First UFC on Fox Event: November 12, 2011

[tlongII]

I had no idea it was a one fight event until I started watching last night. I think Fox really blew it with that idea. Fortunately I was able to watch some prelims online, but it would have been much better if the prelims were part of the event broadcast.

[ace3g]

even if Benson vs Guida made the fox card, it would have been worth it...

[tlongII]

even if Benson vs Guida made the fox card, it would have been worth it...

Agreed. That was a great fight.

[Stringer_Bell]

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Fox...le-Fight-37156

The show, which took place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., was highest-rated in the UFC’s hometown of Las Vegas, where it earned a 5.3/9. Other successful local markets included Dallas (5.1/10), Phoenix (5.1/9) and San Antonio (5.1/8).

You think Dana will see this and say it's time to give Cain a fight in the Alamo City? It's not Mexico, but we've got Mexican food!

[polandprzem]

On our tv they showed 2 fights

[ace3g]

The new trend: Win the UFC HW Championship... Have Surgery: http://mmaweekly.com/ufc-champ-junio...ed-for-surgery

[polandprzem]

1) HW is the worst division to show off MMA and what makes it different because the fight either becomes a grapple or instant KO - WW and LW would probably have been best.

Wrong

You want to persuade new audience to watch the mma, so IMO the best way to promote is to give the HW bout because everybody relates to it as the toughest and well kings weight.
And esp. with those two fighters there was no way it would appear a boring fight.


Speaking of the fight. I'm still in shock cause I was waiting for that fight really bad. I was rooting for Cain and after the fight I felt like somebody stole something from me. The feeling- I should be pissed but 'oh well'. happens.
Cain is better then that. He likes to be in the pocket but damn, was he not aware of the overhand? He is lacking defense. He must improve on it.
He was not 100% himself



BEn vs Clay - a fantastic fight. You could not expect more from it!
Benson proved he is the best. I wonder who will impose his will in a le fight. It's a key fighting against a guy like Frankie Edgar.

[Stringer_Bell]

Wrong

You want to persuade new audience to watch the mma, so IMO the best way to promote is to give the HW bout because everybody relates to it as the toughest and well kings weight.
And esp. with those two fighters there was no way it would appear a boring fight.

Attract new audience to a fight promotion? Use HW. Attract them to MMA? Use WW or LW. We all thought the fight would be awesome, I felt robbed too, but it wasn't and someone in the UFC brain trust should have fought for at least two matches instead of filling the show with filler that no casual fan gives a about. Dana going off at the presser showed how mad he was at the situation, he knows it sucked.

[polandprzem]

Attract new audience to a fight promotion? Use HW. Attract them to MMA? Use WW or LW. We all thought the fight would be awesome, I felt robbed too, but it wasn't and someone in the UFC brain trust should have fought for at least two matches instead of filling the show with filler that no casual fan gives a about. Dana going off at the presser showed how mad he was at the situation, he knows it sucked.

What was on the show exactly?

There was no hint about the rest of the card?


I was watching the fights on FB - then I went to look at the tv 3am - the shows should begin. As I turned it on it was the last secs of the brock vs cain fight and then they showed the LW eliminator fight Clay vs Benson. So I watched that fight twice.
Then it was the main event ..

And polish commentary sucks. They were almost ing about the fight and that the win looked too easy. That Brock needed to be demolished loosing that le. Cain lost just like that... etc.



Anyway the card was good and they caught some audience and they will start next year with fox.
And Dana will make sure the next FOX event will be better promoted.

[Stringer_Bell]

What was on the show exactly?

There was no hint about the rest of the card?

Oh yea, I forgot that you guys got a different version in the international market. No talk of the previous fights, nothing except stuff that was already shown about Cain and JDS before...like 50 minutes of that, 5 minutes of walkout, and then 5 minutes of ring action. It was crap, hope they learned from it.