Will UFC Be Saved By YouTube?

Posted by Twist Published in Sport

UFC will have a free show on Spike TV July 19th. This is counter programming to the new MMA promotion called Affliction: Banned. Some MMA fans call this one of the best fight lineups around but will that be enough, in summer months with other things going on, to get people to plunk $40 for some questionable fights.

As a UFC fan I can’t stand Tim Sylvia. He is a tall lumbering idiot which is about what Matt Hughes called him when he saw him for the first time. Tim will fight Fedor who is supposed to be the best heavyweight out there. But I thought Cro Cop was the next coming of Jesus and he had his ass handed to him. Randy Couture left the UFC to fight Fedor. The UFC knows exactly how important this is and that is why they are doing everything they can to block it. What other compelling reason is there to watch Affliction: Banned unless you just want to watch MMA?

So do you plunk the money down and hope the fights are good and that there isn’t all of the crap that CBS put together with EliteXC or just find it later online. Maybe low quality but still you get to see a fight if there is any real importance.

The rest of these guys are fighters that the UFC doesn’t want. Rothwell looked unimpressive in the IFL to me. Matt Lindland is a good fighter but boring to watch. Babalu is a tatted up ass who wouldn’t let go of a choke after his opponent tapped and the ref was pulling and yelling for him to stop. It cost him $25,000.

The resurgence of the UFC is because the casual watcher learned about Forrest Griffin and Stephen Bonnar. This will go down in history as what made the UFC in my opinion.

I believe that YouTube will actually help the UFC keep it’s place at the top until the smaller promotions can figure out a way to get you to care about their fighters. They try to do it using cast offs and freak shows or at least that is how it looks to the casual observer. And you can catch it a day or so later on YouTube. But if you care who will win between Griffin and J

Give the UFC credit for their adaptability from The Ultimate Fighter to quickly putting a fight together with just over a months notice to counter program. Now if the UFC would put up some more fights on YouTube instead of trying to charge $1.99 for an unknown undercard matchup so we could learn about the fighter and care about his wins and loses, then the UFC would be hitting on all cylinders for now.

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