
(A woman scorned always has her revenge.)
It looks like Spike TV isn’t going to let the UFC walk away from their longtime liaison quietly.
Like a woman scorned , Spike will attempt to sabotage Zuffa’s burgeoning relationship with Fox by counter-programming the network’s first UFC event featuring a heavyweight tilt between Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos with a three-hour special “Dos Santos vs. Velasquez: Unleashed” series of shows according to MMA Junkie. The November 12 Unleashed Marathon will begin at 9:00 just as Fox’s inaugural UFC event is set to start.
According to the report, Spike owns the broadcast rights to the UFC library through 2012, and unless Zuffa buys back the rights the network will likely continue to counter-program Fox’s events for the next year. The catch 22 of the situation is that unless the UFC buys back the rights, Spike cannot air any other promotion’s events, which explains why it is only airing Bellator’s prelims on its website. The move could be a testing ground to see if there’s enough interest to move Bellator’s weekly events to the rotation when the UFC agreement expires.
Needless to say, Dana White is not impressed. During an interview he did with MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani last week, the UFC president pulled no punches when discussing the move by Spike to air Bellator fights on Spike.com, but added as a last f*ck you that Zuffa has no intention of buying the rights back from Spike.
“UFC programming will be on Spike in 2012. It will continue there. When you look at what I call ‘the spirit of the deal,’ [counter-programming] is the wrong thing to do. In my opinion, it’s Spike not being honorable. They’re not being honorable and they know. [Spike president] Kevin [Kay] knows; [Spike senior vice president of sports and specials] Brian [Diamond] — all the guys who have dealt with me at Spike TV — I’ve been nothing but honorable with them,” White explained. “Everything that I did was to build the UFC and Spike TV. I’ve been a fantastic partner. Whatever they needed from me I’ve done for them and helped them get to where they are today, just like they’ve helped us get to where we are today. And what they’re doing, if that’s the case, and they’re running [Bellator fights] on Spike.com, that’s not the spirit of the deal and they are being 100 percent not honorable.”








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commentsit's strictly business both for you and them. you moved on to fox, nothin wrong w/ that; but spike also needs to consider their future too, and they are just doing whatever they need to do legally and w/in their rights. they will need to make sure they continue to have mma and their only choice right now or most viable option is bellator.
so why not start putting those wheels in motion. if a little counter programming helps them, so be it, the ufc won't suffer much, trust me but spike isn't doing anything you never did or won't do in the future.
let's not forget your oh so honorable treatment of sponsors and journalists who dare to disagree w/ you or support other orgs and then the fighters can't have their sponsor pay them b/c u ban them.
i guess dana doesn't like to be treated how he treats others... sounds like the golden rule doesn't apply to him.
Captcha - pseudobulbs. toreite
Also, charlie murphy fucking LOVES kettle corn.
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I can't imagine why you guys resorted to some poverty-assed WordPress shit. You want me to quote you fuckers on a custom site that isn't some piss-weak cookie-cutter shit?
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(On a related note, I'm beginning to suspect there are subliminal messages in these captchas.)
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Then Bill Cosby showed up and started lecturing them about speaking Ebonics.
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The moral of the story is: Don't call the kettle black 'cause nobody uses cast iron kettles any more.
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Thanks El Guapo.
Moral of the story, don't smoke pot and eat kettle corn while ditching press conferences. Also, don't drink piss tea unless you like your spicy shit tacos medium rare, playa.
So one day Wesley Snipes called the kettle black, see, and the pot was like(in his best Samuel L. Jackson voice)"THIS mothaf'ka right here needs to like in the GAHH-DAMN mirror!"
The End
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