sports.yahoo.com - 6/24/2009
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The crowd of 21,451 that turned out for UFC 97 in April not only set a North American attendance record for MMA, it also topped this year's average home attendance of four Major League Baseball teams. The Washington Nationals, Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates and Oakland Athletics are each ...
blog.mlive.com - 6/26/2009
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Rankings: Anderson Silva and Dan Henderson top the ...
fightmagazine.com - 6/26/2009
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Kevin English Age: 29 Record: 13-7-0-1 Fighting Out
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took time away from his wrestling career to devote himself to his family and spent those years coaching. He is USA Bronze Certified Wrestling Coach. ...
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Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC Doing Well, Still Not in Major Leagues
Bloody Elbow —
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 sports are seeing some of their business decline. To wit: ...
I Like My MMA Where It Is, Thank You Very Much
Watch Kalib Run —
... Bloody Elbow's Luke Thomas, Sherdog's Jake Rossen and MMA Junkie's Steve Sievert are tangled up in an omoplata of opinion about the status of Mixed Martial Arts in comparison to "major league" sports. Not to leave anyone out - or miss an opportunity to pseudo name-drop - Fightlinker jumped into the mix as well.
There short and the quick of it is this:
UFC 97 drew more fans than four baseball teams average for home games this season (Sievert)
Those numbers are awesome (except for those four teams) but not necessarily an accurate ...
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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 ...
UFC 100 Fight Card
profighting-fans.com 6/15/2009 — The fight card for UFC 100 to be held in Las Vegas on July 11, 2009.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
UFC 100 Reviews are in and they are bad, wait what?
watchkalibrun.com 7/13/2009 —
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UFC 100 was suppose to be a celebration of the UFC and mixed martial arts. Yet for whatever reason some media members, both mainstream and MMA, were left underwhelmed.
Tom Casale ...
UFC splits from Setanta
watchkalibrun.com 6/23/2009 —
( added to the front page by Zak Woods )
After months of financial turmoil, the UFC have split from Setanta Sports and will be looking for a new tv deal. Setanta recently lost all the Premier league rights they had, which were snapped up by ESPN. This will mean that they will lose 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 ...
UFC 100 was a Flop Outside of the Octagon
fiveouncesofpain.com 7/13/2009 — Over the last year, Dana White and the UFC spent countless hours and a tremendous amount of money to promote UFC 100 – which was billed as the most important night in Mixed Martial Arts history.
There were countdowns on both Yahoo! and Spike TV ...
