sports.aol.com - 11/19/2007
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ESPN takes a lot of criticism for its coverage -- or lack thereof -- of sports that it doesn't have the rights to. NHL fans, in particular, say ESPN essentially ignored the sport after it stopped showing hockey games. But ESPN actually does quite a bit of promotion of UFC, considering that ESPN has no presence at all in the sport of mixed martial arts. One example is this video of Joe Rogan ...
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John Clifford Ness —
... ESPN Promotes UFC 78: It's particularly interesting that that video focused so much on the fact that the fighters in tonight's main event, Rashad Evans and Michael Bisping, were both on The Ultimate Fighter, a reality show that's on Spike, an ESPN competitor. ...
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