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Ep 293 Ant Evans 2008 UFC Media Relations 

The year 2008 was a wild year for the UFC; it featured 3 of the largest grossing PPV’s in company history and some incredible main events. 

Ant Evans returns to the show to discuss what took place in 2008 and share never heard from before stories from an incredible era. 

Ep 293 Ant Evans 2008 UFC Media Relations

0:00 plugs/ promotions 
0:42 MMA history podcast  intro 
1:14 Joey Venti’s guest introduction
1:34 interview start 
8:22 Roger Huerta training issues 
13:44 Roger Huerta burying the UFC
15:54 The “Irish hand grenade” controversy 
20:28 UFC reaction to Affliction event 
23:47 Affliction attorney working for the UFC
25:49 Affliction event music performance 
26:40 Super fight league failure 
28:04 UFC lawsuits 
30:26 Sean Sherk testing positive for PEDs
33:25 UFC popularity in the UK 
36:56 Randy couture turns down Nogueira fight 
37:49 Brock Lesnar wanting to fight in the UFC
41:07 Frank Mir Joe Silva friendship 
42:22 Tim Sylvia arm break 
44:15 Frank Mir fight career decline 
48:26 Dan Henderson vs Anderson Silva 
51:14 redesigning the UFC belt
52:55 Randy Couture threatening retirement 
55:46 UFC 83 breaking attendance record 
57:36 Art Davie inducted into UFC HOF
1:00:40 UFC HOF mistakes 
1:05:29 Art Davie UFC founder plaque 
1:08:25 Bob Meyrowitz no showing UFC HOF 
1:11:00 online criticism over UFC HOF
1:16:11 Mike Tyson speech 
1:19:05 certain media banned from the UFC 
1:20:50 calling Joe Silva 
1:21:52 issues with bringing in Gilbert Yvel 
1:24:03 Matt Lindland fake tapping 
1:25:47 UFC 85 Bedlam
1:33:51 owning domain names of fighters 
1:35:27 Jon Jones UFC debut 
1:36:25 UFC ppv sales 
1:37:59 Brock Lesnar vs Alistair Overeem
1:45:09 UFC name, image, and likeness contracts 
1:46:08 Forrest Griffin vs Rashad Evans 
1:50:03 UFC trivia questions 
1:52:31 interview wrap up/ outro

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