Comments on: UFC press conference today in Japan

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:32:20 +0000

Dana should just drum up some old school Japanese support by mocking Korean names.

By: smoogy

smoogy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:14 +0000

I dunno. It is like moving from STARZ to MyNetworkTV. They’re still hardly visible on the Japan TV landscape.

By: Zach Arnold

Zach Arnold — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:45:15 +0000

Interesting that Pollack showed up a couple of months after Zuffa quietly settled with Sakakibara over the court-wrangling about the asset sale deal gone sour. Calmed the waters a bit, I’m sure.

Plus UFC is not a threat to K-1 and never will be. At this point Japan will be nothing more than a minor international market for the organization. Once Pollack got the treatment he did the first time around…

I heard WWE wants to run Ryogoku Kokugikan twice this Summer in Japan. Hope they enjoy the empty houses…

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:42:41 +0000

Surprised to see Jamie Pollack back in Japan. Didn’t the Yakuza run him out of Tokyo the first time around??

By: Alan Conceicao

Alan Conceicao — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:22:10 +0000

Its their money. I wish ‘em luck, even if I expect none.

By: Zach Arnold

Zach Arnold — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:19:24 +0000

TV Tokyo may be small potatoes, but it is still a big step up from WOWOW

UFC shows have aired in the past on TV-Tokyo…

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:16:08 +0000

It’s always nice when a Zuffa executive manages to get through an entire paragraph’s worth of thoughts about Japan without repeating their mantra of, “Those crazy Japanese! They’re all crazy over there!”

By: Steve4192

Steve4192 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:47:57 +0000

TV Tokyo may be small potatoes, but it is still a big step up from WOWOW

By: Grafdog

Grafdog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:37:04 +0000

Dana could do a spot for that spray on hair stuff, maybe sell some rice cookers to offset the losses…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:31:52 +0000

Dana hates Okami for stinking up the joint then turns around and calls him an “MMA legend”? Lulz.

They won’t make much headway in Japan. If the domestic MMA isn’t selling why would the outsiders? It has nothing to do with UFC’s roster being better than DREAM’s roster as the Japanese always put nationalism first and want to see Japanese fighters first and foremost. I doubt UFC would ever hold a show there.