On the eve of MMA’s network television debut, MMAPayout.com reached to executives around the industry to find out how and where they would be watching tonight’s show and to get their impressions on a number of issues facing the sport. Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban created HDNet Fights and has since made mixed martial arts programming […]
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Objective/ Analysis: EliteXC and IFL Co-promotion?
OBJECTIVE: Five Ounces of Pain’s Sam Caplan is reporting that Kimbo Slice’s next opponent could be the International Fight League’s heavyweight champion, Roy “Big Country Nelson.” According to Caplan, IFL CEO Jay Larkin has said that informal talks have begun. Pending the outcome of Slice’s fight this weekend, more formal talks could begin as early […]
ESPN: MMA Live, 2nd Edition
ESPN.com published the second edition of its online mixed martial arts news show, MMA Live, this past Thursday. Though the show briefly touched on the three International Fight League championship bouts from Mohegan Sun and the results from the Sengoku event, it mainly focused on UFC oriented news. As MMAPayout.com previously reported, the UFC lobbied […]
CBS/ EliteXC Broadcasters’ Conference Call
Listen in as MMAPayout.com’s Andrew Falzon interviews CBS broadcaster Gus Johnson, play-by-play, and Frank Shamrock, color commentator. (Unfortunately, Mauro Ranallo had to excuse himself at this point in the call, as he had to do his radio show for The Fight Network.) Click here to download and listen. EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Fightlinker.com for audio […]
Objective/ Analysis: CBS’s EliteXC Broadcast Team
PHOTO: (Left to Right) – David Dinkins, Jr., Executive Producer; Karyn Bryant, Cageside Reporter; Gus Johnson, Play-by-Play; Frank Shamrock, Color Commentator; Mauro Ranallo, Color Commentator (Courtesy CBS)OBJECTIVE: Yesterday the CBS broadcast team that will be calling the EliteXC event on May 31st had a warm-up of sorts, fielding questions from fellow members of the media. […]