Rumours on ESPN and NBC production deal with UFC

Ghost Bro said:

Apparently they are also going to have fighters for each channel.

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As in certain fighters will be exclusive to each channel, and fighters from each channel can only meet on PPV?

What a gay deal this sounds like...

I'm hoping it's just rumors because the UFC turning over production to ESPN/NBC & giving them all of the Fightpass prelims would be terrible imo. Not mad at the addition of 165 & 105 divisions though

Their source is MMALogic on the UG. Knew it sounded sketchy as fuck
Rumor: UFC close to signing w/ESPN and NBC

It's amazing how silent MMALOGIC was during the Cynthia Ortiz(Cindy O) trial isn't it?

So like raw and smackdown?

I think 165 175 185 195 makes sense...not sure how that would be part of a TV contract though

Ghost Bro said:

sounds like they will promote?
So that then they will have fighters under contract themselves I'd think? As promoters?
Can't really guess how this will work out tho

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I don't think they can do worse than WME and Fight pass prelims will get seen more if they aren't on "fight pass"

could be a total bs report though

sparkuri said:

It's amazing how silent MMALOGIC was during the Cynthia Ortiz(Cindy O) trial isn't it?

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Wasn't mmalogic found out to be one of Cindy o accounts?
Or was that the one that had a bunch of different people logging into it

Edit: also why did she attack you (I think you said she doxxed you or something)?
Understand if you don't want to go into that one

Gay for Longo said:

Wasn't mmalogic found out to be one of Cindy o accounts?
Or was that the one that had a bunch of different people logging into it

Edit: also why did she attack you (I think you said she doxxed you or something)?
Understand if you don't want to go into that one

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She doxxed me because I can smell a rat a million miles away.
UFC/BJPenn.com/UG= one big happy family
CindyO had access(certainly to an extent or by proxy) to all, I simply called her out on her "ability" to know why/how Affliction 3 would be cancelled "because of a certain American HW headliner" who was "going to" piss hot, 3 weeks before it occurred.
I think she doxxed @Pitbull3744 , amiright?
Not sure it's the same pitbull, but tried to get him fired at his job, unreal.
She got some of my info from BJPenn.com that wasn't shared with the UG.

I believe the MMALogic acct. is just a UFC account with various(a few) "people" who run through it.


P.S.: Just because I can smell a rat, doesn't mean I'd chain it up and beat it with a banana peel

sparkuri said:

She doxxed me because I can smell a rat a million miles away.
UFC/BJPenn.com/UG= one big happy family
CindyO had access(certainly to an extent or by proxy) to all, I simply called her out on her "ability" to know why/how Affliction 3 would be cancelled "because of a certain American HW headliner" who was "going to" piss hot, 3 weeks before it occurred.
I think she doxxed @Pitbull3744 , amiright?
Not sure it's the same pitbull, but tried to get him fired at his job, unreal.
She got some of my info from BJPenn.com that wasn't shared with the UG.

I believe the MMALogic acct. is just a UFC account with various(a few) "people" who run through it.


P.S.: Just because I can smell a rat, doesn't mean I'd chain it up and beat it with a banana peel

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That rat vid was fucked up

Thanks for the info man, I was there on the ug when it was going down but pretty much stayed out of it cause I had no real interactions with them

Doxxing in general is fucked up but I do know of situations where it was justified, just because you called her out would not be one or them
I don't even get why she would get pissed from you asking how she knew that info

And wtf about somebody's job???
That's going way too fucking far, like way over the line
I knew she was pretty fucked up individual though from all the stuff with Dana mom

sparkuri said:

She doxxed me because I can smell a rat a million miles away.
UFC/BJPenn.com/UG= one big happy family
CindyO had access(certainly to an extent or by proxy) to all, I simply called her out on her "ability" to know why/how Affliction 3 would be cancelled "because of a certain American HW headliner" who was "going to" piss hot, 3 weeks before it occurred.
I think she doxxed @Pitbull3744 , amiright?
Not sure it's the same pitbull, but tried to get him fired at his job, unreal.
She got some of my info from BJPenn.com that wasn't shared with the UG.

I believe the MMALogic acct. is just a UFC account with various(a few) "people" who run through it.


P.S.: Just because I can smell a rat, doesn't mean I'd chain it up and beat it with a banana peel

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Yup. I will never forget that lol. We had a few disagreements about Dana and MMA and during that time I applied for the PT director at this UFC gym and they had just about hired me and next thing I know I get a pm from Cindy asking if I'm the guy who used to work at Bally total fitness as a PT manager so I wrote back yeah that's me how did you know? And no response, next thing I know I get a email from UFC gym saying we went another way. It didn't matter anyway I was all good so it didn't really fuck me over but it was all too weird how it went down and when I confronted her multiple times about it she got super defensive to a point of me getting banned twice. Rickstorm was supposed to find out what was up and help me straighten things out and get the truth but that didn't happen. It was pretty crazy because what did Cindy do for the company that she would even know who I am or what was on my resume? All weird.

Gay for Longo said:

That rat vid was fucked up

Thanks for the info man, I was there on the ug when it was going down but pretty much stayed out of it cause I had no real interactions with them

Doxxing in general is fucked up but I do know of situations where it was justified, just because you called her out would not be one or them
I don't even get why she would get pissed from you asking how she knew that info

And wtf about somebody's job???
That's going way too fucking far, like way over the line
I knew she was pretty fucked up individual though from all the stuff with Dana mom

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That's the thing, she's NOT JUST an f'd up person, she's an f'd up person that got PAID, in one form or another(another), to do what she did.
She IS an employee, Fertitta mob style.

I miss the fertitta's

Huh, so this would be like how the NFL is spread across multiple networks with multiple production teams?

Will certainly be interesting who they get for the play-by-play and color commentary for each channel if this is true.

Khabib Fears Conor said:

As in certain fighters will be exclusive to each channel, and fighters from each channel can only meet on PPV?

What a gay deal this sounds like...

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They must think it's like WWE.

sparkuri said:

It's amazing how silent MMALOGIC was during the Cynthia Ortiz(Cindy O) trial isn't it?

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Whatever happened to her.

Yossarian said:

Whatever happened to her.

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She's back on the job.

Does this effect the Canadian broadcast? Would they split between SN and TSN?

I like the idea of adding a 165 division, but would they keep 170?

Contender series replacing TUF is a good thing, I prefer that platform.

6 PPV's a year is a good thing aswell.

Hurts Fightpass though. Dunno if that's good in the long run.

Doing a brand split on fighters is so fucking dumb it hurts my brain.

Ghost Bro said:

ESPN and NBC will do production for the UFC? kinda like hbo and showtime.
Apparently they are also going to have fighters for each channel.
6 PPvs a year or smth.

Weird, was just said on Luke Thomas' show now but still unverified.

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How are they going to have fighters for each channel?

Weight classes maybe...

Till for one channel and Usman for another? All that does is fuck with the ability to put proper fights together.