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Fertitta and White, This is Your Life!
Cage Writer — The guys who run the UFC have a long relationship dating back to Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. Owner Lorenzo Fertitta and president Dana White were classmates at Sin City's major parochial school and so were quite a few good athletes at the time including future AL Rookie of the Year Marty Cordova. The nine-year major leaguer has been hanging around the UFC events recently so Cage Writer corraled him for a convo. Cordova talks about Fertitta being a great guy who wasn't spoiled considering that he came from a wealthy family. He also said White wasn't really part of the jock crew. White was a guy who liked to party ...

Skeletal Metal Ties Jewelry to MMA Market
MMAPayout.com: The Business of MMA — The Las Vegas Review Journal detailed the local company Skeletal Metal and its attaching itself to the MMA phenomenon as means to success for the company. The company has closely aligned itself with anoher hometown Las Vegas brand, the UFC. The teo companies did a tie in for UFC 92 and company president Dana White is featured on their website as well as in advertising for the company in this month’s issue of Fight! Magazine. The Skeletal Metal brand seems simlar to Affliction, in that it is a non-endemic brand that has attached it self to the sport in a vacuum of other brands already in the space. Founder Mike ...

MLB demands Cordova return the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award
Cage Writer — With all the sniping back and forth it feels like watching two 16-year-olds at Bishop Gorman High School go at it. Dana White's latest vlog featured the UFC president busting the chops of good buddy Marty Cordova. The former major leaguer who burst onto to the baseball scene as a Minnesota Twin with 24 home runs, 84 RBI and 20 stolen bases, has been losing all week in feats of old guy athleticism against the UFC brass. What will Bud Selig do? Next thing you know Tony Gwynn will outweigh Mark Mangino. Oh, wait. This was bad for Cordova but only the second most embarrassing moment of his athletic career: ...