The Fox deal almost seems like a self-defeat.
You whet the appetite for the FOX channel shows by having the main event be the biggest heavyweight title fight in years(mma or boxing).So now, you make the fans want a title fight on every FOX show...but the main events have devolved every single show since. Hector Lombard and Brian Stann was the original main event for this show. Just think about that.
Hector didn't move the needle when he main evented on Bellator but he's gonna main event on FOX in his first UFC match?
Then on FX, you run Ultimate Fighter Live, which I personally think is great but the show airs at 10 pm on a friday night? who's watching tv on friday night....at 10 pm!????
They gotta get Ultimate Fighter on a better night and Dana and co. has to bite a couple bullets and put some title fights on the FOX shows.
And why didn't they just break the Bader fight and have Machida and Shogun finish their trilogy in the main event? Bader and Vera could've fought in the co-main and that's a more intriguing fight, imo.
You whet the appetite for the FOX channel shows by having the main event be the biggest heavyweight title fight in years(mma or boxing).So now, you make the fans want a title fight on every FOX show...but the main events have devolved every single show since. Hector Lombard and Brian Stann was the original main event for this show. Just think about that.
Hector didn't move the needle when he main evented on Bellator but he's gonna main event on FOX in his first UFC match?

Then on FX, you run Ultimate Fighter Live, which I personally think is great but the show airs at 10 pm on a friday night? who's watching tv on friday night....at 10 pm!????

They gotta get Ultimate Fighter on a better night and Dana and co. has to bite a couple bullets and put some title fights on the FOX shows.
And why didn't they just break the Bader fight and have Machida and Shogun finish their trilogy in the main event? Bader and Vera could've fought in the co-main and that's a more intriguing fight, imo.