Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre has been cast as a villain in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The film is set to open April 2014. Latino Review details GSP’s character, Batroc the Leaper: Batroc is an experienced thief and smuggler, who also speaks French and English. Although, as a mercenary, he does not hesitate to […]
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TUF 17 Episode 9: 1.3 million
MMA Fighting reports that this week’s TUF episode scored the second highest ratings of the season with a 1.0 rating and an average of slightly over 1.3 million viewers. According to MMA Fighting, the episode received a 1.37 rating in Males 18-34 and a 1.25 in Males 18-49. TUF 17 Episode 1: 1.51 million TUF […]
Chris Camozzi takes stand against lowball fight sponsor offers
Chris Camozzi made some headlines pre-UFC 158 with a blog post which outlined a pattern of low offers made by sponsors. Camozzi called out the fighters and managers that take low offers which lower the standard for everyone. Camozzi wrote that despite UFC 158 being a big card it did not mean a windfall when […]
The Wrestling Post – 03.22.13
Welcome to another edition of The Wrestling Post. This week we take a look back at a fight Dana White turned down, Wrestlemania is $70 and an interesting lawsuit involving the independent contractor/employee question. Vince challenges Dana One of the stories that was buried under the Nick Diaz press was Dana White revealing that Vince […]
Early PPV numbers for UFC 158 point north of 800K buys
MMA Fighting reports that early PPV numbers show that UFC 158 should exceed 800,000 buys. The caustic mix of GSP and Nick Diaz proved to be the ingredients for people to buy the PPV. Although it was expected that this event would be the biggest in terms of PPV buy rate since Silva-Sonnen II, the […]