Hot Take Missing walkouts, horrific flow, endless ads

[HatKick]

The pacing is brutal these days. Was it always this bad or am I just losing interest? It feels like there's 20 minutes between some of the fights. I can't be bothered to watch the prelims anymore, even the main card is a slog sometimes. Honestly, just gimme the co-main and the main event smh.

 

[Bubzeh]

They’ll introduce a higher priced, less adverts, tier for Americans soon. $20 less ads etc. They’d be stupid if not.

FP in the UK still as fucking beautiful as ever. The game is over if they get rid of that.

 

[560ti]

I haven’t given a shit about blink 182’s music since dude ranch, just surprising to see a punk rock band’s music being played all over a republican owned company event

Blink 182 politically/culturally isn't really punk though.

There basically early 2000s pop/skate rock that's trying to appeal to millennials on nostalgia. They don't care at all about politics they just want a paycheck (which is the complete opposite of punk).

 

[jnes]

They need to make up for that $7.7 billion somehow...

 

[Stoic1]

Paramount execs having an unplanned mandatory 6AM meeting on Sunday morning discuss how things went.

 

[JakePaulMMA]

Remember that multiple hour build up to Cain/JDS 1? That shit was baffling.

 

[pv3Hpv3p]

Damn you guys are fickle... finally the end of the PPV era and you're pissed about adds?

Aside from a couple hiccups, I was happy with the product... definitely room for improvement, but people are gonna bitch just to bitch at some point.

 

[Your Salad]

I haven’t given a shit about blink 182’s music since dude ranch, just surprising to see a punk rock band’s music being played all over a republican owned company event

LOL Blink 182 is the kind of "punk" music that current ICE agents listened to in school because girls wouldn't talk to them.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Yeah the ads were way too much, its was unreal during the prelims, ad after ad after ad, I never seen so many ads in my life lol. I just kept putting the TV on mute and chatting with you guys on playbyplay, and then kept going to the kitchen during the ads just trying to kill the time, it was brutal.

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

They’ll introduce a higher priced, less adverts, tier for Americans soon. $20 less ads etc. They’d be stupid if not.

FP in the UK still as fucking beautiful as ever. The game is over if they get rid of that.

Even if you aren't seeing the ads you are still suffering the delay of time while others are stuck watching them yea??

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

LOL Blink 182 is the kind of "punk" music that current ICE agents listened to in school because girls wouldn't talk to them.

Idk about this everyone my age was listening to Blink 182 in like 4th and 5th grade but it was a hilarious tie in to have Travis Barker and just tons of Blink 182 for no reason

Some dude at Paramount was like hmmm what do UFC fans like. I know. Shit from 2002

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

Damn you guys are fickle... finally the end of the PPV era and you're pissed about adds?

Aside from a couple hiccups, I was happy with the product... definitely room for improvement, but people are gonna bitch just to bitch at some point.

If you thought that card was easy to watch and flowed well from fight to fight idk what to tell you. It didn't.

 

[Koro_11]

Good thing I don’t pay ufc a penny to watch the events

 

[Luckyme]

The app was better than ESPN+, I’ll give them that much but yeah, they aren’t going to make that $7 billion back without spamming you with ads.

 

[Clark Rogers]

They dropped PPV revenue from the US and we're surprised the new format had more ads?

Making money, how does it work?

 

[Dogpound2020]

Pretty bad. No fight PPV ever had ads during their broadcasts.

 

[gunlok]

Pretty bad. No fight PPV ever had ads during their broadcasts.

Dustin Poirier struggling with the multi-function printer was an honest look on why MMA fighters refuse to retire

 

[Tokoloko]

Welcome to the paramount era how did you guys like it

It was bs. Had to watch on two devices at once. At one device main camera for full screen during fights and "multiview" with 3 other more cameras on second device to hear corners and commentary team between rounds, see walkouts, etc...

BTW start was too slow - 2 fights in first +- 70 minutes was ridiculous shit. Like i understand that there were two "fast" finishes in rd1 and it "ruined" timeplan for them since its "tv"...but they gotta fix this for next time and expect shit like this to happen. They should atleast prepare better things than playing same promo over and over again.

 

[godhatesacoward]

if u gotta buy paramount then why should we see ads

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

if u gotta buy paramount then why should we see ads

I mean you saw commercials when you paid for cable. I don't mind ads. I just don't like how intrusive they were. Mid fight ads with audio overlay during big fights is unacceptable at the very least.

And it was like ads before, during and after. Ad, company promo, ad, company promo, fight (with ads), company promo, ad, company promo, company promo, ad

Just impossible to sit through