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Excited for UFC 312 main and co main the rest suck.

Definitely a "will stream some fights" kind of PPV. Not enough quality for a purchase.
 
I am a local Australian, and whilst I care about having local talent on the card, I care more about having good fights. Unfortunately this was butchered so badly, that whilst most of them were available they didn't put a single one of the 9 ranked fighters from Aus/NZ on the card, it would have been so easy.

It's the same process, announce 'huge PPV card, huge stars' - sell the tickets at $800 each, sell out before announcing any fights, then fill the entire card with prelim fighters. I get that fights fall through, that hasn't happened here, or fighters aren't available, but half of the ranked fighters from the region are fighting on cards around the same time.

Volk, Adesanya, Whittaker, JDM, Hooker, Ulberg, KKF, Erceg, Tuivasa are all ranked... How do they not try to put single one the card, despite having most of them lined up for fights.
 
doozer said:
I guess part of it is playing to the local audience, but I see a lot of high placed fighters with poor or little ufc record and mid range names. Certainly as a local I would care more about quality fights then local fighters, but even more as a ppv viewer I am not impressed.

  • Dricus du Plessis (c) -205 vs. Sean Strickland +170, middleweight title
  • Zhang Weili (c) -160 vs. Tatiana Suarez +135, women's strawweight title
  • Justin Tafa vs. Tallison Teixeira, heavyweights
  • Jimmy Crute vs. Rodolfo Bellato, light heavyweights
  • Jake Matthews vs. Francisco Prado, welterweights
  • Jack Jenkins vs. Gabriel Santos, featherweights
  • Hyunsung Park vs. Nyamjargal Tumendemberel, flyweights
  • Cody Haddon vs. Aleksandre Topuria, bantamweights
  • Tom Nolan vs. Viacheslav Borshchev, lightweights
  • Quillan Salkilld vs. Anshul Jubli, lightweights
  • Wang Cong vs. Bruna Brasil, women's flyweights
  • Jonathan Micallef vs. Kevin Jousset, welterweights
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Yeah, name wise that card is really poor.

Looking at it, I actually think it's going to be a fun card, and not just in a "if you write it off it's probably going to be good" way, it actually looks fun!

Salkilld vs Jubli I have no idea about, Aleksandre Topuria again, not convinced, but the rest are pretty much action fighters.

I'm not convinced about Tallison, so it will be interesting to see how he looks against a guy that might make him look like a head on a stick.
 
might skip the card entirely, DDP-strickland is mildly interesting and ilia topuria's lil bro is fighting on the prelims but those are the only interesting fights.
 
Dmac07 said:
I am a local Australian, and whilst I care about having local talent on the card, I care more about having good fights. Unfortunately this was butchered so badly, that whilst most of them were available they didn't put a single one of the 9 ranked fighters from Aus/NZ on the card, it would have been so easy.

It's the same process, announce 'huge PPV card, huge stars' - sell the tickets at $800 each, sell out before announcing any fights, then fill the entire card with prelim fighters. I get that fights fall through, that hasn't happened here, or fighters aren't available, but half of the ranked fighters from the region are fighting on cards around the same time.

Volk, Adesanya, Whittaker, JDM, Hooker, Ulberg, KKF, Erceg, Tuivasa are all ranked... How do they not try to put single one the card, despite having most of them lined up for fights.
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I saw that on someone else’s post. $800 nose bleeds is crazy! Maybe our arena is bigger so the bleeds are further away but I paid $100. Next time I saw it was 200, and that was too high for me. I don’t know what it is now but $800 nose bleeds is absolutely crazy. And if I paid it and got a bad fight night with 2 big fights, I would be so upset (and as you say no rankled Aussies)
 
Siver! said:
Yeah, name wise that card is really poor.

Looking at it, I actually think it's going to be a fun card, and not just in a "if you write it off it's probably going to be good" way, it actually looks fun!

Salkilld vs Jubli I have no idea about, Aleksandre Topuria again, not convinced, but the rest are pretty much action fighters.

I'm not convinced about Tallison, so it will be interesting to see how he looks against a guy that might make him look like a head on a stick.
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It’s not just that they have no name. It is how low ufc they are. UFC record 4-4 vs ufc new comer for fight 3. Another ppv fighter with a 1-2 ufc record. I’m sure you’re right there will be good fights, but I’m personally only looking forward to the 2 fights, plus I am a bit interested in how Toporia is going to do, but as a ufc new comer who wasn’t on dwcs he still belongs on the bottom of a free card imo.
 
doozer said:
I guess part of it is playing to the local audience, but I see a lot of high placed fighters with poor or little ufc record and mid range names. Certainly as a local I would care more about quality fights then local fighters, but even more as a ppv viewer I am not impressed.

  • Dricus du Plessis (c) -205 vs. Sean Strickland +170, middleweight title
  • Zhang Weili (c) -160 vs. Tatiana Suarez +135, women's strawweight title
  • Justin Tafa vs. Tallison Teixeira, heavyweights
  • Jimmy Crute vs. Rodolfo Bellato, light heavyweights
  • Jake Matthews vs. Francisco Prado, welterweights
  • Jack Jenkins vs. Gabriel Santos, featherweights
  • Hyunsung Park vs. Nyamjargal Tumendemberel, flyweights
  • Cody Haddon vs. Aleksandre Topuria, bantamweights
  • Tom Nolan vs. Viacheslav Borshchev, lightweights
  • Quillan Salkilld vs. Anshul Jubli, lightweights
  • Wang Cong vs. Bruna Brasil, women's flyweights
  • Jonathan Micallef vs. Kevin Jousset, welterweights
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So glad to see Jake Methews is fighting
 
Jake Matthews vs. Francisco Prado on the main card is the biggest head scratcher. I get he probably still has some fans there, but he's fighting some nobody who's 1-2 in the UFC. This is just prelim filler on any other card. Crute fighting some other DWCS nobody is also prelim crap.
 
"Excited" is the wrong word unless dricus comes to finish this time.
Def wouldn't pay for this card but you never know if everyone's gonna turn up to fight or not.
 
Justin v Hooker, Izzy Imanov, or Volk v Evolev. Should be on this card how it isn't I got no idea. Terrible card building .
 
If they put Chimaev against top 5 guy in this card, it would be a pretty solid card. But they don't want to take a risk of him getting injured, considering he's guaranteed to fight for the belt next.
 
Not very excited for the main event, the rest of the card struggles to be a Fight Night.
 
no foreign fighter wants to fight in Australia because of taxes, and neither the UFC wants to pay more to compensate
 
Yeah its pretty weak for sure but some of those fights will probably be fun.
 
Definitely pretty rough for a PPV. It's a shame they couldn't get some of the better/bigger named Aussie and Kiwi fighters on there.
 
I'm excited for Zhang vs Suarez if it happens. Suarez had so much potential but injuries plagued her. If she can actually make it to this fight healthy, I'm curious to see what she can do.
 
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