MMA Fighting reports that a proposed California law allow would grant referees and judges to adorn sponsorship patches with proceeds going toward a boxing pension fund. AB 2130 states: This bill would require 25% of the payment received under these contracts to be deposited into the Athletic Commission Fund to be used as prescribed and, […]
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9M viewers is the goal for Rousey for Netflix event
It is fight week for Most Valuable Promotions MMA event on Netflix. Ronda Rousey takes on Gina Carano this Saturday and during media rounds Rousey has a goal for the event. Rousey wants to beat the 8.8 million viewers that watched Junior Dos Santos face Cain Velasquez on Fox in 2011. The fight, which lasted […]
Rousey announces minimum purses for May 16th event
Ronda Rousey announced that the minimum that a fighter will make for the Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) event May 16th will be $40,000. Rousey spoke at the promotional press conference to hype up next month’s event airing on Netflix. Rousey and Gina Carano met the media. The two did not mx it up verbally, but […]
MVP may jump into MMA if May event a success
The Sports Business Journal is reporting that Most Valuable Promotions is evaluating a foray into MMA dependent on its May 16th show. The move could apply at least a modicum of pressure to the UFC which has been less than stellar with its past several shows. Nakisa Bidarian told SBJ that if the May 16th […]
GSP gets biopic on life
Georges St-Pierre will get a film biography according to a story from Variety on Tuesday. Quebec director Thomas Soto is attached to the project which will highlight the upbringing of the former The film will chronicle the life of GSP growing up in Saint-Isidore, Quebec and his foray in martial arts and into the UFC. […]