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Strikeforce Deathwatch: Rockhold vs. Jardine Live Gate Totals a Meager $68,805 | | Cagepotato

(This is when we’d normally tell you to keep your chin up, Keith, but that seems to be what got you here in the first place.)

Perhaps this might not come as a shocking revelation to most of the Potato Nation, but Strikeforce is in some bad shape. Like, Bubba on the beaches of Vietnam kind of shape. Let’s put it this way, if we were gambling men, and someone were taking bets on its probable death, we’d bet everything we own on death.

What are we jawing on about? Well, the Nevada State Athletic Commission just released its figures for “Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine” today, which took place at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7th, and the live gate for the event totaled LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT ROBBIE LAWLER WAS PAID TO FIGHT. As ridiculous as it may seem, Lawler did manage to knock out Aldan Amagov with the power of his testicles alone, so the somewhat exuberant compensation he received seems fair in this case. But boy does it not look good for Strikeforce.

Hauling in an abysmal 68,805 dollars, “Rockhold vs. Jardine” achieved a final attendance of just under 2000 (1992) with only 927 tickets sold. The other 1,065 tickets were comped, and 727 tickets remained unsold. The total fighter purse for this event was an even $566,000.

To look at this through an even dirtier windowpane, along with Robbie Lawler, Luke Rockhold and a juiced up Muhammed Lawal also cleared more than the live gate. Hell, Tyrone Woodley made nearly that much to take a fifteen minute nap on Jordan Mein. Again, it’s not necessarily mind-blowing, but those are Challengers numbers, people. Blame it on the UFC snatching up all their champions and the lack of big name fights as a result, or do what we do, and blame everything on the combination of Mauro Ranallo and Frank Shamrock. In either case, nothing short of a heart transplant is going to save this old man; all we can do now is offer him a hospital bed at a discount price, so to speak. Forget the Ronda Rousey death pool, chances are Strikeforce won’t even be around long enough to promote that match-up. We give ‘em 6-8 months, how bout you?

Speaking of shitty numbers, the UFC 142 Prelims, which were the first to air on FX last Saturday, only pulled in 880,000 viewers, which was lower than any “Prelim” episode to air on SpikeTV in the special’s history. UFC 141, on the other hand, managed to reel in over 1.8 million viewers, despite the fact that both FX and Spike are delivered to roughly the same number of homes (around 100 million). Though this can be partially attributed to the fact that most casual fans have yet to become aware of the transition in networks, the numbers are still disappointing to say the least. Let’s hope the UFC’s full event debut on FX this Friday brings in some more/new fans, because we do not need to go back to watching three hours worth of fights on Facebook.

[HillbillyDeluxe]

Strikeforce is a sinking ship... I'm sorry but all the talent UFC will bring over, the others will be discarded and wind up fighting for Bellator,One FC, Shark Fights, Titan Fighting etc etc.

[YukonJordan]

Business as usual. Buy your competitor, publically say you're committed to keeping it going, gut it of all it's talent, zero promotion for any event, shrug shoulders when nobody is tuning in, declare it a failure and cease operations.

[sproggy]

Originally Posted by YukonJordan

Business as usual. Buy your competitor, publically say you're committed to keeping it going, gut it of all it's talent, zero promotion for any event, shrug shoulders when nobody is tuning in, declare it a failure and cease operations.

To be fair Strikeforce never promoted themselves either.

[Supe]

Honestly...did anyone really think Rockhold v Jardine was going bring the house down. There wasnt a single big name matchup on the card to draw in casual (or even seasoned) fans.

[Hawkeye]

*yawn* wake me up when there is actual news.


H.

[beau420]

It was the same night as:

Cincinnati vs Houston
Detroit vs New Orleans

And the next day had two games too starting at 1PM EST.

You guys know how many SF events have been held in the entire states of Nevada? 5

First one was Strikeforce Challengers: Voelker vs. Bowling III, held in the Palms Casino and had a crowd of 1,876.

This was the first SF event at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino....which is one of the UFCs old stomping grounds.

You know what? Fuck this article.

You want to know the last time the UFC had an event at the Hard Rock. 2006.

The UFC had had 6 events there between 2005 and 2006.

UFC Ultimate Fight Night 4 had a crowd of 843. That is right....under 850 people. And that is the number of people in attendance, not the number of paying ticket holders.

UFC Ultimate Fight Night 5 had 606 in the audience. And that was just in 2006

The largest UFC event at the Hard Rock was The Ultimate Fighter 4 Finale and it had 1000 listed for the gate.

The venue is the problem. The "reporter" should have at least posted other numbers for that venue.

[0mega1]

Originally Posted by YukonJordan

Business as usual. Buy your competitor, publically say you're committed to keeping it going, gut it of all it's talent, zero promotion for any event, shrug shoulders when nobody is tuning in, declare it a failure and cease operations.

Sounds like business to me

[Chute_Boxe44]

Such a depressing picture

It basically sums up his career post Chuck Liddell win

[Y2JUBAE]

Originally Posted by beau420

It was the same night as:

Cincinnati vs Houston
Detroit vs New Orleans

And the next day had two games too starting at 1PM EST.

You guys know how many SF events have been held in the entire states of Nevada? 5

First one was Strikeforce Challengers: Voelker vs. Bowling III, held in the Palms Casino and had a crowd of 1,876.

This was the first SF event at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino....which is one of the UFCs old stomping grounds.

You know what? Fuck this article.

You want to know the last time the UFC had an event at the Hard Rock. 2006.

The UFC had had 6 events there between 2005 and 2006.

UFC Ultimate Fight Night 4 had a crowd of 843. That is right....under 850 people. And that is the number of people in attendance, not the number of paying ticket holders.

UFC Ultimate Fight Night 5 had 606 in the audience. And that was just in 2006

The largest UFC event at the Hard Rock was The Ultimate Fighter 4 Finale and it had 1000 listed for the gate.

The venue is the problem. The "reporter" should have at least posted other numbers for that venue.

Thank you! It took all I had to finish this POS article, if you can call it that.

"Blame it on the UFC "... Let me just remind everyone that without the UFC, there would be no f/n Strikeforce to begin with. People crying about fighter pay, government calling them a monopoly... UFC put mma on the map, that's why most people think that UFC means MMA. They worked their asses off and the brought it to the masses, not SF, not Pride, not any of these shit organizations out today. UFC paved the way all by themselves and these other jokers come trying to ride their coattails. MMA by itself failed, UFC even failed, then they maned up and turned shit around and made mma a legitimate sport, yet so many mma know it alls want to shit on them all the time. How about the fact that the website that employs the idiot writer of this article would not be here if not for the UFC.

Here's another line that truly describes the class and professionalism of the article. "Speaking of shitty numbers, the UFC 142 Prelims...".

how about speaking of shitty articles, this one takes the cake!

UFC took a lot of great fighters so what, they own it. Strikeforce wasn't exactly "killing it" in the ratings when they had all those big named fighters.

Don't get me wrong, I love strikeforce and I'm not trying to put them down at all. That was an amazing night of fights AS USUAL. SF has always delivered for me, more times than not, I enjoy the SF shows more than the UFC shows. What I am crapping on is this article and the writer of it.