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UFC on Fox Sports "Ultimate Fighting Championship" To Feature 3 Top Bouts Lt. Heavyweight Contender Tito Ortiz On BDSSP, Thursday, Jan. 27
January 30, 2005 Fox Sports Network
LAS VEGAS, NEV. ----The second of four Ultimate Fighting Championship® one-hour specials will air at Midnight local time this Sunday, January 30 on FSN. An encore re-play will air at 4 p.m., local time, Thursday, Feb. 4.
“Ultimate Fighting Championship” will feature three of the UFC®’s best bouts from its recent fight shows. In this show, fans can re-live epic battles between Middleweights Dave Menne and Phil Baroni; Heavyweights Andrei Arlovski and Ian Freeman, and the UFC World Heavyweight Championship bout between Tim Sylvia and Ricco Rodriguez. The dates and times of the remaining shows will be announced.
In October, FSN and the UFC inked an agreement for FSN to televise four, one-hour UFC fight-show specials on a quarterly basis within the year.
In another FSN/UFC program note, UFC Light Heavyweight top contender Tito Ortiz, “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy,” will appear this Thursday, January 27, as a special guest on Best Damn Sports Show Period. Ortiz, 12-4-0 in mixed martial arts, is in final training for his main event match with former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort, 12-4-0, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at UFC 51: Super Saturday, Feb. 5, LIVE on pay-per-view from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Viewers should check local listings for the time BDSSP is telecast in their area.
“The UFC is the brand for the most accomplished martial arts athletes in the world. When America sees what goes into the sport, the dedication, the discipline and the camaraderie – let alone the sportsmanship – they’ll see what we’ve known all along,” said Dana White, UFC president.
“UFC, the ultimate combo of martial arts, boxing and wrestling, is phenomenal entertainment,” said George Greenberg, FSN’s executive vice president of programming and production. “It’s a natural extension of programming for FSN’s core audience as it will satisfy our legions of fight fans.”
FSN reaches more than 82 million homes through its 20 regional sports channels, and serves as the only supplier of national, regional and local sports programming. For the latest up-to-the-minute sports news and
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www.FoxSports.com.
association and offers the premier series of MMA events. Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., UFC® fight programs are distributed internationally throughout the world, including broadcast on WOWOW, Inc. in Japan and Globosat in Brazil. Zuffa, LLC licenses the distribution of UFC video games through Crave Entertainment and Take Two TDK Mediactive, its fight show DVDs through Studioworks Entertainment, a Ventura Distribution company and its music CDs are published by Nitrus/DRT Entertainment, the official publisher of UFC music.
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The UFC’s next fight event, UFC 51: Super Saturday, will be televised LIVE on pay-per-view Saturday, Feb. 5, from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
- News release from the UFC website with a little editing from us (color, some highlights, etc...)
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