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UFC Will Be Back in Boston; Dana White, With a Wink, Thanks the Union and City Council President

BAD MMA News — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:30:49 +0000

Less than a week ago, UFC president Dana White was starting to question why he would bring his show to Boston after all the hoops and hurdles that his company faced in pulling off UFC Fight Night 26: Shogun vs. Sonnen on Saturday night at the TD Garden. When asked if the issues the company had to deal with affected his thinking about returning, he couldn’t deny it. “I’d be a liar if I said no,” White said during a Monday conference call promoting the event

UFC Will Be Back in Boston; Dana White, With a Wink, Thanks the Union and City Council President – MMA Weekly

Chael Sonnen “Likely” to be Granted License to Fight at UFC Fight Night 26 in Boston

BAD MMA News — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:27:10 +0000

Following numerous hurdles, it appears that Chael Sonnen will get licensed to fight in the UFC Fight Night 26 main event slated for Aug. 17 in Boston. Sonnen is scheduled to face Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in the top fight on the card, which serves as prime time launch programming for the new Fox Sports 1 network. Sonnen faced a couple of hurdles en route to the bout. For one, the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission lacked experience in dealing with therapeutic use exemptions for testosterone replacement therapy, which Sonnen says he requires for medical reasons.

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UFC Plans Call for Seven Events in 2013 and 2014, but Could Face World Cup Soccer Hurdles

BAD MMA News — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:30:58 +0000

With UFC 163: Aldo vs. Korean Zombie on Saturday night, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has held four events so far in 2013 in Brazil, but that’s only slightly past the halfway mark for what the promotion plans to deliver to the South American country this year and next. “The plan is to deliver a total of seven this year. So we’ve got two more to deliver after September,” said UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik. “We’re still working on those dates, October, November, December time frame.” UFC Fight Night 28: Teixeira vs

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Bellator Summer Series and Fight Master Open to Disappointing TV Ratings

BAD MMA News — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:17:48 +0000

Bellator and Spike TV launched the new reality series Fight Master: Bellator MMA on Wednesday night with the Bellator 96 live event serving as lead-in programming. The TV ratings for the night could only be characterized as disappointing in comparison to Bellator’s strong Season 8 showing on Spike TV. Bellator 96 drew an audience of 480,000 viewers for its two hours of live fights, while the one-hour Fight Master premiere averaged 432,000 viewers, according to Spike TV officials. To put that in perspective, Bellator 96’s audience was slightly more than half the average viewership for the promotion’s first season on Spike TV. Bellator Season 8’s live events averaged slightly less than 800,000 viewers per show. Fight Master ’s 432,000 viewers on Spike was well below the final season of its counterpart’s run on the network. The Ultimate Fighter wrapped its run on Spike averaging 1.5 million viewers per episode. Bellator 96 and Fight Master did have significant hurdles to overcome

Bellator Summer Series and Fight Master Open to Disappointing TV Ratings – MMA Weekly