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Thursday, April 1, 2010
ESPN's MMA Live: Looks Back at UFC 111 and UFC Fight Night 21
Thursday, March 25, 2010
ESPN's MMA Live: Looks Back at UFC on Versus and Previews UFC 111
Georges St-Pierre, Brock Lesnar, and Frank Mir on SportsCenter
UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, who revealed his comeback plans from a three-month illness on SportsCenter in January, will be interviewed Friday at 10:15 a.m.
SportsCenter anchor Josh Elliott will conduct the interviews from SportsCenter's Bristol, Conn. studios, with St. Pierre, Mir and Lesnar in New York.
Mir will battle Shane Carwin for the interim heavyweight title and the right to fight Lesnar, while St. Pierre is defending his belt against Dan Hardy. The action will take place Saturday on pay-per-view from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
ESPN's MMA Live: Roger Huerta, Dan Henderson and UFC Live on Versus Preview
Thursday, March 4, 2010
ESPN's MMA Live: James Toney, Strikefoce & WEC 47
Thursday, February 25, 2010
ESPN's MMA Live: UFC 110 Wrap-Up
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
PTI Host Defends Frank Mir Comments
UFC president Dana White responded to the comments yesterday, and Mir himself issued an apology on Tuesday acknowledging the statement was out of line. That said one of the harshest critics of the sport, Mike Wilbon, defended Mir's comments on "Pardon the Interruption" on Wednesday.
"It's not out of line, I'm sorry this wouldn't even make the top 50 awful things Mike Tyson said he was going to do to an opponent some time that week before a big match in Vegas," Wilbon said when asked about Mir's comments.
"This is just how you promote boxing, MMA, wrestling, this is par for the course."
Wilbon went on to say that former heavyweight boxing champ, Mike Tyson, was the king of saying controversial things before his fights, so much so it actually frightened him at the time.
"Mike said things that when I was sitting there I got scared and wanted to leave the press conference," Wilbon commented.
Dan LeBatard, a columnist for the Miami Herald and ESPN contributor, who has been a fan of MMA for some time, brought up the fact that the sport is still trying to battle certain perceptions.
"Dana White is fighting something with this sport when John McCain calls it "human cockfighting", this sport is safer than boxing, because people don't know it, they look at it, they look at it and it's violent," LeBatard said. "It's safer than boxing. So when you have this thrown in it's something that Dana White's trying to get rid of with this sport."
ESPN programming has been featuring more and more MMA coverage lately, and a feature spot on one of the most popular programs, "Pardon the Interruption" can only be good for the future of the sport.