THE REAL “DEAL” ON XYIENCE
By: Rich Bergeron [mpinpage] Recently A New York City Magazine that shall remain nameless published an article about the Xyience saga I’ve been reporting on since late 2006. The reporter interviewed me for over an hour as part of her research, but her editor cut out every single quote of mine she put into […]
THE USUAL SUSPECTS PART TWO: CORPORATE CROOKS ON BOTH SIDES OF XYIENCE BANKRUPTCY
From Left to right: Omer Sattar, Kirk Sanford, Adam Frank, Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta By: Rich Bergeron [mpinpage] International Money Laundering, Conspiracy to Commit Fraud, Credit Card Fraud, Bank Fraud, Civil RICO charges, Insider Trading, Securities Fraud, and the list goes on and on. These are just some of the crimes going on […]
Lyoto Machida Needs To Be Careful…
by: Jack Bratcher [mpinpage] Like most companies, the UFC is not a democracy. There’s a boss. And the boss probably isn’t going to be very happy if one of his employees is telling the world that the company is cooking the books. Well, it seems that’s exactly what Lyoto Machida has done in a recent […]
Casino Billionaire Lorenzo Fertitta Resigns Position to Work Full-Time With the UFC
by: Jack Bratcher According to a Yahoo Sports exclusive by Kevin Iole, Lorenzo Fertitta, the president of one of the most successful casino chains in Las Vegas, resigned his position with Station Casinos on Wednesday to work full-time with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Lorenzo Fertitta and brother Frank are some of the most successful businessmen […]
TUF SEMIFINALS REPORT
TUF THOUGHTS: Semifinals – June 18, 2007 by: Jack Bratcher [mpinpage] C.B. Dolloway vs. Amir Sadollah to start off the show. Amir gave C.B. one helluva fight and basically owned him standing but C.B. would get that shot on him and take him down and lay on some good old fashioned lay and pray […]
ANDERSON SILVA vs. JAMES IRVIN at 205 lbs. on JULY 19th
UFC TRIES TO SHAKE UP “AFFLICTION: BANNED” EVENT WITH A SHOW OF ITS OWN by: Jack Bratcher [mpinpage] In a MMA Rated exclusive, it has been reported that the UFC Middleweight Champion will be moving up to Light Heavyweight (205 lb. limit) to face James Irvin July 19th in a FREE LIVE EVENT on […]
THE UFC RUMOR MILL KEEPS CHURNING: VINCE AND DANA POISED TO BUY THE UFC?
By: Rich Bergeron Leave it to a hard-nosed, hard-hitting, in-your-face sports news site like THE SPORTS MUFFIN to come out with the scoop of the year in MMA. Rumor now has it that Dana White and Vince McMahon are going to buy the Ultimate Fighting Championship and leave the Fertitta brothers to tend to their […]
UFC COULD GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH AFFLICTION ON JULY 19TH
by: Jack Bratcher [mpinpage] Ok if you had the choice between paying about forty dollars to watch some high-quality MMA fights on pay-per-view from a brand new and unproven, mostly unknown promotion or watching a free high-quality UFC event free on Spike TV what do you think the average person will do? As if Affliction […]
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