Putting the Xyience Story To Bed & Waiting For The Ultimate Judgment Day
By: Rich Bergeron [mpinpage] 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 […]
Xyience, Inc. Liquidation Trustee Files Complaint Against Fertitta Enterprises And Former Company Executives
Latest Xyience Case Update By: Rich Bergeron [mpinpage] 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 […]
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 Bankruptcy Tumbling Out of Control: UFC Could Suffer From Long Term Financial Effects on Fertitta Family
By: Rich Bergeron Fittingly, it was a powerful union (The Teamsters) that is credited with making Vegas what it is today, and now another union (Culinary Workers Union Local 226) is trying to set the record straight about the new Vegas Landscape and what the Station Casinos bankruptcy situation is doing to it. A new […]
HDNet’s “Inside MMA” To Air Clip of ULTMMA’s Exclusive Interview with Dana White-Top Heavyweight Contender Brett Rogers Live in Studio Responds to White’s Comments
For Immediate Release HDNet’s “Inside MMA” To Air Clip of ULTMMA’s Exclusive Interview with Dana White-Top Heavyweight Contender Brett Rogers Live in Studio Responds to White’s Comments The man who will challenge Fedor reacts to his critics- Friday, October 9 at 9:00 PM. ET Dallas (October 8, 2009) Brett Rogers joins the panel along with […]
Turns Out Kimbo Can’t Bench 264: “Big Country” Smothers and Crucifies UFC’S Latest Fad Fighter
By: Rich Bergeron Kimbo went down in a blaze of belly on Wednesday’s much hyped episode of The Ultimate Fighter 10 “Heavyweights.” Ironically, two flash points of the episode may have foretold the end to come. The first was when the biggest guy to be found on Rampage’s training staff tested Slice’s “lay and pray” […]
Is It Time to Take TUF in a New Direction?
by E. Spencer Kyte of Keyboard Kimura and MMAFightCouncil.com Writers Guild There is no question that The Ultimate Fighter changed the mixed martial arts landscape when the first episode aired on January 18, 2005. With that debut episode, mixed martial arts went from a pay-per-view interest of a small and dedicated fan base to something […]
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 […]
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