With Versus airing a marathon of World Extreme Cagefighting content, Spike TV today does the same with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
The UFC’s longtime cable partner launched the marathon earlier today, and it runs until 7 p.m. ET/PT tonight.
The New Year’s Eve content includes replays of three recent editions of The Ultimate Fighter Finale events.
The WEC recently announced that MMA legend Jens Pulver (22-12 MMA, 1-4
WEC) will return to action at “WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz” in March.
Now he’s got an opponent.
MMAjunkie.com has learned from sources close to the
organization that Pulver will meet fellow featherweight Javier Vazquez
(13-4 MMA, 0-2 WEC) on the evening’s main card.
With the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino studio still under renovation, MMAjunkie.com Radio returns to it’s TAGG Radio roots for this week’s broadcasts.
Today the crew will preview Thursday night’s year-end “Dynamite!! 2009″
event while also giving away two pairs of free tickets, compliments of
UFC president Dana White, to Saturday’s UFC 108 event!
MMAjunkie.com Radio begins at noon ET (9 a.m. PT). Due to the temporary relocation of the studio, listener phone calls will not be available until the crew returns to Mandalay Bay. Listen to and watch a video stream of the show at www.mmajunkie.com/radio.
LAS VEGAS - As expected Spike TV’s “UFC Prelim” broadcast of Saturday’s UFC 108 event will feature preliminary-card matchups of Martin Kampmann (15-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) vs. Jacob Volkmann (9-1 MMA 0-1 UFC) and Cole Miller (15-4 MMA, 4-2 UFC) vs. Dan Lauzon (12-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC).
UFC officials confirmed the Jan. 2 broadcast plans with MMAjunkie.com prior to today’s UFC 108 pre-event press conference.
MMAjunkie.com first reported earlier this month that the two matchups were likely to take the broadcast spots on the one-hour special, which precedes the night’s pay-per-view broadcast.
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