Damon Martin of MMAWeekly reports that the UFC recently hired the individual that will run the UFC’s office in China, which the organization expects to open in the very near future. Just weeks after the UFC opened an office in Canada – with former CFL commissioner Tom Wright leading the charge – the company hired […]
Archives for July 2010
UFC 116: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we’ll be taking a look at the highly anticipated UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin that was held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, July 3rd. The event featured a heavyweight title fight between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin, but also showcased the […]
Payout Revisited: Minimum Fighter Payouts
MMAPayout.com hasn’t done a Payout Revisited segment in quite some time, but upon reading an article from the Canadian Press on the cost of living for high performance athletes, I thought it might be time to revisit one of my first and most talked about pieces on fighter payouts. Minimum Fighter Payouts was a part […]
MMA Stalling in NY…Again
Kenneth Lovett of the NY Daily News reported earlier this week that a bill to regulate MMA has been removed from the New York state budget proposal that’s been sitting in the Assembly since April. The article cites Assemblyman Steven Englebright, a supporter of MMA, as saying that there wasn’t enough support for the bill’s […]
UFC 116 Fight Week
Fight week is becoming increasingly more important for the UFC as it tries to move beyond its stable base of hardcore fans and into the mainstream PPV market. This is generally because the casual viewers that occasionally buy a UFC card are often only persuaded at the last minute (i.e., a few days out from the bout). […]