The Decline in quality of UFC PPVs and events [POLL]

How would you rate UFC PPVs ?

  • Excellent

    Votes: 16 4.1%

  • Good

    Votes: 79 20.4%

  • Average

    Votes: 121 31.3%

  • Below Average

    Votes: 119 30.7%

  • Bad

    Votes: 52 13.4%
  • Total voters
    387
A lot of it is on the fighters for being too conservative, many are afraid of taking a chance and risk getting...KNOCKED OUT! *Joe Rogan voice*

The PPV's could also improve from a name value standpoint.
 
omawho402 said:
A lot of it is on the fighters for being too conservative, many are afraid of taking a chance and risk getting...KNOCKED OUT! *Joe Rogan voice*

The PPV's could also improve from a name value standpoint.
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In a sport where a few loses can get you a pink slip I'd be scared too.
 
The experience is laughable. Bush-league production quality, drugged/boozed-up podcast commentators, numerous audio and video issues, and cameras cutting away from knocked out fighters. All of that for a record-high price, on top of a separate subscription to even have the privilege of paying in the first place!

UFC doesn't care, they get a flat rate for whatever they shit out.
 
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i have been rewatching all of the old events on UFC fight pass. I dont feel that the current fights come anywhere near the old events with chuck, tito, matt hughes, etc. Those are the guys that got me into watching the UFC.
 
Cooliox said:
No one has renewed with the UFC.

They all realized that they got played.

Fox went with WWE rather than renewing UFC.

Reebok didn’t even consider renewing.

Reports stated that ESPN execs were pissed with how the UFC played them during the Pandemic with the sub par fight island cards.

Let’s see what happens at the end.

Fact is UFC got nowhere near what they were anticipating from Fox for a renewal.
They got lowballed so bad that they had to sign their ppv revenue away just to get a decent offering from ESPN.
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Would hate for UFC and ESPN to not figure it out
 
Personally I’ll take quantity over quality. I quite enjoy weekly UFC cards. I enjoy all of them 🤷‍♂️
 
I think the real funny thing is that the fights wont even buy the ppvs, those in the know pay $5 to watch the ppvs. this is basically an across the board thing with the fighters and coaches.
 
Cooliox said:
Like I said, it ended up being a great card, but by no means was it amazing when it was announced.

The co-main and main event took ages to get announced, because everything the ufc was working towards was falling apart. Dana couldn’t get any of the big fights he tried to book. He himself admitted to this.

They put Jamahal f’n Hill in the main-event of ufc 300. I don’t know how anyone in their right mind could consider this to be something spectacular. Dude will never headline another ufc ppv as the main-event player.

The BMF fight was getting a lot of Flak too.

Again, both these fights ended up delivering. So fans consider UFC 300 a great card. But the sentiment BEFORE the ppv, was that this was a disappointment.
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Sounds like a personal thing honestly. The prelims had six former world champions, 12 on the card overall. I don't know what you or anyone was expecting but that's a great card even before it happened
 
Cooliox said:
A lot of the PPVs have been trash, ever since ESPN agreed to pay the UFC a fixed amount for the PPVs.

UFC 300 was mid AF on paper. It ended up delivering, but we didn’t even get 1 super fight.

The Sphere PPV is also lackluster.

During the Fox era we still had great ppvs, but this was because the UFC was making their revenue there.

Dana realized during ‘Fight Island’ that he just had to put up x number of cards per year to fulfill their contract. The quality made no difference to their revenue.

This is also why the UFC decided to do a lot of Apex events. Lowest costs possible to get that ESPN money.

I miss the days where every fight on a PPV card was must-see.

Now we have at least 1 fight we can skip for sure. Some PPVs you can get away with only watching the co-main and main event.

What say you SherBro?
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I've been watching for years and I just can't argue against this. Seems to be the case. Sad but true.

The "old" days were so much better on PPV. That's a fact.
 
I think for a PPV to be a good one, I need to be familiar with every fighter on the main card.

I mean ffs I watch more UFC than anybody I have ever met and there's like 3 guys on the next PPV that I don't know who they are. That kinda shit makes a PPV not worth it to me.

But there have been solid ppvs recently. 299 and 300 come to mind.
 
Bend NvR Break said:
Imagine going to the steak house 40 times in 5 months and you notice that when you first started eating there you had a solid dry aged medium rare steak reverse seared cooked in seasoned garlic truffle butter with asparagus and a loaded baked potato for $45 but after 5 months you're getting a regular well done pan fried steak with french fries, coke and A1 sauce for $65.
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Well, I'm eating for free. So i'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
 
Quick, let me find one of my hundred plus posts from the other threads just like this in the last calendar year so I can copy and paste them, lol.
 
I usually enjoy the main card, but some (not all) of the prelim stuff is atrocious and belongs on the indies.
 
Reach4theSky said:
If you can get 3 or 4 fights that interests you, it's a good event. Expecting a banger stacked card every time is unreasonable imo.

Most cards throughout history (As long as I remember) have been like that. Stacked cards have always been few and far between in relation to the UFC..

The card in question (Sphere) has 4 fights that interests me..

O'Malley vs Merab
Ortega vs Lopes
Rosas JR vs Aori
Grasso vs Valentina

(in that order)

Good enough. Look forward to it..
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When they are asking $80 plus a $10 gatekeeper subscription to watch them, it isnt unreasonable at all for each one to be of extremely high quality.
 
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