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UFC business notes: GSP will continue to be Gatorade poster boy
By Zach Arnold | March 29, 2010
Gatorade and Georges St. Pierre will continue their business relationship.
The Daily Record in the UK reports that UFC is considering running a show in Glasgow, Scotland at Braehead Arena in the near future. I hope Eve Muirhead would be in attendance!
Marc Ratner did an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News, telling the paper that UFC will return to Philadelphia soon for another event.
Here are some new details about UFC’s new television deal in the UAE.
The political war in Toronto continues to heat up over whether or not MMA legislation should be coming soon. Stay tuned. Here is a paper op-ed in favor of allowing UFC in.
Quote of the Day about Wanderlei Silva: “I learned he doesn’t know how much about snow.”
Stephen Brunt of The Globe and Mail gives his thoughts about UFC 111 and why the promoters do a good job of keeping fans with short attention spans entertained.
An update from our item last Friday about an MMA trade show getting booted out of Abbotsford, British Columbia — the back-up building that was going to be used for the MMA Expo said that promoter Gerald Chopik has backed out of contractual talks because the PNE (building) wouldn’t allow him to have fighting demonstrations at the event. According to Chopik, only one-person demonstrations were to be allowed as opposed to having two people demonstrate BJJ. Chopik claims he is out $100,000 and that he plans on suing the city of Abbotsford for what has happened.
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Either I’m missing something or the GSP-Gatorade deal much be basically a Canada-only thing. I think GSP may have gotten a “blink and you miss it” 1 second cameo in an ad, about a 1/10th the amount of time Gina got in Pepsi. Although an ad with GSP attempting to say “Gatorade” in his thick accent would be great.
Dana might be wise to be careful what you wish for with his move to deny Fitch a title shot until he fights Koscheck. Two close friends with a tendency to turn into boring grapplers (well, Fitch has a tendency to do little but be a boring grappler) could turn into the worst fight of the year if they decide to go the Silva-Lietes route and take it easy on each other out of respect. Even if they stay honest Fitch certainly isn’t going to stand for more than 15 seconds with Koscheck’s KO power.
You may be right, and it can be the most boring fight in history….but…and here’s the important part…but, if that fight happens, it opens the floodgates, and Dana won’t take a we-are-friends excuse ever again…and that can make for fun fights…Spider v Lyoto, for instance…that’s one I want to see 🙂
And I think that’s the big thing…. He just needs one camp to cave….
Not since Riggs-Hughes has there been such an awesome event as what Jardine-Rashad could have delivered! It may be fun from a dream-match perspective, but the only reason it would become an absolute necessity or anywhere close is lazy match-making and promotion. The negatives of doing teammate match-ups are far more than the positives, imo.
Overeem vs. Rogers is a title fight, which means I believe Overeem is going to get tested. Good news!!
LOL, by who? State of Missouri? Do they even test?
I remember reading somewhere that they only test for title fights…
And test for what and how? They allow shoes in MMA, guys. This is not a strong commission state.
The test will probably be a verbal one:
Are you taking any performance enhancing drugs?
No? That works for us. Have a good fight.
“The test will probably be a verbal one:
Are you taking any performance enhancing drugs?
No? That works for us. Have a good fight.”
“You swear to God you’re clean? I’m serious, don’t lie to me. We’re very serious here in Missouri. No drugs, okay?”
It’s St. Louis, Missouri, not a metropolis or perfection, but hardly as backwater as most people are implying.
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Gsp is always going to be a boring fighter now, loosing to him would be a huge pay cut