"Sorry, the Cup is only for those who play a real sport.": NHL's Kings on the UFC

UFC on Fox: Shogun vs. Vera takes place on August 4 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Staples Center thought it would be a nice gesture to invite the NHL's Stanley Cup Champs, the LA Kings, to the event. The Kings? They tweeted: "Sorry, the Cup is only for those who play a real sport."

And then the Queens deleted said tweet.

Dave Doyle writes:

If TV ratings are a measure of what one considers real sport, the Kings come up short. After all, the UFC has held three live events on FOX, and have averaged 4.25 million viewers. This year's Stanley Cup Final, meanwhile, featured teams from both the New York metro area and Los Angeles, the two biggest markets in the country. The Kings and New Jersey Devils averaged 3.01 million viewers for four NBC broadcasts (We'll be polite and not even mention Game 3, which did 1.74 million viewers on NBCSN).

The Kings replaced the deleted tweet with "We may be busy parading our big shiny trophy around the world." to which the UFC replied: "Our checking line > your checking line"

@LAKings Our checking line > your checking line twitter.com/ufc/status/228…

— UFC (@ufc) July 26, 2012

Indeed.

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