Let me sum it up for you guys.
- Dana announced a four year extension to their contract with Spike TV.
- The contract includes five more seasons of The Ultimate Fighter.
- A new reality fight series will air in 2011, geared at replacing TUF, with a caliber of fighters one step above the current roster.
- A face-to-face meeting with Randy Couture and his management is being scheduled. Neither side has ruled out the possibility of coming to a new agreement.
- The UFC Heavyweight title will not be vacated until this meeting happens, and Randy himself tells Dana that he is retiring.
- Dana mentioned a "good chance" we could see Dan Henderson fight Anderson Silva in the near future.
- Brock Lesnar's first fight with the UFC is penciled in for the Superbowl Saturday event. Speculation about his opponent spans from Tim Sylvia to Brad Imes.
- Arlovski was discussed briefly. Andrei is reported to be eager to fight, but Dana seemed to think that he had benched himself for now.
- Dana reiterated that he felt the reason the deal with Fedor fell through was because Emelianenko's management was looking out for their own interests, and not Fedor's.
- Dana said he delayed the announcement of the Wanderlei Silva / Chuck Liddell matchup until he was sure Chuck's head was in it, after his devastating loss to Keith Jardine.
- Five events are scheduled for the UK in '08, and one event in Canada.
- White is "100% sure" that the UFC will eventually be on HBO, but that the timing isn't right for now.
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