Stephen Thompson v Darren Till: BBC to broadcast UFC fight live for first time

[Texas]

Last time I went to Liverpool was for football and there was a group of about 6/7 teenagers offering to look after my car for a fiver, they might have saved up enough to buy a radio by now.
Good for them

 

[chukutee]

This is actually big news. It's only radio but even so it suggests the UFC is slowly starting to get into the mainstream in the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/44185266

Contrary to what the likes of Dana White, Rogan et al say, MMA is an incredibly niche sport in the UK. Almost no-one outside a combat sports gym has heard of Rhonda, Conor or Bisping. That may be changing?

Yep, it's pretty significant indicator of MMAs growing popularity in the UK. Five Live have coverage of most of the popular (in UK) sports - football, rugby, boxing, Formula 1 etc. If this is the first time they have broadcast MMA then that's a fairly big deal purely as a metric.

 

[J0N0]

Steve Bunce will have something to do with the ufc Liverpool broadcast? What?

Do you not know that there is already a weekly bbc mma podcast, which is now of radio 5 live, with dan hardy, OJ Borg and some scouse mma journo whose name escapes me.

They will most likely be doing the show, not Steve Bunce haha.

You'd think so, but they'll almost certainly have some kind of established broadcasting name(s) involved, so who that is remains to be seen.. Dan Hardy will be commentating for the UFC I'd have thought?

 

[J0N0]

Yep, it's pretty significant indicator of MMAs growing popularity in the UK. Five Live have coverage of most of the popular (in UK) sports - football, rugby, boxing, Formula 1 etc. If this is the first time they have broadcast MMA then that's a fairly big deal purely as a metric.

Although Alex Reid vs Tom Watson will probably never be beaten for getting nearly a million viewers of Bravo haha.

It's actually more than most Bellator events, and even a lot of the free UFC shows get in the U.S on Fox in a MUCH bigger country, on bigger channels.

 

[dim_]

For those who have never listened to combat sport on the radio.

Listen to this from 3m30, radio is so underappreciated

Nothing is better than boxing on the radio, so much more exciting

 

[UL]

LOL at the yank who clearly has no idea how popular combat sport on the radio is

I frequently would listen to boxing on the radio rather than watch it, commentary is so much better.

And like many I watch football on TV with radio commentary


I'm looking forward to it.

you are poor.

 

[Fstepp]

LOL at the yank who clearly has no idea how popular combat sport on the radio is

I frequently would listen to boxing on the radio rather than watch it, commentary is so much better.

And like many I watch football on TV with radio commentary


I'm looking forward to it.

It's like watching a movie, let's say Deadpool 2 , The Piano, or The Birds (by Hitchcock), but instead of watching moving pictures, it's commentated live to you by Tito Ortiz, Nate and Nick Diaz and Shogun on their experience while they're watching it.

Not quite the same experience.

Nate Diaz "Some birds n shit flying around... I'm not surprised motherfuckers!"

Nick Diaz " Wolftickets! Need more birds... "

Shogun "They very Movy! Vroom Vroom!"

Tito Ortiz " Birds all over the place, be happy i'm doing this commentary for you even though i have a cracked skull.... "

 

[dim_]

It's like watching a movie, let's say Deadpool 2 , The Piano, or The Birds (by Hitchcock), but instead of watching moving pictures, it's commentated live to you by Tito Ortiz, Nate and Nick Diaz and Shogun on their experience while they're watching it.

Not quite the same experience.

Nate Diaz "Some birds n shit flying around... I'm not surprised motherfuckers!"

Nick Diaz " Wolftickets! Need more birds... "

Shogun "They very Movy! Vroom Vroom!"

Tito Ortiz " Birds all over the place, be happy i'm doing this commentary for you even though i have a cracked skull.... "

No its not

 

[dim_]

you are poor.

Why? Because I have a TV but sometimes like to listen to things on the radio?

A lot of the time it was more convenient, listening to the radio at 5am is far more relaxing than watching TV.

If all ufc cards were on the radio I would probably listen to a fair few of them in bed rather than trying to watch TV at 5am

. Like I say, yanks have no understanding of brits affinity with the radio. Probably because American radio is shit whereas we have the best broadcasters and commentators in the world.

I wouldn't want to listen to us radio either

 

[Paynebringer]

I hope Thompson derails this hype train in Till. It's crazy how the UFC gets behind "certain" people.

Wonderboy getting knocked out...

 

[Deleted member 502383]

It's because no one has a tv in Liverpool

Yes, they do. They all have a TV, just not usually their own.

 

[Deleted member 502383]

I can't wait for the day that government privatizes the BBC. The state confiscates £145.50 a year from me to keep this nonsence going. People should never be coerced into a service by any institution. Do not be seduced by socialism folks, the state will serve you right up until it's big enough to have you serve the state.

 

[aichokyu]

do people actually watch anything else than live stream?

I think the americans do cause they're afraid of getting caught streaming

 

[Flex Plexico]

 

[aichokyu]

I can't wait for the day that government privatizes the BBC. The state confiscates £145.50 a year from me to keep this nonsence going. People should never be coerced into a service by any institution. Do not be seduced by socialism folks, the state will serve you right up until it's big enough to have you serve the state.

I think it's a very good thing to have a public service TV
BBC is internationaly recognized

just like health services or public transport, it sounds a good idea to rpivatize until you realize you're getting ripped off, paying more than before for a lesser quality service, the opposite of what was promised to you by the ones who made a lot of money buying that public company, cutting costs and firing people without improving the service itself.
when you have no more trains or hospitals in your town it's too late

 

[Guesswhosback??]

I’m surprised the bbc has any money left to broadcast anything that isn’t pro gay or pro ethnic minority driven rubbish.

 

[UL]

I can't wait for the day that government privatizes the BBC. The state confiscates £145.50 a year from me to keep this nonsence going. People should never be coerced into a service by any institution. Do not be seduced by socialism folks, the state will serve you right up until it's big enough to have you serve the state.

but it gives you eastenders <45>

 

[Guesswhosback??]

Not true.

Conor is huge even in Scandinavia.

So because he is huge is Scandinavia,it’s 100% impossible a few Irish people don’t know who he is?I like your logic

 

[DRMZ]

Last time I went to Liverpool was for football and there was a group of about 6/7 teenagers offering to look after my car for a fiver, they might have saved up enough to buy a radio by now.
Good for them

It’s £1 and they all do it around Anfield, still.

 

[Guesswhosback??]

Wonderboy getting knocked out...

I think so too.