Dan Miller fundraising for sons life-saving treatment

UFC middleweight Dan Miller is seeking donations to help sufferers of polycystic kidney disease, a condition that required his infant son, Danny Jr, to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant.

The Miller family, which includes UFC 155lb’er Jim, set up the Daniel James Miller Foundation to cover the near $100,000 expenses of the operation, now paid for by UFC bosses Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta, and to continue fundraising endeavors for other families. To donatevisit danieljamesmillerfoundation.wordpress.com

View live UFC PPVs in your hand

A new UFC phone app will allow Android users to watch live UFC pay-per-view events wherever they are. Available now, the UFC TV app is free to download and boasts live streaming of press conferences and weigh-ins as well as countdown shows, UFC Fight Library, news and a fighter index. Users will still have to pay full price to stream pay-per-view events direct to their handset but can switch between English, Spanish, red corner and blue corner audio and video, plus score fights in real time with other users. For more information visit the Android Market and UFC.com.

UFC vet Frank Trigg is love guru

Former UFC welterweight number-one contender Frank Trigg is now the author of a relationships and dating advice blog for women called Ask Trigg. The 21-9 ‘Twinkle Toes’ has “dated over 300 women” and has the experience of three marriages under his belt. He has already offered his expertise on topics such as finding Mr Right and what men want during courtship. Trigg says: “Let’s face it, what men say and how women interpret it is usually totally different. Through Ask Trigg, I can help the ladies better understand what the men in their lives are trying to say.” You can read Frank Trigg’s advice, or ask him a question, at prommanow.com.

Paint covered blood before UFC Fox broadcast

Eagled-eyed ringside observers at the UFC’s historic Fox event in November spotted an unusual, though smart, practice: production staff painting over blood marks on the Octagon canvas. Before the evening’s main event of Cain Velasquez vs Junior Dos Santos went live across the world to millions of viewers, and around 5.7 million pairs of eyes in the US, the unpleasant ichor was covered up by a team of staff with a spray gun. The gory stains could have easily turned off unfamiliar onlookers tuning into their first UFC experience and as a result steps were taken to ensure the Octagon floor was pristine. There was no repeat of the behemoth UFC 100 pay-per-view transmission where some new observers were left queasy when the first bout of the live card was played out on a claret-covered canvas.

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