WEC 36 is in the books and it turned out to be quite the night of upsets and quick finishes at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Urijah Faber was unable to defend his title against Mike Brown and was defeated in the first round via TKO. Brown stood with Faber for the opening moments of the fight and Faber ate some good shots that sent him... 

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Make sure to watch or Tivo the three-hour UFC: Best of 2007 television special tonight. The program will 9pm ET/PT on Spike TV. This has been a crazy year in the UFC, and in MMA in general, so make sure to tune in tonight and reminisce. Check out full details on UFC’s Full Calendar.  Read More →

From Broadcasting & Cable: A subset of its sales force is now devoted to making the league more palatable to those advertisers. A three-man sales group wines and dines the clients, shuttles them to live events in Las Vegas and Florida and holds special sessions with UFC athletes at gyms and training centers, all in the name of quelling their skittishness. “We’re... 

The ratings for UFC 75 on Spike TV from this past Saturday, and they’re pretty damn good. According to Spike TV, the show drew a 3.1 overall (3 million total homes) rating for a staggering 4.7 million viewers (I think the are factoring in multiple people watching at individual homes). The telecast peaked at 5.6 million viewers during the main event featuring... 

Remember that Multichannel News report several weeks back claiming that Spike TV had signed a new TV deal with the UFC that would garner the UFC around $100 million? Yeah, well, Multichannel News was full of it. According to a report on UFCjunkie.com, Spike TV Senior Vice President of Sports and Specials Brian J. Diamond pretty much denied the report. Negotiations...