UFC President Dana White has received difficulty keeping his tongue over the last year about on the community while they certainly were transmitting Strikeforce events a unstable relationship that developed with former tv partner Showtime. Zuffa (parent organization of the UFC) ordered Strikeforce in 2011 with an active Showtime television option already in position. It appeared the two sides would split months later, but then a new contract was struck that would hopefully move Strikeforce to new heights on the market. The period never came, unfortunately. White and the others of the group at Zuffa continuously butted heads with Showtime professionals and fundamentally Strikeforce folded and the fighters under contract were moved over to the UFC whilst the deal with the premium cable network finally came to a detailed. Throughout the whole trial, White did his far better remain silent about any deals he'd with Showtime, and packed his personal feelings right down to avoid venting about their difficult relationship. On Saturday evening following a close of UFC 159, White spoke about Showtime regarding their hottest thrust to the combat sports industry. A deal was recently inked by showtime with boxing pay-per-view king Floyd Mayweather, and they have made a significant play to dominate the marketplace on the game from longtime wire king, HBO. White found a number of Showtime's boxing card on Saturday evening prior to UFC 159 starting off, and also watched their opponent HBO set up the same offering.AThe UFC mind honcho said both services and products weren't even close. "I am maybe not the greatest Showtime lover in The World, but I will inform you what Showtime blew HBO from the water tonight," White mentioned when talking to Bleacher Report.A"With the speech and all the stuff which they did, I never thought I had start to see the time where I'd say Showtime is actually looking better than HBO.AIt is crazy." Now that Zuffa no longer works with Showtime and given their significant push to take control the boxing television market, White is rather sure he knows why things never resolved with Strikeforce on the network. "I think they didn't wish to be in business with us," White said about Showtime's motivation to focus on Strikeforce.A"Now that I view it and see what they are doing their plan was to take control boxing. Their plan was to obtain everyone that they could get away from HBO in to Showtime and they are throwing HBO's butt right now." Because Strikeforce was blended the fighters that used to participate under their banner have inked well in the UFC Octagon.ALast Saturday at UFC on Fox 7, former Strikeforce success Josh Thomson pulled out Nate Diaz, while Daniel Cormier found a unanimous decision win over former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir. On Saturday at UFC 159, former Strikeforce title challenger Pat Healy posted Jim Miller and also picked up a double reward for Fight of the Submission and Night of the Night. White seems more than content with the ability the UFC picked up from Strikeforce, and has put his time working with Showtime behind him. Damon Martin is really a Featured Columnist at Bleacher Report and all estimates were obtained first hand unless otherwise noted.
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