Fighters Only

Issue 058

January 2010

82,000,000

Number of homes that receive Fox Sports Net. Bellator Fighting Championships recently announced an agreement to televise its second and third seasons live on FSN. The deal covers 24 weeks (two 12-week seasons) in 2010.

35-40%

During a recent interview with Bloomberg’s Greg Miles, UFC President Dana White estimated that anywhere between 35–40% of the UFC’s audience are women.

23

Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my Shepard; I shall not want: Worn on the lower part of the left leg of Anthony Johnson’s shorts. When his grandfather (who raised him) collapsed at their home, his grandmother read Psalm 23 while waiting for the ambulance. Morris Johnson passed away, and at the funeral the preacher quoted the passage despite not knowing Anthony’s grandmother’s earlier actions.

75

According to Compustrike, Cain Velasquez landed 75 more strikes than Ben Rothwell in a dominating effort at UFC 104. Velasquez took Rothwell down four times and battered him with 82 strikes while getting hit just seven times.

6

Number of MMA events that took place in the month of November from the big MMA promotions: UFC, WEC and Strikeforce. UFC 105 was on Spike on the 14th, UFC 106 was on pay per view one week later. WEC 44 took place between the two UFC events. Strikeforce’s Challengers series was on the 6th and the 20th while the promotion’s CBS debut was on November 7th. Talk about a great month of MMA!

250

Approximate number of fighters currently under contract with the UFC. Zuffa gathered them together for a series of seminars about behavior as a professional, financial planning, dealing with the media, the intricacies of rules and so on.

3

Marius Zaromskis earned his third straight head-kick stoppage when he dropped Myeon Ho Bae at Dream 12. After the shin to the neck, announcer Michael Schiavello yelled, “We can do no wrong you and I, me commentating and you fighting. Go sunshine! You’ve done it again.”

TAPOLOGY'S BUZZ RANKINGS

10

According to Tapology’s buzz rankings, a measure of fan interest and activity, TUF 10 (which began airing in September) was good to Kevin ‘Kimbo Slice’ Ferguson. From the August to September rankings, he was up ten spots and was number one overall.