IMO there is too many now. As much as I love MMA the big event feel is now gone.
Agreed. I dont get excited anymore. Im just like well heres another card.. I liked when there was one every month and sometimes there was only a UFN a certain month.
Somehow Pride always got me for excited shows and it felt like they had one every week.
figured this was worthy of its own thread.
Thoughts everyone? I miss epic cards but I am sure this is better for the growth of the sport. For now.
I agree also. We've reached the point of over-saturation.
i agree, not only is there no build up to most fights now but its impossible to afford all of them when they are so close to eachother
when o and forrest is your main headline, yes
Like I said in another thread the TUF finale is better than the last 3-4 ppv's
or has the potential to be
As long as they put some of them on e, i think it is OK. I think if they are going to go this route they are heading, with an event every other week, they definately need to save the PPVs for the big name events.
I think the Vera v Couture fight was a good example. Although i think the card this weekend was really good, it probably should have been another e event.
Save the PPV for the le matches and events.
In all fairness it was supposed to be Brock & Shane.
They do i think more stuff needs to get on free TV. The ufc has been talking up a network deal for so long and Dana has promised that when it happens they will be looking at like 4 events a year on TV, so that will bring the excitement along knowing that you don't have to watch it on a crappy stream if you don't want to plunk down 45 bucks for the PPV. I order i'd say about 5 or 6 PPV's a year. Try to stream the rest, but you really feel the pinch when the UFC is in the spot it is now with many of their top tier stars, injured, or having just fought. The big guns are not lined up to fight and yet they still stay on track with a PPV card a month. More free fights on TV will get me more excited for lackluster cards obviously.. That should happen eventually.
Im tired of free ty cards on e tv. It doesnt help its the lamest ing channel ever. Give me 12 solid ppvs a year. Each le holder defends his belt twice. And give me 3-4 UFN's on e along with a Ultimate fighter season and finale and im happy.
not this 20+ major UFC event bull . I absolutely hate ty ing free cards from the UK. the UK. If your going to hold a show there do it once a year so it can be special. And make it a good card. This is an American company. Pride wasnt in America all the time. How about we go to brasil or somewhere else for once.
UFC 105 on e was an excellent card..
105 was a bull card. boring main event. UK gots across the board. Only fight i enjoyed was the Matt Brown fight.
Ok well YOU may be happy but I really don't wanna have to pay 50 bucks to watch every event. Big ing deal if it isn't as "built up". I would think a true fan of the sport would love to see as many free fights as possible.
The only live event I've ever seen was 100 and that was cause I got lucky and knew someone who knew someone who paid for the PPV. When I heard about 105 being on e for free, I was so freaking stoked. Did anyone take into consideration the fans out there who can't afford to pay for the PPV?
are you trying to say something?
I love the free cards dont get me wrong, but i like the classic suspense and build up towards a fight. where you get 5 pages of discussion before the fight even happens.
Yeah, I'm trying to say that if you were a true fan you wouldn't need all the suspense to get excited about an event.
A mega fight has not been made in a while, the last one was probably GSP/Penn 2 lots of hype and build up for that one. We'll still get the big ones announced and have build up for it, but it hasn't happened in a while..
Your talking to someone who would pay 40 dollars for a PRIDE pay per view and stay up till 2 am to watch it live. I have plenty of smaller orgs to give me free mma and keep me happy. I want my UFC cards to be the best. not half ass shows.
But yet you still didn't like a fight between 2 guys in Swick and Hardy who can throw fists like no one's business? Or Bisping's first fight since his only KO loss? Or Couture fighting an amazing striker in Vera? (I know that fight was boring as but I was still looking forward to it)
yeah swick and hardy are exciting and i always love to see Randy fight but it just wasnt that great. Id rather have mega fight cards all year long. i will always pay for a fight if it is a good card. Cards like 105 are fine but put them on a UFN and have about 4-5 of those a year. Just my opinion, but the UFC knows what they are doing.
I agree, I'd like to see more order to the UFC PPV cards than just plugging fights with available fighters. There's lots of great story lines to hype up, but for the majority of combat sport fans willing to buy PPV they need to be pulled in with deeper cards.
There are FIVE championship belts in the UFC, and every UFC PPV should have a le match. Of course, sometimes that's not possible due to injuries, but with all the talent -- every 4-5 months the champion should be putting the belt on the line. They can't oversaturate the good name of UFC PPV cards with matches that could barely be co-headliners or uninteresting grudge matches.
UFC Fight Nights are great to showcase fighters making their way up the ladder. 4 times a year, for free, it's nice to see new blood enter the octagon. It'd be amazing to track a fighters start at a UFN, co-headline/headline another UFN, then move up to a maincard UFC PPV in Nov/Dec.
I want awesome names for UFC's too (UFC 48: Payback), Japanese style intros, and possibly even tournament style fights (if that's still even possible, I dunno). Okay, maybe not for every UFC event, but sometimes. :p
They could pull together some amazing cards if they had one event every 2 months.
If you are not intrested in card do not watch them. Just wait for a big event.
Yea I agree. Ive felt this way ever since UFC100. Thats when i really realized that with all those big fights on one card its just so much more exciting.
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