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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 20, 2015 23:49:28 GMT 1
RIP
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 20, 2015 23:49:06 GMT 1
Yeah.
They are thinking some time in April now. The thing is that the Chinese networks wanted to do a K-1 vs. Japan REVENGE event instead of Thailand, which gummed up the works.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 18, 2015 20:50:11 GMT 1
They literally won't give me the results because they think that it'll affect their airing in China.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 18, 2015 9:41:50 GMT 1
You know what's messed up?
Digital copies are cheaper and I still make more money off of them. If I price this at $4usd (which it is now) and have the paperback at $12usd I'll still make more off of the digital version.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 16, 2015 23:44:39 GMT 1
Most of you are probably aware that as much as I love kickboxing, it isn't my true love. Running a kickboxing site is cool and all, but it wasn't exactly something that I went to school for and obsessed over doing my whole life. That was what writing was for me. I was also pretty obsessive about science fiction growing up and still am. So yeah, my first book was about a fighter, but it was more of me cashing in on my connections and hoping that because I had a name in the industry it'd give me a boost. But my second book is a complete departure from that and instead I chose to start a science fiction series. On March 24th I'm releasing Terminus Cycle via Amazon. Terminus Cycle is book one of the Andlios series that I'm starting. No, you probably don't know what Andlios means because it is a weird amalgamation of Nordic words. I do a lot of that in this series, probably because Frank Herbert did something similar with the Dune books. There is no such word as "Arrakis," but a few Arabic words combined instead. I'm not sure if any of you dudes are into scifi, but I'd say that it's worth checking out. Then again, I'm pretty biased. For the moment I'm not releasing a paperback right away due to how much work it takes and I'm already pretty bogged down. I do everything on my own that I can, so typesetting and going through the proofing process of a paperback is something for the future when I have some down time. The decision came from how my sales went on my last book. Less than 1% of sales were paperbacks and literally thousands were sold on the Kindle marketplace. About four were sold between Apple, Google and Barnes & Noble's marketplaces, which just seems silly considering you get some perks for being exclusive to Amazon for 90 days. So yeah, you need a Kindle, an eReader of some sort, a tablet, smartphone to read it. You can technically get the Kindle app on Windows and Mac OSX as well, but reading at a computer isn't always a great experience.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 16, 2015 22:34:37 GMT 1
Frankie is literally pathetic lately. I feel that might be a bit of a SuperKombat bias there because he's been publicly bashing SK for a while. Funny story, he came to me a few months ago asking if I'd publish an interview with him that talks about how shitty SuperKombat is and how they don't respect him, but I refused to do it. He got really upset with me and pulled the "but I've supported LiverKick for years." He didn't quite understand that I don't run smear pieces or personal vendettas for people unless it's something 100%, something like "FEG owes people a fuckload of money" or similar.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 16, 2015 22:32:47 GMT 1
#TheMomentIsNow
Seriously, this is how shitty and unoriginal they are, aping off of UFC's awful #TheTimeIsNow.
I... just..... Sigh.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 15, 2015 23:31:49 GMT 1
Lungu owns, they really need Lungu involved in every SK show.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 14, 2015 20:59:58 GMT 1
I can't really blame Saki for taking better money to fight lesser competition, but he's wildly popular and we are going to get another Badr Hari on our hands of a guy in his prime fighting guys beneath him and his fans riding his jock into the abyss.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 12, 2015 19:11:14 GMT 1
Peace out Pat Barry, although I secretly think that you finally watched tape on Bouzidi and decided to duck him.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 12, 2015 19:10:47 GMT 1
If it gets them press it gets them press, honestly. Whatever you can do to drum up interest, but I dunno, I can't pretend that they are a big deal.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 12, 2015 8:16:04 GMT 1
Hi I'm an American and these people are not relevant, big name actors/actresses. They just aren't. They aren't even cult-level like Steve Buscemi.
I'm not sure about Romania, obviously, maybe they are big stars there?
Eleniak was the fifth-billed star on Baywatch for a few years and only for the first three seasons. That was back in 1989. Seriously, that is a very, very long time ago. The same with the guy from Blue Lagoon. That's stuff from when I was a kid.
I dunno if American TV shows and movies end up in certain parts of Europe a long time later, because I know we don't get most European programming ever outside of the occasional BBC thing a year later (although BBC America has changed that of late), but yeah, arguing that they are culturally relevant is insane.
You could make an argument for Bai Ling, I guess, but c'mon. The Crow was 1994! Wild Wild West was 1999!
A Hollywood star is Bradley Cooper or Jennifer Lawrence, but nobody expects SuperKombat to book them because the cost for them to appear would be somewhere in the range of $400,000 apiece.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 12, 2015 8:04:12 GMT 1
Gerasimchuk lost to Nordine Mahieddine. This fighter lost to Bellator's Oezdemir in his first professional kickboxing bout at SuperKombat Geneva. I would have ranked Catinas instead of him, if not even Morosanu. If with the other Romanian, Paraschiv, I haven't agreed yet to be ranked (and I still don't) I like this pick. Catinas less than 1 year ago was the best fighter in SuperKombat linking four good wins (all 4 being KOs). I... just... Yeah.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 10, 2015 18:27:33 GMT 1
I love that Badr is with Papa Mike again and that the Badr Hari trolls are out in full force like "YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT YOU DON'T." Like christ, cops found tons of steroid shit in Badr's house and Papa Mike is known as THE STEROID GUY. I just... I don't know. Papa Mike was literally exposed on National Television in a hidden camera programm as DAT STEROID GUY. lol I literally had some guy on Twitter reply to my "Badr Hari is back with Papa Mike, sooooo" tweet by tagging Badr's account and trying to "out me" as a Badr hater. Like seriously, everyone knows this. This is not some insider secret.
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Post by dvewlsh on Mar 9, 2015 23:04:47 GMT 1
I love that Badr is with Papa Mike again and that the Badr Hari trolls are out in full force like "YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT YOU DON'T."
Like christ, cops found tons of steroid shit in Badr's house and Papa Mike is known as THE STEROID GUY. I just... I don't know.
I'm with K1 Power, this should be called "The Struggle Continues."
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