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HDNet taking it slow in the MMA [...]

It’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees in the information age. So I thought I’d take a quick look at the big picture, where the industry was last year, where it is this year, and where it looks like its heading next year:

2006 – GROWTH – UFC buyrates triple; EliteXC, IFL, [...]

Today Mark Cuban announced his own MMA promotion which will air on HDNet appropriately titled “HDNet Fights”. The promotion’s first event will take place Saturday, October 13th in Dallas.
The event will be headlined by a main event bout between Eric Paulson and Jeff Ford. The 10 fight card also includes UFC veterans Sean Salmon, Pete [...]

Mark Cuban, the latest entrant in the chase to sign Fedor Emelianenko, has hired former UFC champion Guy Mezger to head up his MMA project:
Cuban has hired MMA veteran Guy Mezger to run the day-to-day operations of his MMA project, and will rely on Mezger to handle tasks such as talent evaluation.
“We have already [...]

According to reports a man died last night at UFC 73 after falling 30 feet to his death. Here is part of an article by News10.net, a Sacramento-area ABC affiliate:
Sacramento County sheriff’s spokesman R.L. Davis said Eraldo Cano, 26, was outside the arena in a smoking section around 8:30 p.m. during Saturday night’s Ultimate Fighting [...]

A lot of fans have wondered over the years whether MMA would ever be considered as a sport for the Olympics and the quick answer is yes, it may. The question was recently posed to Dana White in an interview with the OregonLive:
“That’s always been my goal, and it will happen. It will be awesome. [...]

In a recent interview on ESPNEWS UFC President Dana White did not provide a solid answer when asked in a reader fanmail segment on whether all of the PRIDE fighters moving to the UFC would likely mean the organization would merge rater than be run as separate entities.
White answered that “PRIDE is a mess” and [...]

What a fast paced world we live in. Just two days ago it was thought PRIDE may be completely dissolved with all of its top and mid-tier talent signing with the UFC and World Extreme Cage Fighting. New reports have surfaced that this will not be the case and Pride will hold its first post-UFC [...]

In a recent quote in the Houston Chronicle UFC President Dana White suggests that the UFC may opt to dissolve PRIDE. Here’s the quote:
“It’s a possibility,” White said. “There’s a lot of different things we could do right now. That is definitely one of the possibilities.”
When the UFC originally announced its intentions to purchase PRIDE [...]

In a recent interview with MMA Today current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson says that “PRIDE officials” offered him a bonus to be knocked out or submitted without tapping.
The fight in question took place in 2001 when Jackson faced Kazushi Sakuraba. Here is what Jackson said about being asked to take a dive [...]

In a recent interview Quinton “Rampage” Jackson confirmed he will be defending his light heavyweight title this September in London at UFC 75 against Dan Henderson. Here is what Rampage said regarding his upcoming fight while on CBS 2 in LA yesterday:
“I have to fight September 8th in London with the champion of Japan [Dan [...]

Sellout attendance of 14,728 people
Live gate of $4.3 million which is the second biggest UFC live gate ever behind UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz II
Over 3,000 people attended the weigh-ins.
Dan Henderson chose to fight as a light heavyweight in the UFC.
Dana White contradicted Henderson in saying that Rampage and Henderson will both have their titles [...]

In a post-UFC 71 interview Pride welterweight and middleweight champion Dan Henderson stated that his fight with newly crowned UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson will take place sometime in October. Henderson continued to say that he is friends with both Chuck Liddell and Quinton Jackson although he is closer with the latter making their [...]

The deal to sell Pride’s assets to UFC owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta has now been finalized according Sherdog.com. The news comes more than 3 weeks after the sale was supposed to be finalized on May 1. In a pre-UFC 71 call with the media on Thursday UFC President Dana White denied the news.
The status [...]

Aside from the shocking Diego Sanchez news I reported earlier this morning, Dana White also gave us lots of other interesting UFC news to report during the call:

The UFC is apparently in active negotiations with pro wrestler Kurt Angle and commented that he would love to have Brock Lesnar as well.
Anticipates the UFC will have [...]