Essential The Official MMA Thread

[The G.O.D II]

Build a company from grass roots and not make any traction after x amount of years then accept the first offer you get from a media giant only to get fired by them All those shady contract dealings were a PR nightmare glad I never have to see that snake on the web again
no chance, viacom will hold on with an iron fist (even though they see no value) & will ratchet the price just cuz.Zuffa have no reason to other than to acquire the contracts of 2 lhws and dantas..

In another direction but I think this is the reason why Dixie Carter didn't want to sell TNA to them. Because that company is doing 10x worse then bellator(who actually pulled 100k buys for that card). Viacom will cut her the first chance it gets. She should know since she basically did the same to Jeff Jarrett

 

[The ADD]

Vacom owns them. They aren't selling. I heard Bjorn was on the outs ever since that whole Alvarez fiasco. And the PPV cancellation did not help

 

[jackswstd]

Jacare vs Mousasi
Bader vs OSP
Bendo vs Dos Anjos all coming up in the next few months

 

[puppetmaster]

Josh Barnett wants to fight JDS. If he can survive that initial onslaught I think Josh make it a fight. That's a really BIG IF tho. Especially if JDS has mentally recovered from that Cain mauling.

I don't hate the idea of the fight, although if I were Barnett I'd be angling for a rematch with Travis Browne


-P-

 

[The Infamous]

Josh Barnett wants to fight JDS. If he can survive that initial onslaught I think Josh make it a fight. That's a really BIG IF tho. Especially if JDS has mentally recovered from that Cain mauling.

I don't hate the idea of the fight, although if I were Barnett I'd be angling for a rematch with Travis Browne


-P-

Although JDS does tend to slow down, he can finish the fight at any time. I think this is a terrible match-up for Barnett, props to him for calling out a very tough opponent though.

 

[Change]

They need to make Barnett VS Bigfoot! let them settle their beef. I've been waiting for that fight for years. It would be much more competitive.

 

[The Infamous]

http://www.cagepotato.com/wild-rumor-of-the-day-ufc-174-did-less-than-100000-pay-per-view-buys/

Yesterday, MMAFighting’s Dave Meltzer reported that UFC 173: Barao vs. Dillashaw pulled an estimated 200,000-215,000 pay-per-view buys.

Here’s Meltzer discussing the early estimates in his newsletter yesterday:

It’s too early to get accurate numbers, but every indication we’ve gotten was very bad, and that it showed a steep decline from UFC 173, which was among the lower numbers of the last eight years. UFC PPV shows usually range from 200,000 to 500,000 Google searches after the event, and are usually in the top few searched for items in the country. A bad show may only do 100,000. Bellator’s show last month hit 100,000. A big show can top 500,000, with the shows that hover around 1 million buys usually doing anywhere from 1 million to 5 million searches. This show did less than 20,000, unheard of for a PPV..

 

[Kenny West]

http://www.cagepotato.com/wild-rumor-of-the-day-ufc-174-did-less-than-100000-pay-per-view-buys/

good. it sucked

the people made the right decision

 

[wake&bake]

Damn, Faber getting pushed to prelims main event for UFC 175. FOX hoping for a ratings boost?
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/6/1...urijah-faber-vs-alex-caceres-preliminary-card

Main Card (PPV)

Chris Weidman vs. Lyoto Machida
Ronda Rousey vs. Alexis Davis
Stefan Struve vs. Matt Mitrione
Uriah Hall vs. Thiago Santos
Marcus Brimage vs. Russell Doane

Preliminary Card (FS1)

Urijah Faber vs. Alex Caceres
Kenny Robertson vs. Ildemar Alcantara
Bruno Santos vs. Chris Camozzi
George Roop vs. Rob Font

Preliminary Card (Fight Pass)

Luke Zachrich vs. Guilherme Vasconcelos
Kevin Casey vs. Bubba Bush

 

[The Infamous]

I can't wait for Machida to take that belt. Rest of the card is mediocre imo.

 

[Strapped]

are you off your meds

 

[The Infamous]

Who?

 

[The G.O.D II]

Damn, Faber getting pushed to prelims main event for UFC 175. FOX hoping for a ratings boost?
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/6/1...urijah-faber-vs-alex-caceres-preliminary-card

Damn that card fukking sucks for it to be the biggest show of the year.

 

[Master Teacher]

http://www.cagepotato.com/wild-rumor-of-the-day-ufc-174-did-less-than-100000-pay-per-view-buys/

not surprised UFC have way too many events, MMA is at it's best in a tournament format like how it first started

 

[The Infamous]

not surprised UFC have way too many events, MMA is at it's best in a tournament format like how it first started

On paper, tournaments are a great idea. Unfortunately, injuries are a big problem. And what does the champion do during a tourney? Wait on the sidelines for the winner? We already have champs not fighting enough. If the AC didn't have their rules/regulations, an 4 or 8 man one day tournament would be