watchkalibrun.com - 6/18/2009
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(Do you hear the bloggers sing! Singing the song of Angry Men!)
Much has been made of Dana White's rant against Loretta Hunt. The questions of journalistic responsibilities and ethical business practices have been discussed ad nauseam. That didn't stop Charles Jay from penning an MMA ...
Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC Doing Well, Still Not in Major Leagues
bloodyelbow.com 6/26/2009 — The echo chamber in the hardcore community is a powerful banshee, but some mainstream wax for your ears will do your perspective some good. Steve Sievert makes an important point: the UFC's business is improving in a time when larger, traditional ...
Will the UFC's new magazine start a fight with MMA magazines?
watchkalibrun.com 6/30/2009 — MMA Payout asks the question,
With the UFC entering the market, do the MMA print mags get the Sherdog treatment, with credentialing and photo usage being pulled, now that they are ostensibly competing? Or do they get MMAWeekly'd, with some degree of reasonable access being given? I'd ...
Dana says ‘My Way or the Highway’
blog.thesavagescience.com 6/27/2009 — …and there was much rejoicing.
There will be no Limp Bizkit performance at UFC 100. Via MMA Junkie:
Rap-metal group Limp Bizkit’s previously announced July 10 performance at Mandalay Bay Casino & Resort has been canceled.
Ticketmaster.com was the first to announce the ...
Favorite UFC memories from your favorite MMA bloggers
sports.yahoo.com 7/8/2009 — Yesterday, Kevin Iole shared some UFC memories from MMA luminaries -- Dana White, Lorenzo Fertitta, Georges St. Pierre, the list goes on. He also included memories from fans. (You really should go read the whole thing.) Today, Cagewriter brings you ...
Fight Zone Joins UFC Fight Expo As Sponsor
octagonbuzz.com 6/18/2009 —
Al sent this in:
FightZone Media, consisting of FightZone TV, Magazine, Radio and Internet, has joined UFC Fan Expo as an Official Sponsor.
In support of the event. FightZone TV will air over 100 TV commercials nationwide on over 30 of their airings from now until the day of the ...
Two MMA video games? Over the UFC's dead body
watchkalibrun.com 7/1/2009 —
When Electronic Arts announced that they were developing an MMA game many mixed martial arts fans were left scratching their collective heads.
Didn't THQ already own the UFC license? Would EA's game be connected with a major promotion, surely none of the UFC's ...
It's now or never for Mainstream Media coverage
watchkalibrun.com 7/3/2009 — One of the most popular points of speculation within the MMA community deals with how much mainstream media coverage will UFC 100 will receive? UFC officials and fans think that this event will be the biggest MMA story of 2009 --though many MMA media members think it will ...
Profanity-Laced Tirades? Maybe Writers Have Themselves to Thank
mmamemories.com 6/18/2009 — In the span of three minutes, nine seconds, Dana White spit out about 30-40 expletives at poor Loretta Hunt, and had the rant posted on the UFC website, which meant not one bit of it was an accident. This is part of the “in-your-face” ...
UFC still fighting for respect even in its home town
sports.yahoo.com 7/6/2009 — Event No. 100 is right around the corner for the UFC. It's a long way from the days of struggling to sell 4,000 tickets. The UFC is a lock from a live gate standpoint, events regularly draw between 12,000-16,000 around the country, yet ...
Goulet Out, Grant in to Face Kim at UFC 100 —
UFC Press Releases 6/18/2009
Las Vegas NV (USA) -- A dislocated shoulder, suffered in training, has forced welterweight standout Jonathan Goulet to withdraw from his bout against Dong Hyun Kim on the preliminary card of UFC® 100 on July 11th. But Canada will still be ...