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UFC’s annual Super Bowl weekend card shifts from Las Vegas to Newark in 2014

BAD MMA News — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:50:00 +0000

LAS VEGAS – The UFC’s 10-year run of Super Bowl weekend pay-per-view cards in its home city of Las Vegas apparently will come to an end this winter. The promotion will touch down at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., for a show on Feb. 1, 2014. Super Bowl XLVIII takes place the following day at MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford. The announcement came as part of a FOX Sports 1 promotional video following a question-and-answer session with FOX analyst Jay Glazer at the UFC Fan Expo in Las Vegas. UFC officials could not immediately confirm to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) a working event number for the card. The video teased several major sports events for the new FOX Sports 1 cable network that will take place during the week leading up to the Super Bowl, including a college basketball invitational at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a Golden Boy boxing event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and, as the voiceover said, “Saturday night in primetime, it’s the main event – the UFC live from the Prudential Center, all leading to Super Bowl XLVIII from MetLife Stadium, live on FOX.” Although specific broadcast plans for the card were not announced, the event is likely to be a pay-per-view with prelims on FOX Sports 1 leading into the main card. Assuming a pay-per-view, it could wind up being UFC 169

UFC’s annual Super Bowl weekend card shifts from Las Vegas to Newark in 2014 – MMA Junkie

UFC Fight Week Schedule Kicks Off Wednesday, Leads Up to UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman

BAD MMA News — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:30:35 +0000

With UFC 162 just around the corner, the UFC and City of Las Vegas are getting ready to celebrate with UFC Fight Week, presented by Ultimate Poker. From July 3-6, some of the hottest locations around Vegas will host UFC themed events filled with lots of fighter appearances. The full schedule of events is listed below. Fans on Twitter are encouraged to join in on the excitement by following @UFC and using the hashtag #UFCFightWeek. Special giveaways and contests, including an Ultimate Poker scavenger hunt with a grand prize Harley-Davidson, will also be announced via the UFC’s Twitter throughout the week. Event details are available at UFC.com/FightWeek . *All times PT; Fighters and talent subject to change. Wednesday, July 3 1 p.m.

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USA TODAY: For Vegas, UFC Fight Week could be a $150 million jackpot

BAD MMA News — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:30:00 +0000

(This story appeared in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) LAS VEGAS – The UFC’s Fourth of July plans include a week-long slate of fan-driven activities that is expected to generate more than $150 million for the city of Las Vegas. Next week’s schedule, which includes a pool party with UFC octagon girls at luxury hotel Aria, a free concert at downtown’s Fremont Street Experience, meet-and-greet opportunities throughout the city and a two-day UFC Fan Expo, is centered around one of the promotion’s biggest events of the year, “UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman,” on July 6 at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Nevada-based analytics firm Applied Analysis estimates past UFC Fight Week events have generated more than $140 million each in economic impact for Las Vegas, and UFC officials promise an even bigger extravaganza this time. “We’re sending in twice as many fighters as we’ve ever had for an event,” UFC President Dana White told USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “Anybody who’s been before knows you go in and there’s all kinds of different distributors of MMA products and everything MMA, plus you have so many different fighters there

USA TODAY: For Vegas, UFC Fight Week could be a $150 million jackpot – MMA Junkie