J.R. Riddell of Sherdog.com is reporting that Zuffa has filed a lawsuit against the owner of theultimatefighter.com in attempt to gain ownership of the domain name. Zuffa currently uses the similar UltimateFighter.com to promote its reality TV series The Ultimate Fighter. Hence, its concern. In the complaint, Zuffa alleges that it began using a number […]
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Don King Issues Cease and Desist with Shine Fights
According to MaxBoxing.com, Don King Promotions has issued a cease and desist order to Shine Fight Promotions on the grounds that Ricardo Mayorga is contractually obligated to fight exclusively for Don King. Mayorga is set to fight Din Thomas on May 15th at Shine Fights 3: Worlds Collide. Don King Productions has become aware that […]
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 […]
UFC Sues Website Operators Ahead of UFC 111
Steve Green of the Las Vegas Sun is reporting that Zuffa has filed a lawsuit against two website operators promoting unauthorized use of the up-coming UFC 111 broadcast. Attorneys for Zuffa, Michael Feder and John Krieger of the Las Vegas office of the law firm Lewis and Roca LLP, charge in the complaint that an […]