Kenny Florian. Photo property of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
As we reported yesterday, UFC lightweight title contender Kenny Florian will serve as the host of ESPN's newly-planned online mixed martial arts magazine show that will appear exclusively on the company's official website and on mobile phones.
“MMA Live” will be a half-hour program covering all aspects of the sport, including news concerning various organizations around the world and upcoming events among other things. Florian will work alongside Jon Anik, who has already done some online MMA work for ESPN and Franklin McNeil, a reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger and a regular contributor to the UFC’s “Countdown” shows.
"It's kind of a fast-paced show on the current news and events going on in the sport,” Florian told MMA Weekly. “There's a whole lot of guys at ESPN that have been trying to get this done I guess for two years. Basically, I was contacted by ESPN about two weeks before my fight against Joe Lauzon and there was some interest. They finally got the okay to do an MMA show, and they were interested in using me for this show.”
"It's strictly going to be on ESPN.com. It's not going to be on TV as of right now," Florian added. "Basically they're going to do a run for three shows on ESPN.com and see what the response is, see how it does. Then if it goes well, we'll do a regular thing on the Internet, and if it does even better, then possibly you'll see it on TV."
The show is slated to debut tonight on ESPN.com at 7:00 PM ET. MMA on Tap will have the video up if and when it becomes available.
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