[Landscaper]

Might just be me, but dont think this ufc card is that great

[Poppa Catfish]

You make valid points

So do you.

Not going to lie, though I love mma, the fans try their best to ruin live events. That being said, try wearing a Chargers jersey at a Raiders game.

[stevenash]

So do you.

Not going to lie, though I love mma, the fans try their best to ruin live events. That being said, try wearing a Chargers jersey at a Raiders game.

I'll one up you, try wearing a Cowboy jersey to a Giants home game.

Best of luck tonight, cash some basketball tickets.

[Poppa Catfish]

best of luck

What looks good tonight? Bunch of these teams seem to be pretty inconsistent as of late. I'm close to useless in basketball without my trusty Cavs and the Jazz playing.

[stevenash]

best of luck

What looks good tonight? Bunch of these teams seem to be pretty inconsistent as of late. I'm close to useless in basketball without my trusty Cavs and the Jazz playing.

Looking at Western Kentucky.
On paper should roll the bejesus out of So. 'Bama

[sonyman]

Super Bowl--can't wait for this matchup

[Willie Bee]

I'm excited about taking the wife to the movies Sunday afternoon and running my 2011 MLB simulations this weekend. Might catch some of second half of Super Bowl, but probably not.

[poochiecollins]

Close ur eyes little girl if its to violent for you .

Woohoo I caught one.

[Ice House]

Super Bowl..... of course bro... who wants to watch a couple of dudes hump each other and bleed all over the place. UFC is gay.

[Frostware]

^^This! How anybody could be more excited about watchin a load of dudes covered in padding throwing an egg around a field is beyond me! "Yeah dude, just made 5 yards, fu/k yeaaahhh"! To each their own though I guess!

Ya men in tights are sooo much cooler!! I hope Silva picks a nice song to dance to. Not the entrance music. When he is dancing during the fight.

[Dad]

superbowl is gonna boring low scoring game. UFC oh yeah! whats jj gold

[Educ8d Degener8]

Might just be me, but dont think this ufc card is that great

It's just you.

[kball15]

superbowl is gonna be terrible this year

[Rod1010]

UFC TWO more days!!!!!

[stevenash]

Give me Cena v. Orton any day.

[lasker]

not even a contest. ufc by far. this weekend's card should be amazing.

[terpkeg]

most of the world can't even eat let alone buy ppv's



I'm sur ufc will be more popular than soccer soon.....

Most countries with a MMA interest have television contracts, no PPV.

[terpkeg]

I love sports and I love violence. I hate UFC. Every fight is great, for 30 seconds, then it turns into a giant male humping contest. And that's fukking gay.

They need to break it up into two divisions: one for the guys who actually want to fight, and another for the fags who want to flail around on the ground trying to set-up a submission hold because they are too big of a pussy to take a punch. It's like watching basketball before the shot clock, when all the shitty teams with no talent just held the ball because they didn't have the skills to compete.

If your fighting strategy is a submission hold, you're openly admitting you're too much of a pansy to fight. Get those sissies out of UFC or it will just be a fad. Sooner or later people are going to wake up and realize the Gracies are a bunch of douchebags. If I wanted to see that shit I could go to a gymnastics meet.

So you want two divisions: 1) for fighters with limited skill who stand around flailing at each other until they gas out and drop from exhaustion and 2) for skilled fighters.

[terpkeg]

I love sports and I love violence. I hate UFC. Every fight is great, for 30 seconds, then it turns into a giant male humping contest. And that's fukking gay.

They need to break it up into two divisions: one for the guys who actually want to fight, and another for the fags who want to flail around on the ground trying to set-up a submission hold because they are too big of a pussy to take a punch. It's like watching basketball before the shot clock, when all the shitty teams with no talent just held the ball because they didn't have the skills to compete.

If your fighting strategy is a submission hold, you're openly admitting you're too much of a pansy to fight. Get those sissies out of UFC or it will just be a fad. Sooner or later people are going to wake up and realize the Gracies are a bunch of douchebags. If I wanted to see that shit I could go to a gymnastics meet.

Also, I would love to see someone with your mentality fight any of the grappling pansies. You can throw punches, bite, kick, scratch, eye gouge, do anything you desire, and the grappler can only wrestler or submit you and we will see who is going to the hospital.

[trixtrix]

i don't understand what's so great about this ufc card.. silva vs. belfort is more of freak circus sideshow curiousity, really what did vitor do to earn a shot at the title? ascension by silva destroying on competent challengers ftw..

franklin vs. griffin bears no interest to me, this fight will not decide a thing in the big picture in terms championships and ranked challenges in the mw or lhw

jon jones vs. bader is i guess somewhat interesting, but only if to see if big bad vader (coolest nick ever) can derail the jone's hype train.. (lol remember when jones was +200 dog to gusmao and +160 dog to bonner? of course not) jones vs. mr.wonderful would've actually answer many more questions and emerge a legit lhw contender..

ehh whatever, and to whomever compared superbowl to two untrained monkeys fighting in the street.. yea playing in the nfl don't require highly specialed skills or anything..

[saratoga1927]

Yea I'm sure UFC will have just about the same amount of people interested...... I know I'll be watching, oh wait no I won't.

[Kaladarus]

UFC easy. In a couple of years the UFC will dominate this poll.

[k13]

maybe if you guys were talking about the ufc in toronto then maybe I'd understand but this is just another show. nothing special.

[stevenash]

UFC easy. In a couple of years the UFC will dominate this poll.

I heard that two years ago, how UFC will be the next big thing.
I heard ten years ago that soccer here will take off and be the next big thing.

Here are the cold facts.
PPV buys were garbage in the UFC early years.
Lidell kept the company afloat, his match with Ortiz was the first to get a million buys.
Then, after that fight, the PPV ratings went into the toilet again, it took over two more years for an event to get a million buys, that was Lesner.

I will say this much, the Lesner / Mir fight did over 1.7 million buys, but, the big UFC pay days are few and far between.

[bracerman]

Sick sick weekend for sports. Both events will be great, I'm leaning towards MMA because of the Jones/Bader fight.

[Rod1010]

ufc ppv buys are doing incredible u idiot . Already buried boxing . Dont think it will
beat nfl in 8 years but it will be close

[stevenash]

ufc ppv buys are doing incredible u idiot . Already buried boxing . Dont think it will
beat nfl in 8 years but it will be close

No, they are adequate.
UFC 110 tanked.
St. Pierre's fight fell short of what they expected.
Rampage did OK.

WWE buys outnumber UFC about 2.5:1

[k13]

ufc ppv buys are doing incredible u idiot . Already buried boxing . Dont think it will
beat nfl in 8 years but it will be close

They are all under a million unless Lesner fights.

Boxing still had the highest PPV and its buried.

[k13]

Top 10 PPV buy rates, 2010

1. Boxing: Floyd Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley, May 1, 1.4 million buys

2. Boxing: Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito, Nov. 13, 1,150,000 buys

3. UFC 116: Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin, July 3, 1,100,000 buys

4. UFC 114: Quinton Jackson vs. Rashad Evans, May 29, 1,050,000 buys

5. UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez, Oct. 23, 1,000,000 buys

6. UFC 124: Georges St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck, Dec. 11, 785,000 buys

7. UFC 111: St. Pierre vs. Dan Hardy, March 27, 770,000 buys

8. Boxing: Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey, March 13, 700,000 buys

9. UFC 107: Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen, Aug. 7, 600,000 buys

10. UFC 118: Frank Edgar vs. B.J. Penn/Randy Couture vs. James Toney, 535,000 buys

[k13]

btw, Wrestlemania did ~900 000

[ukgaz]

UFC by a mile. There is a big football game on Sunday but it is Chelsea vs. Liverpool

[brooks85]

What a surprise, ufc owns 7 of the top 10ppvs.. UFCs brand has not even begun to take off. This year is going to be amazing for them.

[Rod1010]

boxing only has pacquiao and mayweather thats it . Ufc has a show once or twice a fkin month and they still do incredible . Wrestlemania isnt a sport so it has nothing to do with this

[Kaladarus]

No, they are adequate.
UFC 110 tanked.
St. Pierre's fight fell short of what they expected.
Rampage did OK.

WWE buys outnumber UFC about 2.5:1

UFC PPV buys still go up every year though. Maybe not a significant amount but still. Also the popularity of the sport isn't directly proportional to the PPV buys. How many pubs and casinos show WWE events? I'm not sure about the exact number, but I know it's significantly less than UFC. With the WEC merge and all the new up and coming fighters, numbers only have one way to go, up. Another thing to consider is that WWE buys have dropped a lot since one year ago. The more popular UFC becomes the more fans from WWE and boxing will switch over.

[stevenash]

btw, Wrestlemania did ~900 000

Yes, I know, that was just one event, they expected 1.5.

Overall averages WWE kills UFC.