Author: MMA Fighting Newswire

SB Nation’s Luke Thomas gives a recap of boxing’s mega event between Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and Canelo Alvarez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather earned a majority decision over Alvarez, although the scores do not reflect the reality of Mayweather’s dominant victory. In the co-main event, Danny Garcia proved he is the best 140-pound fighter alive by beating Lucas Matthysse in a hard-fought unanimous decision.

SB Nation’s Luke Thomas and Showtime’s Paulie Malignaggi break down the top storylines for Saturday night’s Mayweather vs. Canelo fight card, including the main event bout between Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. Also, they take a look at the co-main event – Lucas Matthysse vs. Danny Garcia.

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Dana White answered questions from FOX Sports and fans during Thursday’s google hangout. The UFC president discussed TUF 18, UFC 165, Nick Diaz, his upcoming acting performance on ‘The League,’ and much more.

After the TV ratings were released for The Ultimate Fighter and UFC Fight Night 28, UFC president Dana White sent MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani a statement. Check out White’s statement in its entirety below.

We were #1 on all of cable with M18-34 and M18-49. We also beat the US Open and the Detroit vs Red Sox MLB game. This is all part of the building process. We’ve made a commitment to work with FOX to build this network.  If you look at all of the other networks we’ve ever been on we consistently pull strong ratings.  The first time we put our prelims on FX we pulled 880K viewers and it grew, depending on the fight, up to 1.9 million viewers for UFC 156. Also, the TUF season with Carwin and Big Country averaged 822K viewers then Jones vs Sonnen averaged 1.3 million viewers. We currently hold the top 4 most watched telecasts on FS1 since the network launched.  To be honest, our Prelim and Fight Night numbers weren’t bad considering we started on the west coast at 2pm in the afternoon on a Wednesday. The most important thing is last night’s fights were awesome and this season of TUF is great. Yes, we didn’t pull the 1 million + but we will. But, we also fucked up last night by not starting the main event later so that we could get a live lead into TUF. The bottom line is FOX couldn’t be happier with the UFC and the ratings we’re pulling. And we couldn’t be happier with the way we’ve been treated by the network.

Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate discussed the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter on Thursday, Aug. 15 at the AMC Loews Boston Commons 19. Find out why Rousey picked No. 1 vs. No. 1 fight, why Tate made some of her team selections, the early mind games, why Rousey didn’t talk to White during the fights, and more.

Dana white, Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate discussed the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter on Thursday, Aug. 15 at the AMC Loews Boston Commons 19. Find out their thoughts on the upcoming season, what Rousey asked the producers to remove, what caused White to “flip out” before the show, and much more.