Zach Arnold Videos

There has been a passionate plea by MMA bloggers to get credentials to go to UFC events and cover them. I say that the MMA media should start paying attention to problems within its own sector before starting to make a push for UFC media credentials.

Caleb of The Fightworks Podcast joins us this week on Fight Opinion Radio to discuss the fallout from UFC 95, along with thoughts on a myriad of other MMA topics.

Pro Elite is not dead. So, what are they up to exactly?

This week s edition of Fight Opinion Radio concentrates on the fallout from last weekend s UFC 88 event. Is Chuck Liddell finished as a top-level fighter? Why does Dan Henderson have such a strange track record in terms of being on-again, off-again in terms of producing exciting fights? Plus, thoughts on the Atlanta [...]

Consider this a group therapy session, as we spend this week s show trying to figure out what the landscape of the MMA business is outside of UFC. Warning: You may get very depressed and fast. We discuss virtually every issue on the table and also talk about which newcomers to the sport have [...]

A great show for you this week, as we have three high-energy guests on the program. First, Jake Shields stopped by to talk about his latest win (over Nick Thompson), the prospects of facing Georges St. Pierre and how he thinks he could do against GSP, and why KJ Noons vs. Nick Diaz may [...]

They wanted to come on our show, so we gave them a not-so-cotton-candy Q A session. Topics mentioned during the interview include: reports about Affliction pay cuts, will or will not Fedor fight on the second Affliction show, reasons for why Shayna got mauled by a woman named Cyborg, and why Shayna is [...]

More information available in this AP story. Further details here, here, and here. What does it mean for the future of boxing and MMA in the state of New York? Eddie Goldman has some commentary on the story. Share This

Jeremy Lappen, one of the big bosses of Elite XC, joined us on the program this week to talk about this Saturday s Elite XC event at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, CA. Check out the event s fight card by going to EliteXC.com. You can purchase tickets for this Saturday s event on TicketMaster. This special [...]

Brandt DeLorenzo at MMA Opinion asks where Brad McCray is and whether or not he s still with Sherdog. Kevin Iole gives James Irvin points for honesty when it comes to how Irvin is trying to sell his chances of winning his July 19th bout against Anderson Silva. Luke Thomas appeared on Mauro Ranallo s radio show on Thursday [...]

While we are busy fielding offers for advertisers, we took some time to interview Rami Genauer of Fight Metric to talk about Forrest Griffin s unanimous decision win over Quinton Rampage Jackson at UFC 86. Rami explains how the Fight Metric system ruled the bout a draw. Meanwhile, there s dissension in the ranks of [...]

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This week, it s the return of Judge Jeff Thaler and our honorable guest on the show is Rob Maysey of MMAFA.tv fame. Rob recently posted an article about Zuffa LLC s new marketing rights agreement that fighters are supposedly being offered and asked to sign. We ll talk about all of the positives and negatives [...]

I have two new articles at MMA Memories (here and here), if you are interested in checking them out. The first article is my take on Lorenzo Fertitta s increased role in UFC management and the second article is a laundry list of lessons that we all should learn from some of MMA s big-money losers. [...]

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On this week s show, there is absolutely no talk regarding the announcement of Lorenzo Fertitta moving full-time to UFC. You ll have to wait until next week s show for that discussion. Instead, we have a length discussion about the recent BJJ Worlds event in Long Beach, a debate about the keyboard warriors who are [...]

Audio here (22 minute time mark): I thought that it was long and not necessarily exciting, uh, a couple of fights were okay, but there was nothing um nothing worth going out of way to see, that s for sure. After praising Jacare vs. Miller Nothing, uh, nothing really, Nothing really stood out. Very missable show. Share This

NHK recently did a profile of Josh Barnett. His favorite word? Fight. The Fightworks Podcast: Your turn to interview Xande Ribeiro, BJJ world champion USA Today: Jeff Monson pulled off of this Saturday s Adrenaline MMA event The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (CA): There will be blood and when there is, fight doctor Gary Furness [...]

We are joined this week by Caleb of The Fightworks Podcast and MMA Predictions to talk about many of the bigger issues that the MMA industry is going to face in the reminder of the 2008 calendar year. This show features a different format than past shows in that it s more in free-flow form, [...]