{"id":15447,"date":"2011-09-03T22:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T02:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2011-09-03T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T02:32:39","slug":"dana-white-ufc-shocker-announcement-shakes-mma-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15447","title":{"rendered":"Dana White UFC SHOCKER: Announcement  SHAKES MMA World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7243\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"danawhiteheader2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/danawhiteheader2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dana White\u2019s historic deal with FOX was a breakthrough for the UFC and MMA.  The announcement was made that the first fight to premiere will be a heavyweight championship fight with Junior Dos Santos facing off against Cain Velasquez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat better way to kick things off with a heavyweight championship,\u201d White said during a media conference call.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee Dana White\u2019s historic deal with FOX was a breakthrough for the UFC and MMA. The announcement was made that the first fight to premiere will be a heavyweight championship fight with Junior Dos Santos facing off against Cain Velasquez. \u201cWhat better way to kick things off with a heavyweight championship,\u201d White said [&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":[105,185,3866,1019,510,532,736],"class_list":["post-15447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-dana-white","tag-deal","tag-fox","tag-mma","tag-news","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447","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=15447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}