Michael Rome Archives: 02/2008

A Nevada court granted Zuffa’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Randy Couture yesterday: Nevada District Court Judge Jennifer Togliatti granted a motion for a…

One of the most amazing things about The UFC’s decision to ignore new media and focus on mainstream press only is the fact that mainstream…

Dave Meltzer has a piece up at Yahoo about the UFC/Bud light deal, and at the end he reports that Lesnar will return to the…

Croatian Website Profightstore reports that Mirko Cro Cop might face Mighty Mo at the dream event on March 15.   If true, it’s kind of…

One man has to be really smiling right now, and that man is Tito Ortiz.  He now has an incredible place to go once his…

The UFC announced UFC 84 and 85 today, coming from Vegas and London respectively. In the event section, UFC 84 is listed as a PPV…

Mark Cuban was on “Rome Is Burning” today, and had quite an interesting interview about his plans to oppose the UFC and turn it into…

Dan Henderson sat down today on Rome Is Burning for an interview.

According to MMA Mania, Marcus Davis will face Mike Swick at UFC 85.  This is a nice step up in competition for Davis, who has…

Dave Meltzer has a rough estimate in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter for the buyrate for UFC 79.  He pegs it between 600,000 and 675,000…

Someone over at Sherdog translated a new Cro Cop interview here What happened to your obligations towards the UFC? I’m going to go back to…

Steve Cofield writes about a possible “mass exodus” of UFC fighters at his website: It’ll be a different case if U.S. stars like Tito Ortiz,…

It sounds like Fightlinker’s petition plan to get UFC Fight Night 13 changed to a 3 hour show is actually working.  I can only urge…

A few months ago, Wanderlei Silva dispelled rumors that he would be dropping to middleweight.  Since then he has been rumored to be fighting Keith…

According to Babalu Sobral, Tito Ortiz has pulled out of his fight with Lyoto Machida: PDG:  Last time we talked you said that Lyoto Machida…

According to Dave Meltzer, the early buyrate for UFC 81 is 600,000 buys.  This is the low estimate, as the final buyrate usually is higher…

I’m just catching up on the news of HD Net filing a suit for declaratory relief on Randy’s contract.  I expected this move since the…

For those of you with HD Net, they have sent out a press conference hyping “really big news” on Inside MMA tonight.  The video preview…

Hey, sorry guys.  My internet and cable is going out here.  I guess this can just be a comments thread. Update [2008-2-14 8:27:18 by Kid…

In this week’s print edition of The Wrestling Observer, Dave Meltzer reports that negotiations between Tim Sylvia and The UFC are not going so well.…