Saturday

The best MMA fan ever showed up at UFC 164 on Saturday night

Are you ready to spend two seconds with the best MMA fan ever? Are you sitting down? Don't press play until you're totally ready.

YES. This man was shown before the start of the main card fight between Dustin Poirier and Milwaukee-based fighter Erik Koch. He's wearing a Harley-Davidson shirt, so it's possible he's in town for the motorcycle company's 110th anniversary. Whoever he is, and wherever he's from, he is the most interesting MMA fan in the world. Cagewriter salutes you, kind sir.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/best-mma-fan-ever-showed-ufc-164-saturday-023351266--mma.html

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Friday

UFC misspelled champ Jon Jones? name on UFC 164 graphic

Spelling mistakes happen. Typos happen. But you would think the UFC had enough time to look at this graphic from their UFC 164 broadcast. It's about the line-up of UFC 165, headlined by the UFC's light heavyweight champion. Only problem? He doesn't have an H in his first name.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ufc-misspelled-champ-jon-jones-name-ufc-164-034431443--mma.html

Jason Hollywood Chambers Ryo Piranha Chonan  Dan The Sandman Christison  Logan The Pink Pounder Clark 

Thursday

Sean Spencer: A Dream worth Waiting For

Source: http://www.ufc.com/news/Sean-Spencer-A-Dream-worth-Waiting-For

Luciano Azevedo  Ba Te er  Ryan Bader  Siyar Bahadurzada

The Ultimate Fighter 18 ? Episode 1 Recap

The Ulimate Fighter 18: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate kicked off tonight on FOX Sports 1�following UFC Fight Night 28. This season will feature 16 men’s and 16 women’s bantamweights living together in The Ultimate Fighter house for the first time in the show’s history. The show will see the winning preliminary fighters split into […]

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Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/93504/the-ultimate-fighter-18-episode-1-recap/

Luiz Cane  Dos Caras Jr   Phil Cardella Roan Jucao Carneiro

Monday

Dana White confident FS1 will be widely available by its planned Aug. 17 launch

UFC content will be a significant part of the programming that will be on the new cable channel, Fox Sports 1, which will debut on Aug. 17. The UFC even scheduled a fight card, headlined by Chael Sonnen versus Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, in Boston to appear on FS1's debut.

But as of now, FS1 isn't going to be available to large parts of the nation. According to John Ourand at Sports Business Daily, Fox has not reached a deal with DirecTV, Dish Network or Time Warner Cable to carry FS1.

Ourand notes that Fuel -- which currently carries a significant amount of UFC content that is going to move to FS1 -- will be rebranded Fox Sports 2 and is expected to go live with its new name on Aug. 17, as well.

That could mean that there are systems, Ourand wrote, that have FS2 but not FS1. That would not be good for UFC fans.

Earlier this month, cable systems in the Northeast sent notifications to their subscribers announcing plans to flip Fuel into FS2 by Aug. 17, which is the date when Fox Sports 1 is scheduled to launch.

Several distribution executives have said that Fox has told them to prepare for the change, which would be part of a soft transition around Aug. 17.

This raises the possibility that some distributors may carry FS2 but not FS1 at the beginning. Fox has yet to sign affiliate deals for FS1 with several top distributors, including DirecTV, Dish Network and Time Warner Cable. FS2 is not running into the same distribution problems because Fox does not need to get new affiliate deals to rebrand Fuel because of economics. Fuel costs distributors about 15 cents per subscriber per month, according to data from SNL Kagan. That rate is not expected to change when the channel rebrands to FS2.

UFC president Dana White said via text message that he remains unconcerned and thinks deals will be struck with all major providers by launch date.

"We got Comcast done," White said in a text to Yahoo! Sports, meaning Comcast Cable is set to go with FS1 on the Aug. 17 launch. "That was the one I was worried about, but I think Fuel situation helped there."

In a separate text, he wrote, "I am planning on all of them [DirecTV, Dish and Time Warner] by the 17th."

It's in the UFC's best interests, certainly, for Fox to get as wide of distribution as it can as quickly as it can for FS1 because it has so much content on the network. In addition to the loaded Aug. 17 card, which in addition to Sonnen-Rua also includes Alistair Overeem against Travis Browne, the UFC also has an Aug. 28 show from Indianapolis planned.

Even more significant, though, is the Sept. 4 debut of the reality series, "The Ultimate Fighter." With women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and arch rival Miesha Tate coaching, the show is expected to be of heavy interest to MMA fans. TUF is moving to FS1 from FX.

These things almost always get worked out, but not always without pain. In 2009, DirecTV pulled the plug on Versus (now known as NBC Sports Network) in a contract dispute. Fans were angry they weren't able to get UFC and NHL content when it was off the air.

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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/dana-white-confident-fs1-widely-available-planned-aug-182550367.html

David Heath Delson Heleno Dan Henderson Josh Hendricks

Sunday

ShoFIGHT ?Summer Smash? iPPV set for July 20

Branson, Missouri (USA): Leading Midwest mixed martial arts promotion ShoFIGHT presents “Summer Smash” on Saturday, July 20th, to be held at the Outback Complex on the famed 76 Strip in Branson, Mo., the “LIVE Entertainment Capital of the World.” This outdoor event will broadcast LIVE online on GFL.TV and will showcase the top amateur fighters […]

ShoFIGHT “Summer Smash” iPPV set for July 20 is a post from: MMA Interplay

Source: http://www.mmainterplay.com/mma/shofight-summer-smash-ippv-set-for-july-20-67864/

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