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Jose Aldo and Jeremy Stephens may be in for a featherweight clash this summer. Combate is reporting that Aldo and Stephens have agreed to a July 28 match-up in Canada. The report notes that contracts have not been signed yet. Some had linked the bout t…
Jose Aldo and Jeremy Stephens may be in for a featherweight clash this summer. Combate is reporting that Aldo and Stephens have agreed to a July 28 match-up in Canada. The report notes that contracts have not been signed yet. Some had linked the bout to June 23 in Singapore, but apparently that isn’t the […]
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is expanding at the highest rate in company history. The world leader in mixed martial arts (MMA) is no stranger to Canada. When Georges St. Pierre was active, there was no hotter ticket when it came to Canadian sports. UFC 129, headlined by St. Pierre, held the UFC record for highest attendance with 55,724. That record remained intact until UFC 193.
Despite making its presence felt in Canada, the UFC has yet to hold an event in Edmonton. That may change this year. Oilers Entertainment Group CEO Bob Nicholson, spoke to the Edmonton Sun. He revealed he is negotiating with UFC owners WME-IMG to bring a pay-per-view (PPV) card to Edmonton:
“The date hasn’t been confirmed. That’s one of the key things we’re working on,” said Nicholson. “We’re trying to make it a summer to an early fall date. That would be best for our scheduling. But that’s really controlled by their championship bouts that we have to work through.”
Nicholson isn’t just thinking about the UFC slapping together a throwaway card and calling it a day. He’d like to see a title fight at Rogers Place.
“But we are getting close to being able to obtain a UFC (event), which would be huge for us. Hopefully we’ll announce something in the springtime here. That’s what we’re really going after. There’s never been a UFC title fight in Edmonton. They do about 12 to 14 title fights a year and we’d like to get one of those. When it comes to TV numbers, that would be the biggest we’d get.”
The last UFC event to take place in Canada was UFC 206 last month. Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis headlined the card for the interim featherweight championship. The event was held inside the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Over 18,000 fans were in attendance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8vrde1ZMp0
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is expanding at the highest rate in company history. The world leader in mixed martial arts (MMA) is no stranger to Canada. When Georges St. Pierre was active, there was no hotter ticket when it came to Canadian sports. UFC 129, headlined by St. Pierre, held the UFC record for highest attendance with 55,724. That record remained intact until UFC 193.
Despite making its presence felt in Canada, the UFC has yet to hold an event in Edmonton. That may change this year. Oilers Entertainment Group CEO Bob Nicholson, spoke to the Edmonton Sun. He revealed he is negotiating with UFC owners WME-IMG to bring a pay-per-view (PPV) card to Edmonton:
“The date hasn’t been confirmed. That’s one of the key things we’re working on,” said Nicholson. “We’re trying to make it a summer to an early fall date. That would be best for our scheduling. But that’s really controlled by their championship bouts that we have to work through.”
Nicholson isn’t just thinking about the UFC slapping together a throwaway card and calling it a day. He’d like to see a title fight at Rogers Place.
“But we are getting close to being able to obtain a UFC (event), which would be huge for us. Hopefully we’ll announce something in the springtime here. That’s what we’re really going after. There’s never been a UFC title fight in Edmonton. They do about 12 to 14 title fights a year and we’d like to get one of those. When it comes to TV numbers, that would be the biggest we’d get.”
The last UFC event to take place in Canada was UFC 206 last month. Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis headlined the card for the interim featherweight championship. The event was held inside the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Over 18,000 fans were in attendance.
Following UFC 204, the hunt for the next contender to the UFC middleweight title will continue. With four from the top five contenders currently tied up in bookings against each other, current champion Michael Bisping has been looking elsewhere. After winning the belt from Luke Rockhold at UFC 199, ‘The Count’ toyed with the idea
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Following UFC 204, the hunt for the next contender to the UFC middleweight title will continue. With four from the top five contenders currently tied up in bookings against each other, current champion Michael Bisping has been looking elsewhere. After winning the belt from Luke Rockhold at UFC 199, ‘The Count’ toyed with the idea of fighting Georges St-Pierre, before being offered the fight with Dan Henderson. Considering the harrowing KO ‘Hendo’ planted Bisping with in 2009, it’s no wonder the Englishman wanted some revenge. That being said, the decision to make Bisping vs. Henderson 2 led to many sour grapes.
Understandably, the rest of the division was upset that Henderson, ranked at number 14, would receive a title fight. Now that grudge match is complete, ‘The Count’ has been vocal about facing Georges St-Pierre. Shooting down those reports this week were both ‘GSP’ and UFC president Dana White. With UFC 206 in Toronto just begging for one more huge fight, Bisping has called out another fighting legend. Exactly the route Tyron Woodley took after UFC 201, Bisping has called for Nick Diaz to sign the contract.
Calling out former Strikeforce and WEC champion Nick Diaz, Michael Bisping has asked the returning cult hero to sign the contract for a fight at UFC 206. As quoted by MMAFighting.com:
“I’m down to fight ASAP because Dana and the UFC put this in my mind, fighting at 206. So now in my mind I want to fight at 206. I was ready to take the rest of the year off and do nothing and enjoy being the champion and have some time with my kids and go away for Thanksgiving. But then this was put in my mind again and now I want to fight in Toronto. So yeah, if it’s not gonna be GSP, I don’t mind being on the card against somebody else and Nick Diaz is somebody else that moves the needle… His last fight was against Anderson Silvaso he’s fought at 185, and if Nick Diaz wants to do it, I’ll fight Nick Diaz. If anybody wants to do it, I’ll do it.”
“I’ll fight anybody as long as it makes sense business-wise. I’m not gonna risk my reputation and my title against some chump, but if there’s a lot of money on the line, then I’ll do it. And if Nick Diaz wants to go at UFC 206, formally, officially, I invite you to sign the bout agreement. Let’s do it. And then after that, whoever wins more impressively of the top four middleweights- Rockhold, Weidman, Yoel, and Souza, I’ll fight after this. That will happen. 100%. Believe you me, I want to fight Chris Weidman. Out of the four of them – I’ve already beat Rockhold – Weidman is the one I want to fight.”
Asking the rest of the 185-pound contenders this question will likely get you one clear response. Insisting he’s not looking for ‘easy fights,’ Bisping says it’s not up to him to watch over the rest of the division:
“All the other middleweights [are] basically saying I’m looking for easy fights, which is pissing me off because of course Henderson wasn’t the rightful No. 1 contender, the UFC offered me that fight. And Georges St-Pierre isn’t the rightful No. 1 contender but he was the one talking to me for the fight. I’m not out here looking for easy pickings,”
“It ain’t my responsibility to look after the entire UFC roster. I’m looking after Michael Bisping and Michael Bisping’s family.”
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The layoffs promised by the new UFC owners have hit the promotion fast and hard. Following a report that owners WME-IMG would lay off ‘under 15 percent’ of the company’s current employment following their record-setting $4.2 billion purchase of the world’s biggest MMA promotion this summer, the talent industry giant has put into motion a
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The layoffs promised by the new UFC owners have hit the promotion fast and hard.
Following a report that owners WME-IMG would lay off ‘under 15 percent’ of the company’s current employment following their record-setting $4.2 billion purchase of the world’s biggest MMA promotion this summer, the talent industry giant has put into motion a far larger impact on the UFC’s floundering Canadian division.
Word arrived from MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani today (Wed., October 19, 2016) that the new owners laid off roughly 80 percent of the company’s Toronto office, with head man Tom Wright, the UFC Executive Vice President and General Manager for Operations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Wright had been employed by the company since 2010 after leaving the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Wright’s departure comes one day after WME-IMG let go of top senior executives Garry Cook, Marshall Zelaznik, Ken Berger, and Jaime Pollack. The layoffs reportedly affected UFC offices in Las Vegas, Europe, Brazil, Canada, Latin America, and Asia, and could include others before all is done.
According to Helwani, approximately 60-80 overall employees out of the company’s roughly 350 were affected. New ownership has declined to comment on the reporting.
The move brings the future of the UFC’s once-thriving Canadian division into serious question, as Wright’s departure comes during a week when legendary Canadian star Georges St-Pierre revealed that WME-IMG allegedly took a deal he had with former UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta off the table before leading him on without a concrete fight offer. St-Pierre says he’s a free agent, but his employers, who are interestingly the direct competitors of GSP’s own talent agency CAA, insist he’s still under contract and will remain that way.
The promotion clearly missed a golden opportunity to explode back into the Canadian market in a big way with the UFC 206 pay-per-view headed to Toronto in December. St-Pierre headlining it would have most likely all but guaranteed a million-plus buy card, and now the Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson headliner just doesn’t have the same appeal.
In any case, the UFC is about to look a whole lot different heading into 2017.
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For reasons that remain unknown, the UFC is holding a special news conference in Canada today. Lucky for you, we hijacked a feed of the conference for you guys, so the least you can do is join us at noon EST to see what the hell this is all about. Seriously, we don’t want to feel like we kidnapped the Canadian Prime Minister’s son for nothing. Again.
Early speculation seems to be that the press conference will serve as the official announcement of the TUF Nations Finale and/or the rumored bout between Michael Bisping and Tim Kennedy expected to headline said finale on April 16th, but if history is any indication, it’s probably just to inform us that either Kyle Noke or Patrick Cote have been injured and replaced on the show. And just when that fight was starting to gain some real heat (*kicks can*).
Check out a stream of the conference above.
For reasons that remain unknown, the UFC is holding a special news conference in Canada today. Lucky for you, we hijacked a feed of the conference for you guys, so the least you can do is join us at noon EST to see what the hell this is all about. Seriously, we don’t want to feel like we kidnapped the Canadian Prime Minister’s son for nothing. Again.
Early speculation seems to be that the press conference will serve as the official announcement of the TUF Nations Finale and/or the rumored bout between Michael Bisping and Tim Kennedy expected to headline said finale on April 16th, but if history is any indication, it’s probably just to inform us that either Kyle Noke or Patrick Cote have been injured and replaced on the show. And just when that fight was starting to gain some real heat (*kicks can*).
Check out a stream of the conference above.
According to MMAFighting, the Vancouver police department had requested the UFC pay for extra policing for the upcoming UFC 131 event at Rogers Arena. The UFC has denied the request with their Canada Director of.
According to MMAFighting, the Vancouver police department had requested the UFC pay for extra policing for the upcoming UFC 131 event at Rogers Arena. The UFC has denied the request with their Canada Director of Operations, Tom Wright explaining:
“…While we remain supportive of law enforcement in every city we bring shows to, we weren’t prepared to be ‘treated differently’ than other events/concerts/shows (Canucks, Rolling Stones etc). This is a particularly important consideration when ‘incidents’ at UFC events are typically fewer than other big events. As I explained, if I were the Chief I’d be more worried about Canuck fans (celebrating or crying in their beers) than UFC fans.”
The request came after residents apparently complained of “public drinking, rowdy drunks, and public urination” during UFC 115, Vancouver’s first held UFC event. *Note: That shit happens outside my apartment every night.
Police Chief, Jim Chu wanted to take extra precaution and asked for the funding. But we agree with the UFC that this request is a little excessive. I mean, if Paris Hilton can have a nip slip (*see below) and not fear being ravaged by thousands of testosterone high fans, then you’re safe, Vancouver.
And if you still don’t feel like joining the rambunctious UFC crowd, then you can always stay home and have an old fashioned viewing party:
Don’t forget the dip.