All FEG programming could use a ratings boost these days - particularly so for their year-end effort - and thus, we’ll have to wait and see whom FEG and TBS will tab for Dynamite and just how exactly they’ll rationalize each bout as having serious implications in the greater scheme of fight sport.
And unless FEG’s TV partner TBS is willing to pony up the boatload of cash required to get Akebono back in the cage, there’s no way that fight will happen.Īt this point, we still have no way of knowing whether Dynamite will shape up the way Dream EP Sasahara has claimed it will, but we should be skeptical that FEG and TBS would abandon the chase for mainstream viewers on such an important day for television viewing. The Gilbert Melendez fight has officially been scuttled because of some weak sounding excuse about Gil’s contract negotiation with Strikeforce. Unfortunately, as of now LeBanner hasn’t agreed to the Mousasi fight or even what kind of fight it would be. Here’s what’s solid thus far:Īnd here’s what’s on the more hopeful / speculative list: And those problems continue into the promotion’s year end Dynamite!! spectacular, which still isn’t very spectacular a month away from showtime. Is it just me or has FEG spent the better part of the year having all it’s best laid plans fall apart? When your biggest fight of the year after Aoki / Kawajiri is a last second freakshow between Minowaman and Satoshi Ishii, then you know you’ve had problems putting shit together. We’ll look at the Dynamite! NYE card and hear from HDNet’s Andrew Simon, Zach Arnold, Fightlinker and Dave Walsh of Head Kick Legend in the full entry.įightlinker breaks down how the annual New Year’s Eve spectacular Dynamite 2010 is shaping up for FEG: Seeking capital from ‘unofficial’ sources is a very risky move.ĭespite the difficulty FEG and PUJI have had in raising investment, there are several interested parties hovering in the wings if the company is put up for sale. This of course raises the spectre of the Yakuza links which killed PRIDE FC, but FEG has always been fastidious about avoiding such links (or at least, having any such links made public). Unable to obtain loans or capital from investors FEG has, according to our souce, gone to the ‘black market’ for loans with which to pay its fighters. The agent says that the much-trumpeted deal with investment bank PUJI has come to naught and that the investment bank has said that it can do nothing for FEG.
Japanese mega-promoter Fighting Entertainment Group, parent company of K-1 and DREAM, has suffered a new setback, according to a long-established Japanese agent.
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