The UFC is pulling out all of the stops to ensure that UFC 148 is a success including a comic book strip depicting Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen. The comic depictions appear on the UFC’s Facebook page and will be updated daily to promote July 7th’s showdown. Via UFC press release: Reigning UFC Middleweight […]
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Bellator 71 live on Gametrailers.com to promote “MMA Onslaught”
The Bellator Summer Series begins tomorrow and it will be streamed live without commercial interruption on video game web site Gametrailers.com to promote the new Bellator video game “MMA Onslaught.” Via Bellator press release: “We are taking this opportunity to dedicate an entire event to showcase our new video game, ‘MMA Onslaught’ and will substitute […]
Chinese MMA promotion hires US agency
China’s only professional MMA organization, RUFF, has signed with American sports agency Excel Sports Management to handle all sponsorship sales and marketing. The agency counts Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter among its clients. Via press release: RUFF, China’s first government-sanctioned MMA organization, has enlisted Excel Sports Management to lead all corporate consulting and rights representation, […]
Promise Ring stops crime
UFC fighter Nick Ring is being considered a hometown hero after thwarting a mugging of a couple by 10 youths in his native Calgary. Ring chased down the youths as the authorities were able to arrest most of the assailants. The good deed occurred Wednesday night after Ring went to a yoga class. According to […]
Fuel TV boasts audience growth for May
Fuel TV sent out a press release today which touted cable’s biggest audience growth this year. The release attributes the success to the UFC and its 360 hours of UFC programming in May. Via Fuel TV press release: FUEL TV recorded the largest year-to-year percentage increases in prime time and total day last month (compared […]