Randy Couture’s next hollywood movie “The Expendables” saw the release of its first trailer yesterday. The film also stars Sylvester Stallone, Jonathon Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, and smaller appearances from the likes of Dolph Lundgren and Steve Austin. Release date: Summer 2010 Payout Perspective: Not much of Couture in that trailer, which leads me to wonder how big […]
Archives for October 2009
Versus-DirecTV Issue: Distribution, Not Pricing
Leland Roling of Bloodyelbow.com provides a transcript of a radio interview that features Versus President, Jamie Davis, talking about the DirecTV-Versus impasse: Negotiations were in good faith throughout the summer, but the network was dropped from DirecTV on August 31st due to what has been relayed as a pricing problem. Davis stated that DirecTV stated that it […]
Strikeforce Signs “King” Mo Lawal
Loretta Hunt of Sherdog.com is reporting that Strikeforce has signed light heavyweight prospect “King” Mo Lawal to a multi-fight deal with the anticipation that he could fight as early as December: The deal allows the undefeated Lawal, a NCAA Div. 1 All-American wrestling champion for Oklahoma State in 2003 and decorated international competitor, to continue […]
SBJ: “UFC Feeling Scrappy”
Jon Show of the Sports Business Journal has written a great article documenting some of the UFC’s success over the past few months. He also manages to get Lorenzo to divulge some interesting information regarding the future plans of the organization. The SBJ has certainly increased its coverage of MMA over the last few months, […]
Spike TV to Broadcast Select UFC 104 Prelims
SpikeTV announced today that it will televise a select number of fights from the UFC 104 undercard – including Bader vs. Schaeffer and Hardonk vs. Barry – prior to the PPV. New York, NY, October 12, 2009 – Spike TV will telecast live undercard bouts from UFC 104 on Saturday, October 24 at 9:00pm ET/PT […]