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UFC.com Hacked Yesterday In Retaliation For SOPA Support (Update)
If you’ve spent any amount of time on the internet in the past few weeks, you’ve undoubtedly heard endless debates about SOPA and PIPA. Trying to avoid it would be like walking outside and attempting...
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King Mo & Manager Blame Failed Steroid Test On Tainted Supplement, Won’t...
Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal and his manager Mike Kogan believe they’ve figured out what caused Lawal’s positive steroid test. Like many fighters before, King Mo is blaming it on a tainted supplement. On...
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Lorenzo Fertitta Confirms Dos Santos vs. Overeem May 26, Velasquez vs. Mir,...
A case of insomnia led to Lorenzo Fertitta breaking some pretty big news items in an impromptu Twitter Q&A session late last night. Here’s a quick rundown… — Lorenzo confirmed that Junior dos...
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Eddie Alvarez Wasn’t Happy Bellator Wanted Him To Compete In Another Tournament
“I’m definitely not happy with the decision of putting me back into the tournament and having me do all that… I feel like if I went out and I fought Mike Chandler and he just completely dominated, I...
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Lorenzo Fertitta Wants To Know Who You Want To See Shogun Rua Fight
It looks like the UFC is in the process of booking Shogun’s next fight judging by this tweet the big bossman Lorenzo Fertitta just sent out. Give me opponents you want to see for shogun! So who will...
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Bellator Season Six Kicks Off This Weekend; Bjorn Rebney Talks Eddie Alvarez...
Bellator’s sixth season kicks off this weekend with Bellator 60. The good news is for Bellator is they won’t have a single UFC or Strikeforce event to run against for six weeks. The bad news is they...
View ArticleInside MMA: Bjorn Rebney, Carlos Condit, Ian McCall
Inside MMA airs live on HDNet every Monday night at 8pm ET. Inside MMA Archive More segments after the jump. The post Inside MMA: Bjorn Rebney, Carlos Condit, Ian McCall appeared first on MMA Convert.
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King Mo To Address Positive Steroid Test With NSAC On March 27
King Mo finally has a date with the NSAC. MMA Junkie is reporting that Lawal will appear before the Nevada State Athletic Commission in two weeks at a hearing on March 27 to address his positive test...
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Lorenzo Fertitta Feels Like a Women’s Division Can Exist in MMA
If you ask UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, women’s MMA does have a home under the Zuffa umbrella. Fertitta, in a recent interview with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, discussed how he belives the division...
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Lorenzo Fertitta Will ‘Move Mountains’ For ‘UFC 100-Style Card’ This Fall If...
If you didn’t really care before whether or not MMA is legalized in New York this year, you will after you read this quote UFC big bossman Lorenzo Fertitta just gave MMA Fighting. “When we come [to New...
View ArticleMajor UFC Announcement Streams Live at 2pm ET
UFC President Dana White and Director of Canadian Operations Tom Wright make a major announcement regarding the UFC coming to Calgary. The pair are hosting this special press conference at Flames...
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Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney Comments On Eric Prindle-Thiago Santos Situation
Bellator Fighting Championship CEO Bjorn Rebney may not make the same waves across social media sites as UFC president Dana White, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the same hands-on approach as...
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Beginning In 2013, Bellator To Hold Three-Hour Cards On Spike TV
Bjorn Rebney continues to push Bellator Fighting Championship into the mainstream media, as his MMA promotion will move from MTV2 to Spike TV beginning in 2013. Rebney, the CEO for Bellator, told USA...
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Wrestling Superstar CM Punk Discusses Being In Chael Sonnen’s Corner In Brazil
Back when Chael Sonnen was preparing to face Michael Bisping at an event earlier this year, reports of WWE superstar CM Punk being in the corner of Sonnen picked up steam. The card was held in Chicago...
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Former UFC Champion Brock Lesnar Headed Back To The WWE
It appears that you can go home again, as reports say former UFC heavyweight champion and ex-WWE superstar Brock Lesnar has signed a new deal with the wrestling promotion. In a report by the Wrestling...
View ArticleMMA Uncensored Live: King Mo Situation, Mayhem Miller, Bjorn Rebney
From Thursday’s MMA Uncensored Live on Spike TV, host Craig Carton has harsh words for Mike Kogan, an update on King Mo, Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney talks the future of the promotion, and Jason “Mayhem”...
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Bellator Plans To Join Reality TV In 2013 With Move To Spike TV
Bellator Fighting Championships CEO Bjorn Rebney continues to push his company as hard as he can. Next year, Bellator will move from MTV2 to Spike TV, and the fight promotion will also add in a...
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Fedor Emelianenko Set To Return On June 21 For M-1 Global
Former heavyweight king Fedor Emelianenko will seek a third consecutive victory when he returns to action on June 21 in St. Petersburg, Russia. M-1 Global Director of Operations Evgeni Kogan confirmed...
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Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney Has The Focus To Lead His Promotion To New Heights
Bjorn Rebney continues to make a name for himself in the world of MMA, helping push Bellator Fighting Championships into the mainstream media. As CEO for Bellator, Rebney has been the guiding light...
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UFC Has Bellator’s Eddie Alvarez, Hector Lombard In Their Sights
Bellator Fighting Championships has been the home for two of the best non-UFC fighters in the world. Current Bellator middleweight champion Hector Lombard and former Bellator lightweight champ Eddie...
View ArticleWSJ: Dana White Says The UFC Is Bigger Than The NFL Globally
Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta sat down the with Wall Street Journal recently to discuss the rise and continued success of the UFC. It’s most of the same stuff we’ve heard a million times before,...
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Future Remains Uncertain For Bellator’s Eddie Alvarez
Eddie Alvarez wants to fight the best fighters in the world. As a lightweight, the potential matches Alvarez could have if he signed with the UFC include a who’s who of members of the Top-10. However,...
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UFC Canada Operations Manager On Injury-Filled UFC 149: ‘It Happens’
Tom Wright, the UFC’s director of operations for Canada, has heard all the talk concerning the injury-marred UFC 149 event set for later this month. Wright, as he told SportsNet.ca in a recent...
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Bellator Headed Back To New Jersey September
Bellator Fighting Championships will return to what Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney refers to as a “second home” on September 28 with Bellator 74. The card takes place from the Caesars Atlantic City, with...
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Bellator Inks Television Deal With Russian Station
Bellator Fighting Championships continues to push towards becoming a bigger global power. The promotion announced on Tuesday that they will begin filming on Russia 2 in September. Bellator will air...
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Tito Ortiz Gives Plenty Of Credit To Lorenzo Fertitta
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz went through some of the rougher times in MMA. Now that he’s retired – and a member of the UFC’s Hall of Fame – Ortiz is speaking out to help give...
View ArticleUFC Looking To Secure Set Dates For Montreal, Toronto Events
The UFC is growing by the minute in terms of popularity in Canada. Now, they want to make sure Canadian fans know exactly when to expect UFC events to take place. Tom Wright, the UFC’s Director of...
View ArticleBellator CEO Responds To Zoila Gurgel Fight Placement
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney has finally come out and given his reasoning for placing women’s champion Zoila Gurgel on the prelims for this Friday’s Bellator 78 card. Gurgel, the 115-pound champion in the...
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Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney Reveals Secrets To Success In Fortune Magazine
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney may not be as well known as his counterpart, UFC president Dana White, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t working just as hard. Rebney, who has helped build Bellator from the...
View ArticleLorenzo Fertitta Takes Shot At Boxing’s Inability To Pair Manny...
Lorenzo Fertitta, one of the owners of the UFC, took a slight shot at boxing Saturday night following Manny Pacquiao’s loss to Juan Manuel Marquez. For the past few years now, promoters have tried to...
View ArticleShowtime’s VP, Stephen Espinoza, Talks About Rousey’s Move To The UFC
Stephen Espinoza talks about Rousey leaving her first and only network to fight on the big stage with The UFC. The post Showtime’s VP, Stephen Espinoza, Talks About Rousey’s Move To The UFC appeared...
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Bellator Not Letting Paul Daley Compete Outside The Promotion Just Yet
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney informed BloodyElbow.com that Paul Daley has not been given permission to fight outside the promotion yet. Daley, who is dealing with visa issues in his quest to enter the...
View ArticleBjorn Rebney Says Bellator Will Look Into Strikeforce Fighters On...
Bellator isn’t going to jump in head-first and chase after Strikeforce fighters now that the promotion has folded up shop. And, considering the UFC has already signed several of the main fighters from...
View ArticleBellator CEO Discusses Josh Barnett, ‘Rampage’ Jackson Potential Signings
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney knows that he will have a slightly larger bank account to work with now that his promotion is airing on Spike TV. However, that doesn’t mean Rebney is going to go out and sign...
View ArticleBellator Will Put Home-Grown Champions On Display This Evening At Bellator 85
Bjorn Rebney wants all fans – and MMA fighters, as well – to pay special attention to the two world title matches planned for Bellator 85 this evening. The promotion debuts on Spike TV, and the...
View ArticleBjorn Rebney: Bellator Champions Will Fight More Often
One area that Bellator has caught flack in over the years is a lack of title defenses. Well, according to Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney, that will change in 2013. The promotion debuted on Spike TV Thursday...
View ArticleBellator To Feature Heavyweights, Light Heavyweights and Bantamweights During...
Bellator MMA will host the “Summer Series” once again in the coming months, according to Bjorn Rebney, CEO of the promotion. Since switching over to Spike TV at the beginning of the year, Bellator has...
View ArticleUFC Executive Marc Ratner Wants Softer Stance On Marijuana Use
UFC vice president of regulatory affairs Marc Ratner appeared before the Nevada Athletic Commission earlier this week to discuss the use of marijuana by MMA fighters. While Ratner would obviously like...
View ArticleUFC Executive: Regulation Can Limit Number Of Fighter Deaths
UFC executive Tom Wright stated that states, provinces and countries that want to host MMA events need to have regulations put in place. A death in Michigan at an amateur MMA event – in which the sport...
View ArticleBellator CEO Enjoying Benefits To Spike TV, Viacom Partnership
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney knows it has only been one quarter, but the benefits from moving to Spike TV have been grand. The MMA promotion switched from MTV2 to Spike TV beginning this past January,...
View ArticleBellator MMA Adds British Fighters Rob Sinclair, Paul Sass, Martin Stapleton
Bellator MMA is branching out, announcing the acquisitions of three British fighters recently. Rob Sinclair, Paul Sass and Martin Stapleton have all agreed to long-term deals with the promotion. “Our...
View ArticleUFC Channel Set To Begin In Mexico, Latin America
The UFC will begin airing the UFC Channel in Mexico and Latin America soon, the promotion announced via a press release recently. Televisa Networks will distribute the product to 20 Spanish-speaking...
View ArticleUFC Executive Expects ‘Huge Contingent Of Canadians’ In Las Vegas For GSP Fight
Georges St-Pierre has competed in his native country of Canada in each of his last four title defenses, spanning almost three years. The last time GSP didn’t fight in the “Great White North” was 2010...
View ArticleBellator Boss Takes Dig At Chael Sonnen, You Don’t ‘Bark’ Into Title Shots
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney believes his promotion has the most pure way of determining title contenders. So, when someone like Chael Sonnen earns a bout for a title despite coming off a loss, Rebney...
View ArticleBen Askren Can Do What He Pleases, According To Bellator Boss
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Bellator will not try to resign a main event fighter who’s contract is currently up. Yep, just like they did with Eddie Alvarez, Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney is...
View ArticleBjorn Rebney Thinks Tito and Rampage Will Perform Better in Bellator than UFC
Bjorn Rebney, Bellator’s top dog, say that he expects a better performance from Tito Ortiz and Rampage Jackson in Bellator than they gave in The UFC. I hope it all goes well for them; The UFC needs...
View ArticleBjorn Rebney Says Ortiz is Welcome Back
Bjorn Rebney, Bellator’s CEO, says that Tito Ortiz is welcome to return if he feels he can compete safely after he recovers from his neck injury. The post Bjorn Rebney Says Ortiz is Welcome Back...
View ArticleBellator 108 Title Fight: Alexander Volkov vs. Vitaly Minakov
Heavyweight: (c) Alexander Volkov (19-3 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) vs. Vitaly Minakov (12-0 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) The next title fight to take place after the three at Bellator 106 is between two of the top heavyweights...
View ArticleLorenzo Fertitta on New York MMA and GSP
The continuing ridiculous battle of MMA’s imminent legalization in The Empire State rages on, and UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta explains it. He also gives his take on the most recent the drama surrounding...
View ArticleUFC Pushing Product To Digital Platform Internationally In 2014
UFC officials are taking MMA to the digital platform in 2014, as Lorenzo Fertitta confirmed plans to upgrade their current online viewing. Starting with UFC Fight Night 34 from Singapore on January 4,...
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