Dan Duggan, at the Boston Herald, spoke with Dana White regarding UFC 118 not yet selling out. A bit of a surprising fact. As of last weekend about 11,000 tickets had been sold. The Garden’s capacity for the event will be 15,500. That is a substantial gap, even taking into account the fact that if [...]
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UFC In NYC Might Be On Hold Again
It looked like things could fall into place for a Fall fight at MSG. However, as the days pass nothing is getting done and there are two sides to this fight. Obviously the UFC states that the people of New York want MMA legalized. When the UFC returned to Jersey earlier this year, New Yorkers [...]
Abu Dhabi-owned Flash Entertainment Buys 10% Of UFC’s Parent Company Zuffa
For clarification; Zuffa owns the UFC — it is the UFC parent company. Over the past few months there were rumbling that Zuffa was looking for minority investors. Today the UFC officially released a statement regarding that Flash Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s government, has acquired a 10 percent stake in Zuffa. [...]
BJ Penn Has Cleaned Out The UFC Lightweight Division
There hasn’t been a single fighter at lightweight that has truly given Penn a legitimate fight. This past Saturday Penn continued his winning ways at 155. He absolutely dismantled number one contender Diego Sanchez. The big knock on Penn has been cardio. We all know that. It was warranted a few years back. Ever since [...]
Jon Jones Disqualified Against Matt Hamill
I have no idea how Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan thought that the fight was going to be awarded to Jon Jones. Take a look to the left at the strikes that ended the fight between Jones and Matt Hamill. The broadcast went to commercial immediately after the referee stepped in. The announce team saying [...]
