HDNet's 'Inside MMA' to Feature UFC Middleweight Nate Quarry, Leonard Garcia and...

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Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:30pm EDT

HDNet's 'Inside MMA' to Feature UFC Middleweight Nate Quarry, Leonard Garcia
and Brett Cooper

Kenny and Bas get the inside track on upcoming events - TONIGHT at 9:00 p.m.
ET

DALLAS, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- 

WHAT:  Tonight on "Inside MMA," Kenny and Bas look to three fighters for
insight into recent (and upcoming) fight events.  These men have a combined
twenty years experience in the fighting world: UFC middleweight Nate Quarry,
WEC featherweight Leonard Garcia, and Affliction welterweight Brett Cooper.
Both Quarry and Garcia have fought for titles in their respective
organizations while Cooper has won eight of his last nine fights. 

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Ron Kruck will also have the latest in fight news - and also presents a look
at how an MMA cage is built - in Kruck's Korner.

HDNet's "Inside MMA" is the first and only one of its kind - an original,
weekly television program devoted completely to news and highlights from the
world of Mixed Martial Arts. Hosts Kenny Rice and Bas Rutten are joined by the
sport's top fighters and news-makers every week to discuss and analyze the
latest in MMA. The program also includes event highlights, viewer mail, and
Ron Kruck providing up-to-the-minute news and features with Kruck's Korner.
"Inside MMA" has become the hottest Mixed Martial Arts program on television,
giving fans their weekly fix of everything MMA.

Since the program's inception in September of 2007, "Inside MMA" has covered
some of the biggest stories in the business, presenting interviews with the
biggest names involved. From Randy Couture's legal battles with the UFC to
Seth Petruzelli's upset win over Kimbo - and the Florida State Athletic
Commission's investigation of that fight, to the fall of EliteXC, "Inside MMA"
has covered it all.

WHEN:  Friday, June 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET on HDNet 

About HDNet
HDNet (www.hd.net,  twitter.com/hdnet) is a network that is original, thinks
independently and delivers unique content and provocative, authentic
programming that appeals to men of all ages, delivered in true high
definition. 

HDNet is the exclusive, high definition home for popular, original
programming, including television's only HD news feature programs "HDNet World
Report," and the Emmy Award winning "Dan Rather Reports," featuring legendary
journalist Dan Rather.  Only HDNet goes beyond the headlines to deliver real
news that is redefining the way we look at our world.  HDNet News is
provocative, sometimes controversial and always relevant  - telling the
important stories of our time in-depth, with attitude and with independence.

HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the best of Mixed
Martial Arts through HDNet Fights (www.hdnetfights.com,
twitter.com/hdnetfights).  HDNet Fights partners with leading MMA promoters
including Affliction, DREAM, Sengoku, XFC, M-1, K-1, K-1 Max, MFC, Adrenaline
and more.  HDNet produces more live Mixed Martial Arts events than any other
network and HDNet's "Inside MMA" is the hottest Mixed Martial Arts program on
television, giving MMA fans their weekly fix for everything MMA.

HDNet also delivers the world's largest and most diverse concert line-up
through the HDNet Concert Series.  The HDNet Concert Series features leading
artists and bands including Coldplay, Gwen Stefani, John Mayer and more. 
HDNet also features revealing lifestyle programming featuring "Art Mann
Presents," "Vegas Confessions," "Deadline" and "Get Out!"  HDNet is also the
exclusive high definition home to critically acclaimed and award winning
documentaries as part of the InFocus series.  "NASA on HDNet" presents all
live shuttle launches through 2010.  

Only HDNet Movies (www.hdnetmovies.com, twitter.com/hdnetmovies) delivers
exclusive Sneak Previews of new movies before they hit theaters.  The HDNet
Movies Sneak Preview series features top Hollywood stars in critically
acclaimed performances including Gwyneth Paltrow, Joaquin Phoenix, Demi Moore,
Michael Caine, Tom Hanks, Vera Farmiga, Parker Posey, Brian Cox, Matthew
Broderick, Brittany Snow, Eric Bana, John Malkovich, and Emily Blunt.

Upcoming Sneak Previews include "Answer Man" starring Jeff Daniels and Lauren
Graham.

In addition to being the exclusive home of Sneak Previews, HDNet Movies
presents viewers with over one hundred films and an average of twenty-five 
"HD Premieres" each month.  HDNet Movies viewers enjoy the best films from the
classics of the 1950s-1970s, to favorite films from the 1980s and 1990s, to
recently released theatrical films.

HDNet Movies offers subscribers a premium movie viewing experience in true HD,
and more original movies shot entirely in HD than any other network.

Launched in 2001 by Mark Cuban and General Manager Philip Garvin, the HDNet
networks are available on AT&T, Charter Communications, Comcast, DIRECTV, DISH
Network, Insight, Mediacom, Verizon and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate
companies.  To receive HDNet information via email simply go to
www.hd.net/listpage.



SOURCE  HDNet

Colette Carey of HDNet, +1-303-542-5576, ccarey@hd.net
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