MMA Junkie reports on the latest Turnkey sports poll which indicates that sports industry executives believe that the UFC is the best positioned sports property heading into 2011. It also led the poll under the question: Which sports properties are you paying more attention to now than you did at the start of the year? […]
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Penn and Fitch head UFC PR tour of Australia
B.J. Penn and Jon Fitch toured Australia last week to promote their February 27th bout in Sydney. The promotional tour may assist in educating Aussie fans with mixed views of mixed martial arts. Via Fight Opinion: BJ Penn, Jon Fitch, George Sotiropoulos, and Kyle Noke went on a public relations tour yesterday in Australia to […]
NBC-Versus Merger Could Mean UFC on Network TV
An interesting end of the year prediction came out of the Sports Business Daily (h/t Sports Business Daily and John Ourand) earlier this week. From the Sports Business Journal: Versus will change its name to something that incorporates the NBC Sports brand. Versus is going to become the NBC Sports Channel or the NBC Sports […]
WEC 53: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective: WEC edition. The final WEC event took place in Glendale, Arizona at the Jobing.com arena. In the main event, hometown favorite Benson “Smooth” Henderson faced Anthony “Showtime” Pettis. Fitting for the WEC, it ended with a flourish with the kick seen everywhere. Business Storylines It’s Showtime! Pettis claims […]
White pays for girl’s liver transplant
UFC head Dana White is paying a substantial part of the costs for a liver transplant for the baby daughter of a well-known Muay Thai instructor. Rattanachai “Kru Nai” Jadngooluem’s four-year old daughter Tuptim, will be the recipient of the new liver. Jadngooluem teaches in Phuket, Thailand at Tiger Muay Thai, where many professional MMA fighters have […]