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[The_Mab69]

ofcourse ufc ppv sales are down, their has not been a good title fight, or good meaningful #1 contendership fight in close to a year.

[Xanatos]

Originally Posted by Caine2878

The division jumping really doesn't bother me, but take someone like Rich Franklin who will never have a title shot at middleweight again, and I doubt he would ever get to a title shot a LHW either this would be a good division for him. We already have catchweight fights at 195 why not create a division? You don't think there will be division jumping between BW FW LW?

ya good point I didn't really think of that. I guess I don't really have reason to dislike a Cruiserweight Division, I just don't want it to happen. It's just one of those things. I think there's be too many weight classes at that point that the belts would seem a little meaningless. You can't tell me that Machida or Silva wouldn't try and hold two belts at the same time.

But that's just me. Cruiserweight wouldn't be that bad.

[The Return Of......]

i think the thing that might hurt the ufc on verse is the fact that directv still does not offer verses. i know i cant watch it at home, and i didnt get to watch the wec fight because of this. overall i do not think zuffa is in trouble. sure the numbers are down but i bet they still made some money. and im sure with the fights coming up here in the next couple of months the numbers will be back up. its wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too early to be throwing up red flags. almost seems like someone got tired of reading all the strikeforce is in trouble news and decided to write something about the ufc.

[Sniggles]

Zuffa learns the hard way that 50 dollars for a PPV isn't worth it to many people. Why watch it at home when you can go to the bar and get a meal and sink it with some beer for 30?

[The Return Of......]

Originally Posted by Degenero

Zuffa learns the hard way that 50 dollars for a PPV isn't worth it to many people. Why watch it at home when you can go to the bar and get a meal and sink it with some beer for 30?

not 100% sure how the whole ppv bar thing works but i would imagine the the price for a business such as a bar to air the ppv is higher than the price for residential. i know this use to be the case for nfl sunday ticket when i first came out so i would think the same thing would apply here. they can get away with charging bars more because it is used at a tool to get more people into the bar.

as for me the whole 50s thing doesnt really bother me because well i dont know how you go to the bar for only 30 dollars but i sure as hell cant. so the 50 to rent it and watch it with friends with food and beer at the house for me is much cheaper.

[joeyP]

No 195 weightclass. Ever. The talent pool would just be diluted. Hell, I still think it's ridiculous that we have LW, FW, and BW. All within 20 lbs of each other. Why not have a 155 and 140? I think 15 lbs is a fair gap, ten is just worthless

[Caine2878]

^^^ If the 10 pounds is worthless why are we having 195 catchweight fights?

[SLM85]

I think Add the WEC divisons to UFC and add Cruiser weight also More Divisons mean More Championship Fights Only And limit who can jump from weight classes Make Anderson Silva descide LHW or MW cuase every time hes in LHW his not defending his title People Want title fights, Also another idea could be as simple as 5 Round Main Events maybe the element of a 5 Round fight is more appealing to some people.

I personally dont think the UFC is in Any trouble its just got to kill off some competition i.e Stirkeforce M1 and Dream and i think they will over time

[Sniggles]

Originally Posted by The Return Of......

not 100% sure how the whole ppv bar thing works but i would imagine the the price for a business such as a bar to air the ppv is higher than the price for residential. i know this use to be the case for nfl sunday ticket when i first came out so i would think the same thing would apply here. they can get away with charging bars more because it is used at a tool to get more people into the bar.

as for me the whole 50s thing doesnt really bother me because well i dont know how you go to the bar for only 30 dollars but i sure as hell cant. so the 50 to rent it and watch it with friends with food and beer at the house for me is much cheaper.

I go with 3-7 friends and we generally spend 20-50. I have a couple cheap friends who would not want to go in on the beer/food. So our pub is the better option. We order in the bigger PPVs that more people want to watch. Like UFC 100 or whenever Rampage fights. Depends on my buddy with the big screen. The smaller cards, like the most recent ones, 3 of us end up drinking 1-2 pitchers and a meal each. 30 bucks.

Ordering in does end up being cheaper sometimes but we like the local pub.

[TBEAR]

Masscore is on it here.

The depth of a PPV by adding those two divisons would be huge. You could Aldo, Faber and those guys as co main events until there popularty rises. Then make them main events, if nothing else for fight night or the free PPV until they get mainstream for a casual fan

Great post Masscore