ding, ding, ding, give this guy a prize!

I believe Dana

If Dana White told you the world was flat would you believe it? Probably.

Poor gullible “MMA” (UFC) fan boys. Not appreciating the sport as a whole and merely the most visible promotion.

You’re only hurting yourselves by hanging on ever one of White’s words and not watching/supporting or verbally promoting other promotions.

If White REALLY loved MMA, he’d welcome healthy competition, not insult it. Competition makes the sport better.

What good is this fragmentation. I want one organization that has all the best fighters. Dana runs the ufc so why would he want competition and how is not liking a rival org prove he doesn’t like mma.

One organization doesn’t have all the best fighters, it never has and it never will. Why? Because the UFC is cheap and won’t pay the best to fight the best. That’s why Huerta complained, that’s why Babalu and Arlovski are elsewhere, that’s why Fedor couldn’t come to ‘terms’ with the UFC.

I don’t think Dana is the only person who said that Affliction looks like it will fold. Even the owner said it would fold if he did’t see any money after the third event, and my guess would be that they bled money for the first event.

No, one organization doesn’t have all the best fighters. And you’re right, it never will. But it’s a business, it can’t pay every fighter a million bucks per fight. kevin put up a good post on fighter pay before. Huerta complained b/c he’s either an idiot or got very bad advice, he doesn’t have the star power to demand more. Babalu (I might be mistaken on this) is gone b/c of the extended choke he put on his last UFC opponent after the fight was stopped. Now as to why Arlovski is gone, who knows? They should have resigned him, but he never looked the same after Sylvia beat him.

Dana once said he plans on having a card every two weeks. He would need an expanded roster to do that. I think the natural evolution for the sport would have all the fighters fighting under one promotion, like the NFL and football. Maybe a fighters’ union. Soon the ufc will be so huge that any new promotion will just accept that it has to try to become a niche player like arena football does with the nfl.

Yeah, I have watched most episodes of it, but not all. I only watch them at work in a small little portion of my nice monitor. I don’t go on the internet to often at my house. I would prefer to watch a TV show with my wife then sit there staring at my laptop, lol.

Plus MMA Live is only 1/2 hour and Inside MMA is 1 hour. They have 3 guests that are there for the whole show - they are usually fighters or mma writers or promotors, or, you catch my drift. I like how they show the highlights of all the other organizations from the previous week. That is where you can really find out about some young up and comers.

Yes, MMA live does cover other orgs, but they do mainly concentrate on UFC in my opinion. Insede MMA’s program has majority coverage of UFC only the week of a PPV, and still its not even 1/2 of the coverage. But I could also understand how some people can sometimes find Bas to be somewhat annoying.

If MMA Live ever makes it to television, that will for sure be set to record on my DVR as well. I prefer to watch stuff on a big flat screen on my wall as opposed to a computer screen. If I didn’t have freinds to chip in for all of the PPV’s I probably wouldn’t be able to afford all of them, so I would possibly have to resort to watching them online. Actually, I would go to the bar so I can still see it live and on a TV screen. But luckily, that will never be the case.

mma live is 1 hr as well my friend.

mma live airs on thursdays at 4pm central time on espn internet. i never get the chance to watch it live, but always catch the replay on mania. if they dont have it, you know where to go. mma live talks about the ufc,affliction,elite,dream, sengoku etc. i dont know were the notion that they only talk about the ufc came from, plus they have kenny florian and frank mir as commentators. i quit watching replays of inside mma the day they had rowdy roddy piper (who i like) as a guest commentator. he didnt have a clue.

Oh, I thought that espn’s mma live was given a time slot on television. Thanks for the heads up B.w….Back to watching it on the net

they did at one time like you said, but was just a rumor that it could happen in the future. hopefully now with all this randy/brock buzz, it will become reality. like PHILNQY and i discussed once, you would think that espn would at least have 1 hr a week to spare, even on the duece.

i just realized that this is bad news. last time the pre-lims from Affliction aired on fox sports, a channel most can get on cable or dish. this sucks!

Well Affliction is going about it the wrong way.
First off, the ring sucks; I know if your a pride fan boy then your goin to say the ring is better even when you no its not.
I loved Pride, but the ring is just laughably bad for MMA.
Also, putting Metal bands in with your shows is just ignorant marketing.

They’re fights were okay. but the production values were questionable.

I like competition,I like watching other Orgs, and having more fights to watch.
But UFC just does it the best right now.
It seems like the people who rally behind it were the ones who were involved in the Pride VS UFC thing and are just bitter and rally behind any competition.

Affliction is a T-shirt company that does fights on the side to sell more shirts. This isn’t our new prideFC savior guys.

Shaiz:

As the biggest Pride lover in the history of mma, I can say for certain that Affliction and Pride aree completely different. No one is claiming that Affliction is the new Pride because DREAM is.

The reason people rally behind affliction is because competition is good for the sport. Because of Afflictions arrival on the scene, the UFC has increased its product. THere has only been one affliction show so far and that already led to more UFC events, more free events.

Affliction has already provided us with a dream fight between Sylvia and Fedor which the UFC could never deliver.

Now they are giving us another MONSTER match up between 2 top 5 Heavyweights: Barnett vs. Arlovski and the winner will fight Fedor at the next show!

Three MEGA fights that we will have never gotten to see had it not been for the arrival of Affliction!

Hey John,

I don’t know if Fedor fighting Sylvia was a ‘dream match up’ but its definately nice seeing Fedor fight someone legit.

I think the dream match up is Fedor vrs Randy, and if that happens it will be in the UFC.

I like Barnett Arlovski, but i don’t think I’d call it a megafight.

Any fight with Fedor and anyone competitive is a Mega fight.
I think Afflictions PPV’s are gonna suffer unless Fedor is involved.
Much the same way elitexc’s ppvs suffer without Kimbo or Gina.
(Please Forgive me for comparing Kimbo to Fedor)

agreed, good points john… these affliction haters are ridiculous and dont understand competition in the market. when there is little or no competition for a product (MMA) the product decreases in quality and prices rise… economics 101, if affliction wasnt here you think the UFC would have given an anderson silva fight up for free? no way… u guys need to appreciate the other organizations

john, how the hell are you gonna work for Zuffa’s marketing department if you root for the success of other organizations?