UFC
« Previous Entries Next Entries »Andy Foster wants due process for UFC champion Jon Jones on turinabol USADA drug test bust
Thursday, August 31st, 2017California State Athletic Commission Andy Foster wants you to give UFC champion Jon Jones due process on his drug test bust but can’t stop talking.
Post-Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor’s marriage with UFC demands a piece of ownership
Saturday, August 26th, 2017Conor McGregor proved that he is as big, if not bigger than the UFC after his fight with Floyd Mayweather.
Jon Jones is the kind of UFC drug user that American sports fans hate: a lying drug user
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017Jon Jones is incapable of staying on the straight and narrow. The only consistency in Jon Jones’ life is that he’s a screw-up who creates collateral damage.
Self-financing is accelerating manipulation & political pressure on Nevada’s athletic commission
Friday, August 18th, 2017The state of Nevada cutting its athletic commission off of general funding has relegated the AC from upper echelon to ham-n-egger status in bending over backwards to high stakes manipulation.
UFC’s debt financing is making rich fighters wealthier but the window is closing fast for everyone else
Sunday, July 30th, 2017Ari Emanuel and WME-IMG ownership is pushing more “super fights” in the UFC that are eye-catching due to name value but not necessarily competitive. The rich are getting richer but what about the rest of the fighters?
Conor McGregor proves to be Floyd Mayweather’s lifeline to the IRS
Monday, July 10th, 2017We knew money was the root of Floyd Mayweather’s motivations in fighting Conor McGregor. What we didn’t know was what role Uncle Sam and the IRS played into the equation.
ESPN’s telecast of Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn was the clearest warning to UFC not to leave Fox
Sunday, July 2nd, 2017ESPN’s telecast of the Manny Pacquiao/Jeff Horn fight from Australia gave UFC every warning sign possible not to jump ship from Fox Sports.
High-risk gamble by Mark Hunt attorneys to sue UFC for racketeering may be backfiring
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017The strategy by Mark Hunt’s attorney to pursue a racketeering cause of auction in Federal court against UFC & Brock Lesnar over doping may backfire.
UFC’s Cortney Casey can sue the Texas athletic commission for libel but she only has a few weeks left
Monday, June 26th, 2017The Texas athletic commission says UFC fighter Cortney Casey failed a drug test and told a reporter. They claimed to use USADA standards and they allegedly did not fighter. The commission has not cleared Casey’s name. Will she sue for libel?
Oh no… California judge Marcos Rosales scored BJ Penn demolition a 28-28 draw
Sunday, June 25th, 2017Veteran MMA judge Marcos Rosales egregiously scored Dennis Siver’s massacre of BJ Penn a 28-28 draw. There is no excuse or justification for one of the worst judging decisions made this year in MMA.
The over/under on PPV buys for Mayweather-McGregor is 5 million. Take the under – barely
Thursday, June 15th, 2017The over/under prop bet on how many buys Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather will attract on PPV is 5 million. This is not as insane as it first looks.
Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor set for August 26th at MGM Grand Garden Arena
Wednesday, June 14th, 2017The Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor boxing match is booked for August 26th at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
A new report’s claim of median age of 49 for UFC viewers is flawed but potentially good news
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017A new Nielsen study commissioned by Sports Business Journal reviews that your average sports fan watching conventional TV is at least 40 years old and that UFC fans are nearly 50 years old. So now what for the 18-to-34 year old demographic?
« Previous Entries Next Entries »