Ultimate Fighting Championship, the Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts promotion company, has expanded its global reach in the Asian market with planned MMA fight shows in Macau and Singapore in 2014.
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There was never a bit of hesitation by UFC president Dana White on whether to induct Las Vegan Stephan Bonnar into the organization’s Hall of Fame.
One punch created a new sensation in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and changed the fortunes of three of the organization’s biggest superstars.
Anderson Silva has toyed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight division for seven years. All of that playing finally caught up with him in the main event of UFC 162 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night.
One by one, they stepped up to the mic and peppered Dana White with questions. The president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, the Las Vegas-based MMA fight promotions company, enjoyed swatting the questions over the fence like a big-leaguer in a tee-ball league.
His friends were going out that night, but Dana White chose to stay home.
Chris Weidman, the unbeaten Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight contender, has insisted he would upset longtime champion Anderson Silva since the day their fight was announced.
Anderson Silva has preferred to let his feet and fists do the talking for him. He will look to continue the longest winning streak in UFC history when he puts his belt on the line against Chris Weidman in the main event of UFC 162 at MGM Grand on Saturday night.
Mark Munoz stepped on the scale one day in early January and realized he needed to make a change. He had been suffering from depression following a devastating knockout loss to Chris Weidman last July, and the evidence of the UFC middleweight’s six-month eating binge was staring back at his bloated face.
Presidents of multimillion-dollar sports leagues usually don’t wear jeans with holes, hang out on game day in a Spartan man cave deep inside the bowels of the arena and fire off tweets to fire up fans before the main event.
The past seven times Frankie Edgar stepped into an Ultimate Fighting Championship cage, a world title was on the line.
The first rule of Fight Week: It’s OK to talk about Fight Week.
Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White had a simple response when informed of Tim Kennedy’s claims he could make more money as a trash collector than he does as a UFC fighter.
Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champ, Anderson Silva, soon will tap into his artistic, expressive dimension to expand his brand from the octagon cage to the big screen.
When the more controversial Miesha Tate replaced Cat Zingano as a coach on “The Ultimate Fighter,” the prevailing wisdom was that the increased potential for drama would be great for the show.