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Where Is Lorenzo Fertitta's $275 Man?
In their response to the ESPN Outside the Lines feature and ESPN.com article on UFC fighter pay, the UFC released the full video they filmed of the Lorenzo Fertitta interview. They also released a smaller part of the video focusing on a segment of the interview where Lorenzo tried for a big "gotcha...
ESPN's John Barr Responds To UFC's Criticism Of Outside The Lines Piece
Given the way that the attention being paid to the entire situation had died down, I didn't really expect ESPN to publicly talk about the Outside The Lines feature on UFC fighter pay. The UFC reacted strongly after the article came out, releasing videos that ranged from somewhat asinine (Lorenzo...
Complete Lorenzo Fertitta interview uncut and unedited from ESPN's 'Outside the Lines' (full video)
Here it is, all 47 minutes of it. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) today (Jan. 12, 2012) released the complete Lorenzo Fertitta interview, uncut and unedited, from ESPN's recent 'Outside the Lines' segment that painted the ZUFFA boss in a negative light concerning the topic of fighter pay. UFC...
Dana White releases unaired footage from ESPN 'Outside The Lines' fighter pay interview (Video)
ESPN recently tried to take Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to task for the disparity between ZUFFA profits and fighter salaries in a video interview for its "Outside the Lines" program. In it, Lorenzo Fertitta answered questions regarding the promotion's perceived "monopoly" and how it put a...
UFC responds to ESPN's Outside The Lines video on fighter pay
Right back at ya! Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White said he would be ready to attack the "hack jobs" at ESPN and he wasn't kidding. In response to ESPN's "Outside The Lines" interview with UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta, in which he was grilled about the always hot topic that is...
UFC Releases Lorenzo Fertitta ESPN Interview Clip, Slams Network's Pay To Boxers
This past week, UFC President Dana White promised a video clip that would put ESPN in its place following Sunday's Outside The Lines investigative piece on fighter pay. White made good, releasing a 64-second clip via the organization's YouTube channel that points a finger at the network for their...
VIDEO: ESPN's UFC Fighter Pay Story Interesting, Informative, Not Damning
Outside of UFC 142, one of the hot button topics last week was ESPN's Outside The Lines doing an investigative piece on UFC fighter pay. Aggressive reaction and a promise of a counterstrike from UFC President Dana White came quickly as ESPN is apparently back on his bad side. The segment ran, a...
Dana White is excited to 'smash and discredit' the 'hacks' at ESPN
If you bluff, prepare to have your bluff called. That's the message from UFC President Dana White, who took to his official Twitter account on Thursday to let the mixed martial arts (MMA) community know he's ready for the "hack job" ESPN and Josh Gross are set to unleash on him and the rest of the...
UFC Pay: A Closer Look At ESPN's Story
On Thursday January 12, 2012, ESPN released an article authored by Josh Gross about the economics of the UFC in conjunction with an upcoming episode of Outside the Lines. Gross has been a harsh critic of the UFC for several years. Now he's got a big platform from which to address the very...
ESPN E:60 debates potential UFC 'monopoly'
Is the UFC a monopoly? Here's what UFC hall-of-famer and "World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock had to say when asked about the ZUFFA pay scale on ESPN E:60. "The UFC has gone out and strategically bought out every company or they cut the knees out from underneath them when they tried to get...
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