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UFC 203 attendance, gate and bonuses

September 10, 2016 by Jason Cruz 1 Comment

The UFC announced the attendance, gate and bonuses from UFC 203. Stipe Miocic, Alistair Overeem, Yancy Medeiros and Jessica Andrade earned the bonuses of the night. Miocic and Overeem drew the Fight of the Night while Medeiros and Andrade drew the Performance Bonuses. Miocic stopped Overeem in an exciting first round. Medeiros was the featured […]

CM Punk explains his move to MMA in his own words

September 10, 2016 by Jason Cruz 2 Comments

CM Punk penned an article in The Player’s Tribune on the bliss in finding his passion for MMA. Punk has been the headliner this week for UFC despite it being his first fight in the UFC. While Punk should be better prepared than James Toney when he fought Randy Couture at UFC 118, we all […]

OAC to review Eye-Correia incident, fines Overeem

September 9, 2016 by Jason Cruz 1 Comment

MMA Fighting reports that the Ohio Athletic Commission may assess discipline for the shoving incident between Jessica Eye and Bethe Correia at the televised UFC 203 weigh-ins. At the faux weigh-ins (since the actual weigh-ins took place earlier in the day), Eye shoved Correia prior to the two facing off. OAC Executive Director Bernie Profato […]

UFC 202 PPV buys estimated at 1.65M

September 7, 2016 by Jason Cruz 9 Comments

MMA Fighting reports that UFC 202 is currently estimated at doing 1.65 million PPV buys. The number puts it ahead of UFC 196 in PPV buys. Prior to this year, the top PPV event for the UFC was UFC 100 which posted 1.6M buys on July 11, 2009. In the main event Brock Lesnar faced […]

Cerrone-Lawler set for UFC 205 in NY per White

September 7, 2016 by Jason Cruz 1 Comment

UFC President Dana White indicated that Donald Cerrone will fight Robbie Lawler as part of the company’s debut in New York at UFC 205. Lawler lost his welterweight title to Tyron Woodley at UFC 201 in July. Cerrone, who recently signed a new contract with the UFC, defeated Rick Story at UFC 202. White mentioned […]