After the terrible TUF finale saturday night, it is obvious the UFC is clawing at bringing flash into the organization. First off, Roy Nelson is the ultimate fighter, I knew he would be from the time the show started. The guys on this show were out of shape clowns. Roy was the best and he is nothing special at all. Second, Kimbo Slice got a fight in the UFC he never deserved. I was wrong about this one. I picked Houston to crack him out of there in under a minute. Instead we were all tourtured with 3 rounds of one dimensional fighters. Houston needs to quit if he can't beat slice. Now, onto one of Dana's many "special announcements". He builds them up and they are always lame. We got the surprize that Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz will be the coaches on TUF 11.atsch Nobody in thier right mind wants to see them fight. The UFC is just getting sad and desperate. I was glad to see Hendo go to Strikeforce. I hope more people support strikeforce and stop feeding Dana White's ego with thier hard earned money. The UFC has peaked, now it will start it's descent.:hi:
They have always been a pretty "big picture" company, none of the issues brought up really amount to anything that will go beyond a month or two. We'll see how everything turns out in 2-3 years.
I said 2 years ago that the UFC would become like the WWE in 5 years. So I agree with you. In 2-3 years we will know. I think it will be just like the wwe. I was laughing the other night when they interviewed Hulk Hogan I think my prediction is coming true.
The UFC has peaked. The only big fight is Silva vs St. Pierre. The UFC will have to go the way of boxing and co-promote with others like Strikeforce to get great matches like Mousasi, Fedor and Cung Le involved.
true.. i hope dana will let fedor fight a one fight deal against lesnar. Everybody wants to see that fight.
Do you honestly believe that? For that to be true it would imply that Lorenzo doesn't have the final word; Dana owns 10%, Lorenzo owns about 45, who do you think makes the final call? The reason Fedor isn't in the UFC is down to one thing, copromotion; M1 wants half, and there is no way they will get it as long as Zuffa is being run as a business rathe than a charity and at least one single person with a calculator is an employee.
having one dominant comnpany with a monopoly over a business is never good. UFC cant exist on its own, it HAS peaked! However with a competitor like Strikeforce, UFC will be forced to up its game. Also co promotion is going to be standard practice in a few years, Dana better get used to the idea...
Drowning? They're making money hand over first. Like Beebs said, they're a company thinking about the big picture. Who cares if one fight sucked? Who cares if one fighter went to Strikeforce? It doesn't make any difference. They're still pumping out cards people pony up $50 bucks to watch, and putting on entertaining free shows to entice the casual fans. I'm not a fan of the UFC business model, but all this crap recently about how the UFC is dying is absolutely bogus. People are just hating for the sake of hating.
Define "peaked". Market share? Yes, probably they will not have a greater market share than before. Thing is market share is not profit, return on investment, market value, or any other bottom line figure; those things are what companies want to grow, market share is a means to an end. To think that Zuffa won't increase it's ROI, profit, and company value is, to say the least, foolish.
Pretty empty statement; what is "just like the WWE"? What exactly does that mean? You could just as easily say "NFL", "Premiership", or any other business entity, except they don't have the negative connotation of pro wrestling? Do you think they are going to risk their entire company, which some financial analyists value at $1,000,000,000 by running fake matches? Do you think they are going to be more able to corrupt various commisions more than boxing promoters who had more relative amounts of money, power, and connections?
