Fresh of a major deal with Inner Mongolia Television, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) today announced a new multi-faceted television agreement in Mexico with Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., the world’s largest Spanish-speaking media company.
Grupo Televisa will launch Televisa Deportes Network (TDN), a new national sports network broadcast on cable and satellite households in Mexico and in countries in Latin America, making it the first television network in Mexico to air UFC live events and flagship programming.
In addition, Grupo Televisa will air a nationwide broadcast of UFC 100 on Saturday, July 11, starting at 10pm Central Time on Channel 9, one of its free television networks in Mexico.
From UFC President Dana White:
“I’ve said for years that we would love to bring the UFC to Mexico, some of the greatest fighters in history are from Mexico, and the fans there are among the most passionate and loyal in all of sports. We are honored that Grupo Televisa will launch TDN with UFC live events and programs, and that UFC will now be available to our fans in Mexico, starting with Channel 9’s free broadcast of UFC 100 on July 11.”
TDN’s UFC schedule will consist of live UFC Fight Night events, UFC Countdown shows, as well as the weekly series Guerreros del UFC, a Spanish-language compilation show featuring some of the greatest bouts in UFC history.
With this new deal, the UFC can now capitalize on the popularity of MMA fighters of Mexican descent like Diego Sanchez, Leonard Garcia and Miguel Torres, who are steadily becoming household names south of the border.
In addition, they can ride some of the free publicity that Bellator Fighting Championships generated when the promotion debuted on ESPN Deportes earlier this Spring.
The Ultimate Fighter reality show is currently a hot ticket in Mexico courtesy of DirecTV, and no question the UFC will be looking to hold a live event from Mexico in 2010 and beyond.
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probably be safer to host a ufc event in iraq… mexico = war zone
Why does everyone else get these events for free? Why am I paying 50 bones a show and these Mexicans get it free? And UK.
That was my first thought as well…….
brutal…isn’t 55 bucks or 54.99!!
Because Dana is a liar and we are actually the hardcore loyal fans. We get shitty fight nights and all these other countries get free views of the PPV fights because they need to grow the fan base in these countries. BS I tell you.
It’s $50 for now. Maybe it’s like crack. You get the first few tastes are for free and then once you’re hooked you start paying. Business investment I guess. The takeover has begun!
I was going too ask the same question , havent missed one event since UFC 66 and have gotten all the ones in HD that have been offered for $54.95 which is around $1500 for about 30 events , I might be overshooting by a few cause I didnt wanna count the free ones , but its been about 4-5 I think..
Ive also attended UFC 71 , 74 , 86 and UFN 18.. And all those Vegas trips were about $2k each , signed poster from each event is $500 ( $100 for the ones at UFC 71 , 74 and UFN 18.. The UFC 86 posters were $200 )
Why not reward me rather then some guy that has never spent a penny on a UFC .. When ive spent over 4k since Dec 06 ..
They get free health care here, free social security here, etc. Why not free UFC too?
they’re all fighting to get out of mexico and dana is fighting to get into mexico
not true anymore… stats show that more mexicans are crossing back into mexico than crossing into america… in this economy no one has money to shell out to the aliens to mow their lawns and such, and with any luck the government will start cracking down on all the illegal workers in america so that we can get some jobs back and keep wages at a decent rate… while this is probably our own fault for letting ourselves get too fat and lazy to do manual labor jobs and giving them to illegal aliens, we are definitely in a time of need and many americans would be willing to take these jobs!
I sense a bunch of racist trailer trash here.
I would love for brendan to call cain velasquez and alien to his face.
I would also pay to see him work in a field and mowing lawns. lol
The gov needs to crack down on the employers that are knowingly hiring illegals at about a third of the rate of legal Americans. Of course, they won’t do that. That cunt Pelosi wants to legalize them all so she has more of a voting base.
Natas, what the hell is racist about being opposed to 20 million, illegals being here, driving down wages and sucking up social services that legal residents and citizens are expected to pay for with depressed wages?
natas – get your sh*t straight man…
LMAO!!! PW if he responds to that intelligently I’ll eat everything thats fallen behind my desk
Muy bueno senior Holland!
Is this site messed up today for any else? It looks really weird and there aren’t any ads.
Didn’t even notice till you pointed it out, but I don’t have any ads either, weird.
good on my end
There are ads in other threads, just not this one, strang……..
*strange. WTF is wrong with me 2day?? Normally I spell very well, not 2day.
lol, the name of the article made me laugh.
U-F-Si actually translates as U-F-Yes. Funny one.
the picture above is the place de la concorde in paris, if I’m not mistaken
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You are mistaken. That’s Mexico City.
-JH
You are mistaken, it’s the Angel on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. You should check out the view of it from Chapultepec.
As usual good romos Jesse!A little bit low on the qual,but nice concept!
paseo de reforma mexico city
Its free there but u need cable tv to get televisa im moving there in december and the warzone thing it depends were u are living there mainly juarez and tijuana and a few othera but I tell mex panocha is the best they get freaky I amo mi a freak and u know this mane
War
Brock
Gsp
Bisbing
Bonnar
Fitch
Well a orale paz weys look up chingo bling funny as mex repping houston
im mexican. televisa is free for everyone here in mexico… the problem with ufc 100 free is that here we dont have mma comentators, we only have box and wrestling (lucha libre) so its like you get ufc 100 hosting by football comentators… plz give some respect to the mexican people, we dont have war like you people think, its funny to me that you think everybody in mexico have a gun and kill each other jajaja it depends on the area that you live… its like saying the americans are only white trash people or just foking niggas and everybody knows thats not true…
thank you very much dana white for the oportunity that you given to us… war mma!!! war ufc!!! war rashad evans!!! and VIVA MEXICO CABRONES!!!!
you dont have a war in mexico? 5612 people were killed in drug fighting in 2008… sounds like a war to me
¡Orale güey, la U-EFE-CE!!!
this news just made my day!! although now i’m very tempted to buy it on yahoo sports to get all the prelims, damn shit!
one thing is for sure, i’ll miss goldy and rogan, i hope they have someone with some knowledge commentating the super fights, otherwise it will suck big time!
dude mexico is abeatifuld country, the only way u can get killed is you are in the drug businnes, in mexico people is vey cool and very honest, and there is a lot party and a lot of beatifuld places that other countries does not have.talking about pay per views 50 dollars is too much for mexican people for some people is the week profits
my family in mexico make about $40 bucks a week. so yeah its alot of money for a person in mexico.
VIVA MEXICO HIJOS DE LA CHINGADA!!!! war GSP