Cool Combat Sports Links For 8-3-10: MMA, Wrestling, Boxing

Will Randy Couture Be A "Natural" Problem For James Toney? Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting, has filed a law suit against Ken Pavia, alleging Pavia passed along trade secrets and confidential Zuffa documents to rival mixed martial arts promotion Bellator. MMA returns to city Traditional Martial [...]

FERTITTAS ROAD TO BUYING THEMSELVES OUT OF STATION CASINOS AND XYIENCE BANKRUPTCY PAVED WITH BAD INTENTIONS

Cool Combat Sports Links For 8-1-2010

Promoter cancels mixed martial arts fight at Six Flags Magic Mountain Mixed Martial Arts: Evolution of the Sport and Its Fans Alchemist Management to Transform Mixed Martial Arts Management Exclusive Interview With Premier MMA Coach, Mike Winkeljohn UFC on Versus 2 Preview: Jon Jones, the Autodidact of Mixed Martial Arts Bellator Fighting Championships Responds to [...]

"Rabble Rousin'" Rich Bergeron Showcased On Knoqout.Com Radio

If you haven't listened to the Folks over at Knoqout.com yet, you're missing out on some classic coverage of the Mixed Martial Arts industry. They recently interviewed FNU's own Rich Bergeron about the ongoing XYIENCE SCANDAL Rich began breaking in 2006. Click on the image below to access the show page and here the full [...]

Putting the Xyience Story To Bed & Waiting For The Ultimate Judgment Day

By: Rich Bergeron It is so hard to even imagine the day when the Xyience sage will really be over for me. Back when all this began I had a feeling it might be the kind of story that could define my career someday. It’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since the lawsuit paperwork reached my [...]

Xyience, Inc. Liquidation Trustee Files Complaint Against Fertitta Enterprises And Former Company Executives

Latest Xyience Case Update By: Rich Bergeron The Usual Suspects, including all the characters pictured below and Fertitta Enterprises GM William Bullard, are implicated in a new civil suit. The case, filed by the Xyience Bankruptcy Liquidation Trustee David Herzog Tuesday, is finally unearthing the scandal I've been reporting on here on this site for [...]

Station Casinos' Executives Out To Lunch Without a Cell Phone: What's the Potential UFC Impact?

By: Rich Bergeron $900 an hour lawyers should know better than to come into a casino bankruptcy without an open dialogue going with state gaming regulators. Yet, Station Casinos attorneys were caught with their pants down by the Reno, Nevada judge handling the case recently. It seems there has been no effort to even contact [...]

Station Casinos Collapse Backing UFC-owning Fertitta Brothers into a Corner

By: Rich Bergeron When it rains, it pours for the Fertitta family. Last Friday the patriarch Frank Fertitta, Jr. died while undergoing treatment for heart disease in a California hospital. The death comes at the tail end of a long and painful campaign of pending bankruptcy that finally ended in the Chapter 11 proceedings that [...]