Dana White sat down with Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports on Thursday and confirmed the final few events of the 2008 Calendar. The UFC will make its debut in Oregon with UFC 91 on November 15th at Portland’s Rose Garden Arena. While the majority of the card has yet to be finalized, White confirmed that […]
UFC
Ratner “Very Bullish” On MMA In New York
In an interview conducted by Bob Carson earlier this week, UFC Vice-President of Regulation, Marc Ratner, divulged that he is “very bullish” on the prospects of MMA being sanctioned in the state of New York by the first quarter of 2009. Speculation has run wild as to when New York might see MMA sanctioning, since […]
The Fitch Push
Fighter Salaries: A Fair Share of Revenues (Part 4)
Meeting Fighter Interests Unfortunately, for the fighters and the public that love to loathe the UFC, a lack of information and the problematic complexities of a definitive revenue splitting scheme means that they may have no other choice than to cooperate with the UFC and trust that Dana White “takes care of his guys”. Most […]
Fighter Salaries: A Fair Share of Revenues (Part 3)
Narrowing In On Better Revenue Sharing We’ve already acknowledged the fact that the information isn’t available to make an absolutely precise definition of fair. As a result of this we’re forced to use what we have at our disposal. Let’s look at what we know: 75% of Zuffa’s revenue is event-related (i.e., PPV buys, live […]