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UFC still fighting for respect even in its home town
UFC still fighting for respect even in its home town
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 the promotion has to be incredibly proactive ...
With UFC 100 approaching, we take a look at how far mixed martial arts have come in the last 15 years
With UFC 100 approaching, we take a look at how far mixed martial arts have come in the last 15 ...
blog.mlive.com — Skilled athletes like Randy Couture have helped MMA gain recognition as a legitimate sport over the last 15 years. Bookmark It's Just Sports or subscribe to our RSS feed. Gavin Raath is the It's Just Sports UFC/MMA/combat-related sports writer.... (more) With UFC 100 approaching, we take a look at how far ...
Liddell and Mask are the two newest inductees into the UFC Hall of Fame
ufc.com — Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - One was perhaps the greatest light heavyweight of all-time, a feared striker who ruled the 205-pound weight class with an iron right hand and in doing so became mixed martial arts' first crossover superstar. The other was his ... (more) Liddell and Mask are the two newest inductees into the ...
The UFC 100: The Dirty 30's
The UFC 100: The Dirty 30's
keyboardkimura.blogspot.com — With each passing day, we're getting closer to crowning the Greatest Fighter in UFC History. This is where things really start to get interesting, as from here on out we're talking champions and icons, guys who have had a strong impact on the UFC in one way, shape or form. Like the two guys ... (more) The UFC 100: The Dirty 30's
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UFC pimps a study that proves they’re awesome
Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap — ... study’s findings that each pay-per-view purchase has an average of eight viewers. Based on that number, the six events garnered a total of 33.7 million viewers. Dana White still geeks out on the rare days that the UFC makes the front page of one of the Vegas rags. I guess we’ll see if this helps them pull it off more often, although I kinda doubt it. Newspapers covering shit that young people are interested in is too smart of an idea. (via Cagewriter)

The first MMA beat writer, took long enough
Watch Kalib Run — ... According to Cage Writer mixed martial arts just received its first newspaper beat reporter. The Las Vegas Review-Journal just named  ...

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