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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

Spike TV adds GLORY kickboxing to its combat sports programming lineup

BAD MMA News — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:30:00 +0000

Spike TV, which has been in the MMA business since 2005, now will add kickboxing to its arsenal. The cable channel on Thursday announced a deal with kickboxing promotion GLORY Sports International to air events on select Saturday nights starting this fall. The multiyear deal will see the network broadcast two-hour primetime events, Spike and GLORY said. GLORY got its start in 2006 in Holland as Ultimate Glory. But in its current incarnation, the promotion began staging events in mid-2012

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Spike TV adds GLORY kickboxing to its combat sports programming lineup – MMA Junkie

Setanta Sports will air 30 live UFC events in Ireland starting Aug. 1

BAD MMA News — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:20:00 +0000

The UFC will return to Setanta Sports in Ireland, officials on Monday announced. This past month, the UFC announced a deal with a new U.K. and Irish television partner, BT Sport, which will launch Aug. 1 once the UFC’s current deal with ESPN UK runs out. Monday’s announcement includes two new BT Sport channels and ESPN added to the Setanta Sports package in Ireland, which means satellite subscribers to the pack will have access to 30 live UFC events.

Setanta Sports will air 30 live UFC events in Ireland starting Aug. 1 – MMA Junkie