Jan 7, 2010

Dana White Proof Social Networking Works

 Dana White has been giving away free tickets to UFC events through Twitter for the last several UFC events. Often he films on his Vlog when he twitters his location to give away free tickets and then you see the line ups start. Its amazing. Here's how it started in his words. (Check the link for a little video on meeting Dana)


"Lemme tell you when I started goofing around with Twitter. Lemme fuckin' lay this out for you. I'm in New York City. It's 10:30 on a Monday night in midtown Manhattan. It's raining. And it's a Jewish holiday, okay? As you know, I'm a Pinkberry freak. I like to have my Pinkberry. I have this one store in midtown Manhattan that will stay open for me late. I just have to call and let them know, and after I have dinner, I always go there and eat Pinkberry, right? So this one time I'm like, 'Let's just fuck around here and try something.' I Twitter my people. I say, 'Meet me at Pinkberry in midtown Manhattan. I got tickets to the fight if you guys want to go.' So you've been to New York enough, right? People don't give a fuck about anything in New York. I've never seen a city where people just don't fucking care — Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie can be walking down the street holding hands and people could care less, you know? They take shit in stride. I'm twenty minutes late showing up to Pinkberry. The fucking place is packed. There's people everywhere. I get out of the car and everybody starts cheering and going crazy. I look at the police and I'm like, 'Are you guys mad?' And they're like, 'We didn't believe you were coming.' I get out, I sign autographs, take pictures. We hand out like a zillion tickets. We're there for two hours. "And this is the craziest fucking thing about this whole story: Not only is it Monday night, raining, in midtown Manhattan on a Jewish holiday, I'm giving away tickets to a fight in fucking Los Angeles. I can't believe it either.... I get chills just talking about this."

Dana White, King of MMA

Jan 3, 2010

Takanori Gomi in UFC, SUPER exiting


Last night at UFC 108, UFC announced the signing of Takanori Gomi (31-5), once considered to be the best lightweight in the world. This is a huge signing for UFC, especially considering that BJ Penn has been running through all lightweight fighters with ease. With Gomi in the mix, this should prove to be very interesting. Rumours are already spreading that he may fight Kenny Florian in his Octogon debut. This would be a perfect test to see if he's at the level to be a threat to BJ Penn. He and Penn have fought before where Penn won by rear naked choke. We'll see if a rematch is on the horizon.

Check out these articles I found.

Takanori Gomi vs Kenny Florian teased by ESPN

Takanori Gomi sign with UFC