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Thursday, April 6th, 2006The Ultimate Fighter – Season Three SEASON PREMIERE~! Review By: Luke Nicholson The show starts with Dana White introducing the coaches. OH YEAH~! Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock are introduced. Dana then recaps the seemingly life-long feud between the two. Including the fight at UFC 40, and Shamrock’s face, which was churned into ground beef […]
Mainstream media round-up
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006By Zach Arnold Marilla Stephenson in The Chronicle Herald, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) newspaper which has been mostly negative towards the upcoming 4/29 MMA event in the area, wrote an incredulous column about why cage-fighting should be banned in the region. We’re working on trying to invite her for an interview on our radio show. […]
Fight Opinion Radio: Episode 13 (Tuesday Night Takedowns)
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006This week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio is the first of two UFC-themed shows, as we preview the upcoming Ultimate Fight Night show on Thursday (4/6) with our special guest, Brad “Hillbilly Heartthrob” Imes. He will talk about his upcoming fight and how life has changed since being on The Ultimate Fighter: Season 2. In […]
UFC expands office
Thursday, March 30th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion has named John Mulkey (from Wall Street) as the company’s CFO. This Review Journal article from May of 2004 points to Mulkey working as a high-yield gaming/casino financial analyst at Bear Stearns. Mulkey is referenced in many media articles in relations to casinos, gambling, Macau, etc. It’s interesting to watch […]
The YouTube Conundrum
Sunday, March 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold On our Fight Opinion forum, Al Yu points out a story about UFC contacting YouTube to remove a person’s multimedia video package featuring UFC fight footage. It’s pretty fair to say that YouTube has become an absolute nightmare for copyright lawyers and programming executives. On one hand, there is blatant copyright violation […]
UFC’s next targets: New York & Chicago
Sunday, March 26th, 2006By Zach Arnold The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Dana White has New York & Chicago penciled in as his next big media targets. It puts the hiring of Marc Ratner into perspective. The article was originally a piece about Andrei Arlovski, but the quotes from White about UFC’s future plans are the bigger story. It […]
A cozy relationship
Friday, March 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold Just how tight is the relationship between the UFC and the Nevada State Athletic Comission? Tight enough that the NSAC’s executive director, Marc Ratner, has now signed a deal to become a vice president for UFC. John Ryan in the San Jose Mercury News equates Ratner working for UFC on a similar […]
More mainstream dribble about UFC.
Friday, March 24th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson I was just scanning the news-pack at wrestlingobserver.com today, and I came across a link to a poor mainstream piece regarding UFC, and its health issues compared to boxing. This is worth checking out. And, be sure to e-mail your feedback to the lazy ‘tard who wrote this. Basically, it alleges that […]
NPR report on California MMA scene
Friday, March 24th, 2006By Rob Sayers & Zach Arnold Shia Levitt of National Public Radio (USA) has a Thursday audio update (now available on the NPR site) about California legalizing MMA. If you cannot get the Real Media or Windows Media audio file from the NPR site to play on your computer, use this link. This MP3 file […]
UFC and SpikeTV extend TV Deal.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006By: Luke Nicholson The UFC and SpikeTV jointly announced today that they have agreed to a two year extension on their tv contract. The new deal includes three new seasons of “Ultimate Fighter” reality series, ten “Ultimate Fight Night” specials, and 26 more episodes of UFC “Unleashed”. The deal also makes SpikeTV the exclusive home […]
Ultimate Fight Night live 4/6 card line-up
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006The card looks very intriguing. The event is two weeks away (with the show leading into The Ultimate Fighter w/ Ken Shamrock & Tito Ortiz). Stephan Bonnar vs. Keith Jardine Rashad Evans vs. Sam Hoger Joe Stevenson vs. Josh Neer Chris Leben vs. Luigi Fioravanti Luke Cummo vs. Jason Von Flue Josh Burkman vs. Jon […]
The LA Times on UFC 58
Friday, March 17th, 2006By Zach Arnold Dan Neil of the Los Angeles Times (in their magazine section) has an article about his recent attendance at the UFC 58 show in Las Vegas, NV. Neil, unlike most mainstream media writers, admits up front that he came into the show with the mindset of a critic about the sport based […]
Daniel Puder in UFC?
Thursday, March 16th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson After Daniel Puder’s performance at the record-setting Strikeforce show in San Jose last Friday, now might be the perfect opportunity for UFC to sign him and start to feature him, and build him as a superstar. From all reports, Dan Puder came off as a superstar. He entered wearing a “I hurt […]
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