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Tana Ashlee Busting Out of Her Shell to Bring You The Fix Friday Link Dump

Dana White calls Randy Couture vs Lyoto Machida a “done deal”: here.
Our friends a CagePotato attempt to make sense of Scott Coker’s announcements regarding the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament: here.
Royce Gracie says he’s in talks to join the UFC in Brazil card: here.
Watch a video of Brock Lesnar deer hunting: here.
The official UFC 127: Penn […]

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Tuff-N-Uff Ring Girl, Tana Ashlee

Dana White calls Randy Couture vs Lyoto Machida a “done deal”: here.

Our friends a CagePotato attempt to make sense of Scott Coker’s announcements regarding the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament: here.

Royce Gracie says he’s in talks to join the UFC in Brazil card: here.

Watch a video of Brock Lesnar deer hunting: here.

The official UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch poster is revealed: here.

Junior Dos Santos makes no attempt at trash-talking his opposing TUF 13 coach and next match-up in the Octagon, Brock Lesnar: here.

Check out Jon Jones vs Thiago Silva outside of the Octagon: here.

With Nam Phan vs. Leonard Garcia II set for March, Phan wants to ensure the judging is done correctly this time around, so he’s offered the judges his instructional video: here.

More photos of the BabesofMMA “January 2011 Babe of the Month”, Tana Ashlee below:








Dana White Talks N.Y. MMA, Futures for Brock Lesnar and Chael Sonnen

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NEW YORK — MMA Fighting spoke to Dana White at Thursday’s UFC press conference at Madison Square Garden about his hope to hold an event at the “World’s Most Famous Arena” and what needs to be done to make it happen.

White also talked about the possibility of Brock Lesnar competing at WrestleMania, the Jacob Volkmann-President Obama saga and what’s next for Chael Sonnen.

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NEW YORK — MMA Fighting spoke to Dana White at Thursday’s UFC press conference at Madison Square Garden about his hope to hold an event at the “World’s Most Famous Arena” and what needs to be done to make it happen.

White also talked about the possibility of Brock Lesnar competing at WrestleMania, the Jacob Volkmann-President Obama saga and what’s next for Chael Sonnen.

UFC Pledges Two Events to New York Upon State Sanctioning MMA

Filed under: UFC, NewsNEW YORK — Inside one of the world’s most famous sports arenas, the UFC for the first time clearly and publicly stated its intent to help promote mixed martial arts sanctioning in the state of New York and produce an event at Mad…

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Madison Square GardenNEW YORK — Inside one of the world’s most famous sports arenas, the UFC for the first time clearly and publicly stated its intent to help promote mixed martial arts sanctioning in the state of New York and produce an event at Madison Square Garden as soon as possible.

While the Empire State has always been one of the promotion’s biggest targets, it remains one of the last holdouts in the US; 44 of the 48 states with athletic commissions sanction MMA. With a renewed commitment to getting the sport regulated, the UFC hopes to run an event as soon as late 2011, and promised two events in the state within a year of sanctioning.

“I honestly think it’s happening,” said UFC president Dana White, who made the announcement. “Look who’s represented today. All the people we talk to, from politicians to Madison Square Garden and the list goes on and on. Was New York tougher than every other place? Absolutely. But I feel like we’re right there. We’ve done a great job. Ten years of nothing but success and safety and continuing to grow the sport. I think we’re right there in New York. We’re ready to grow the sport and make it happen.”

UFC Can Make New York Economically Viable

UFC held a press conference in New York City’s Madison Square Garden to announce their commitment to hold two annual UFC events in New York, once the sport is regulated in the state. Dana White and Zuffa CEO, Lorenzo Fertitta sat alongside, Jersey’s own Frankie Edgar who is the current UFC Lightweight Champion and […]

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UFC held a press conference in New York City’s Madison Square Garden to announce their commitment to hold two annual UFC events in New York, once the sport is regulated in the state. Dana White and Zuffa CEO, Lorenzo Fertitta sat alongside, Jersey’s own Frankie Edgar who is the current UFC Lightweight Champion and Scott O’Neil, President of Madison Square Garden Sports to reveal their plans for New York and present an in depth economic study they’ve performed which shows the positive impact MMA events would have on the city. A press release from the UFC promotion stated:

The study found that holding two UFC events in the state (one at Madison Square Garden and one in Buffalo) will create roughly $16 million in new spending. Additionally, the study found smaller MMA operators will likely hold events that would bring an additional $4 million. In total, $23 million of annual new spending and hundreds of new jobs will be created in the local economy by regulating MMA.

Lorenzo Fertitta went on to say “We’ve done similar economic studies in major cities such as Boston, Las Vegas and Philadelphia and each showed the substantial positive impact hosting a UFC event has on the local economy. This study shows that by regulating MMA, New York can reap the economic benefits statewide.”
For more information on the economic study performed by Zuffa, go to: MMAFacts.com.

UFC Madison Square Garden Press Conference Video

Filed under: UFCThe UFC still can’t promote a fight at Madison Square Garden, but the promotion will have a press conference there on Thursday afternoon to formally announce its intention to bring the Octagon to America’s most famous sports arena.

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The UFC still can’t promote a fight at Madison Square Garden, but the promotion will have a press conference there on Thursday afternoon to formally announce its intention to bring the Octagon to America’s most famous sports arena.

We’ll have live video of the press conference right here at MMAFighting.com.

UFC President Dana White and co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta will preside over the press conference, where they’ll discuss their plans for an event in New York City — whenever mixed martial arts is finally legalized in New York.

The press conference begins at 2 PM ET and the video is below.

Watch the UFC’s Madison Square Garden Press Conference Live at 2 p.m. ET

("Well…I’m not much of a foot guy, but I guess they’re alright, Mrs. Ryan." / Photo via MMAWeekly)
At 2 p.m. ET today, the UFC will hold a press conference at New York’s Madison Square Garden to formally announce their intent to bring MMA…

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("Well…I’m not much of a foot guy, but I guess they’re alright, Mrs. Ryan." / Photo via MMAWeekly)

At 2 p.m. ET today, the UFC will hold a press conference at New York’s Madison Square Garden to formally announce their intent to bring MMA to the Big Apple as soon as possible. In attendance will be UFC president Dana White, Zuffa co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta, lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, light-heavyweight contender Rashad Evans, and Madison Square Garden Sports president Scott O’Neill.

A new economic impact study is scheduled to be released in the hopes that New York will join the 44 other U.S. states that currently regulate the sport — even though cash doesn’t seem to be a big motivator among MMA’s stubborn critics.

Despite our long history of promoting the "MMA in NY" cause, CagePotato has unfortunately been barred from attending the event due to the whole Arianny Celeste Playboy leak fiasco. Their loss. When the first media question is from some spaz asking if he can sit in Dana’s lap, they’re gonna wish they had some real freakin’ journalists in the building…

The video player is after the jump.

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