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The Fight Network, the Canada-based combat sports channel,
announced Tuesday they are making their first moves to enter the American market. To this end, The Fight Network announced the appointment of TwoBlueRhino (TBR) as the company's U.S. Affiliate Sales and Marketing agent. Nory LeBrun, TBR's President/Founder, will act as The Fight Network's Executive Vice-President of U.S. Affiliate Sales and Marketing.
LeBrun's main duty will be negotiating and gaining clearances with the various cable companies and satellite providers that make up the patchwork that is the US non-network landscape. Satellite providers may be the first step, as these clearances are generally easier to negotiate vs cable providers.
The Fight Network targets reaching 40 million subscribers in the U.S. over the next three years as part of its overall objective of reaching 100 million homes worldwide by 2012.
The Fight Network's offerings include Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Boxing, Wrestling and Kickboxing and theme-related entertainment. They may need to amend their offerings for the US market, as they will have a hard time lumping in their professional wrestling programming with their other combat programming for the US audience and maintaining legitimacy.
Written by admin on June 11th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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As there was
much discussion online about
our listing of the five most viewed MMA fights of all time (domestic), we want to do a quick follow-up with a look at the top five most watched fights in Japan:
1. KEN KANEKO VS. CHARLES "KRAZY HORSE" BENNETT 27.7 RATING (PRIDE 2005) - 35.2 million
2. RULON GARDNER VS. HIDEHIKO YOSHIDA 25.9 RATING (K-1 2004) - 32.9 million
3. HIDEHIKO YOSHIDA VS. NAOYA OGAWA 25.5 RATING (PRIDE 2005) - 32.4 million
4. KAZUSHI SAKURABA VS. YOSHIHIRO AKIYAMA 25.0 RATING (K-1 2006) - 31.75 million
5. KID YAMAMOTO VS. ISTAVAN MAJOROS 25.0 RATING (K-1 2006) - 31.75 million
-Courtesy of
Dave Meltzer at Yahoo. Thanks to reader Duncan Lamb for bringing this to our attention.
Written by admin on June 11th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Throw another name in the mix of possible fighters who might be able to headline a stadium show for the UFC. Dana speaks with the
Lancashire Telegraph.
"He (Michael Bisping) looks better every time he is out," he said. "And it would be great to bring a Bisping title fight to a football stadium in England."
Promoter promoting or legitimate business move for the future? Who can tell? If Anderson Silva moves up to 205 as rumored the bout would be an infinitely easier sell to the British public.
Written by admin on June 9th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Attendance for the card was 15,327 according to
TSN.com. Most media reports are pegging the show as a sellout. More information on the gate when we receive it.
MMAJunkie.com reports Thiago Alves, Kevin Burns, Matt Wiman and Thiago Tavares each earned $50,000 "fight night" bonuses for their performances at UFC 85. The bonuses are $25,000 less than UFC 84 bonuses, but that is to be expected with most overseas cards and Fight Night cards having a lower bonus threshold. There was actually an increase from their last UK card, UFC 80 in Newcastle, which had bonuses of
$35,000 .
Written by admin on June 8th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Maximum Fighting Championship (MFC), a mixed martial arts based out of Canada, issued a
press release today summarizing the consummation of a deal with The Fight Network to air MFC programming. The deal includes the broadcast of eight previously unaired MFC cards as well as the next three MFC events, including coverage of the weigh-ins beginning with MFC 17: Hostile Takeover on July 25th at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton.
This distribution deal along with MFC's contract with HDNet provides a strong television base for the promotion and moves them to the forefront of the Canadian MMA scene. With the recent dissolution of Hardcore Championship Fighting, there are few competitors for the MFC on a national level, with Stephane Patry's TKO promotion out of Montreal being the only other major player of note.
The MFC is another promotion that seeks to rise above a local promotion status to that of a regional power. Strikeforce is an example of one such promotion that made the leap, with others like Adrenaline MMA looking to do much the same. With co-promotion increasingly being seen as a model of the future, these strong regional promotions will be key in providing sufficiently large gates to make this model possible. The Shamrock-Le fight is a prime example of this, with Scott Coker's local promotional expertise being key in doing over a million dollars at the gate for that fight.
Written by admin on June 6th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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