27th.

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Tito Ortiz

Tito Ortiz made the following statements (broken english and all) on the UG forum regarding a rematch with Ken Shamrock:


"Ken want a rematch because hes 100% now and I suck because accept. It's eather Iam ducking someone or I wont fight. KEN will be my BITCH!!!" -Tito Ortiz

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Just as Jake R first reported on June 1st, the news that the UFC has signed on to do an MMA reality series with Spike TV is now official.

The show will be called 'The Ultimate Fighter', and will debut in January. of 2005. Each show will be one hour long, and will run for just thirteen episodes.

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SHOOTO: 'SHOOTO JUNKIE is BACK!'
June 27th, 2004
Chiba Blue Field
Chiba, Japan


Class-A bouts:
Ryota Matsune defeats Daniel Lima by unanimous decision.
Naoya Uematsu defeats Hideki Kadowaki by guillotine choke at 0:45, RD 1.

Class-B bouts:
J-Taro Takita defeats Masato Fujiwara by unanimous decision.
Tetsu Suzuki drew with Shin Kato.
Tesshin Nankaiou defeats Yasushi Watanabe by unanimous decision.
Hayato Sato defeats Kenichi Takeda by slpit decision.

Brazilian jiu-jitsu bout:
Edmund Cavalcante Junior defeats Akihiko Adachi by judges decision.

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Anderson Silva

'Gladiator FC'
June 26th to 27th, 2004
Seoul Olympic Sports Complex
Seoul, South Korea


June 27th results:
Anderson Silva defeats Jeremy Horn by unanimous decision.
Mu Bae Choi defeats Murad Ammaev by TKO at 0:18, RD 1.
Paulo Filho defeats Daijiro Matsui by unanimous decision.
Alex Paz defeats Choi Hu Bae by TKO at 2:15, RD 1.
Claudio Godoi defeats Jyunpei Hamada by rear naked choke at 1:42, RD 3.
Yuji Sakuragi defeats Sung Chul Kim by TKO at 0:42, RD 1.
Kavkaz Soultanmagomedov defeats Mitsunori Tanimura by TKO at 2:26, RD 1.
Zurab Akhmedov defeats Koji Okuyama by KO at 0:33, RD 1.

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Rogerio "Minotoro" Nogueira

'Gladiator FC'
June 26th to 27th, 2004
Seoul Olympic Sports Complex
Seoul, South Korea


June 26th results:
Rogerio 'Minotoro' Nogueira defeats Alex Stiebling by unanimous decision.
Kim Jong Wang defeats Brad Kohler by rear naked choke at 1:19, RD 1.
Ikuhisa Minowa defeats Eduard Tchourakov by rear naked choke at 2:29, RD 1.
Dan Severn defeats Hidetada Irie by unanimous decision.
Kozo Urita defeats Kim Jin Oh by unanimous decision.
Yasuhito Namekawa defeats Fabiano Capoane by DQ at 1:07, RD 2.
Sergei Matkine defeats Ku Wang Mo by guillotine choke at 2:18, RD 1.
Shinji Katase defeats Rhee Jeung by armlock at 4:08, RD 1.

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Sportfight 4: 'Fight For Freedom'
Saturday, June 26th, 2004
Mt. Hood Community College
Portland, Oregon


Professional MMA bouts:
Chris Leben defeats Benji Radach by TKO, RD 3.
Josh Burkman defeats Kyacey Uscola by rear naked choke in Round 1
Ed Herman defeats Shane Davis by armbar, RD 3.
Dennis Davis defeats Jeremy Saunders by guillotine choke, RD 2.
Eddie Ellis defeats Chris Wilson by unanimous decision.
Brandon Melendez defeats Ray Perales by neck crank, RD 2.

Amateur MMA bouts:
Shaun Castlin defeats Jerry Linderman by rear naked choke, RD 1.
David Brown defeats Toby Welch by armbar, RD 1.
Guy Delemeau defeats Brad Horner by submission, RD 2.
Floyd Willis defeats Bill Brewer by submission, RD 1.
Ian Loveland defeats Zach Combs by guillotine choke, RD 1.

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