tapout Stories - Cageside Seats
I take it the Federal Trade Commission is investigating the UFC
The heavily rumoured ongoing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of UFC is a story that has been three months in the making. Indeed, it's one that Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta expected as soon as they purchased their main competitor Strikeforce from Scott Coker and Silicon Valley...
Lawsuit filed against TapOut by former saleswoman goes to trial
L.A. Weekly is reporting via its Informer blog a trial has just started in the case of Michelle Thomas v. TapOut. Thomas is suing for wrongful termination. Her claim is that she was fired from her sales job because she didn't watch the (abominably awful) TapOut reality show on Versus and all...
MMA-themed T-shirts ape Nazi imagery even if they don't use the authentic symbols
Last week at our sister blog Bloody Elbow, Jonathan Snowden wrote about how Nazi imagery continues to haunt companies who sell MMA themed T-shirts, most recently with Silverstar's use of the Totenkopf, a symbol that (like the swastika and iron cross) was co-opted by the Nazis. The Totenkopf...
Drunk Driver Convicted of Death of Charles "Mask" Lewis
Jeffrey Kirby - the man involved in the road collision that killed Tapout's Charles 'Mask' Lewis - was found guilty of manslaughter and convicted to a possible 13 years in prison from February 4th. According to the Orange Country Register: A jury of seven women and five men deliberated for about...
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