Carson's Corner!

Art Davie, the man who co-created the UFC and helped bring K-1 to American television, is the guest on this Thanksgiving edition of Carson's Corner. Join the show and hear about Art's latest and most extreme project: XARM fighting! If you haven't seen or heard of XARM yet, prepare to be amazed: XARM combines the basic premise of armwrestling with the punches, kicks and even submission holds of an MMA fight.

XARM has already recruited MMA notables like Gary Goodridge and Homer Moore, and Davie tells Bob about their future plans...including when you should expect to see fighters with hands taped together blasting away!

That's not all, though: in addition to discussing XARM, Bob asks Art about his past involvement with both the UFC and K-1 and gets some very interesting answers. Tune in to hear Davie and Carson talk about these other topics:

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An unfortunate update on the YAMMA promotion

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Fighters which Davie and the UFC tried to recruit, but couldn't quite come to terms with...including Karelin!

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The Douglas Dedge tradgedy

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Allegations by Greg "Kazja" Patschull about Davie and the Gracies stealing ideas from him (including Art's recollection of the Kazja show he attended)

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His falling out with Bob Meyrowitz and departure from the UFC organization

...and much more!

This is a very revealing interview with one of the pioneers of modern MMA. Don't miss it!

Disclaimer sent in:
> Regarding Kazja's claim that a show he produced had
> some influence on the
> design of the OctagonR or an early advertising slogan used
> by the UFCR, let
> me state, for the record, the facts as I remember them:
>
>
>
> "Sometime in 1993, when the UFCR was in development, I
> heard that an NHB
> show was scheduled in Southern California. Curious, I
> decided to check it
> out. It was, to my recollection, held at a college. I
> believe that one or
> more of the Gracie brothers came with me, but not Rorion.
> I did not learn
> until much later that Kazja had something to do with this
> show. I only met
> him when he acted as an agent in 1995 for martial artist,
> John Matua, who I
> booked at his behest into UFC 6.
>
>
>
> I have faint memory of Kazja's show, as we only stayed
> for the first match
> and left when we realized it was choreographed wrestling
> and not an NHB
> card. I do not believe there was any TV production
> involved. I do remember
> the performers were in costume, but have no recollection of
> any show slogan
> or the ring. I state categorically that whatever ring
> Kazja employed in
> that show was never any inspiration in any way for the
> OctagonR.
>
>
>
> The OctagonR was an original design by contractors Greg
> Harrison and Jason
> Cusson and created as an NHB fighting enclosure for
> Pay-Per-View TV.
> Semaphore Entertainment Group came up with the tag line,
> "Eight Fighters -
> Only One Champion", on their own." - Art Davie
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> Art Davie
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> Davie Communications, Inc.