Comments on: Affliction MMA and HDNet Fights strike TV partnership

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:31:26 +0000

when do these events take place, Ive been looking for more MMA events to watch, I hear about other events but usually too late by then, Let me know if you can

Thanks, Bill

By: the_mexicutioner

the_mexicutioner — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:07:23 +0000

You mean the one that was bequeathed to you? Its not like you bought it or anything, coat tail rider.

By: belfort_fan

belfort_fan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:51:38 +0000

i’v known this new for a while its kinda old news.

By: Matt D.

Matt D. — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:05:24 +0000

That’s cool. Can’t beat Bas calling some fights.

By: b.w.

b.w. — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:24:56 +0000

mma live is 1 hr as well my friend.

By: Paco

Paco — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:49:28 +0000

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.

By: ViolentMike

ViolentMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:39:22 +0000

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.

By: chefdaddy

chefdaddy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:34:39 +0000

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.

By: naturalshadow

naturalshadow — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:59:59 +0000

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.

By: ShaiZ

ShaiZ — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:35:04 +0000

Actually, seems like a step down compared to Fox Sports.