A day in Dana White’s life is charged with the adrenaline rush of a drag race. He’s going full speed for about 20 hours. If he’s not working or playing cards, his brain is spinning over work ideas and what more he can do to help his surging mixed martial arts business win more fans all over the globe.
COUNTDOWN TO UFC 100
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The historic UFC 100 card at Mandalay Bay on Saturday night is far from the only event of interest for mixed martial arts fans this weekend.
The two men most often credited with making the Ultimate Fighting Championship what it is today are almost always together.
One of the consistencies of the Ultimate Fighting Championship has been the frequency of matching top fighters. After Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta purchased the UFC in 2001, the popularity of mixed martial arts and the UFC began to grow as more fights cards were offered — sometimes as many as 13 pay-per-view cards in one year (2008). Las Vegas Review-Journal MMA reporter Adam Hill ranks his Top 10 UFC pay-per-view cards. Hill’s rankings are based on the action in the Octagon, along with the historical significance of each card.
In the beginning, it wasn’t about a formless wasteland or darkness covering the abyss or mighty winds sweeping over the waters.
An evening of men punching each other in the face in an eight-sided fenced ring has become one of the area’s top business ventures and tourist drivers, according to a new study by a local firm.
Once branded as “human cockfighting” by Sen. John McCain, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has become mainstream in a little more than a decade.
The organization once was banished from pay-per-view TV, but now is available in more than 500,000,000 households worldwide. From a successful reality show on Spike TV to record-breaking pay-per-view numbers, the UFC has arrived as it nears its historic UFC 100 card Saturday at the Mandalay Bay.
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Roger Huerta will return to the Ultimate Fighting Championship in September.
Bobby Lashley has an obvious example to follow as he tries to transition from the world of sports entertainment to professional mixed martial artist.
Diego Sanchez brutalized Clay Guida for the entire first round during the main event of The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale card at the Palms on Saturday night.
While preparing to compete in one of the world’s most violent sports, Diego Sanchez was looking like anything but a ferocious professional fighter.
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic said all the right things in announcing his return to the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Rich Franklin was not happy with the decision he lost to Dan Henderson the last time he fought in Europe.
Rich Franklin got help from an unlikely source in his preparation for today’s UFC 99 main event in Cologne, Germany.
Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has been one of the harshest critics of Kimbo Slice, the street fighter-turned-aspiring professional mixed martial artist.
