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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006By Zach Arnold From an interview in the Chicago Sun-times: Pride is coming to Vegas. How will that affect the UFC? Not at all. They’re having financial trouble. They lost their TV distribution in Japan. There are a lot of accusations they’re not good guys. Could you guys merge? We could buy them. I’m starting […]
Dana White talks about PRIDE
Friday, September 1st, 2006In an interview with FoxSports.com: “They talk a lot of s– but never back it up. I’m here I’m ready, Chuck’s here, he’s ready. It’s not that Wanderlei doesn’t want the fight, he’s a fighter. No disrespect to him. You know who I’m talking about. I’ve been trying to do this for five years. I […]
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 3
Thursday, August 31st, 2006By Erin Bucknell Edwin should definitely never go pink with the hair, not a good color on him. Serra talks about how happy team MoJo is to have won two in a row as the camera pans the octagon mat, which looks, unsurprisingly, like the floor of a slaughter house. Yum. We get the Montage […]
White defends UFC’s pay structure
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006By Stephan Marceau I guess Dana is tired of hearing the charades about UFCs low wages, check what he has to say here. “I’ve made more millionaires in this business than anybody else has,” White added. It’s nice to hear his side of the story, finally. I have also been critical of the UFC wages, […]
Media quote of the day
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006From boxing promoter Bob Arum: The reason Arum feels the UFC has not hurt boxing is simply, the audience makeup is different. He feels that the UFC audience is made up of mostly white males, while boxing caters to Hispanics, African-Americans and “a few whites.” “We have a totally different audience. The demographic of UFC […]
UFC 62 Liddell vs. Sobral
Saturday, August 26th, 2006By Erin Bucknell This review may be interesting as we are expecting a whole pack of people to come over, distractions will abound.
UFC 62 recap
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Online reviews: Observer | Sherdog | F4W Online | Knockout Zone | MMA HQ | Canadian Press
The Ultimate Fighter Season 4, Episode 2.
Friday, August 25th, 2006By Erin Bucknell Normally, this would go up on my old site MMA Snark, but due to a lack of maintaining the site on my part, I chose to let the website expire and subject poor Zach to dealing with my weirdness. So, here you go.
UFC hype machine on Spike TV
Friday, August 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold Tonight on Spike TV, UFC had the weigh-ins for tomorrow’s fight with Chuck Liddell and Renato “Babalu” Sobral. Weigh-in stats here. More interestingly, the show announced that Tito Ortiz would face Ken Shamrock on Spike TV for October 10th at the Hard Rock Casino in Florida. Press release here. Ortiz had a […]
Thursday’s UFC media round-up
Thursday, August 24th, 2006FoxSports.com UFC 62 event predictions FoxSports.com Chuck Liddell interview/profile article Mickey’s Brewing Co., a subsidiary of Miller Brewing Co., signs a big sponsorship deal with UFC Canadian Press: Babalu looks for revenge against the Iceman in UFC title bout On a completely unrelated news item, South Korea has a robot MMA tournament happening today.
UFC 62 Preview
Thursday, August 24th, 2006By Stephan Marceau Most people think this card is not particularly interesting and say they will give it a pass (not buy the PPV), we shall see. It is not a very strong card. The main event Babalu vs Liddell may be the only reason to get this PPV, but keep in mind that sometimes […]
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’s branding & competition
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold Jeff Thaler has thoughts about a recent newspaper article in which UFC’s COO talks about the amount of money that the UFC fighters are paid per-fight. The Miami Herald has more on UFC’s media momentum and branding. I have seen many sentiments online about UFC facing competition in the near future. So […]
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