Spike TV will air a stacked two-hour block of "never-before-seen on cable (non-pay-per-view)" counterprogramming to the Nov. 7 telecast of Saturday Night Fights on CBS."UFC Main Events" airs head-to-head with "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers," both events starting at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Fedor vs. Rogers marks Strikeforce's debut on CBS and Fedor Emelianenko's first fight for the promotion.
Spike and the Ultimate Fighting Championship have lined up four of the UFC's most highly regarded fights of the year from its three most recent pay-per-view events, highlighted by Randy Couture vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueria.
The fights airing in the UFC Main Events telecast include the following:
UFC 102: RANDY COUTURE vs. ANTONIO RODRIGO NOGUEIRA
This highly-anticipated battle featured UFC legend and former heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Randy Couture against former Pride heavyweight and then UFC interim heavyweight king Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
UFC 103: VITOR BELFORT vs. RICH FRANKLIN
A battle of veteran former UFC champions featured former light heavyweight champ Vitor Belfort returning to the Octagon against former UFC middleweight champ Rich Franklin.
UFC 101: B.J. PENN vs. KENNY FLORIAN
Lightweight champion B.J. Penn, in his second title defense, took on top contender Kenny Florian in a battle of Brazilian jiu-jitsu experts.
UFC 101: FORREST GRIFFIN vs. ANDERSON SILVA
UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva moved up in weight class for a non-title bout against former UFC light heavyweight champ and "The Ultimate Fighter 1" winner Forrest Griffin.
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Personally, I think this is screwed up by Dana White. If you pay attention, he is not doing the to promote MMA, he is only doing this to take away from Strikeforce. I think Strikeforce being on CBS is great for MMA. Dana is made because it is not the UFC that's getting all of the press. Why didn't he put this show on last weekend? It was have been great. 3 straight weekends of free quality MMA action on TV. That's how you build MMA. Not put a show against another that's live and free. That's not pushing the sport, that's making the fans choose. That's not far for the fans.
Daddy has spoken.
Wow how stupid is the comment above? Of course Dana wants to build MMA, but he wants it to be for the UFC only. That's like saying the NHL and the KHL should walk hand and hand and promote each other "for the good of the sport", it's an utterly retarded business idea.
Dana is playing his cards here, he's getting viewers away from his competition, you know, like a good businessman does? Jesus, I can't believe someone would be so naive to not understand why they put this show on the same time as the Strikforce card, it's common sense, a great business move and it takes away some focus from a competing organization.
"Daddy" is quite frankly, an idiot.
"That's not pushing the sport, that's making the fans choose. That's not far for the fans."
Nothing gets by you "Daddy". Way to see the common sense in Dana's logic here.
Chances are if you have Spike, you have a DVR. I'll be watching CBS, record "UFC Main Events", then watch it while UFC 105 is on.
I agree Daddy's comment is pathetic. Either you must not follow MMA closely or you have no business sense at all.
The UFC is solely trying to take viewers away from the Strikeforce show. I'm not going to watch the UFC show only because I've seen all four fights when it was on pay per view. But if I didn't, I would no doubt watch it over the CBS show, but I would turn back when the Fedor fights starts.
Hey, Daddy, if it's any consolation, at least everyone seemed to read your post; even if absolutely nobody would agree with it... :)
I wonder how many people will actually be 'choosing' what to watch live; I wish there was a way to analyze the ratings after the fact, but you can only assume trends from the numbers.
I've got a friend who watches a fair bit of UFC, but doesn't know much about the sport outside. She didn't even know about the Fedor fight, and I doubt she's the only one. Meanwhile, the more rounded fan (even if they prefer the UFC) would probably rather watch Fedor live in his network US debut. Plus, they probably saw the fights being served up Saturday when they were live.
Of course, it's a brilliant move by the UFC for this reason; their promotion for Saturday has been stronger than CBS' too. UFC 'fans' that don't order PPV will more than likely stick with Spike, and not end up being exposed to Strikeforce - and that's the vital key to keeping them in second place.
You can't compare NHL to KHL dummy. Be real people, have we not seen this before. Dana White = Vince McMahon.
UFC will be the WWE.
UFC is a business...so..um..duh? no shit he would do something so business saavy such as playing main event cards all night during the time of the fedor fight. If you want your business to succeed, would you want to do everything in your power to keep your consumers to your organization and be competitive at all times? Wouldnt you NOT want your customers to go to your competitors? So what would you do? You will match or beat their offer, you will bring them back in...they wil get a hell of a deal.
So why is this dumb on Dana Whites part? cause hes a business capitalist? Hes doing me a huge favor, really. Hes giving me two options. If Strikeforce sucks, Im guaranteed a success on Spike..just a push button away. Competition breeds great things like this. We should all be so fucking lucky.
So, to the absolute and very unintelligent person who claimed that this is fucked up in Dana's part, do this. Own a business...and when another business opens up and has a promotion for great deals, close your store for the day and tell me how it goes.
You can't compare NHL to KHL dummy. Be real people, have we not seen this before. Dana White = Vince McMahon. UFC will be the WWE.
Dude, you're not firing on all cylinders.
First, the second comment didn't compare the NHL to the KHL - he compared the ridiculous concept of rival MMA organiztions helping eachother out to a similarly ridiculous, hypathetical situation. Learn how to read.
On your second point, I tend to agree - Dana is a lot like Vince. But you seem to think this is a bad thing. Anyone holding any stake in the UFC prays Dana continues to grow the UFC along the same lines as McMahon grew the WWE - and they'll watch their wallets get fatter by the minute.
The UFC is already the WWE of MMA, and that's nothing but good for the UFC. I bet you're one of those guys that preferred WCW Thunder to RAW, right? :D
who ever said that Dana is making a great business decison dosen't know jack!How is it a good decison to show previous fights,when their outcome is already known,how many mma fans will watch Spike tv reruns of old fights vs "free" live mma,Dana is not getting his way,he's angry because they're not talking about the UFC their talking about Strikeforce and Fedor,the man Dana desperately wanted to sign,yes, it is a business decision,but a bad one! Free live fight vs preveiously recorded,we'll see which gets better ratings,which one will you be watching!
Tony - the fights UFC are showing on Spike tonight haven't been seen on free TV before.
So a) people that didn't get those PPVs, but wanted to see how things went down, will watch; b) not everyone knows there's any MMA outside of the UFC, so they'll probably be watching Spike; and c) UFC fans that don't give a crap about Fedor, since he preferred to duck real competition, will also watch Spike, perhaps despite the fact they've seen it before.
You mean to tell me you've never rewatched a fight? UFC reruns fights on Spike all the time, and those 'Unleashed' shows out-rate a lot of other live, free, top-tier sports.
We will indeed see which show gets the better ratings, but that's not truly much of an indicator. Spike should draw more viewers; they did a better job on promotion, and they already hold the pole position. Strikeforce and CBS dropped the ball - they should have been shoving Fedor down our throats for the last month, getting him into the consciousness of the fight-fan that's only ever been exposed to UFC. But they didn't, and I think I smell another Elite XC on the horizon!
And I bet Fedor STILL won't sign with UFC!
Daddy...lol...you hate Dana White and the UFC way too much man...yet you still watch every UFC match you can get your eyes on...and the "daddy has spoken" thing, retarded...so tired of hearing Dana haters talk shit...daddy, you should just hang out on the Strikeforce website(if they have one) that way, you can lick on fedors nuts with the rest of those haters...we all hate you, "daddy"
The UFC re-airs were by far superior fights, the probably was I saw them live. I recored the strikeforce event so I could A) skip the commercials and B) skip the boring fights.
I was surprised that the fights were a little better then I expected but you could still tell that the quality of fighters in strikeforce is nowhere near the UFC.
I am probably in the minority but I think there are at least two or three guys in the UFC other then Lesnar that could give Fedor a run for his money. Also I think Lesnar handles Fedor.
your a fukin idiot if you skipped live fights to watch old ufc.
I meant the problem was I saw them live when they originally fought. So I am not an F-ing idiot. Also I prefer to watch the fights recorded when they have commercials so I can skip them.
The strikeforce card was boring Rodgers should have let his hands go, and miller was to relaxed and was unable to stop the take downs.
The UFC has too much talent compared to the other mma companies, only Pride really ever had the talent to compete in the us market and we know how that went.
Strikeforce is a good regional show with a card or two on tv and showtime but I do not know anyone willing to put down $50 for a ppv.
I wish you so called experts would look at records and experience when you start saying who is going to beat who. Lets look at the records,
Lesnar 4-1 3 years max experience in MMA.
Fedor 30-1 11 years experience in MMA. Sambo world champion.
Granted Fedor ducked the UFC but one of you wrote he never faced anything in Strikeforce, you must have forgotten Tim Silvia ex-UFC champion and Arlovski ex-UFC champion are in Strikeforce and he fucking destroyed them.
When he was in Pride he was the man and nobody could beat the man.
When his nose got cut I thought fuck not another short sighted doctor stoppage. Thankfully it wasn't stopped but I do have one thing to say and that is "Big" John Mcarthy stopped the fight way to soon. Rodgers got leveled by Fedor there is no mistaking that but his follow up punches landed on Rodgers arms and Mcarthy jumped in to soon but shit happens in fights like we all know happens all the time.
I was surprised that Rodgers did as well as he did. I thought Fedor would've taken him out in the first round and I hope that there is a rematch because that was the most exciting fight of the night.
Now I probably will get flamed for my spelling or being off on their amount of experience but who cares. The fact is it is a guy who is 4-1 versus a guy who is 30-1.
Man I would think a fight between Rodgers and Lesnar would be fucking awesome to watch and not Lesnar fighting guys past their prime.
Last Anonymous - I'm Agree that anyone predicting Lesnar thumping Fedor just doesn't know enough about Fedor. Given three or four more fights (meaning there's a year or two more wear-and-tear on Fedor too), perhaps then Brock could be a match.
Till that day, I'm not sure there is a match out there for Fedor - I'd love to see Randy take a shot, just to match experience and because he makes a helluva game plan, but I still don't see him making it out of the second round.
I will take issue with your ranking of Silvia and Arlovski - as you say, they were both former UFC champs when they took on Fedor, and both former UFC fighters... which means to me at least, if the UFC didn't want to re-up their contracts, they didn't see them as viable fighters anymore either. Nobody can argue Arlovski's not past his prime - see his last fight for confirmation - and the last time I saw Silvia since the Fedor whoopin', he was getting knocked out by an old former boxer.
To the idiots on here who says its a business...DUH. Of course Dana is trying to be a business man. Not doubt he is a good business man but my main point was this is not good for MMA. Dana always say's he wants MMA to be bigger or as big as all of the other sports. His words and his actions doesn't go together. You can't say you are all for MMA but try to cut other MMA promotions down when they try to make positive moves. Strikeforce coming on CBS was great for MMA. It was not about the UFC, it was about MMA. What's more important, the growth of the Sport of MMA or the UFC?
Daddy has spoken...Again Bitches
Uh-huh... you're an idiot. Whatever makes you feel better.
Yo Momma
Yeah, I took it there.
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Daddy has spoken
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