The basic Sky package has been unceremoniously snatched from us Virgin digital
subscribers, yet channel 138 remains intact, and UFC action is as free in Blighty as the lurve that foreran the Thursday morning pushchair-armed race of the pre-twenty-somethings to transform their ill-gotten gains from the Post Office into credit for a mobile phone…
Author: Stew Boyd
The foremost exponent of UK MMA had passed by these eyes only once prior to my kicking back with this bite size, abstinently priced release. The reason? Said prior event was compared by MTV exacerbation & MMA non-entity Richard Blackwood, an appointment akin to a syndicate of British Wrestling promoters securing a prime-time slot with ITV1, and handing anchorship reigns to Ant & Dec. Yes, it was that offputting…
As the semaphore tenure presiding over the Ultimate Fighting Championship drew ever closer to conclusion, the group carted the Octagon across the Pacific one last time, for UFC 25 Ultimate Japan 3…
Amidst their TV deal disappearing down the swanny, the DSE/Yakuza allegations made in the Japanese media and other happenings a-plentiful, PRIDE’s series of Bushido events lamentably are no more. I express regret because Bushido grew from these here malleable settings, into a truly majestic beast; indeed, the ninth event is pretty much the single finest MMA show since the inception of the sport…
Confession time- I’ve been putting this one off. Setting out with best intentions,
settling down with Mr Daniel’s finest malt & a jumbo bag of Dorito’s to watch UFC 23: Ultimate Japan II, I wasn’t long in getting acquainted with the land of nod. It’s been a while since anything- film, sport, television or otherwise- has put me to sleep, but Semaphore’s 19.11.1999 Tokyo is as tedious as these bad boys come…
More official double-disc goodness from FightDVD! I could get very much used to this…
There was a time when the Senators & “Barbaric!”-crying nay-sayers were winning the war against the beast that evolved from NHB (No Holds Barred) into the minor 21st century cultural phenomenon known as MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), forcing the Semaphore Entertainment Group-owned Ultimate Fighting Championship into what constituted near-underground status, in contrast to the high profile their early-year offerings enjoyed…
The story behind my acquisition of this particular versatile disc formatted dose of
British Wrestling is an odd one: after chasing up an erstwhile order with former
Showstealer-Events production bods Red Church, said people very kindly offered me a free DVD of my choice from their back catalogue. I subsequently picked out… erm…. an event that wasn’t the FWA’s 2005 Round Robin, but given events prior, it wasn’t a case of complete shock when this landed on my doorstep…