Comments on: HDNet Announces "Fighting Words with Mike Straka"

By: Machiel Van

Machiel Van — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:43:45 +0000

I couldn’t find any news about it, but it seems to be implied by this announcement.

By: Machiel Van

Machiel Van — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:42:50 +0000

Does this mean Fox Fight Game has been canceled?

By: jv

jv — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:16 +0000

Dana has a scorched earth policy. If the UFC was to get involved in an sports channel there is no way he would allow other MMA organizations on there. I would give up on MMA if I couldn’t get DREAM, WVR, KotC, MFC etc any more.

By: Wonderbrick

Wonderbrick — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:27:21 +0000

I noticed the same thing, regarding recent usage of UFC footage on Inside MMA. We don’t know if Cuban has made concessions of any type towards UFC. This could be the early signs of Comcast, HDnet, and UFC starting the rumored channel that will be competitve to ESPN. We have seen possible signs of that with UFC now on Versus. Cuban could be leveraging a great MMA channel to his advantage. Pure fun speculation on my part, based on small changes I notice.

By: jj

jj — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:52:08 +0000

Fox fight game was an awful show. I hope this show is better.

By: jv

jv — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:59:45 +0000

If you watch Inside MMA you will note that they are again allowed to run short clips of the UFC fights again. For a long time they could only show still pictures. At the same time they have scaled back on the fighters and fights that get on the show that aren’t from the UFC or WEC. I guess Mark Cuban has bowed down to Dana. I wonder how long fights from other organizations will be allowed on HDNet. Sad. I liked Cuban a lot more when he was his own man.