No Holds Barred: Joel Resnick on Feb. 2 RUFF Super Fights to Crown China's First National MMA Champions‏

No Holds Barred: Joel Resnick on Feb. 2 RUFF Super Fights to Crown
China's First National MMA Champions
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with
Joel Resnick, the founder and CEO of RUFF (Ranik Ultimate Fighting
Federation).

Based in China, RUFF will be holding its most important show on
Saturday, February 2, where five super fights will be held in five
different weight classes to crown, for the first time, Chinese
national MMA champions. Each of the winners will earn RMB 1,000,000
(approximately US$160,000).

This card will take place at the Inner Mongolia Indoor Stadium in
Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, and be televised live throughout China
on Inner Mongolia Satellite Channel as well as regionally on the
Shandong Sports Channel and the Xinjiang Sports Channel.

There will be several online and mobile streams available in China, as
well as a free, live stream available to the world on PPTV, scheduled
to start at 2:30 PM China Standard Time (CST - UTC/GMT +8 hours). RUFF
will be providing more information on the telecasts and webcasts, athttp://www.ruffchina.com.

We spoke with Joel Resnick by Skype Tuesday (Monday in New York) to
preview this important card and discuss the progress of RUFF as an
organization.

"Really we've done everything we said we were going to do from the
very beginning," he said in this interview.

"We work on facts over here. Fact one: We're the only ones that have a
permit for professional MMA in China. That's just the way it is. And
our permit just got extended through 2014.

"Fact two: We're giving out the first China national MMA belts
sanctioned by the government.

"Fact three: We're giving out 1,000,000 RMB to each of the five
winners.

"Fact four: We're on satellite TV live. No combat sport has ever been
on satellite TV live in China."

He also listed some of the very impressive statistics for total TV
viewership of RUFF events in China. RUFF 5 got just over seven million
viewers, RUFF 6 got around six million viewers, with the numbers for
RUFF 7 due shortly. He added, the "Super Fight, really, we're hoping
for ten million viewers. It's the first time ever it will be aired
live nationally."

RUFF has also had a reality show with millions of viewers to
familiarize people with the mostly young group of fighters who compete
in this organization.

We also discussed the fights on this championship card, why there was
a late replacement this week for one of the fighters, how the fighters
chosen to compete on this card were selected both for their fight
records as well as how they will represent their country, the future

of RUFF, and much more.

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