What are your thoughts on the first Paromount + UFC preshow?

[Shay Brennan]

I missed the preshow and the opening fight so I'm watching that.

I liked that breakdown from Bisping, Cruz and Weidman very much and I think Bisping nailed it with his breakdown.

Who the hell was that girl with them in the preshow?
No disrespect intended but what the hell is she doing in there with those legends? She mistook Charles for Michael Johnson and called him a KO artist.

Will Bisping, Chris and Dom be on the every preshow going forward or can we expect some other fighters on there as well?


My final question is: Were you satisfied with the first UFC card of the year after a very long break?

 

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[Rampage_Jackson]

My final question is: Were you satisfied with the first UFC card of the year after a very long break?

No. The first half of 2026 is going to be the lowest quality of card imaginable because everyone wants to fight on the white house. 324 was as watered down a card as you could hope to have after 6 weeks off. Should have felt stacked beyond belief but we had a mickey mouse fake championship main event and nothing to write home about leading up to it.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

Tuned in just in time to see the Ty Miller/ Fuggit mix up. Very bush league.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I really liked it what I liked more than anything was Andrew walker showing his ability to be not just a leading man in our romantic sense but also in a comedy role he has good comedy timing and it doesn't matter how small and ugly is opposing female is I also think the selection of food that was on offer during the show was fantastic and the drinks menu well I didn't partake because I've not been my office sometime but I think most importantly the least important thing to take away from pretty much none of this is nobody really knows where the next ball is gonna fall so as long as they allow Andrew walker to be the leading man each time maybe the other small one with the weird mouth who looks like he does too much cocaine and possibly the big lat is too big lats once they're ugly I want a bit fatter but other fell Apollo is a bit of a chamber and I don't dislike him but I can't take him seriously yes like only redheads really like him so it's a bit weird I don't know I think it's I think if you watch two or three of them together they're not going to work but if you watch all of them together at once it definitely won't work so yeah

 

[Shay Brennan]

No. The first half of 2026 is going to be the lowest quality of card imaginable because everyone wants to fight on the white house. 324 was as watered down a card as you could hope to have after 6 weeks off. Should have felt stacked beyond belief but we had a mickey mouse fake championship main event and nothing to write home about leading up to it.

I actually consider this card somewhat decent, at least if you compare it to the next numbered event, at least on paper it was more stacked. But who knows, maybe that AU card absolutely delivers. We'll see I guess.

I consider the main event of UFC 324 actually excellent matchmaking. It's obvious the UFC was trying to build up Paddy slowly and safely just as they did with O'Malley, instead of throwing him to the wolves right away.
Didn't work out for them but they still have a huge star for their UK market and I'm sure Paddy will get better from this.

Topuria pretty much has his next 3 LW defeses layed out: first title unification, then a rematch against the BMF belt winner and then Tsarukyan.

So I suggest that the UFC makes Paddy vs Oliveira(assuming he loses to Holloway) next or at least Paddy vs BSD next.

 

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[Oscar Madison]

Who the hell was that girl with them in the preshow?
No disrespect intended but what the hell is she doing in there with those legends?

She looked like a penguin in a Mars photo.

Just didn't belong -- but let's all pretend she's great and in a few months she will be normalized.

Formulaic sports entertainment crapola...

 

[2004 account]

It was aight

 

[VinceArch]

I liked it, a lot of my picks won so that always helps.

 

[Shay Brennan]

Honestly, the broadcast wasn't that good. They somehow muted Megan and Bruce switched up Ty and Adam in the introductions.

You would think, that they would do everything in their power to make a good lasting impression with their Paramount debut.

Maybe there's more broadcast mistakes in the event as I only watched fights from the 2nd bout onwards. I'll post again if I find more.

Honestly, this would've been an excellent card if Kayla, Alexa and MJ didn't have to withdraw. Was hoping for MJ to get another vicious R2 KO.

 

[RockyLockridge]

not a fan of the ads.

far too frequent, but the ads are far better variety wise compared to the espn+ ads

 

[bng]

not great not terrible (but closer to terrible)
sk8 boi Silva and Gaetjie slaughtering a pig are the only things worth to mention


Everything else sucked, I was hoping that paralshitmount decided to stop the broadcast after having enough with what Snoozemar Nurmagomedjunior poured out on everyone, but it didnt happen

Instead we started having the attack on epileptics, with shitty hippies and crackheads from metal bands of past century.
Weird mix of mma footage and 3rd grade American actors which only known to least unemployed people on Earth who watch every show from streaming.

Paralmount needs to step up, not so much time left until historical event which needs decent production.

 

[mangokush]

The whole card was just cringy Apex slop

Was actually embarassing to watch

 

[Shay Brennan]

Tuned in just in time to see the Ty Miller/ Fuggit mix up. Very bush league.

Honestly that fight was a beatdown. Ty has excellent boxing and that elbow from Fuggit was very nasty.
Give him someone who can box next.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

Honestly that fight was a beatdown. Ty has excellent boxing and that elbow from Fuggit was very nasty.
Give him someone who can box next.

No doubt. I’ll be watching Miller for sure.

The mix up I’m talking about was when buff was introducing Miller but the camera was on Fuggit and his info graphic was on the screen. Then, Buff started introducing Fuggit, and the camera and info graphic switched to Miller

 

[Pequeño Corey]

not a fan of the ads.

far too frequent, but the ads are far better variety wise compared to the espn+ ads

True. If we’re going to be bombarded with commercials, at least give us some variety. Espn would show the same damned 2-3 commercials over and over. I still have that fucking burger king song stuck in my head.