The Fox Sports 1 documentary UFC Presents: Breaking Ground, Ronda Rousey has been nominated for a Sports Emmy for Best Sports Documentary. It is just 1 of 3 Sports Emmys that the network has been nominated for in its first year in existence. The one hour documentary which originally aired in September 2013 featured the […]
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Hendricks gets Times slide show
The NY Times did a feature on new welterweight champion Johny Hendricks. The story is a personal feature on Hendricks, his training and family as he prepared for his fight with Robbie Lawler. Entitled, “U.F.C’s Big Daddy: A Fighter’s Training Pays Off.” the feature is more slideshow pictorial than actual story but it focuses on […]
UFC Fight Night 38: 936,000 viewers
MMA Payout has learned that UFC Fight Night 38 received an average viewership of according to industry sources. The show peaked at 1.25 million viewers during the main event between Dan Henderson and Shogun Rua. UFC Fight Nights since August 2013 UFC Fight Night 26 1,780,000 UFC Fight Night 27 824,000 UFC Fight […]
Weidman injury forces Machida fight to UFC 175
Chope terminated by UFC after news of military charges of domestic violence
The UFC has let go of featherweight Will Chope when it was discovered that he was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force for domestic violence as indicated in court documents. His fight at UFC Fight Night 38 was scrapped due to the news. The news, broken by Bleacher Report, occurred one day before his fight […]