Cuban Files Suit vs The UFC, Cro Cop Being Insulted and GSP on The Fan 590
February 16th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
Mark Cuban and his quickly growing entity HDNet Fights has entered the Randy Couture legal battle with the UFC. On Wednesday, HDNet filed a suit vs Zuffa (Owners of the UFC) in a Dallas district court, seeking a ’deglatory judgment’ regarding Couture’s promotional contract with the UFC.
Cuban is looking to receive clarification on when the contract truely expires, […]
Big News Coming Out of Japan plus UFC Fight Night Card Update
February 13th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
Breaking news from The Land of The Rising Sun sees a new promotion announced with a current UFC fighter jumping ship.
Today, K-1, one of Japan’s biggest professional kickboxing organizations announced their newest MMA venture ‘DREAMS’. This new organization replaces their existing ‘HEROES’ brand and is being run by the former ‘Pride’ group. Key to all of this is […]
Sanchez, Sylvia Not Happy; Angle’s Wife Picks on Lesnar and more
February 10th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
Diego Sanchez Wants GSP Sooner Than Later
UFC Welterweight Diego ‘The Nightmare’ Sanchez recently conducted an interview where he had some interesting comments about Canadian Georges St.Pierre. The majority of the comments surrounded Sanchez’s decision to leave ‘Team Greg Jackson’ the moment GSP joined. He stated he wasn’t going to bow down to GSP’, nor would […]
Canadian MMA Fans Set UFC Record; UFC Drama Continues
February 9th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
Canadian UFC fans set a new UFC record this past week, by selling out UFC 83 at the Bell Centre in record time. It took a mere 30 seconds to sell out the remaining tickets that were left for the public sale yesterday afternoon. If you were unable to get tickets, there is good news […]
UFC 83 in Montreal Continues To Raise The Bar
February 6th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
While I believe it was expected that the demand for tickets to UFC 83 in Montreal would be huge, it is safe to say that I am pleasantly surprised by the incredible hype surrounding it.
Tickets sales have far surpassed what the UFC was expecting from Canadian MMA fans (over 15,000 in 24 hrs). I asked […]
UFC 81 Has Come and Gone…And The Drama Continues
February 4th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
Well, UFC 81 has come and gone and just when you think everything has been answered, more questions arise from the results. There was an abundance of celebrity firepower in attedance as Barry Bonds, Charles Barkely, Greg Maddux, Jay-Z and Chris Angel sat alongside former and current WWE stars Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Kurt […]
The Tide Continues To Rise
January 27th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
It has been an incredible spree of Mixed Martial Arts mayhem over the past week or so, and it does not appear to be slowing down. While I am preparing to head down to Las Vegas to cover UFC 81, so much has happened in MMA over the past week, that I would be remis […]
UFC Fight Night Quick Picks
January 23rd, 2008 by joe.ferraro
UFC Fight Night 12 goes down tonight, 9pm, live from The Pearl in Las Vegas.
Here are my quick picks for the event.
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Mike Swick (170) vs. Josh Burkman (170)
This will mark Mike Swick’s debut in the welterweight division and he will not have an easy test going up against Josh Burkman. As a matter of fact, I’m […]
UFC 80: The Aftermath
January 21st, 2008 by joe.ferraro
Another UFC event has come and gone and as is typical with every post-event pay per view, rumours run rampant about potential matchups and breaking news. UFC President Dana White quickly put an end to speculation when he confirmed that BJ Penn’s first lightweight title defence will be against the man he recently stripped the title […]
UFC 80 Results and Analysis
January 20th, 2008 by joe.ferraro
Newcastle MMA fans were treated to a stellar night of fights, as UFC 80 was chalk full of knockouts, submissions and a variety of upsets that left yours truly with his eyes wide open.
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BJ Penn def. Joe Stevenson - Submission (Rear Naked Choke) @ 4:02 of Rd. 2
BJ was extremely focused and from the onset, […]
