The Vancouver Sun sat in on the UFC 101 press conference earlier today and managed to avoid the “Strikefarce” issue by focusing on the UFC’s 2010 intentions for Canada. “We’re coming,” White told reporters earlier this week. “The UFC will be in Canada in 2010. We’re coming to Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.” The UFC […]
Jakks Pacific & Round 5 MMA Sign Sub-Licensing Agreement with UFC
Jakks Pacific, the manufacturer of toy collectibles and master toy licensee of the UFC, has signed an agreement with Round 5 MMA to sub-license UFC talent rights. As always, Payout Perspective follows the press release below: JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAKK), leading U.S. toymaker and master toy licensee for Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®), announced today a sub-licensing […]
Countdown to UFC 101 Rating
Countdown to UFC 101, which aired last night on Spike TV, drew in a sizeable 805,000 viewers. The historical average is somewhere in and around the 600,000 mark. It’s been quite difficult as of late to make any sort of correlation between Countdown ratings and PPV buyrates. The following illustrates the inconsistencies between Countdown and […]
Strikeforce-Dream Partnership Taking Shape
MMAWeekly has published an informative piece that focuses upon the developing relationship between Strikeforce and Dream; it also features an interview with Strikeforce President, Scott Coker. While the entire article can be found here, a summary of some of the more interesting points lies below: Scott Coker has a history with Dream promoter Kazuyoshi Ishii that dates back to his […]
Fedor-Strikeforce Media Conference Scheduled Thursday, August 6th
Strikeforce has just sent out an e-mail indicating that the organization will be holding a media conference call for Thursday at which time it is expected to address, in further detail, the Fedor Emelianenko signing. In addition to Fedor and Scott Coker, Vadim Finkelstein will also be present on the call. I suspect at this time […]