Deadspin: Whatever Happened To The UFC?

I watch college Football, and I even enjoy it. The horror. Awful article, did they seriously say Jeremy Stephens is known as the guy who got arrested? If that is all you know of his career you are not a fight fan.
 
Ackrite said:
this writer is a bit of a dolt it would seem.

a year ago Marquardt was one fight away from a title shot. He lost 3 fights that year and is now headlining a free card rather than a PPV. I get that this card has a lot of unknowns but if we are talking about over-saturation in general then I do not understand how the fact that fighters who used to be main card PPV now headlining free cards is somehow a watering down of product or weaker offering. It seems to me that this would be a sign that the product had improved as fighters that used to be all over main card PPVs now have to fight on free cards because there are even better fighters fighting on the PPVs.

I'm not even thinking of this weekends card like a real UFC card, It's a UFC Prospects card.
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It's far from a prospect card. Seeing how the headlining fighters aren't even prospects at this point in their careers. The UFC has run out of stars to place in main event fights.
 
UJustGotChaeld said:
I watch college Football, and I even enjoy it. The horror. Awful article, did they seriously say Jeremy Stephens is known as the guy who got arrested? If that is all you know of his career you are not a fight fan.
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Who actually is aware of Stephens outside of sherdog? The only major press he has received is from his arrest. The article is accurate in it's assessment of the UFC.
 
not like i pay for it so i dont care

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lol just realized Nico Musoke turned into Nicholas Muskoe. He must train with Michael Crocop



journalism is complete trash these days
 
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Nico Musoke won't have a wiki page if idiot researcher searches for Muskoe.

That said, I agree. Too many meaningless, diluted cards (NZ card has numerous no-mark local fighters who failed on TUF against equally pointless newcomers). Swanson/Stephens on 175 would've bolstered a card rocked by outside influences and also promoted the next FW title contender. As it stands, the next time Aldo defends his title, casual fans will be like 'what?'

Swanson and Stephens have fought mainly on low-key UFN cards in recent memory. You cannot expect casual fans to give a fuck about dudes they don't know
 
Spike ran a fuck ton of terrible free events and fewer of them with fewer fights. I don't know if I am even going to watch tomorrow but, I will just catch the next one I am in to.
 
UJustGotChaeld said:
did they seriously say Jeremy Stephens is known as the guy who got arrested? If that is all you know of his career you are not a fight fan.
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I don't understand how they can even print something like that. How can you just spew out statements as if they are a fact?

How does this go come to the conclusion that's what stephens is best known for? I would wager that most fans have no idea about his arrest.

Using his 10-8 record as a point just shows its a biased piece. Trying to paint stephens as a poor fighter when he's on a 3 fight win streak in his new weight class.

"Thankfully failed negotiations...." portraying that most people didn't even want to see stephens fight on that card.
 
The UFC? It's still there with that bald guy cussing at you for not knowing about it
 
You're right. Sadly.
The UFC are hoping that people watched Stephens beautifully KO Rony Jason. Which they didn't. It got poor ratings, coz it was yet another dispensable UFN card. They are spreading themselves way too thinly and it's catching up. I watch every card, more or less, coz I'm in between jobs and have literally nothing else to do but watch sport and sort out Visa documents.

Your average viewer is out every weekend, spending their money. They don't give a flying fuck about a dispensable UFN card featuring guys they've never heard of. But this demographic is what the UFC were hoping to snare when they signed with FOX – the 18-35, drinking, drugging, fight-loving male. Those lads are out drinking, drugging and talking about the last memorable UFC card, they aren't watching some shitty UFN card coming live from New Zealand/China/Brazil.

What's weird, is Zuffa are incredible business people but right now, and for the past 12months or so, they're adopting the business equivalent of lobbing lumps of tepid shit at a wall and hoping some of it sticks on.
 
Imagine if the NBA added 30 expansion teams over the next two years, and then sent out a favored reporter to lecture the public about how true fans should appreciate the diminished quality of play. This sounds impossibly stupid, and yet it's more or less what's happening in one increasingly dim corner of the sports world.

This Saturday, the UFC will run a card in Auckland, New Zealand, to be broadcast on their online subscription service. The main event will feature New Zealander James Te Huna, who's lost two straight, and Nate Marquardt, who's lost three straight; the rest of the card isn't much more inspiring.

Also this Saturday, the UFC will run a card in San Antonio, Texas, to be televised on Fox Sports 1. The main event will feature Jeremy Stephens, a featherweight with a 10-8 UFC record best known for once having been arrested the day before he had a scheduled bout, leading to thankfully failed negotiations in which promoter Dana White tried to convince the Hennepin County sheriff's office to let the guy out of jail just long enough for him to fight. The co-main event will feature Nicholas Muskoe, a welterweight so obscure he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.
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I would not take articles from a site named DeadSpin very seriously, but I think what the TS quoted from the article was Dead on.

I personally don't like the current direction the UFC is taking.


Including these two, the UFC has 24 events scheduled for the rest of this year, five more than they ran in all of 2009. The ever-increasing number of cards—and, more than that, the consequent decline in their quality as good preliminary bouts become iffy undercard bouts and passable undercard bouts become lousy main events—has been a problem for long enough that a lot of serious fans are just dead tired of hearing about it.... It's so bad by now, though, that the usual word for it, oversaturation, doesn't quite cut it. This is something more like hypersaturation.
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Lloydster said:
The "watering-down" of PPV's is a discussion worth having. The merits and cost-value of Fight Pass are still undecided.

But you people that complain about free cards are children.
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Excellent comment.
 
Lucifer Alpha said:
It's always been fighting in a cage. Maybe you just got sick of it.
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No, I still watch it. I haven't missed an event since UFC 133 (my wedding night) and watched the replay the next afternoon.

I just don't think they are doing a good job of keeping the casuals' interest and I can see why.

I watch Bellator, OneFC, WSOF, UCMMA, Cage Warriors, Deep, anything I can get my hands on.

But I am not silly enough to think that because I haven't lost interest that somehow means that others haven't. The fact remains that I would watch two guys fight no matter how terrible they are.
 
My god they are free fights. Who watches each and every boxing event that takes place? No one.
 
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