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UFC May Not Reach Canada in ‘07
The UFC has been trying to hold an event in Canada for most likely about a year now. However each time they are close to finalizing a deal, it always seems that something is standing in their way and the deal falls apart.
UFC President Dana White seemed confident when he stated that the UFC was finally going to make it up to Montreal in late 2007 during a June interview with the Canadian Press. A projected October event probably wouldn’t include Georges St. Pierre but at least the UFC would have made it to Canada.
Now let’s fast forward one month…
Rogers Sportsnet’s RJ Broadhead talked to White yesterday about the prospect of the UFC holding an event in the Bell Centre later this year. It seems that the Montreal Canadiens’ schedule is going to be quite the problem for White and company.
Video of Broadhead’s interview with White can be found here. White also discusses the debut of Canadian Mark Boeck at tonight’s UFC 73 and the amount of talent that is coming out of the country these days.
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from Ontario, Canada
Jul 8, 2007 5:19 AM
RJ Broadhead has a good blog over at Sportsnet. I enjoyed the piece he wrote regarding the UFC’s public relations.
Here is a quote that stood out to me…
“In most sports there are many athletes who make the media feel like he or she is doing them a favour doing an interview…with the UFC they acknowledge that the media is actually doing them the favour. Dana White the president of the UFC came up to Sean and I and personally thanked us for the coverage Rogers Sportsnet is providing nationally on television and on Sportsnet.ca. I can’t remember the last time Gary Bettman did that.”
“It gets better. We had scheduled an interview with Dana for Friday. One of the UFC’s PR people spotted us and waved us onto the floor. She brought us backstage where the fighters were getting their medicals and the undercards were doing their weigh-ins. She asked if we wanted to do the interview in the Octagon…ummm YEAH! That’s like doing an interview with Martin Brodeur in the goal crease…and that ain’t gonna happen! We were told the only stipulation was we had to take our shoes off. Dana said “leave them on.” So I did, it made me taller.”
I thought that was pretty cool…