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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006By Stephan Marceau An article on ultimefanatic that a lawsuit has been filed from TKO (the best known MMA organization in Canada) against Ivan Menjivar for breach of contract. This is kind of interesting, as TKO’s president is Stephane Patry and Ivan’s manager is also Stephane.
UFC Media Links
Monday, October 16th, 2006By Luke Nicholson Here’s a sample of the media coverage UFC is getting today. My favourite is the Couture piece by Neil Davidson of the Canadian Press. The other two are good articles as well, about Silva’s destruction of Rich Franklin, and what it means for UFC’s business. One quick link to point out is […]
MMA media circus
Thursday, September 21st, 2006Los Angles Times – Altering the Perception (about UFC 63) Fox Sports – Hughes-Penn rematch two years in the making and UFC 63 predictions Canadian Press (via CBC Sports) – Hawaii meets country as BJ Penn tackles UFC champion Matt Hughes and The Fight Network attempts to expand into the American marketplace Kurt Angle quits […]
Media heat-up for IFL & UFC
Monday, September 18th, 2006By Zach Arnold This weekend is going to be action-packed for MMA, as UFC 63 takes place in Anaheim, California with Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn. carlos Arias in The Orange County Register has a preview for the upcoming show. Pat Miletich, who normally would be in Matt’s corner, will instead be at the IFL […]
UFC’s low payroll attracts media focus
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006By Zach Arnold Neil Davidson, the main MMA writer for CP (Canadian Press), calls out UFC today in a news wire article (companion article link here) for the low pay that undercard fighters in the promotion receive. Davidson’s article has hard numbers of what each fighter got paid, including the shocking $21,000 USD amount for […]
Newspaper: Hughes/GSP may not happen
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold Jose Rodriguez in the Calgary Sun reports that an announcement is expected tomorrow from Georges St. Pierre’s manager, Stephane Patry, as to whether or not the GSP vs. Matt Hughes fight (scheduled to take place on September 23rd at the Arrowhead Pond) will take place. Update: It appears that BJ Penn will […]
UFC makes another acquisition
Friday, August 11th, 2006Multichannel News is reporting that InDemand programming executive Marshall Zelaznik will join UFC and head up their UK opertaions. MN says this move is a precursor of UFC expanding into Europe. Meanwhile, an update on the Silva/Liddell story that was first reported by CP (Canadian Press) in the Calgary Sun – the CP wire report […]
APEX on TSN
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold The APEX Championship Fighting promotion issued a press release announcing their new deal with TSN in Canada. This is certainly a step forward for the organization, along with increasing awareness about MMA in Canada. Press release below.
Article on Halifax ECC 3 in Globe and Mail
Monday, July 24th, 2006By Stephan Marceau The Globe and Mail had an article, before the show, on the ECC in Halifax, which was on the same night as the WFA. The sport they call human cockfighting Not a very flattering article, but what can you expect from the Globe and Mail. And here is an actual review of […]
Update on ECC 3 show
Monday, July 17th, 2006The Chronicle Herald newspaper (in Halifax) reports that ECC 3 promoter Peter Martell wants elbow strikes (similar to what you see in UFC) to be allowed. Suffice to say, the local media in Halifax is taking this request as Martell trying to add blood and violence to the event.
ECC 3 in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 22nd
Thursday, July 13th, 2006By Stephan Marceau ECC 3 (Extreme Cage Combat) is coming up this July 22nd in Halifax. Nabil Khatib will be facing Neil Berry from Alberta and Grandmaison will be facing TJ Grant who is from Nova Scotia. The main event is Jason Macdonald vs Fritz Paul. The last show in Moncton, New Brunswick drew 2500 […]
IFL on Rogers Sportsnet
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson Fight Report has a story on the IFL signing a television deal with Rogers Sportsnet, out of CANADA~!, to air their originally aired programming from FSN. This is an interesting move for both parties. Obviously the IFL has expanded their reach, but its interesting for Rogers Sportsnet which doesn’t air a lot […]
Interview with Sam Stout
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006By Stephan Marceau A short and interesting interview, post defeat for Sam. He has the right attitude and is learning from his defeat, hopefully he will progress from there. Meanwhile it has been reported that Kenny Florian turned down a title fight against Sherk at UFC 62 (August 26). It used to be nobody would […]
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