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Card quality has heaps to do with it
Was it really on at 6am? If that's true then there's your answer.
I know that this card was on FOX. They seem to have moved all of what previously would have been Fight Pass cards over to FOX, so that's why it would have been on at 6am. In my opinion the FOX deal has been terrible for the UFC, fight night cards are now unwatchable because of the constant breaks. A few years ago, a fight night card could be just as good as a numbered card. Now they're nearly all complete garbage and when their on in a country other than the USA, the times are changed in a way that makes the locals lose interest.
Also, MMA was never nearly as popular as Kickboxing. In fact I recall back in the day from people who actually knew about JMMA would criticize PRIDE for being shitty promoters and not promoting their guys like K-1 did.
That really opened my eyes because in comparison to what was happening in America, PRIDE seemed incredibly well promoted and well paid. But K-1 guys were bringing in more money and had commercials, TV appearances, products, etc
In my opinion the FOX deal has been terrible for the UFC
They're making $500 mill a year from the FOX deal.
then why havent baseball and soccer vanished as fads? Not to mention sumo wrestling which dates back to 1500 years.Theres legit documentaries about how the Japanee go hard for FADS and then bang, they vanish. Thats what PRIDE was.
Is Normal when you give them below average cards. Come on, these guys were used to Pride. Now get Fight Pass.
Sounds good.Gokhan Saki vs Shogun Rua
Mark Hunt vs Cain Velasquez
Teruto Ishihara vs BJ Penn
Seo Hee Ham vs Kailin Curran
Michelle Waterson vs Carla Esparza
Done and done
Is it a Fox thing to not show fighter entrances/walkout music? Because it seems like they just show commercials forever and then the fighters are in the cage. Like what the fuck, that's one of my favorite parts of the show.Was it really on at 6am? If that's true then there's your answer.
I know that this card was on FOX. They seem to have moved all of what previously would have been Fight Pass cards over to FOX, so that's why it would have been on at 6am. In my opinion the FOX deal has been terrible for the UFC, fight night cards are now unwatchable because of the constant breaks. A few years ago, a fight night card could be just as good as a numbered card. Now they're nearly all complete garbage and when they're on in a country other than the USA, the times are changed in a way that makes the locals lose interest.
The "90k attendance" event that Pride nuthuggers like to brag about was actually put on by K-1.
Business wise? Event the well known shows like Shooto, Deep and Pancrase do what would be regional show numbers in the U.S. They have been for years. When Pride went bust, the market went with it. MMA was a fad in Japan. Kickboxing was always more popular. The "90k attendance" event that Pride nuthuggers like to brag about was actually put on by K-1.
Yeah, anything that's not fighting is advertisements. That wasn't the case with their previous television partner. I think that they walk a very fine line with it, I have completely switched off a lot of their fight night cards because I was unwilling to watch 45 minutes of advertising for 10 minutes of a fight. It becomes unwatchable at that point.Is it a Fox thing to not show fighter entrances/walkout music? Because it seems like they just show commercials forever and then the fighters are in the cage. Like what the fuck, that's one of my favorite parts of the show.
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Attendance was claimed as 91107 by the promoter, there is also an unsourced (to my knowledge) attendance figure of 71000 floating around online.