Friday, June 17, 2011
by Sherdog.com Staff
Jorge Masvidal isn’t certain a win over K.J. Noons will earn him a Strikeforce lightweight title shot, but he’ll be fighting Saturday with the expectation that a crack against champion Gilbert Melendez is on the line.
“I didn’t have Dana White tell me that or nothing, but that’s what they’ve been [...]
by John Morgan and Dann Stupp on Jun 15, 2011 at 4:45 pm ET
DALLAS – The next challenger to Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez’s title likely will come from Saturday’s “Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum” event.
But it won’t necessarily be the K.J. Noons (10-3 MMA, 2-1 SF) vs. Jorge Masvidal winner (21-6 MMA, 2-0 SF).
While that [...]
by Dann Stupp on Jun 14, 2011 at 12:05 pm ET
After a lower-than-usual number for UFC 130, ratings for Spike TV’s “UFC Prelims” special were up sharply for this past weekend’s UFC 131 event.
The one-hour broadcast peaked with nearly 1.8 million viewers, and overall, scored a 1.0 household rating an average audience of 1.6 million [...]
by Dann Stupp on Jun 14, 2011 at 8:20 am ET
Jorge Masvidal (21-6 MMA, 2-0 SF) and opponent K.J. Noons (10-3 MMA, 2-1 SF) both know they have a tough fight ahead of them at Saturday’s “Strikeforce: Werdum vs. Overeem” event.
The hard-hitting sluggers, who are cut from the same cloth, kick off the event’s Showtime-televised [...]
When Loretta Hunt began reporting on mixed martial arts fights in 2001, the women’s washroom at events had all the action of an abstinence convention in Las Vegas.
Today, the sport’s veteran female journalist says she’s lucky if the lineup doesn’t snake all the way out the door.
In what is considered the fastest growing sport in [...]
June 7, 2011
MMA Mania reports Dana White made an appearance at the annual video game convention, E3 Expo 2011, to announce a partnership with Microsoft in which the UFC PPVs will be available via XBox Live.
Although no date for the start of the service was announced, the price will be about the same as purchasing [...]
by Dann Stupp on Jun 07, 2011 at 2:15 pm ET
The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale, which aired this past weekend on Spike TV, scored a 1.32 household rating and an average audience of 1.8 million viewers.
Although regular-reason ratings for “TUF 13″ were down sharply, the live finale nearly matched those for the TUF 11 Finale [...]
by Mike Whitman (mwhitman@sherdog.com)
Gina Carano will not compete on June 18 at Strikeforce “Overeem vs. Werdum.”
Strikeforce executive Scott Coker announced the news during a Tuesday conference call, revealing that Carano failed her pre-fight medical examination and will be unable to fight at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. Details regarding the nature of Carano’s medical [...]
by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Jun 07, 2011 at 8:25 am ET
Martin Kampmann’s injury and subsequent withdrawal from this month’s UFC on Versus 4 card has resulted in a lineup shakeup.
Kampmann’s original opponent, John Howard (14-6 MMA, 4-2 UFC), now fights welterweight replacement Matt Brown (11-10 MMA, 4-4 UFC). And Brown’s original opponent on the card, [...]
by Dann Stupp on Jun 01, 2011 at 11:50 am ET
This past weekend’s UFC 130 “UFC Prelims” special on Spike TV garnered a 0.9 household rating and an average audience of just 1.3 million viewers.
Spike TV officials today emailed the figures to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
The special, which aired this past Saturday prior to UFC’s main-card pay-per-view [...]
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