It didn’t take long for news outlets and fans to toss around the biggest news in MMA so far this year. Zuffa LLC, the company that owns the UFC, has acquired the biggest competitor to the UFC in MMA, Strikeforce. In an interview with MMA Fighting…
It didn’t take long for news outlets and fans to toss around the biggest news in MMA so far this year. Zuffa LLC, the company that owns the UFC, has acquired the biggest competitor to the UFC in MMA, Strikeforce. In an interview with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, UFC president Dana White confirmed that Strikeforce […]
Anderson Silva vs Vitor Belfort Another Brazilian battle here with Belfort who has been out of the UFC for years now. Hasn’t been in since I think he accidentally sliced Randy Couture’s eyelid with the tip of his glove and that was his comeback period. Before that Belfort fought in the early UFC pre-Zuffa. Since […]
Anderson Silva vs Vitor Belfort
Another Brazilian battle here with Belfort who has been out of the UFC for years now. Hasn’t been in since I think he accidentally sliced Randy Couture’s eyelid with the tip of his glove and that was his comeback period. Before that Belfort fought in the early UFC pre-Zuffa.
Since then Belfort has been messing people up in other organizations like 2 event promotion, Affliction, as well as Cage Rage. Some of Belfort’s notable losses include Alistair Overeem in his earlier days and 1 time in Overeem’s larger days. Belfort has lost only to top name opponents and the list of opponents he has beaten is not the top of the heap, however, he has always beaten these guys in incredibly fast fashion.
It sounds like I’m just gunning for a Belfort win. I’m not. Just pointing out because most people might not even know who Vitor Belfort is. This is probably one of the top 2 tests Anderson Silva has ever faced.
Anderson is going to want to stick to the low kicks particuarly his front knee kicks as any high kicks are likely to be met with Belfort punches. However, Belfort can be stifled quite easily. Anyone who has wrestled him in his past has caused problems. Anderson unfortunately is an opponent that fits into Belfort’s strengths.
With the odds at Intertops showing -300 for Silva and +220 for Belfort. With this setup, I like Vitor Belfort for the win.
Remember last year when a pirate hacked the San Francisco Chronicle’s website and got a link to his illegal UFC 121 stream stickied on the top of the main page for the newspaper’s website?
Well it looks like a fellow stream hawker one-upped his SFC adv…
Well it looks like a fellow stream hawker one-upped his SFC advertising cohort.
According to a cease and desist letter sent to Google on December 10, 2010 by MiMTiD Corporation acting on behalf of Zuffa, the owner of WatchUFCVideos.com was a bit more industrious.
According to the document, he employed the services of the pay-per-click advertising services Google Syndication, Google Doubleclick, ?atdmt.com, doubleclick.net, fastclick.net, linksynergy.com and overture.com to promote his non-licensed paid stream for UFC 124 on various websites Google paired his site with using its "super secret algorithm." He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for the UFC’s pesky broadcast partner Spike TV whose site was the most prominent one watchufcvideos.com’s ad appeared on.
(Video courtesy Vimeo/MMANews.se)
Our Swedish friends from MMANews.se caught up with Chuck Liddell following the UFC’s announcement yesterday that "The Iceman" retired and effective immediately would be taking on the role of Executive …
Chuck attempted to explain his role as diplomatically as he could from what little details he had been given about the job, but the iconic UFC fighter admitted he wasn’t quite sure what he would be doing from day to day.
"Well, we’re gonna get more into the details of it, but it’s business development, so I’m gonna be working with all the new projects and different things trying to help and promote the sport and the UFC. I’m gonna be doing that. I need something. I’m competitive and I need something to keep me driven. I need something to go after and do. I think this is probably the best way that I can keep continuing to grow the sport."
(Dana wasn’t kidding when he said he was going to shut down the Internet.)
As part of its ongoing effort to snuff out the unauthorized and illegal use of its intellectual property, the UFC’s parent company, Zuffa LLC. has issued a cease and desis…
(Dana wasn’t kidding when he said he was going to shut down the Internet.)
The move however could backfire on the UFC for at least the time being while Google’s legal team decides what to do, as the letter lists all of the sites that host the streams and videos, providing potential pirates with the means to steal from the company.
According to sources I’ve spoken to, the company has recently begun issuing similar letters to websites that use unlicensed copies of Getty Image photos from the UFC website, regardless of whether or not attribution is given. A likely next step could be to order Google to stop linking to sites guilty of the infraction.
I’m not a proponent of piracy in any way shape or form, but if Zuffa takes legal action against Google and the search engine counters by removing all search terms relating to the UFC and it’s fighters, it wouldn’t be great for the company.
Looks like UFC Heavyweight, Roy Nelson has been contracted under Roy Jones Jr.’s Square Ring, Inc. throughout his entire UFC career including his time on TUF 10. The Zuffa legal team is looking into the matter and UFC President, Dana White plans to put Nelson’s fight plans on hold “until the matter is resolved.”
Nelson […]
Looks like UFC Heavyweight, Roy Nelson has been contracted under Roy Jones Jr.’s Square Ring, Inc. throughout his entire UFC career including his time on TUF 10. The Zuffa legal team is looking into the matter and UFC President, Dana White plans to put Nelson’s fight plans on hold “until the matter is resolved.”
Nelson who didn’t seem to be aware of the fine print on his contract with Roy Jones Jr. has taken to his Twitter account to address the situation and how he plans to deal with it:
“Trying to do some non-MMA related work just in case this fighting stuff doesn’t work out, I need to start the James (Toney) thing. Just pick fights and then get paid, then have the IRS look into my independent contract status.”
“There’s organizations that are locking these guys up to the old-school boxing contracts,” White said. “The contracts that King and those guys were doing back in the 60s, 70s and 80s where they have options on top of their options – so your contract never ends with these guys.
“These are the kinds of contracts that some of these guys are signing in these other organizations out there that some of these MMA websites go, ‘Oh, stick up for these guys, they’re the small guys.’ The small guys are the guys that are really [expletive] the fighters.”
Yet, MMAJunkie reports on Nelson’s last fight with Roy Jones Jr.’s Square Ring, Inc.: “According to the Florida State Boxing Commission, Nelson earned $30,000 for his efforts.”
In his UFC 117 bout against Junior Do Santos, Nelson earned a $15,000 purse. Now this “MMA website” isn’t trying to argue who the bad guys are, but there’s a lot more for MMA fighters to consider, read and UNDERSTAND before signing any contract.
Remember last year when 
