SLC MMA » UFC http://slcmma.com Exploring MMA and Jujitsu in Salt Lake City Utah Tue, 08 May 2012 05:00:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 UFC moves August 1st event out of Utah http://slcmma.com/ufc-moves-august-1st-event-out-of-utah/ http://slcmma.com/ufc-moves-august-1st-event-out-of-utah/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:49:57 +0000 BartB http://slcmma.com/?p=571

Dana, why do you do this?

Due to laggardly ticket sales,  the UFC has moved fights from the Energy Solutions Center to San Diego California.  Personally, I’m probably going to rent my clothes and mope around in sackcloth and ashes for the week.

Possible reasons for the poor ticket sales:

  • Event date moved at late notice from August 7th to August 1st
  • August 1st is a Sunday
  • Many fans (me included) thought they could wait to buy the tickets
  • Some  fans hoped ticket prices would drop

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=82829

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Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Popularity

As Ultimate Fighting continues its phenomenal rise, Onion Sports runs down the most commonly cited reasons for the sport’s popularity:

America’s deep abiding interest in Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Professional wrestling fans like to relax and watch it after long hard days of suspending their disbelief

The fact that this shit is actually legal

Accidentally TiVo’d by people hoping to watch the Ultimate Frisbee Championship

Are heterosexual males; nothing more heterosexual than watching a well-muscled man force himself between another man’s legs, mount him, and pound away at him until he submits

… (see full article here)

Thank goodness it’s Friday.

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Current Throwdown ETC welter-weight champ, DaMarques Johnson will be representing for Utah on UFC’s reality show, The Ultimate Fighter season 9 tonight on Spike, 8 pm.

Johnson has been waiting for his shot, and it looks like it’s finally come. Fighting out of Jeremy Horn’s gym, Elite Performance, DarMarques has been training in Jiu-jitsu since 2001 and has developed into a fairly well-rounded striker.

As you many know, this season’s TUF is like the Revolutionary War, the British vs the Americans. The Brit team appears to be pretty stacked, so Johnson will have his work cut out for him if he’s going put the beatdown on the redcoats. Oooohhh, and I hate them redcoats, with all their taxes without representation.

Good luck DaMarques!

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