Loretta Hunt of Sherdog.com is reporting that Don King Promotions has filed a legal injunction against Ricardo Mayorga and Shine Fights that seeks to prohibit Mayorga from participating at MMA’s Shine Fights 3: Worlds Collide card on Saturday, May 15th. In its filings, DKP cites excerpts taken from Mayorga’s promotional agreement with the organization dated […]
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Zuffa Sues for TheUltimateFighter.com
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 […]
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 […]