I don’t get HBO in Canada

It aint the UFC without Rogan and Goldberg.
Who they gonna use…Shamrock & Ortiz?
They don’t know crap about MMA!

this blows. since so many of the top fighters are coming out of canada the least dana white could do is acknowledge the canadian fans.

UFC is by far the best MMA organization not just because of the fighters but the commentators and the camera angles during the taping of the fights as well. Is UFC going to start looking like king of the cage, not being able to see shit from the fence, under the new HBO crew? DON’T fix something that’s not broken!!

i’ll miss you joe rogan

Does this mean no more UFC on Spike?

This fucking sucks

who else is gonna talk about drinkin their own pee or doin DMT I’ll definitely miss that annoying pitched voice of Joe rogan

k, so all of canada is just going to have to download TUF episodes and fight nights from the net. way to go dana.

this shit ruined my day.

I dont know about this move. Alot of people dont have HBO. They are always talking about making this sport so huge. Seems like putting this on HBO is going to restrict the UFC from the broad audience of regular cable. I hope HBO doesnt fuck this up. I bet they’ll put Dennis Miller and Larry King in the commentary box.

They had better sort something out for Canadians….

Canadians about to kick some ass if they dont get some clarification on the broadcasts, i love it!

Wow this is some crap! What I dont understand is that Dana is such a proud person if HBO is contoling the production and the commentators then what did UFC get out of the deal. Sounds like HBO got everything they wanted and the FANS get screwed! Definetly not happy with the path the UFC is going down

Man this sucks..too top it off, u shouldn’t throw a couple of guys who think they know it all,…U got to have the same team, or at least one of the same guys commentating..I mean Rogan has been there since the start…It won’t be the same..considering, us as M.M.A. fans with passion, study our fav fighters, know them on a level that a couple of HBO who’s, will just bash this wonderful sport, we have all come to love….I mean let’s be realistic..It’s just business to them…This is the start of future, that consists of not caring for the real fans..who Take part in philisophical conversations about UFC, Pride, M.M.A. etc…on a daily basis…Again to repeat what some of the other bloggers have said…Thx alot Dana White..
……See ya…….

WTF?! NO ROGAN & GOLDBERG?! IT TRULY IS NOT THE UFC LIKE W/O THEM!

This is bullshit. Where the hell am I gonna watch UFC now? I’ve seen every single UFC since the first one in 1993. Now I have to download it off the net because Dana wasn’t happy enough turning his 2 million investment into 1 billion. Just keep making more money Dana and forget about the thousands of Canadian fans you’re screwing.

Golberg, I guess he is fine, Rogan? Finally, I never liked that guy, I don’t like him commentating, and I for one are glad he is gone. And to ndnman, WTF are saying? HBO will bash sport? Why? What philosophical conversations?

And BTW, did any of you actually red that article? JUST ONE OF YOU? Read this bit here, than proceed to read rest of article, and stop bitching about problems that dont exits, OMG NO MORE TEH SPIKEZ ON KANADA, TEH UFC IS FAILING, I AM IN KANADA AND KANT WACHT ON TEH HBO, WHERE IZ THE SPIKEZS TV?

White inferred that the HBO events will be higher in stature than the Spike TV events but still lower in stature than the pay-per-view events. As an example, White said that you could expect to see the winners from future seasons of The Ultimate Fighter have their first post-TUF fights on HBO after they win the TUF competition, whereas the UFC Fight Night events would be the home for all of the fighters who are on TUF and get UFC contracts even though they didn’t win the TUF competition.

As another example, White said that you can expect to see Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira fight on HBO, and he added that Nogueira “will fight one of the top guys right off the bat.” White said that fans can expect to see top-quality fights whether any given UFC event is on HBO, Spike TV, or pay-per-view.

White said that the UFC’s June 16th event in Belfast, Northern Ireland will not be the HBO debut show, as he said that the June 16th show will be “on Spike TV or pay-per-view.” The UFC web site previously said that the June 16th would be on Spike TV in the United States.

Since my comment is waiting moderation, dont know why I post here regularly (probably because I used bad words) I will add this:
Read article on MMA weekly, PLEASE!

I’m not subscribing to that crappy channel no matter what. This will ruin the UFC. Write it down I said it first!

Dont know where to post this, but since there was a thread about this “fighter” awhile back, here ya go:
http://www.cagefuryfighting.com/upcommingevents.php

[quote comment=”35895″]Dont know where to post this, but since there was a thread about this “fighter” awhile back, here ya go:
http://www.cagefuryfighting.com/upcommingevents.php/quote
does that mean kimbo is allowing mma rules? and have you ever heard of ray mercer?

UFC followed by some “late night” HBO sounds appealing. any body who has watched HBO after midnight knows what im talkin about but i dont have HBO this sucks

Yeah, cause I’m 36. Ray Mercer was an Olympic boxer who did ok as a pro. My guess is this is gonna be a strike-only fight. CFFC has done those before. No ground fighting allowed. Basically, a boxing match with 4 oz gloves. No confirm on that, but I’ll keep checking.

No Rogan or Goldberg? I’m canceling my HBO.

I don’t know why my comment is still awaiting moderation. I guess I’ll phrase things a little bit lighter. Do you guys actually think there won’t be angry Canadians venting about Dana’s decision to omit a huge Canadian fan base? Some fans like myself havn’t missed a UFC event since the first one in 1993. Where does this leave us now, awaiting the results on ufc.com? Or watching poor quality versions on the internet? Not too impressed Dana.

MTUFC well you dont sound a day over 25 lol but i thought Kimbo was gonna become an all around fighter

How many people here have a comment awaiting moderation?

I’ve seen Ray Mercer box and he’s not very impressive anymore. Kind of a joke fight if thats their main event!

Yeah this really sucks man.I guess i’m gonna have to order HBO now.And if Rogan and Goldberg aren’t there that’s really a downer.Oh yeah Ray Mercer is a former top 10 heavyweight,he’s a rock.His biggest fight was Probably Evander Holyfield.Ray Mercer will slaughter Kimbo.

I love bandwagon riders….
Anyway, in other news, an MMA show called Tuff-N-Uff has just held the first NSAC sanctioned tournament.

Common Paul you don’t really think 46 year old Ray Mercer is gonna “slaughter” 31 year old Kimbo do you. Ray had his days but there not today. Kimbo has cement fists and a pretty strong jaw.

I agree with the Canadians, and I’m from Cali? What’s with all these UFC changes? HBO?? I don’t pay the montly charges for that, but I’ll pay the every few month PPV buy to listen to Rogan and Goldberg. I first thought it was gay how fights were in rather interesting cities such as Sacramento, then Cincy, and TX. What happened to the fight every 3 months in Vegas at the MGM or Mandalay?? Now we are going to the UK, then Ireland next? I can’t wait to hear about the results over the net, then drink beer with my bros and act the least bit excited to watch it on tape delay the next night. It sounds like Dana’s head is getting too big, and they are trying to grow the ufc and sport too fast, and might lose some of the old school fans for new HBO suits. Just my thoughts.

i don’t know why everyone is freaking out, spike is still gonna have tuf and fight nights and all that, hbo is only gonna have a few shows a year, its not like joe rogan is gone forever from ufc and every ufc show is gonna be on hbo, read the article…

haha kimbo vs. mercer, nice

I have to assume that most of you who said this will suck, either didnt read the article or are from Candada. HBO is and has always been the shit. It said that it wanted more objective commentators that Joe Rogan and Goldberg. While I have no problem with Rogan, who’s MMA knowledge makes up for his voice, Goldberg definitely is more of a hype man than a commentator.

For all of you who think that this is going to suck, you will only be that much happier when you see the final product (unless your in Canada).

[quote comment=”35833″]Does this mean no more UFC on Spike?[/quote]

UFC will still be on Spike.

http://www.visualwebcaster.com/VWP/SkinPlayer/Player.asp?e=38504&w=480&h=430&s=True&ch=&sm=False&c=False&c1=False&mc=&qo=False&p=False&i=False&pp=False&cp=False&v=True&mc=False&a=True&sid=68469&aid=69838&pl=&pr=&st=ps&num=9999&y=13801&u=1741433&pid=1&pt=2&pc=False&cuts=6&t=Cage Fury

That link may work. It is a high speed link WMP for the CFFC tourney I posted about earlier. I paused it and let it download. Took about 1.25 hours. That way I could skip around if the fight got boring. Some good fights there, no one I’ve ever heard of, but still, free MMA!!

$$$ always gets in the way of a good thing. Now I’ll have to watch it on the replays and youtube just like I do with the big ppv boxing shows.

:>(

http://www.FROMTHECAGE.com

I think that Rogan and Goldberg will still do commentary, with “production” meaning HBO’s camera crew, lighting, producers, directors, etc.

Nah, all the sites are saying no Blowgums and Goldie. When asked if Jim Lampley would do the commentary, DW said, “Hell NO!”

How about we get Jenna & Tito Jammeson to commentate…HBO sucks…all they are good for is the Sopranos’s and Entorage…..and maybe a replay of War of the World’s for the 297th time. This whole HBO nonsense sounds a lot like the monopoly MLB tried to pull together with Direct TV. Good Work Dana…the acquistion of pride this month onbviously wasn’t enough to satisfy your appetitie….Screw the fight this weekend…I’m just looking forward to seeing Chuck shut up Rampage, and all those loud mouth kooks that play grab ass at Camp Tito. Do you think part of their training is getting botox tip’s from Jenna??

Ya, this is just another set of shows that will be on HBO.

Still gonna have PPV, still gonna have some junk on Spike. Just means more guys get some TV time. Think Raw, Smackdown and the Saturday Superstars show for wrestling. Different announcers and caliber stars but same product.

This is overall a good thing for the sport and naturally for the organization. As for Rogan and Goldberg ya I guess I will miss them. I hope they put someone descent up there, or atleast someone who can bullshit like Rogan can.

Crap.

Very dissapointed here, better figure something out for those of us who are canadian or don’t want to pay for HBO. Why no Rogan or Goldberg, sounds like a stupid idea to me. Why mess with whats working.

Has anybody interviewed Rogan or Goldberg?

im all for as much fighting as possible. who cares if we lose the announcers. i would prefer some guys who just told it as it is. im excited to see how it turns out

Some of you people are being complete morons. UFC will still be on Spike and PPV, HBO is just getting a few shows a year. Don’t have HBO? Tough. Having to download a couple of shows out of the year is quite the small price to pay for the advancement of the sport. HBO is mainstream, it’s THE boxing channel. A mainstream entity like HBO endorsing MMA is NOTHING but good for the sport. Stop crying about Goldie and Rogan too. They’ll still be on Spike and on PPV. As much as I like them as a team, they DO resemble pro wrestling announcers more than sports commentaters. Watching UFC with objective announcers will be interesting, let’s just hope they bring in some guys who actually know something about the sport.

well what do u expect?? they both talk crap about boxing, which they both know ufc will never compete with boxing status. And u people are saying why no rogan and goldberg?
i think i just answered all of ur questions

its still fun to complain though

[quote comment=”35879″]Golberg, I guess he is fine, Rogan? Finally, I never liked that guy, I don’t like him commentating, and I for one are glad he is gone. And to ndnman, WTF are saying? HBO will bash sport? Why? What philosophical conversations?

And BTW, did any of you actually red that article? JUST ONE OF YOU? Read this bit here, than proceed to read rest of article, and stop bitching about problems that dont exits, OMG NO MORE TEH SPIKEZ ON KANADA, TEH UFC IS FAILING, I AM IN KANADA AND KANT WACHT ON TEH HBO, WHERE IZ THE SPIKEZS TV?

White inferred that the HBO events will be higher in stature than the Spike TV events but still lower in stature than the pay-per-view events. As an example, White said that you could expect to see the winners from future seasons of The Ultimate Fighter have their first post-TUF fights on HBO after they win the TUF competition, whereas the UFC Fight Night events would be the home for all of the fighters who are on TUF and get UFC contracts even though they didn’t win the TUF competition.

As another example, White said that you can expect to see Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira fight on HBO, and he added that Nogueira “will fight one of the top guys right off the bat.” White said that fans can expect to see top-quality fights whether any given UFC event is on HBO, Spike TV, or pay-per-view.

White said that the UFC’s June 16th event in Belfast, Northern Ireland will not be the HBO debut show, as he said that the June 16th show will be “on Spike TV or pay-per-view.” The UFC web site previously said that the June 16th would be on Spike TV in the United States.[/quote]

Loken, you must be “American” ?

Dana sold out its simple, we all have our price, HBO Called his out, Kimbo got crunched by Big Bear, that was hell rumbling. Kimbo would lose to Liddell or Couture,

We’ve known about this for some time now, why so surprised? Most of us have seen “objective” commentary before in lesser known organizations, its overrated. This is off topic but who checked out that TIto Dana bad blood thing on spike? Is it just me or did Dana seem a lot less bright on this show. Usually he comes across as a pro, killer business man, but he seemed like Homer Simpson meets Mike Katz. RETARDO! I think he does have brain damage! Tito did let himn off the hook, he would have got his ass kicked! That show was a childish attempt to make Tito look bad(”which Im all for most of the time) but it was lame and transparent. No wonder Tito and Dana dont get along, there so similiar. Eat me Dana you money grubing loser!

[quote comment=”36125″]

Loken, you must be “American” ?[/quote]

Nope, I am Croatian, that means I get no shows on TV except when Mirko is fighting. Good thing is I do have HBO, thats way thing is good for me, now its seems that I can actually watch some more UFC on TV. So I suggest to Canadians to frankly stfu, I realize this is bad for you in some ways, but you have to realize that there is half of world outside of Canada and for large part of them this is good thing, you still have your UFC, and rest of us, well it seem we will have one too, finally.

Oh, my great-great father comes from states so I do have some “American” blood.

who the hell will commentate now? why not pick some random knowledgable fans from the crowd at the event?

I will be ordering HBO solely due to the UFC. That sucks that HBO is not available in Canada, I never knew that. Is it just through cable providers? What if you get DirecTV?

I for one am excited about this… UFC in HD live on a Friday night, no commercials? Sweet!

“So I suggest to Canadians to frankly stfu, I realize this is bad for you in some ways, but you have to realize that there is half of world outside of Canada and for large part of them this is good thing, you still have your UFC, and rest of us, well it seem we will have one too, finally”

Are we bashing or telling any “Croatians” to “STFU”? Or dissing you in any way shape or form?

Anyways, we will be able to watch UFC here on PPV even though it is an HBO broadcast.
So if you have Rogers, Shaw, Bell or Starchoice you will be fine.
Hopefully they don’t bring in the cheesy colored microphones.

I think Joe Rogan will be missed by some as he did have some knowledge about the sport.

I want BAS. If its not Rogan and Goldberg i want Bas “El Guapo” Rutten. he would be a great asset to the UFC and he knows way more than Rogan.

I’m trying to stay objective, but I just got off the phone with my cable provider, (I’m Canadian here, ok) The UFC events may be available on Shaw on demand, but they didn’t even know about this. The customer service guy I spoke to didn’t know why HBO isn’t available in Canada, but the cable company is bringing top HBO product to on demand… The guy said shaw is trying to get HBO available. Hopefully we can get HBO for the same deal American’s get it.

Loken you must be one badass dude to tell an entire country to STFU. C’mon man, I know we’re all being a little whiny here but that’s just because we’re all huge MMA fans and don’t wanna miss out.

I never thought about the fact that europeans benefit from this since HBO is available there. I’m actually happy about that because I’m originally from there too and whenever i go back all i hear ppl talk about is K1. This ought to make UFC a little more mainstream there as well.

Canada has lots of HBO programming that is sub licensed. Most likely for these events they will be pay per view liek the boxing events. Unless someone sub licenses them from HBO and plays them live. I suspect that TSN or Sportsnet will show these fights say a week later on a Saturday night much like they do boxing even though you could have watched in the week before on pay per view. I’m a Canadian and I’m not too worried.

[quote comment=”36252″]
Are we bashing or telling any “Croatians” to “STFU”? Or dissing you in any way shape or form?
[/quote]

Large number of you are acting as simple kids who just got little brother, and they cant seem to understand why they need to share, so you lost few candies, big bloody deal deal with it, world is not falling apart, there are no big asteroids ready to collide, and UFC is still on Spike TV. See how Fred here is dealing with this situation like big boy he is :D.

“Loken you must be one badass dude to tell an entire country to STFU”

So true, so true.

What does this mean? Certain shows on HBO and others on Spike and PPV? This totally sucks! There is no UFC without Goldberg and Rogan. I can’t believe Dana would sell out like this. I need the whole story and details.

Wait so nothing will change as far as PPV events go right?
Basically, if im understandign this right, nothing has changed, except for a little extra UFC than before on an additional network?

[quote comment=”35879″]Golberg, I guess he is fine, Rogan? Finally, I never liked that guy, I don’t like him commentating, and I for one are glad he is gone. And to ndnman, WTF are saying? HBO will bash sport? Why? What philosophical conversations?

And BTW, did any of you actually red that article? JUST ONE OF YOU? Read this bit here, than proceed to read rest of article, and stop bitching about problems that dont exits, OMG NO MORE TEH SPIKEZ ON KANADA, TEH UFC IS FAILING, I AM IN KANADA AND KANT WACHT ON TEH HBO, WHERE IZ THE SPIKEZS TV?

White inferred that the HBO events will be higher in stature than the Spike TV events but still lower in stature than the pay-per-view events. As an example, White said that you could expect to see the winners from future seasons of The Ultimate Fighter have their first post-TUF fights on HBO after they win the TUF competition, whereas the UFC Fight Night events would be the home for all of the fighters who are on TUF and get UFC contracts even though they didn’t win the TUF competition.

As another example, White said that you can expect to see Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira fight on HBO, and he added that Nogueira “will fight one of the top guys right off the bat.” White said that fans can expect to see top-quality fights whether any given UFC event is on HBO, Spike TV, or pay-per-view.

White said that the UFC’s June 16th event in Belfast, Northern Ireland will not be the HBO debut show, as he said that the June 16th show will be “on Spike TV or pay-per-view.” The UFC web site previously said that the June 16th would be on Spike TV in the United States.[/quote]
your right

[quote comment=”35974″][quote comment=”35833″]Does this mean no more UFC on Spike?[/quote]

UFC will still be on Spike.[/quote]
Whats the point of having to channels.

Om reply to the dofus who said and all those who do not understand the issue:

“OMG NO MORE TEH SPIKEZ ON KANADA, TEH UFC IS FAILING, I AM IN KANADA AND KANT WACHT ON TEH HBO, WHERE IZ THE SPIKEZS TV?”

If the broadcasting of UFC events is similar to the way boxing events are Canadians will loose out.

Right now Canadians get to see every live event. With 3 streams for UFC (Spike, PPV and HBO) Canadians will miss out on some live events (the HBO ones). We may get some of the HBO stuff a few days or weeks later on some screwed up ever changing TSN schedule that causes us to miss unique events.

For the guy that said we get HBO Sopranos up here….for years we got delayed viewing of the episodes.

All we can hope for is a deal that has HBO broadcasting the events….since it is so popular in Quebec, Quebec might get a separate deal just for them.

So, yes this deal sucks. Before Canadians got 100% of the broadcasts and now we will get less. Hope someone at the UFC is listening.

Mike

This is complete bullshit, Dana White and the whole UFC cast are talking about it expanding and growing all over the world…i know that here in Toronto it is growing tremendously i mean i go to places to watch events and every event it gets more packed also my friends are all into it as well, especially the TUF series…I hope they’re going to sign a deal with spike or another canadian broadcasting station because i honestly feel that if it stops airing here, the interest from Canadians will decrease tremendously…

[quote comment=”36676″]Om reply to the dofus who said and all those who do not understand the issue:

“OMG NO MORE TEH SPIKEZ ON KANADA, TEH UFC IS FAILING, I AM IN KANADA AND KANT WACHT ON TEH HBO, WHERE IZ THE SPIKEZS TV?”

If the broadcasting of UFC events is similar to the way boxing events are Canadians will loose out.

Right now Canadians get to see every live event. With 3 streams for UFC (Spike, PPV and HBO) Canadians will miss out on some live events (the HBO ones). We may get some of the HBO stuff a few days or weeks later on some screwed up ever changing TSN schedule that causes us to miss unique events.

For the guy that said we get HBO Sopranos up here….for years we got delayed viewing of the episodes.

All we can hope for is a deal that has HBO broadcasting the events….since it is so popular in Quebec, Quebec might get a separate deal just for them.

So, yes this deal sucks. Before Canadians got 100% of the broadcasts and now we will get less. Hope someone at the UFC is listening.

Mike[/quote]

Large number of you want MMA to expand, right? HBO means that MMA is getting more mainstream, if this means that you will lose small percentage of your broadcasts so others can get it than why not? You will not die for not seeing every UFC show live. And besides, we are in internet age, it is not hard to find video of fight you missed

[quote comment=”36419″]Wait so nothing will change as far as PPV events go right?
Basically, if im understandign this right, nothing has changed, except for a little extra UFC than before on an additional network?[/quote]

Yes

This is fuct. I guess Ill become more of a pride watcher since its on PPV or does this mean Pride goes to HBO as well???

Oh one more thing, I guess this gives me one more reason to move to the US of A. LOL

[quote comment=”36851″]This is fuct. I guess Ill become more of a pride watcher since its on PPV or does this mean Pride goes to HBO as well???[/quote]

UFC is on PPV as well.

Just to clarify that I am not a self centered knob:

“So yes, this deal sucks”

Should be

“Yes, this deal sucks for Canadians in the short term; and unless Canadians eventually get 100% access it sucks in the long term too”

Dana White or whoever is a freakin genius for TUF and other Spike broadcasts that are “free”; it helped popularize MMA/UFC and we have had it good. Nothing lasts forever.

And about Pride: All I ever see on pride is the PPV stuff so I don’t watch it with the same interest as UFC; I cannot see that any HBO deal it makes would affect anything in Canada; we will still get the PPV.

Mike

I guess I was still sounding like a self centered knob. Me me me…what about Jeff Rogan and pals?:

I will definitely miss Jeff Rogan. I was happy to have him in my living room and missed him when the UFC was on he was not there.

Hope these new strangers are as good. They may be but I bet none of them will ever say “WOW!!! Who could watch baseball after that!!!?”

Mike

36? You said you were a ‘war vet’ where your boys came back all messed up. What, a Desert War Vet?

Tommy, desert storm was a war, it wasnt a slaughter like vietnam…but a soldier would see some shit and most likely kill or be killed…anyboy who did that has my respect
also, anyone have HBO, the channel suuuuuuucks, i dont have it and i dont know anyone who does, so im gonna have a hard time watching these fights…also is hbo going to try to compete with the ufc production wise…meaning, changing stuff so their production looks better or worse than other ufc events…..if Frank Mir isnt fighting he should be the HBO guy with the “mma knowledge”

whose jeff rogan?? ahahah joker it’s joe rogan and he’s an intense dude when he calls fights which is cool and there is no one who has a deeper voice than goldberg haha.

Loken it still sucks for us Canadians who want to watch every live event because that’s what we’re interested in. yea we can DL things but it’s not the same by any means, also if Dana wants it to expand why take it out of Canada, we all know GSP is the future of the welterweight division and that his fan base is growing quickly here and i’m only speaking about my area of toronto who knows how big the UFC is in the rest of Toronto and Canada

UFC is not going off Spike  - there is simply going to be more content available now. All the same things on Spike - but even more on HBO

The HBO broadcasting will be in addition to spike and the ppv’s, SO we wont lose any of the broadcasting just more for people with HBO