The pacing of UFC events is extremely bad.

Sports are one of the few forms of entertainment that still revolve around commercial breaks.

If the UFC offered a subscription service with access to ALL events, that you could watch the next day after they air, with easy skipping from fight to fight I'd pay for that. As much as I love the live excitement I'd take better pacing these days.
 
It wouldn't be as bad if they didn't run the same commercials constantly. I don't mind ads, but ffs mix it up a bit.
 
Axe720 said:
It wouldn't be as bad if they didn't run the same commercials constantly. I don't mind ads, but ffs mix it up a bit.
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I still have a Papa John's commercial from the Facebook prelim days imprinted in my head

NOBODY DOES IT
LIKE PAPA JOHN'S DOES IT
FOR JUST 14.95 YOU CAN GET A....

that's the only circumstance I have ever heard of this Papa John's place btw
 
usernamee said:
I still have a Papa John's commercial from the Facebook prelim days imprinted in my head

NOBODY DOES IT
LIKE PAPA JOHN'S DOES IT
FOR JUST 14.95 YOU CAN GET A....

that's the only circumstance I have ever heard of this Papa John's place btw
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Corn nuts, corn to the core. That's the one that stuck with me. Still don't even know wtf that shit is though.
 
Dan Hooker is still main eventing ppvs...
 
usernamee said:
I still have a Papa John's commercial from the Facebook prelim days imprinted in my head

NOBODY DOES IT
LIKE PAPA JOHN'S DOES IT
FOR JUST 14.95 YOU CAN GET A....

that's the only circumstance I have ever heard of this Papa John's place btw
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I still remember the Modella commercial of "10 years ago, Brian Ortega made a choice..." or something like that. They played it so often it was about to be 11 years ago he made a choice.
 
Still better than what anyone else is doing. Most Bellator and PFL cards you wait a good hour between Prelims and the main card with 0 filler the event just ends and you have to go find the new one an hour later....
 
ForeverYoung said:
Still better than what anyone else is doing. Most Bellator and PFL cards you wait a good hour between Prelims and the main card with 0 filler the event just ends and you have to go find the new one an hour later....
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I'd rather have one hour break than having four or five half an hour breaks if there's quick KOs. Main other fighting org I watch is Glory and the pacing is just so much better. I've seen some Bellator stuff but don't think I've ever watched the prelims. So unaware of there being a large break in that case.
 
For the first time
Ever I dvr it and skipped the female fights they really don’t move around a lot even at 2x-5x speed on my screen
 
Barteh said:
I'd rather have one hour break than having four or five half an hour breaks if there's quick KOs. Main other fighting org I watch is Glory and the pacing is just so much better. I've seen some Bellator stuff but don't think I've ever watched the prelims. So unaware of there being a large break in that case.
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Thats the thing PFL and Bellator have the wait times as well because most of their early fights are executions
 
Yes! Thank you. There's no reason some of this shit needs to drag so long
 
They slot in each fight to accommodate the maximum possible time (3 or 5 rounds) plus round breaks, plus announcements, commercials, etc, so yeah. It's always been this way, and has nothing to do with ESPN, as Kowboy weirdly just mentioned.

They basically wind up slotting something like 30-35 minutes per fight. Whatever it is, it's obviously a set structure.

9 fights × 15 minutes
1 fight x 25 minutes
Walk outs
Commercials
Interviews
Panel Discussion
Etc etc

Not to mention, most cards these days are more than 10 fights.

The last event I attended was something like 10 years ago, and it was something like 8 hours long. Horrible. Never again.
 
CerebralKnievel said:
They slot in each fight to accommodate the maximum possible time (3 or 5 rounds) plus round breaks, plus announcements, commercials, etc, so yeah. It's always been this way, and has nothing to do with ESPN, as Kowboy weirdly just mentioned.

They basically wind up slotting something like 30-35 minutes per fight. Whatever it is, it's obviously a set structure.

9 fights × 15 minutes
1 fight x 25 minutes
Walk outs
Commercials
Interviews
Panel Discussion
Etc etc

Not to mention, most cards these days are more than 10 fights.

The last event I attended was something like 10 years ago, and it was something like 8 hours long. Horrible. Never again.
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I remember going to the (first?) UFC in Sweden with Gus vs. Rumble. Think I was in the stadium from 8pm to 4am or something.

Kinda ridiculous when I look back at it but it was kind of a fun experience to have.
 
Barteh said:
I remember going to the (first?) UFC in Sweden with Gus vs. Rumble. Think I was in the stadium from 8pm to 4am or something.

Kinda ridiculous when I look back at it but it was kind of a fun experience to have.
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Yeah, my last event was Bendo vs Melendez. I'd guess it was right around 10 years back. I think we arrived around.... 12:30, and we left during the final round to dodge the exodus of the crowd (boring jab fest for 5 rounds between Gil and Benson, anyway). I think we left at around 8.

The problem with that card (as TS alluded to) is thst when everyone is getting finished in the first round, you simply wind up being suspended in more empty time slot space, just listening to some idiotic music on the auditorium speakers.
 
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