MMA Junkie reports that Ronda Rousey and her estranged management group, Fight Tribe Management, are in an arbitration hearing today (Friday) before the California State Athletic Commission to determine the validity of Fight Tribe’s representation agreement with the UFC bantamweight champion. Two weeks ago, Fight Tribe Management filed a petition for arbitration in Los Angeles […]
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FS1 doc on Rousey nominated for Sports Emmy
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 […]
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 […]