{"id":10338,"date":"2011-05-10T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10338"},"modified":"2011-05-10T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:55:06","slug":"dana-white-breaking-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10338","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: BREAKING UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10338\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7306\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"danawhiteheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/danawhiteheader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Sean Farrell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UFC has revealed the most exciting gift a fighter could receive and that is that all of the top MMA promotion&#8217;s nearly 350 contracted fighters will now enjoy full accident insurance coverage, meaning that every single fighter the UFC has on their roster has access to &#8220;24-hour worldwide medical life insurance and dental coverage, as well as emergency medical evacuation.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While the UFC always covered the expenses for injuries acquired by fighters on fight night, injuries or illnesses suffered during training were left in the fighters&#8217; hands, many top fighters such as Miesha Tate and Pat Barry didn&#8217;t have medical insurance of any kind showing how BIG this step is for MMA as a sport. UFC\/ZUFFA LLC. CEO Lornezo Fertitta released a statement explaining ZUFFA&#8217;s choice to provide a wider coverage for its fighters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our athletes are some of the very best in the world and we&#8217;ve committed significant financial resources to provide them with insurance that complements the gold standard we have set for event-related coverage,&#8221; Fertitta said. &#8220;We&#8217;re pleased to provide coverage that enables our athletes to seek and receive treatment for injuries sustained while preparing for bouts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UFC has been researching a way to provide their fighters with &#8220;training insurance,&#8221; but were unable to find willing insurance providers, until they struck a deal with the Houston Casualty Insurance Company to underwrite all the training coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As this sport continues to grow, we have been working hard to secure additional insurance coverage so that our athletes can perform at the highest levels,&#8221; said UFC President Dana White. &#8220;We&#8217;re proud to give our athletes access to this type of insurance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now that 350 fighters are medically covered we will see fighters return to the more brutal training tactics of martial arts, resulting in even more exciting fights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Farrell The UFC has revealed the most exciting gift a fighter could receive and that is that all of the top MMA promotion&#8217;s nearly 350 contracted fighters will now enjoy full accident insurance coverage, meaning that every single fighter the UFC has on their roster has access to &#8220;24-hour worldwide medical life insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,736],"class_list":["post-10338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-dana-white","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}