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Why Tito Ortiz is good for the UFC!?

Tito OrtizThe Chron Reports, Tito Ortiz is good for business. He is one of the most polarizing mixed martial artists on the planet, but the bottom line is he is good for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s bottom line.

No fighter this side of Chuck Liddell draws a crowd like "The Huntington Beach Bad Boy," and the UFC knows it. UFC boss

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Entrepreneur Magazine Dana White Interview

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Dana White shares his business insight on how he raised a pay-per-view spectacle from the dead and made it the hottest combat sport in the world. In 2006, it grossed more annual pay-per-view revenue than any promotion–ever. If you think we’re talking about boxing, guess again. It was the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which pits mixed martial artists against

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Bodog Fight owner Calvin Ayre and UFC’s Dana White

Calvin Ayre vs Dana WhiteWill the Mixed Marital Arts (MMA) mogul Calvin Ayre shave his head to look more like Dana White of UFC?

Not really. A joke made by the Bodog-Fight owner Calvin Ayre got the MMA fans buzzing all over the Internet. But only an awful su

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Dana White Says Marlon Sims and Noah Thomas “Will Never Fight in the UFC”

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According to Brawl Sports of the Houston Chronicle, Marlon Sims and Noah Thomas won’t be fighting on The Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale after all. In fact, Dana White said they “will never fight in the UFC - ever.”

Spike TV issued a press release on May 29, that was posted here on MMATorch and other media outlets, that stated Sims and Thomas would

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Josh Koscheck is Cranky at the Dana White and the UFC!?

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Check his myspace bulletin!

“UFC Prez Dana White is always quick to pull out the ‘boxing promoters are crooked’ line during his frequent discussions about boxing. I would argue that the UFC Czar is just as crooked.

Why did Chuck Liddell and Rampage Jackson only make about $500,000 for their recent UFC 72 showdown. UFC 72 did about 1 millio

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Dana White talks to the Media

Dana White411mania.com was invited to take part of the UFC 71 conference call with UFC President Dana White. Please note that this was written in the order of the conversation and may jump from topic to topic. In the interest of getting it to you guys faster, I have just cleaned up my note taking. So goes a conference call.

On to the recap:

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Chuck Liddell talks about the Tito/Dana Fight!?

Apparently, White isn’t the only person in UFC who takes issue with Ortiz’s version of the story. At roughly 9:30 p.m. Thursday night, I got a phone call — at home — from a UFC representative. The message: Chuck Liddell is very upset, and would like to speak to someone immediately.

If I had known in journalism school that my job description would someday include handling angry phone calls from one of the world’s greatest fighters, I might have considered

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