In a media release late Friday night, World Extreme Cagefighting announced that the card featuring Uriah Faber vs. Mike Brown scheduled for Wednesday, September 10 has been postponed due to the threat of Hurricane Ike to South Florida. The fight was to take place at The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollwood Florida. […]
Archives for September 2008
TKO Championship Fighting Inks New TV Deal
TKO Championship Fighting signed a television deal on Wednesday with Quebec-based TQS to air weekly episodes of “TKO Friday Night Knockouts” starting September 5th. The deal comes at a time when TKO, an organization approaching 10 years in the business, is emerging as the most prominent MMA promotion in Canada. TKO holds five events a year at Montreal’s […]
No Need To Panic: A Realistc Future for MMA
What do the failures of so many organizations mean for MMA? It means that promoters and their investors need to be smarter with their money. And it’s not like there isn’t precedence within the business world for this sort of gross mismanagement either. I’m sure everyone remembers the dot-com bubble of the late 90s that […]
No Need To Panic: An Analysis of the MMA Industry
In recent days we’ve seen a flurry of MMA business activity that has forced everyone within the community to re-evaluate the health of the industry. Individuals like Dana White will be the first to tell you that MMA is going to be more popular than soccer or the Superbowl, worldwide, by 2016. Yet, others are […]
Updated: Randy Couture to face Brock Lesnar in the UFC
In an on-going conference call, UFC President Dana White announced that Randy “The Natural” Couture will fight Brock Lesnar in an upcoming UFC pay per view for the Heavyweight title on Novemer 15th. The original plan was to do this show live in Portland but that has been delayed, the fight will take place in […]