mmamania.com - 11/19/2008
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I was fortunate to help create the first ad campaign for the UFC. Now for those of you who live under a rock or refuse to watch TV, the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is extreme mixed martial arts. The sport has grown so ...
mmamania.com - 11/20/2008
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mmamania.com —
Former number one UFC welterweight contender Jon Fitch
was today handed his walking papers for refusing to...
sign an agreement that would give the promotion exclusive lifetime video game rights to his name and likeness, MMAmania.com can exclusively ...
(more)
Jon Fitch, Christian Wellisch and possibly others cut by UFC
sports.yahoo.com - 11/20/2008
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sports.yahoo.com —
A bitterly angry Dana White said Wednesday the
Ultimate Fighting Championship has cut highly regarded welterweight contender...
Jon Fitch and is not going to do business with any fighters who are part of the American Kickboxing Academy team in San Jose, ...
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UFC drops Fitch, AKA fighters - MMA - Yahoo! Sports
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New UFC Marketing Ads, Pretty Sweet
instantmma.net —
In what has to be some great photo work, the UFC did some potential mainstream market ads. And these are what they came up with. I think that they are pretty awesome, however I wouldn’t say that the UFC is ranked ahead of soccer and football worldwide. Possibly basketball, and definately baseball, but soccer and football need some catching up to, before they could say they pummelled them.
MMAMania also got this quote from the photographer.
I was fortunate to help create the first ad campaign for the UFC. Now for ...
Is This Really Necessary?
CagePotato.com —
... This picture is part of what is supposedly a new ad campaign from the UFC designed to make a point about how successful they’ve been in relation to other major sports. There’s a whole series of them, which you can see ...
Snapshot of the Day: UFC vs. Mainstream Sports Ad Campaign
Bloody Elbow —
Back story and more pictures of assaulted baseball, soccer and basketball players here.
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