• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

MMA Payout

The Business of Combat Sports

  • Home
  • MMA
    • UFC
    • Bellator
    • One
    • PFL
  • Boxing
  • Legal
  • Ratings
  • Payouts
  • Attendance
  • Gate

Jones, Cruz to participate in upcoming NASCAR events

February 20, 2012 by Jason Cruz 2 Comments

Jon Jones and Dominick Cruz will make appearances at NASCAR events in the next two weeks to promote the UFC. Jones will be the “Honorary Race Official” this Sunday and Cruz will be the “Honorary Pace Car Driver” on March 4th.

It was announced Monday that Jones would serve as the Honorary Race Official for NASCAR’s Daytona 500 this Sunday. Jones will participate in pre-race festivities and promote his upcoming fight at UFC 145 in April. (H/t: MMA Mania)

It was announced earlier this month by MMA Weekly that Dominick Cruz would be the honorary pace car driver at the Subway Fresh Fit 500 in Phoenix on March 4th. The race will be shown on Fox. Cruz will debut as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter on FX 5 days later, March 9th.

Payout Perspective:

Anderson Silva also participated in a NASCAR event in Phoenix last November. At UFC on Fox 2 in January we saw Kevin Harvick make an appearance to promote the Daytona 500. With Fox Sports partnering with both sports properties, we will see more of the synergy. It would be interesting to see if this helps both sports garner fans and viewership. In my opinion, I think that the cross promotion helps the UFC more than NASCAR. But then again, I am more of a UFC fan than one of NASCAR.

Filed Under: FOX, Public Relations, UFC

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. florastor coupons says

    October 19, 2013 at 5:53 am

    I believe what you published made a great deal
    of sense. However, what about this? suppose you were to create a awesome
    title? I am not suggesting your information is not solid., however what if you added something that makes people desire more?
    I mean Jones, Cruz to participate in upcoming NASCAR events : MMAPayout.com: The
    Business of MMA is kinda boring. You could glance at Yahoo’s front page and note how they
    write article headlines to get viewers to open the links.
    You might add a video or a pic or two to grab readers interested about what you’ve written.
    In my opinion, it might bring your posts a little bit more interesting.

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. 5 Oz. MMA Link Club : Five Ounces of Pain says:
    February 23, 2012 at 6:31 am

    […] Dominick Cruz and Jon Jones Cross Paths with the World of NASCAR (MMAPayout.com) […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Featured

IBF seeks to stay discovery in Opetaia lawsuit

TKO announce Q3 earnings

UFC 333 bonuses

FBI seeking no-bid contract with the UFC

Court denies Top Rank’s Motion to Dismiss in Keane case

Opetaia fires back at IBF in opposition to MTD

Archives

MMA Payout Follow

MMAPayout
Retweet on Twitter MMA Payout Retweeted

Washington announces a home-and-home with Notre Dame, set for 2031 in South Bend and 2034 in Seattle. So mark your calendars.

AEW tops NXT in head-to-head ratings https://mmapayout.com/2026/11/10/aew-tops-nxt-in-head-to-head-ratings/

Retweet on Twitter MMA Payout Retweeted

Sports prediction markets are sports betting disguised as financial trading. They flout state and tribal gambling laws, siphon state tax revenues, fuel addiction, and expose young Americans to public health risks while evading state consumer safeguards.

Congress must ban them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

Rubio: "Ultimately our job is to execute on the president's orders ... in the end, the decision is the president's"

Receipts for not going to Saudi

FADE @FadeAwayMedia

Trick Williams pinned Gunther clean after RAW ended tonight in the dark match. 😳

Copyright © 2026 · MMA Payout: The Business of Combat Sports