Does It Matter if the UFC Lies to the Media, Fans?
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
That depends on your priorities.
Lying to the press is never a good idea. In the information age, falsehoods can come back to haunt you and severely undermine your credibility. Tell a lie before all of the facts are out and an enterprising reporter can make you pay. But that's actually not what happened with the UFC and the main event for UFC 115. The UFC was much more brazen. Rather than lie and work to cover up details they didn't want disseminated, the UFC deliberately went on the record in interviews in print, radio and online saying words and spreading messages they knew to be false. That means they actually incorporated the unwitting press into their ...
Georges St. Pierre Discusses the Two Kinds of UFC Fans
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre has been getting a lot of questions from fans and the media over the last couple of weeks about why he has been dominating his opponents lately, but not finishing them.
In a question-and-answer session with fans in Abu Dhabi last week, St. Pierre said that the discontent from some fans about his unanimous decision victory over Dan Hardy shows that there are two different types of people who watch the UFC.
"I think there are two kinds of fans," St. Pierre said in the Q&A, which can be viewed at UFC.com. ...