UFC is about to blow UP because of ESPN

I'm starting to see MMA videos in the ESPN Youtube channel.

Joe Rogan has said it before that MMA is the greatest sport and that all other sports pale in comparison. Why watch a bunch of guys try to get a ball into a goal or a hoop when you can see two dudes headkicking each other.

I tend to agree with him because there is just something about one on one combat that is incredibly compelling. It gets to the root of all competition, whether or not one man can beat another man's ass.

The FOX deal was a huge step, but the ESPN deal will be that much bigger. ESPN is the channel for sports and ESPN covering and showing events finally and ultimately legitimizes MMA as a popular sport in America, on par with the NFL and the NBA.

I doubted WME, but they clearly had an end goal in mind, to broaden the audience of MMA and make it as much a mainstream sport in the States as American football or basketball.

ESPN coverage is probably the biggest step MMA could have taken in that direction.

We are going to see sports fans of all types getting into MMA. Even if they aren't interested, MMA will be getting covered on the biggest sports channel, and they will be forced to deal with it.

Thinking about it this has to be the biggest thing that has happened in the history of MMA to bring it into the mainstream platform.

Fighters that transcended the sport into the mainstream like Ronda and Conor clearly deserve some credit for the way things are headed. GSP probably deserves a mention as well. And obviously MMA was always more mainstream in Brazil than it is in the USA.

Sometimes when you tell people that you are into MMA they give you this weird look because you like to watch half nekkid men roll around in a cage, but no more. We can hold our heads up high with our superior knowledge and understanding of the sport and proudly say that we are hardcore MMA fans. There will be many new fans and we will be here to teach them the ropes. It will be glorious.
I am wondering, the ufc used to be on ESPN but Fox did better for ufc than ESPN.
Then Bellator was on ESPN and still was not as big as today.
Why would ESPN deal today do better than before ? Thank you for your enlightening
 
I am wondering, the ufc used to be on ESPN but Fox did better for ufc than ESPN.
Then Bellator was on ESPN and still was not as big as today.
Why would ESPN deal today do better than before ? Thank you for your enlightening

I don't believe UFC was ever on ESPN

It used to be on SPIKE a long time ago before FOX, maybe you're confusing the two.
 
I'm starting to see MMA videos in the ESPN Youtube channel.
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The FOX deal was a huge step, but the ESPN deal will be that much bigger. ESPN is the channel for sports and ESPN covering and showing events finally and ultimately legitimizes MMA as a popular sport in America, on par with the NFL and the NBA.

Dude I saw the world cornhole championships on ESPN. I think you're reaching a bit here.

UFC had its chance at mainstream with the Fox deal. ESPN is just a dying cable channel. Fox is on every TV in America. If anything, the UFC is going to lose viewership being stuck on a dying channel that's in less homes.
 
Dude I saw the world cornhole championships on ESPN. I think you're reaching a bit here.

UFC had its chance at mainstream with the Fox deal. ESPN is just a dying cable channel. Fox is on every TV in America. If anything, the UFC is going to lose viewership being stuck on a dying channel that's in less homes.

It's a possibility.
 
Since 227 i believe, ESPN has been uploading bunch of interviews of the UFC fighters, i guess it will help.
 
Some people just don't like watching something as violent as 2 people beating each other up. That's why no matter how well the sport is promoted, it will never be on the same level as Football, Soccer, Hockey etc..

But the ESPN thing will surely give the sport even more exposure and bring in some new fans.
Some people don't like watching Football, Soccer, Hockey, so it all equals out
 
Shills at work. "and we get to show them the ropes"
 
ESPN should be net gain for the UFC. How much though remains to be seen. They have a lot of work to do to capitalize on the venture.
 
Sounds like a standard conservative psycho-sexual fantasy scenario. Party of the depraved.

Take a break from porn. There are criminal profilers dying to speak to you.

Sorry bub, "I know you are but what am I" doesn't work past elementary school. You guys really need to come up with your own pejoratives. I thought soiboi types were at least supposed to be creative? Simply trying to turn the insults that hurt you around and apply it to us, expecting it to have the same effect as it did on you is just foolish. All you're really doing is letting us know that it hurts you. Keep it up.

The hilarious part is if your fellow leftists heard you call cuckolding "depraved" you'd be banished from the group. Good luck!
 
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I don't believe UFC was ever on ESPN

It used to be on SPIKE a long time ago before FOX, maybe you're confusing the two.
Ah yes you are correct it was spike tv lol thanks !
 
Eh.. What?

No it doesn't. More people watch Football, Soccer, Hockey.
Didn't mean the amount of viewers, but that there are also people that don't watch the sports I mentioned. I personally favor MMA way over Hockey and Soccer.
 
I think it will cause some damage to the European market. Or at least in the Netherlands since we don't get ESPN here. Do you guys think the UFC took this in consideration or are they too focused on the US market?

Also.. is there anyone from Europe (the Netherlands) that can tell me how i'm going to be able to watch UFC fights from now on?
 
In a few years on a new network the UFC will be worth 10 Billion.
 
This is not the "biggest thing to ever happen to MMA." It's the biggest thing to happen to UFC, or MMA in the west. Check out some of Japan's most watched events. The UFC has never put up numbers close to Pride's highest rated events, or even K1's. 54 million people watched Bob Sapo/Akebono I. Hell, fucking Charles Krazy Horse Bennett has pulled in higher ratings than the UFC ever has, and probably ever will. LOFL

I understand your enthusiasm, TS, but the UFC still hasn't come anywhere close to the popularity that Pride enjoyed. The US is not the world, and the UFC isn't the only thing when talking MMA. Broaden your scope.
Source?
 

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