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Did the UFC Forget That Dan Henderson Beat Vitor Belfort in 2006?
Interesting excerpt from Sherdog's piece on Dan Henderson's ongoing negotiations with the UFC: "Yeah, I'm not real thrilled about that," said Henderson of the plans. "And I like Vitor. He's a good gu...
Zuffa Still Toeing the Line on Versus vs. DirecTV
UFC President Dana White sticks to reconciliation argument: On the same day DirecTV pulled the plug on Versus, rival satellite television provider DISH Network made Versus available as a free preview...
Learning From Kids: How Urijah Faber and Norifumi Yamamoto Relate to Brock Lesnar and Fedor Emelianenko
What a difference a year makes. Last July, I wrote this FanPost extolling the virtues of a Norifumi Yamamoto-Urijah Faber superfight. Here's how I summed it up: From my perspective, Emelia...
More Details on the UFC Sponsorship Racket
From the Wrestling Observer Newsletter via MMA Payout: The UFC is now charging prospective sponsors a $100,000 fee for the right to sponsor fighters that appear on UFC broadcasts for a six month ...
UFC Could Be Furthering Measures Against Internet Piracy
BayTSP, a company that assists clients in defending against piracy, recently released some information regarding their efforts. To wit: One global sports franchise and two of the largest pay-pe...
MMA Live Event Commentary
MMA media watchdog and fellow Bloody Elbow staffer, Mike Fagan, echoes the sentiments of many fans following Frank Mir's cageside performance at WEC 40. Notable quote: I love Frank Mir the ...
UFC Moves Against Fighter Management
Loretta Hunt reports: Zuffa, the company that owns and operates both promotions, has notified select fighter representatives that they will no longer receive credentials from the promotion to sit w...
WEC Re-Ups With Versus
I suppose Zuffa must be happy with their WEC exposure on Versus, but the really excellent news is the ability to get WEC essentially on demand now online. It's about time: Versus is about to sign a...
UFC Business Model Rare Bright Spot in Bad Economy
So says Zach Arnold at MMA Memories: The near-debacle in Quebec demonstrates what kind of financial power and momentum is currently on the side of Zuffa. At a time when the economy has hit all spor...
The Zuffa UFC/WEC Event Mill
MMA Frenzy notes something significant that hasn't been commented on in all the excitement of the last month: Zuffa, LLC. has just completed a string of four consecutive weeks where they put on a ten...
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