How to Watch UFC 142

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The UFC's first pay-per-view offering of 2012 goes down this Saturday night, and it also kicks off a brand new television era for the organization.

FX will air a large portion of the UFC 142 prelims leading up to the pay-per-view, which kicks off at 10 pm ET. Facebook will also air a fight from the card on Saturday night.

Plus, when the entire event is over, a one-hour post-fight show will air live on FUEL TV.




UFC 142 will mark the organization's second trip to Brazil in less than five months. The event will be held, once again, at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro.

Below is a breakdown of where all the fights will air:

Pay-Per-View card:
Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title)
Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva
Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim

FX card:
Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle

Facebook fight:
Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho

 

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NSAC's Keith Kizer Had No Issues With Kim Winslow's Stoppage of Lawal-Larkin

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Referee Kim Winslow received a fair share of criticism for her work at Saturday night's Strikeforce event in Las Vegas, most notably from Muhammed Lawal, but Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer did not feel the criticism was warranted.

"I had no issues with the stoppage," Kizer wrote to MMAFighting.com on Monday when asked for a response to Lawal's post-fight comments about the referee.

Lawal felt Winslow stopped his fight against Lorenz Larkin very late, which could have led to Larkin getting seriously injured.

"The commission," Lawal said at the post-fight press conference, "they need to do something with (Winslow). Let her take a fight or something and give her a bad ref. Let her fight Cyborg or something. Let her fight 'Cyborg' and then let's do a late stoppage of her. Because I watched her almost get Jan Finney killed by 'Cyborg.' I think the tables need to be turned. Put me in there as a ref and I'll just do a terrible job like her."

In a June 2009 interview, Winslow, who has never competed in a professional or amateur MMA fight, told MMAFighting.com that her professional background was as an air-traffic controller, but she had trained in "multiple "styles" of martial arts.

"I am not a fighter," she said, "I'm a safety girl. I don't have the warrior spirit, I'm much more concerned about whether the other person is OK. Some of us are meant to ref and some of us are meant to fight. I have the capability to fight, but I'm not the person who fights unless I have to defend myself."

Watch Lawal discuss his issues with Winslow below (6:00 mark).

 

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Vitor BelfortThe first international season of The Ultimate Fighter will be available on American television.

UFC President Dana White said on ESPN 1100 in Las Vegas that although the UFC isn't ready to make an official announcement yet, the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter Brazil is slated to air on Fuel TV, which White hailed as one example of why the UFC's new television deal with fights on Fox, FX and Fuel is a major plus for UFC fans.

"The UFC has so much content that even Spike, if you look at what a huge percentage of their content we used to be, we still needed more," White said. "The Ultimate Fighter Brazil will air on Fuel TV. All this unique content that we're doing in other parts of the world, Fuel TV is going to take. I've been saying for the last six months, if you're a UFC fan and you really love the UFC, it's impossible not to have Fuel."

It's not yet known whether the Brazilian season of the UFC's reality show will be taped in advance, as past seasons have been, or whether fights will be shown live, as the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter on FX will be.

The UFC has announced that Wanderlei Silva and Vitor Belfort will coach against each other on the Brazilian reality show and then fight against each other at the end of the season, and the Brazilian season will conclude with a live Ultimate Fighter Finale, just as the American show always has. And American fans will be able to watch it all, if they're in the minority of households that have Fuel TV.

 

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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2012/01/08/ultimate-fighter-brazil-expected-to-air-on-fuel-tv/

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