Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we take a look at the UFC’s return to New Jersy with UFC 111. The sold-out held at Newark’s Prudential Center featured a welterweight title bout between Georges St-Pierre and Dan Hardy, as well as an interim heavyweight title bout between Shane Carwin and Frank Mir. […]
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Germany Bans the UFC on Television
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports breaks down the report released yesterday that the Bavarian Regulatory Authority in Germany has banned the UFC from airing on television in the country. The German equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday issued a preliminary order that would bar Ultimate Fighting Championship programming from the Munich-based network German […]
Versus Returns to DirecTV
Bill Gorman of TVbytheNumbers informs us that DirecTV and Versus have come to an agreement that will put Versus back onto DirecTV and the same packages assignment the network previously enjoyed in August, 2009. DIRECTV and Comcast have reached an agreement to return VERSUS to the DIRECTV programming lineup today. The terms of the deal […]
MMA’s April Chess Match
Mike Chiappetta of MMAFighting.com discusses the latest news regarding a possible UFC on Spike event for April 17th, designed to counter-program the Strikeforce on CBS card on the same day. The UFC is in the process of laying the groundwork for an April 17 show to counter the Strikeforce on CBS offering, MMA Fighting has […]
HGH Testing May Be Difficult to Implement
Lance Pugmire of the LA Times reports on the latest development in the anti-doping world regarding a new test capable of detecting human growth hormone in blood samples. Early this week it was announced that a British rugby player had tested positive for the previously undetectable banned substance. However, while promising, the jury is still […]