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Finally ESPN giving MMA some love. Every new MMA fan that emerges from exposure like this is one more reason for a US carrier to pick up TFN!!!
HUGHES VS. ST. PIERRE ANNOUNCED AGAIN
The upcoming UFC Welterweight Title bout between Matt Hughes and Georges St. Pierre was announced again on Monday's edition of the ESPNews program "The Hot List," with in-studio appearances by Hughes, St. Pierre, and UFC president Dana White.
There have been several occasions in the past when UFC fighters have appeared on The Hot List, which is the afternoon block of programming that airs on ESPN's all-news sister network from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM Pacific Time (3:00 PM to 6:00 PM Eastern Time). However, this time the UFC was given two segments on the show, whereas the previous UFC appearances on the show had each been limited to one segment.
While The Hot List averages approximately one-third as many viewers as the average repeat airing of UFC Unleashed on Spike TV, the difference is that the people who are watching ESPNews are likely to be mainstream sports fans who might become MMA fans once they are exposed to the sport.
Therefore, there can be no doubt that Monday's UFC appearance on The Hot List was good for the sport. What it wasn't, however, was breaking news. It was stated multiple times on the UFC 58 broadcast on March 4th that the winner of the St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn fight would be taking on Hughes for the UFC Welterweight Title later this year.
On top of that, the UFC officially announced the Hughes vs. St. Pierre fight at a press conference in Canada on April 7th, which was covered by MMAWeekly at the time. When the Hughes vs. St. Pierre fight was officially announced at a press conference in Toronto on April 7th, St. Pierre said, "Now it's official. Now it's for real. It’s my dream come true! It's all about respect, and I finally have it... YES, FINALLY!" The official confirmation of the fight's September 23rd date (at UFC 63) was the only new thing in this additional announcement.
While the announcement of Hughes vs. St. Pierre was not breaking news, the important thing is that ESPNews apparently believed that it was breaking news. As they were cutting to a commercial break right before Dana White's appearance, Hot List host Dari Nowkhah said, "The owner of the UFC will be here next to break news on The Hot List." Nowkhah later said, "This was just announced today, right here on The Hot List! That's why you watch us, because we bring you the latest."
Again, whether it was breaking news or not, ESPNews clearly believed that it was breaking news, and hyped the segments accordingly. The segment from The Hot List was not repeated or acknowledged on ESPNews (or ESPN, for that matter) for the rest of the day, but it is believed to be only a matter of time before UFC highlights are part of SportsCenter just like any other sport. This notion is supported by the fact that ESPN anchor Dan Patrick recently said on his ESPN radio show that SportsCenter should include UFC highlights and that there's no valid reason to exclude UFC highlights.
There were two UFC-related segments on The Hot List on Monday, one with Hughes and St. Pierre; and the other with White. Since the first time they fought in October 2004, St. Pierre has gone on to defeat top names such as Jason Miller, Frank Trigg, Sean Sherk, and of course BJ Penn, who was the last person to defeat Hughes. In the same time period, Hughes has defeated Frank Trigg, Joe Riggs, and most recently Royce Gracie at UFC 60.
In the segment with Hughes and St. Pierre, they both came across as stars. Hughes and St. Pierre both talked about their preparation for the fight and how much training goes into each fight. Hughes was his naturally stoic self, never waning from his demeanor of being the best fighter in the world, which he could very well be. When asked about the differences between the rematch and the original match, Hughes said, "I think Georges has got a lot better since then. I think I’ve got a lot better since then, so it's going to be a whole different fight, as far as on our feet, on the ground... should be pretty exciting wherever the fight’s at.”
When asked the same question, St. Pierre said, "When I fought Matt Hughes the first time, I wasn’t ready mentally. It was my third fight in the UFC, and I was not ready for a championship bout... and Matt Hughes was my idol, and I gave him too much respect. So, right now, I’m a totally different fighter. I’ve improved so much physically and especially mentally, and I’m going to fight him like I fight everybody else.”
Hughes was asked if he "feels guilty" for "beating Royce Gracie good," which was a bit of an odd question, and Hughes' calm reply was that there was nothing to feel guilty about because he just went out there, did his job, and fought as hard as he could.
St. Pierre also talked briefly about his experience as one of the advisors/coaches on The Ultimate Fighter 4, and he said that he learned just as much as any of the fighters in the house during the filming.
When host Dari Nowkhah asked Hughes and St. Pierre for their best "out-of-the-ring confrontation stories," Hughes and St. Pierre both replied that there are no such stories to tell because they both avoid putting themselves into those kinds of situations. Hughes and St. Pierre came off particularly well in their responses to this question.
Hughes said that he's not out at bars in the latenight hours when such a confrontation would be more likely to take place, and if a fan ever did approach him trying to pick a fight, he would just walk away. St. Pierre said that he would also just walk away and added, "It's different in the ring, but outside of the ring, I am a gentleman." As a result of this, the host of the show went from not really knowing what to make of the UFC at the beginning of the segment to calling Hughes and St. Pierre "a couple of nice guys" at the end of the segment.
The interview with Dana White also came off well, if you can overlook gross factual errors being repeated on national television. The oft-repeated claim that Zuffa added all of the major regulation and sanctioning to the UFC was repeated once again on The Hot List, as White said that the UFC "wasn't sanctioned by any of the major athletic commissions" before Zuffa bought it. This is not a matter for debate. It's just flat-out factually incorrect, as are any claims in newspaper articles that the "previous owners ran from regulation."
In reality, the previous owners of the UFC tried successfully to get the UFC sanctioned in New Jersey, and then tried unsuccessfully to get the UFC sanctioned in Nevada shortly before selling the company to Zuffa. Before Zuffa ever bought the UFC, it was sanctioned and regulated by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, which was widely regarded as the second most important sanctioning body in the country.
The "old UFC" also ran fully sanctioned UFC events in states such as Iowa, Louisiana, and Mississippi, but it was New Jersey that was regarded as having the second-biggest sanctioning body (behind only Nevada's) in terms of importance and prestige.
Dana White also said on The Hot List, "When we first bought the sport, not only was it not in any of the major venues here in the United States, but it also wasn't on pay-per-view. We were on DirecTV, but we weren't on any of the cable pay-per-view systems." White's statement about the PPV situation is absolutely correct. His statement about major venues is once again factually incorrect, unless the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City is not considered a "major venue."
These factually incorrect statements would not have been noticeable to someone who isn't familiar with the actual history of MMA (including the host of The Hot List), and again, White came off well in the parts of the interview that were not about the aforementioned subjects.
In another part of the interview, White talked about The Ultimate Fighter. He said that the concept for the first three seasons of TUF was to find the best up-and-coming mixed martial artists and put them all in the same house, but the concept for the fourth season was to give second chances to a lot of former UFC stars.
When asked about Senator John McCain, who led a campaign to ban the sport of mixed martial arts in the mid-90s, Dana White said that McCain helped the sport to clean itself up, and added that all combat sports should always be sanctioned by an athletic commission because the purpose of the athletic commissions is to protect the fighters. White concluded his answer to the McCain question by saying, "We salute Senator John McCain."
When asked specifically about the Hughes vs. St. Pierre fight, White talked about how Hughes beat St. Pierre with an armbar submission with only a second left in the first round when they fought for the first time. The host asked White to explain what an armbar is, and when White did so, the host responded by saying, "Woah! These are some tough guys!"
White said that Hughes and St. Pierre have both been crushing all of the fighters who have been put in their path. White added that St. Pierre is one of the best athletes today in any sport, and that Hughes is the most dominant welterweight in the history of the UFC.
Tickets for UFC 63 in Anaheim, California will be going on sale on August 12th.
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Nice golden cross formed on the chart, reminds me when usxp went on that massive run. good stuff at hub
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Network fighting to the top Once the underdog, The Fight Network is now the most-watch digital sports channel in Canada Jul. 6, 2006. 01:00 AM CHRIS ZELKOVICH
When The Fight Network launched last September, more than a few people in the TV business wondered if its owners hadn't taken a few blows to the head themselves.
How could a digital channel that had only six employees and no studio expect to compete against the giants of Canadian broadcasting?
Less than a year later, no one is asking that question any more. The Fight Network is giving more shots than it's taking and last month rose to the top of the digital sports channels heap.
Granted, that's a small heap. It outdrew all other digital sports channels by attracting an average of 3,500 viewers a minute.
While that pales in comparison to conventional and specialty channels, it was almost double the next most-watched digital sports channel, Fox Sports World Canada, which averaged 1,900 viewers.
But when the other channels are owned by the likes of CanWest Global, CTV and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, that's no TKO.
"In many ways we knew a lot of this was going to happen," says TFN president Mike Garrow. "Our business plan is coming true, but in some areas this has been accelerated way beyond what we expected."
In fact, the channel is so confident that it is planning to expand to the U.S., Britain and Australia. It recently signed a deal to supply headlines and updates to Verizon, Sprint and Cingular cellphone users in the U.S.
It has also hired an agent in hopes of getting American distribution.
After launching as part of a Rogers free preview, the channel finds itself on 14 cable or satellite systems with more to come. The original six employees has grown to 25 full-time and eight part-time. The channel is also moving into a 14,000-square-foot office space, its first home.
``When we started we used to meet at Timothy's near Eglinton and Yonge," says Garrow. ``We were so small we could have met in a phone booth."
The secret to the channel's success has been airing exclusive events, which is what programming head Brian Sobie has concentrated on. Though sports like kickboxing and Japanese wrestling have a small following compared with mainstream sports, most will be watching if this is the only place to see it.
``We offer things that people can't get anywhere else," says Garrow.
That explains why a recent airing of a Japanese series called Pride Fighting attracted 45,600 viewers — a huge audience for a digital channel. In fact, some Maple Leafs games on Leafs TV barely surpassed that last winter.
The other factor has been the phenomenal growth of mixed martial arts, which features a mix of judo, jujitsu, karate, boxing and wrestling with no apparent rules. It's been called human cock-fighting by some.
It has given a shot in the arm to the Spike channel, whose Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) series has averaged more than 2 million viewers and is Spike's top draw among young males. It has drawn larger audiences than the NBA from that hard-to-reach demographic.
The Fight Network doesn't carry the no-holds-barred ultimate fighter matches, but has mixed martial arts from around the world. It also supplies pre- and post-match Ultimate Fighter coverage surrounding the Spike bouts.
"UFC has done a great job of promoting mixed martial arts and that's helped raise awareness of the sport," says Garrow. "It appeals to young men, who love the fact that the athletes have to have multiple skill sets, from Muay Thai kickboxing to Greco-Roman wrestling."
It also doesn't hurt that a series of UFC video games have primed young audiences for the all-out violence.
While the channel hasn't come close to making a profit yet, Garrow says that's not far off, thanks in part to keeping costs at a minimum. After all, rights to Amazon wrestling don't cost quite as much as NHL rights.
But the channel is only part of the operation. In addition to the cellular deals, The Fight Network website is selling a clothing line, fight gear, memorabilia and pay-per-view events. More is planned.
"We want to be the one-stop shopping place for fight fans," says Garrow. Additional articles by Chris Zelkovich
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USA, UK, AUSTRALIA... the rest of the world. WOW, this has a lot of potential to be carried in many markets
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New VIP Audio Interview: Fight Network President Mike Garrow - On Point with James Caldwell (26 min.)
Jul 18, 2006, 17:05
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Torch VIP Members, click on the red VIP Audio Updates button above to access the new On Point VIP Audio Interview.
Torch columnist James Caldwell is joined by Fight Network President Mike Garrow for an On Point interview. The discussion includes background on the Fight Network, progress in Year One, major plans for the Fight Network to launch in the U.S., plans for international distribution, the potential of working with WWE to include programming in Canada, the recent launch of Fight Mobile, what content could be up coming on Fight Mobile, working with pro wrestling companies to feature content, Ryan Bennett’s impact on the Fight Network launch and his legacy in MMA, the business model of Fight Network including revenue streams and potential for profitability, and much more.
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south end stock pickers predicted xkem would hit .47 LMAO...not only that, they predicted a full 3 cents for CNES. Everything he posts is ULTRAMEGA BUY OMG SPEND YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY!
come on fellas, its a pump and dump scam that started this year...they (more like he) claims to have been picking stocks for years.
OMOG short term to .035! (back in May)
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Short Term Indicators 7 Day Average Directional Indicator Buy 10 - 8 Day Moving Average Hilo Channel Hold 20 Day Moving Average vs Price Hold 20 - 50 Day MACD Oscillator Buy 20 Day Bollinger Bands Hold
Short Term Indicators Average: 40% - Buy 20-Day Average Volume - 572259563
Medium Term Indicators 40 Day Commodity Channel Index Hold 50 Day Moving Average vs Price Buy 20 - 100 Day MACD Oscillator Buy 50 Day Parabolic Time/Price Buy
Medium Term Indicators Average: 75% - Buy 50-Day Average Volume - 605918688
Long Term Indicators 60 Day Commodity Channel Index Buy 100 Day Moving Average vs Price Buy 50 - 100 Day MACD Oscillator Buy
Long Term Indicators Average: 100% - Buy 100-Day Average Volume - 527268063
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.0007 not what i expected, then again no news people sell. im hanging on to what i got for the long run (its not much) but enough.
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good god this volume is something its a crap shout but the right pr and its off we go I hope something good is comeing might make one last buy at these levels
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Value is in the Brand Value is in the partners Value is in the fundamentals and growing revenue infrastructure. Popular everywhere there is market penetration Someone wants your shares.....JMHO
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i dont think dilution, just people selling that are impatient. a lot of people bought this lower than now and are getting out. I think news is coming and will be patient.
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No dilution or you would really see a tank 3 weeks with no pr lots of folks can double there money at these levels just selling I might buy more next pr about us or uk kaaaaaboommmmmmmm
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I am growing impatient... but I will wait. PAIV has taught me the lesson of not selling for 10-15% profit
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well I had an order in for most of the day for .0007 and it never got filled
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thanks for the update, I remember i bought xkem at .01 had it for three days while it went no where, and thought i had a pos. then all of a sudden, bam. massive buying pressure when everyone caught on. i still think this will happen here. just need some good news.
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i feel the exact same way. IMHO i feel that this stock is not like any other pink out there. has a real business plan and is growing gradually. the fight network (its main source of revenue) is just 1 year old out in canada. hopefully they follow out with their plans for the UK/ASIA/U.S carriers and if that happens we will see huge % gains ..
quote:Originally posted by cactus33: thanks for the update, I remember i bought xkem at .01 had it for three days while it went no where, and thought i had a pos. then all of a sudden, bam. massive buying pressure when everyone caught on. i still think this will happen here. just need some good news.
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After selling PAIV waaayyy too earlier and losing out on the biggest gain I've could have had, I think I will stay in all of my other stocks until they move.
-------------------- I'd just like to retire at 26. Posts: 113 | From: cleveland, oh | Registered: May 2006
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and btw, i plan to retire by 27.. 26 is one year too early but i wouldnt mind
quote:Originally posted by chevon2020: After selling PAIV waaayyy too earlier and losing out on the biggest gain I've could have had, I think I will stay in all of my other stocks until they move.
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Disnat I think on this baby if the right pr comes out at the right time we will all be on easy street
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Good Morning, Well, I think that in light of a conspicuous lack of info that it is a good time to pick up a few more shares...will try to fill at .0007 today. I think time may be short before we are well out of this range.
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yeah we really need something to set us up for a big run. otherwise people pull out their money. a lot of real hot stocks to play now besides this....
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