Do you consume UFC media outside of the fight cards?

[Guestx]

I'm talking about stuff like:

The Countdown shows
UFC: Embedded
The weigh-ins
The post-fight press conference
The Post-Fight Show on FS1
The Ultimate Fighter
Lookin' For a Fight
etc. . .

I will usually watch at least a few minutes of the Post-Fight Show on FS1 (like right now). Occasionally I'll watch the Countdowns. Occasionally I'll watch an embedded episode. I'll watch a season of TUF every few years or so.

There was a time though when I would've happily watched ALL of that shit. If the UFC put something on TV, I ate it up. I craved it.

As I was watching FS1 just now I was wondering how many other fans rolled into the Post-Fight Show and how many bolted for greener pastures.

 

[AC1D1K]

I try to catch everything minus The Ultimate Fighter. I tried last week, the shit is not watchable.

 

[Kekonaut]

No. Even the cards are barely watchable, with all the fluff and commercials and trash-tier match ups.

 

[Guffman]

I watch the fight cards and that's it. The rest is just noise to me.

 

[Guestx]

I try to catch everything minus The Ultimate Fighter. I tried last week, the shit is not watchable.

I'll usually catch a season of TUF and then skip two or three. Then I'll come back around to it.

The biggest problem for me is how repetitive the show is. The production has gotten slicker over the years, and there have been a few other stylistic changes, but it's basically the same show from season to season. The only thing that changes are the fighters.

 

[GSP_37]

I used to watch TUF, Countdowns, post fight press conf, scrums, but not in a very long time. I barely even DVR UFC Tonight.

A lot of the shoulder programming they do is shitty.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Only fight cards for me.

 

[FinalConflict2005]

Countdowns and embedded if it’s a fighter I’m interested in.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Nah

I will skim the heavies daily just to keep up to date.

 

[The ScorpioN]

I only catch weigh in gifs of the ladies.

 

[Soul On Ice]

Depends on the card

If a big fight is happening i'll "consume" all that shit

 

[Dead Kennedy]

I DVR ever season of TUF they air on tv and used to DVR UFC Tonight.

 

[Post 2 Decision]

I used to watch UFC Central when sportsnet had the rights to UFC stuff in Canada. It was the only show allowed to have UFC in it's title outside of actual UFC shows lol.

I only watch events and TUF now

 

[BEATDOWNS]

Not anymore i used to lap that shit up but its become to stale in the last couple years imo

 

[Char Jawz]

I watch most of it if I have time. Rarely do I watch any of it live, catching up on youtube, Sherdog and other sites (that don't have such a colorful network or characters like good ol' Sherdog).
Countdown
Embedded
Pre fight show
Post fight show
TUF

Don't really do the post fight press conferences anymore. They were more interesting when it was the panel with all the fighters. Now there's gonna be no Bader interrupting DC up on the panel causing a ruckus, etc.

 

[Deleted member 335905]

Nah, the UFC hype train media makes me cringe. I only watch the fights and avoid everything else.

 

[Egészségére!]

not anymore

my "consumption" starts and ends with the bell


<{cruzshake}>

 

[Guestx]

Anyone else hate the way the switched on the post-fight press conferences from the format where they had everyone out on the stage at once to bringing guys out one at a time?

That annoyed me enough that I just quit watching them altogether.

 

[The Bard]

If the PPVs each had more than 2-3 good fights, I'd be inclined to get hyped and invest in the backstories. Instead I struggle to watch all the actual fights, with half of them nowadays suffering from B Team production. No Rogan, no Goldie, hell even cocaine Buffer and the familiar ladies aren't there. Big John is sniffing farts for money on a cable TV card instead of officiating the biggest fights in the world, and model UFC company man Brian Stann even jumped ship.

Makes you wonder what is going on behind closed doors. Maybe everybody realizes that the market is saturated, the production value has decreased, and the legitimacy of the promotion is failing. The UFC insists on relying on a few big fights every year to carry a marathon slate of mediocre cards the rest of the year. Worldwide domination. Looking back, the strategy was as terrible as the PowerPoint slide.

Fix the final product, and then I will be interested in the path that takes me there.

 

[Guestx]

. . .the production value has decreased.

Good post but not sure about this part.

I think the production value has improved somewhat but the UFC's production has always been relatively basic and raw.

I like some of the stuff Coker is doing with Bellator on the production front (though he still has a ways to go).