According to ESPN.com, courtesy of MMAPayout.com, the Ultimate Fighting Championship are currently in talks of negotiating a broadcast deal with Fox Sports network. Several sources have reported that Fox is the leading candidate to reach a deal wi…
According to ESPN.com, courtesy of MMAPayout.com, the Ultimate Fighting Championship are currently in talks of negotiating a broadcast deal with Fox Sports network.
Several sources have reported that Fox is the leading candidate to reach a deal with the UFC, and an agreement could be made by the end of the year.
The news comes after the UFC officially announced a broadcast deal with Fox Sports Latin America last week.
MMAPayout reports that Fox has been interested in featuring mixed martial arts program on its channel that could help generate ratings among the 18-34 demographic. Fox have been in talks with Strikeforce and UFC and could broadcast the organization on Fuel TV, an action sports network featured on Fox.
Fuel TV has already been airing several MMA programs such as “Shark Fights,” “Legend Fighting Championship” and “Punk Payback,” hosted by Bas Rutten, scheduled to debut this fall.
Fuel TV have been seeking MMA content for the last year and hope to expand their male demographic from the 12-to-24 age group to the 12-to-35 age group by the end of this year.
At UFC 133, Rory MacDonald continued his meteoric rise to the top of the welterweight division with a first round thrashing of veteran Mike Pyle. Brian Ebersole also represented the welterweight division well, as he defeated Dennis Hallman in the openi…
At UFC 133, Rory MacDonald continued his meteoric rise to the top of the welterweight division with a first round thrashing of veteran Mike Pyle. Brian Ebersole also represented the welterweight division well, as he defeated Dennis Hallman in the opening stanza of their bout. After having his back taken almost immediately, Ebersole reversed Halmman […]
At UFC on Versus 5, Joseph Benevidez and Eddie Wineland will collide in a bantamweight bout. Benavidez, who is currently riding a two-fight win streak, looks to make it three in a row over Wineland, who is entering the bout off a loss to Urijah Fa…
At UFC on Versus 5, Joseph Benevidez and Eddie Wineland will collide in a bantamweight bout.
Benavidez, who is currently riding a two-fight win streak, looks to make it three in a row over Wineland, who is entering the bout off a loss to Urijah Faber at UFC 128.
Benavidez said he doesn’t understand being matched up with Wineland, but he said he will make his opponent regret accepting the bout.
“You hear all the fighters say they want to fight the best guys out there, and maybe that’s something he wants to do, but I just think it was not a good decision,” Benavidez told Heavy.com.
Benavidez, whose only two losses were to UFC Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz, is rebuilding himself and preparing to earn another shot at the title. Despite collecting two consecutive wins, Benavidez was not slotted into a title eliminator in his next bout and the opportunity was given to Urijah Faber and Brian Bowles, slated for UFC 139 in November.
The Team Alpha Male product currently finds himself in limbo; however, he said he understands why the decision was made.
“I kind of expected that to happen,” he said.
“I mean, they are probably the two more likely prospects when they announced Demetrious (Johnson) to go for the title; I thought that only left Bowles and Faber.”
However, Benavidez said he was motivated when he learned of being challenged by Wineland. He is now determined to earn a win over the former WEC bantamweight champion. In fact, Benavidez has required some assistance from fellow teammate, Faber.
“It’s one thing watching video and seeing what he does, seeing his tendencies. It’s a whole other thing having someone who has been in there in the heat of battle with the guy; knows exactly how strong he feels, knows how he feels in this situation; that’s a huge advantage,” he said.
And in addition to working with Faber, Benavidez hopes to succeed in defeating Wineland as a result, and make him pay.
“I don’t know if he thought that he gave Urijah a good fight—so maybe this fight would be easy–I don’t really know, but I can’t wait to go out there and show him that he made the wrong choice there,” Benavidez said.
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At UFC 133, Rory MacDonald continued his meteoric rise to the top of the welterweight division with a first round thrashing of veteran Mike Pyle.Brian Ebersole also represented the welterweight division well, as he defeated Dennis Hallman in the openin…
At UFC 133, Rory MacDonald continued his meteoric rise to the top of the welterweight division with a first round thrashing of veteran Mike Pyle.
Brian Ebersole also represented the welterweight division well, as he defeated Dennis Hallman in the opening stanza of their bout. After having his back taken almost immediately, Ebersole reversed Halmman and blasted the speedo-wearing veteran with elbows.
With UFC 133 in the books, let’s see if either of these two rising contenders did enough to break into the top 10 of the welterweight division.
Alistair Overeem may be the 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix champion and the former Strikeforce heavyweight champion, but he has still not proven himself to be a top heavyweight. On June 18, in his opening -round match of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Pr…
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According to ESPN.com, courtesy of MMAPayout.com, the Ultimate Fighting Championship are currently in talks of negotiating a broadcast deal with Fox Sports network.