I miss the ‘Events’, i miss the buildup to a UFC Card. Now its a water downed product filled with zero personality cookie cutter fighters.
Same thing happened, to me anyway, with TUF. I miss the drunken idiots trying to cripple each other poolside.
I miss the big events, with a bunch of my idiot friends getting drunk, playing poker, bbq’ing, and watching big fucking fights with our psycho cage fighting heroes
I remember when cards were five fights that you genuinely wanted to see every one, and any of them could be the main event. There were many PPVs where I was as excited for the 1st or 2nd fight as I was the main.
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In fact, one of the BEST things about PPVs at that time was that they were the antithesis of boxing PPVs. i.e. - stupidly expensive with one fight you wanted to see and a bunch of others that you were not only “meh” about, but had no idea who they even were.
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PPVs were $19.95-24.95, and they alternated every month - PrideFC one month & UFC the next.
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Now PPVs are what - like $70 & up? And you also have to pay ESPN like $15 a month just for the privilege of ordering a PPV in the first place?
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The last PPV I bought was Chuck / Wandy and could probably count the number of full shows I’ve seen since then on one hand.
I still enjoy it for the holy shit moments like Holloway vs Gaethje.
I think they have too many women and lower weight fighters on the roster. I lose interest when I know that both fighters are incapable of knocking each other out.
ALSO:
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TKO now owns WWE & UFC and they got stupid money from Netflix for WWE Raw.
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Whenever the deal between UFC & ESPN runs out, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Netflix pay them a $gazillion to get the UFC, too - especially with how many people tuned into Tyson / Paul. And Netflix is going harder on sports in general.
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So you’ll have to subscribe to Netflix in order to be able to buy UFC PPVs.
I watch every event I can. It’s got to the point that you can tell who is getting the special treatment, hand picked opponents because they’re company men playing the game. Someone of O’Malleys skill level without the endorsements and shit wouldn’t have sniffed the belt. That’s what I hate.