UFC President Dana White and Spike TV President Kevin Kay announced yesterday that their two organizations have agreed to a four-year television contract extension that lasts up until 2011.
The details of the partnership were revealed in a teleconference and in a press release.
Essentially, the deal ensures that The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) mixed martial arts reality [...]

The year-long back-and-forth negotiations between the UFC and premium cable channel HBO have broken down for good, according to comments from HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg in a NewsDay.com report today.
Here’s the snip from Greenburg:
“After lots of discussion it became apparent that the business model doesn’t make sense for either one of us. So, we [...]

The UFC is still on course to finally put a ribbon on its plans to showcase events on the premium cable television network HBO, according to comments attributed to UFC President Dana White in a a recent TVWeek.com article.
Here’s the snip:
“It will happen. What we’re doing is going to get guys started on ‘The Ultimate [...]

From the HBO deal to recent PRIDE FC rumors to the showdown between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva that may not happen, UFC President Dana White and four fighters answered wide-ranging questions today during the conference call to promote UFC 73: “Stacked.”
Sam Caplan over at FiveOuncesOfPain.com was on the call — along with other reporters [...]

“Another of [former HBO CEO Chris Albrecht's] proposed changes seems to be on the ropes, as a pact to bring in UFC, the mix-martial arts league, may not go forward. Albrecht had been a big champion of a deal. But HBO Sports topper Ross Greenburg and other execs have resisted, feeling it would tarnish boxing [...]

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In the wake of the biggest boxing match in recent history — Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Oscar De La Hoya — long-time HBO boxing analyst Jim Lampley decided to close the show with a mixed martial arts pot-shot last night.
The moment was his to wrap-up what was a decent — not spectacular — bout between [...]

Since the UFC is having a slow time getting its events on HBO, we’ll have to settle for the light heavyweight champion, Chuck Liddell, appearing on the cable channel’s hit series, “Entourage,” this Sunday.
“Iceman” actually recorded the scene for his “favorite show” late last year — check out this post from way back when.
Based on [...]

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(The bad news: Rogan and Goldberg will NOT host HBO shows — it’ll be done by a different production team.)

For the past few months, talk have heated up about a looming deal between the UFC and HBO to broadcast mixed martial arts events on the cable television network.
In fact, UFC 70: Nations Collide was rumored to air on the premium channel. However, that April 21 event will now be aired for free on SpikeTV [...]