Hot Take Missing walkouts, horrific flow, endless ads

[Noveltymortar]

brother its 2026 you are describing 2014 streams

Maybe you had better luck than me but all the good ones I'd been using turned to shit over the past year or so. I'm fine paying $120 for a year of what I got last night from Paramount. It's the only thing I'm paying to watch so it's no big deal at all.

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

Maybe you had better luck than me but all the good ones I'd been using turned to shit over the past year or so. I'm fine paying $120 for a year of what I got last night from Paramount. It's the only thing I'm paying to watch so it's no big deal at all.

Definitely no big deal I just don't want to sign up for paramount and help create the illusion I'm happy with the direction of the company. I am decidedly not pleased with the direction of the company

 

[Noveltymortar]

Definitely no big deal I just don't want to sign up for paramount and help create the illusion I'm happy with the direction of the company. I am decidedly not pleased with the direction of the company

What direction is that?

 

[CC27]

yeah ads were a bit much but not having to pay 80 bucks, deal with ESPN+ or fuck with streams is worth the trade off.

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

What direction is that?

This video about Dana summarizes a lot of how I'm feeling (and frankly tons of fans its weird you needed this post to explain the direction for you). The company and sport were the hungry upstarts. It had to scratch and claw for acceptance. The Fox deal was the biggest pipedream for success they could imagine. That was where they wanted to be. That was the pinnacle they wanted to reach and everything that's happened since is what happens when the dog actually catches the car its chasing.

With the ESPN deal and now continuing into the Paramount era, it was the sterilization of MMA for a mass audience. They want to be a sport. They want it to feel like baseball. They want you to blindly turn on the card and "watch UFC" without a concern for who is fighting or what the match up is. And to ESPN's "credit" they succeeded in that I think they created a lot of passive secondary fans who just consume whatever slop card is put in front of them. There are too many cards with too many fighters its all watered down. The UFC isn't booking the fights people want. Champions are barely fighting. They want to have a massive roster where 80% of the fighters are rank and file making very little money to pad the run time to long boring ass cards being held every weekend that people just tune in to out of habit. The change in the bonus system (that idiots are PRAISING lmfao) is a slap in the face to fighters who make less than 20% of the revenue from this shithead greedy ass company. Oh we just made 8 billion dollars in tv rights have some more pennies you fucking idiot shithead fighters. They need to unionize badly.

So its been trending downhill and now you sell out to TKO a greedy shithead company with no idea how to provide the fans with anything they want and only know how to cut corners to maximize profits for themselves. They don't care and clearly have no idea what real UFC fans want even if they did care. It stinks but this is just what the sport has become. As a fan since the early 2000s I think I was frankly lucky to be in the right place at the right time to enjoy the grittier feel of the Spike TV era and progressed from there. If this version of MMA is what I was presented with when I first started watching I never would have become a lifelong fan.

 

[Noveltymortar]

This video about Dana summarizes a lot of how I'm feeling (and frankly tons of fans its weird you needed this post to explain the direction for you). The company and sport were the hungry upstarts. It had to scratch and claw for acceptance. The Fox deal was the biggest pipedream for success they could imagine. That was where they wanted to be. That was the pinnacle they wanted to reach and everything that's happened since is what happens when the dog actually catches the car its chasing.

With the ESPN deal and now continuing into the Paramount era, it was the sterilization of MMA for a mass audience. They want to be a sport. They want it to feel like baseball. They want you to blindly turn on the card and "watch UFC" without a concern for who is fighting or what the match up is. And to ESPN's "credit" they succeeded in that I think they created a lot of passive secondary fans who just consume whatever slop card is put in front of them. There are too many cards with too many fighters its all watered down. The UFC isn't booking the fights people want. Champions are barely fighting. They want to have a massive roster where 80% of the fighters are rank and file making very little money to pad the run time to long boring ass cards being held every weekend that people just tune in to out of habit. The change in the bonus system (that idiots are PRAISING lmfao) is a slap in the face to fighters who make less than 20% of the revenue from this shithead greedy ass company. Oh we just made 8 billion dollars in tv rights have some more pennies you fucking idiot shithead fighters. They need to unionize badly.

So its been trending downhill and now you sell out to TKO a greedy shithead company with no idea how to provide the fans with anything they want and only know how to cut corners to maximize profits for themselves. They don't care and clearly have no idea what real UFC fans want even if they did care. It stinks but this is just what the sport has become. As a fan since the early 2000s I think I was frankly lucky to be in the right place at the right time to enjoy the grittier feel of the Spike TV era and progressed from there. If this version of MMA is what I was presented with when I first started watching I never would have become a lifelong fan.

No offense intended but who the fuck cares. I enjoyed the card and I (along with most functional adults) have too many real life responsibilities to devote so much time to worrying about how an MMA organization is run or how much their fighters are paid.

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

No offense intended but who the fuck cares. I enjoyed the card and I (along with most functional adults) have too many real life responsibilities to devote so much time to worrying about how an MMA organization is run or how much their fighters are paid.

why the fuck did you ask then retard

 

[Noveltymortar]

why the fuck did you ask then retard

It was an IQ test. You failed!

 

[Thy]

Same shit, different day.

 

[Thy]

Motherfucking assfaces made the event longer so that they could stuff more shitty ads in it.
I don't know if I even want to watch another card live, it was fucking painful.

I just didn't watch the live version and clicked the other option, would play video games and watch southpark. Then when there was like 30-40 minutes buffered. i'd skip ahead by 10 seconds at a time until i saw someone on the floor or heard loud screaming between the crowd and goonsquad yappers. Was able to skip all the ads this way and had plenty of time to come up with stupid stuff to say on sherdog.

 

[DanAndroid]

I was okay with no walkouts on prelims, isn't that big of a deal to me.

I want corner footage between rounds, for prelims atleast show me a side by side when they return from an ad. For main card, full corner coverage, full walkout, make it a non stop event. If they want ads do it in between fights and cut down on the promos for nothing.

Promo should be 15-30 seconds and hype up a specific event or fight. I understand trying to do some paramount promos on the first event but no more. We don't need 2-3 minutes of travis barker reading copy. I don't care how ad bloated the prelims get, just make the main card a mostly uninteruppted experience.

Also me and my buddies were very excited for a potential 11:30pm main event start time, so to have 9:00-9:30 slot be filled with nothing but promos about ufc on paramount was obnoxious.

 

[BEATDOWNS]

who cares about the walkouts? I think the co-main and main the walkouts should be shown but don't care about the rest I wanna see them in the cage fighting.

 

[Sycho Sid]

People complaining about ads during the main card/event best get used to it. That is when they have the most viewers, and those are premium ad spots.

The ads are the only reason UFC got this kind of deal.

 

[GSP_37]

I watched ONE FC on Amazon Prime to see the Hawaii grappler girl and boy did she dance in a sexy way during her walkout. Curious if she has a night job. Probably took many repetitions to fine tune that sexy dancing.

 

[CasualBot]

Compared to shitty streams that give you maybe 10 mins before crapping out, it was heaven. Easily worth an annual subscription. I just muted the commercials. People are spoiled and just want to complain about everything.

You're describing 2010 streaming.

My stream never cut out during the event this weekend.

I would never pay billionaires $120 for content that is free.

 

[Noveltymortar]

You're describing 2010 streaming.

My stream never cut out during the event this weekend.

I would never pay billionaires $120 for content that is free

Good for you!