Dana White recently sat down with Bloomberg TV to discuss the financial progress of the UFC over the last few years. Some interesting things came out the interview: The Fertittas and White (holding 90% and 10% of Zuffa, respecitvely) are open to selling a 10-15% silent stake in the company. White estimates that anywhere between 35-45% of the UFC […]
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UFC Event Posters
The UFC has just released their latest event poster for UFC 105 , and it’s inspired MMAPayout.com to delve a little more deeply into the creation of effective marketing tools such as the event poster. I’ve attached several of them for events from the past few months (credit MMAmania.com): UFC 91: UFC 94: UFC 100: UFC […]
SBJ: “UFC Feeling Scrappy”
Jon Show of the Sports Business Journal has written a great article documenting some of the UFC’s success over the past few months. He also manages to get Lorenzo to divulge some interesting information regarding the future plans of the organization. The SBJ has certainly increased its coverage of MMA over the last few months, […]
Spike TV to Broadcast Select UFC 104 Prelims
SpikeTV announced today that it will televise a select number of fights from the UFC 104 undercard – including Bader vs. Schaeffer and Hardonk vs. Barry – prior to the PPV. New York, NY, October 12, 2009 – Spike TV will telecast live undercard bouts from UFC 104 on Saturday, October 24 at 9:00pm ET/PT […]
Report: Tito vs. Forrest at UFC 106
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that Tito Ortiz will now face Forrest Griffin at UFC 106. Griffin is a replacement for Mark Coleman who had to drop out of the bout due to injury. Tito Ortiz will face a stern test in his first match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship since undergoing back […]