Counter programming reminder: UFC mania on Spike TV today/tonite includes ‘Couture vs Lesnar’
By: MMAmania
This is just a reminder that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has once again scheduled big-time Spike TV programming this afternoon and evening to counter an event from Affliction MMA.
“Day of Reckoning” is the sophomore effort for the upstart promotion, featuring one of the most anticipated fights in the history of the sport between WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko and former UFC title holder Andrei Arlovski. It will air tonight on pay-per-view (PPV), beginning at 9 p.m. ET.
Not to be outdone, UFC President Dana White and Co. are going to do their best to ensure that viewers at home who don’t want — or can’t afford — to cough up upward of $40 to watch a PPV have other mixed martial arts options.
Options that don’t cost a single cent to those who receive the Spike TV network via basic cable.
Spike TV will debut UFC 91: “Couture vs. Lesnar,” which was billed as the “biggest fight in UFC history,” hauling in the largest (at the time, according to White) PPV booty ever for the Zuffa-owned promotion.
Lesnar defeated Randy Couture via second round technical knockout to capture the heavyweight crown in the UFC 91 main event. Kenny Florian toppled Joe Stevenson with a first round submission in the co-featured bout of the evening, reinforcing his position as the clearcut number one title contender in the 155-pound division.
It originally took place on November 15, 2008.
Keep in mind that UFC programming will begin to air at 3 p.m. ET on Spike TV to lead-in to the UFC 91 rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET. “UFC Unleashed,” “UFC Primetime” and “Ultimate Iceman: Chuck Liddell” are all on the schedule.
It’s nice to have choices … we hope you make the right one.
(Note that UFC 84: “Ill Will” aired opposite “Banned” on July 26 and UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy” debuted on Spike TV October 11 — the original date for “Day of Reckoning.” UFC also used to counter program Elite XC when the promotion held events on CBS.)
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I for one am surprised this works, it goes to show the level of people interested in mma, but not interested or able to afford PPV’s!
welcome back stinky fingers, we’re planning a trip to a UFC event later this year as a group, you in?
email me at kevjack115@yahoo.com if interested. we got 15 strong now.this goes for anyone interested!
lol you caught it mania. not trying to be a dick, just easier dealing with 1 email…the guys interested realize it’s not affiliated with you. hope you’ll be joining us for a nice dinner when we finally get this thing together!
hey mania, how do you like your black berry? I’m getting the centro and a blackberry for my wife! just curious!
thanks mate~
i stayed in the uk and had a fantastic time there..
all the mmablokes out there are great!!
what event u going to?? and who is all going??
got 15 or so regulars now. thinking this summer, so everyone can get time off,money and permission from wives. you in? email me!
I wondered when this was going to get mentioned.
What a sad man Dana is. Call it business, call it what you want but I just think its sad. If Affliction are going down then let them fail on their own.
There is nothing the UFC could do to stop me watching Affliction if I had the chance. Its just a shame I can’t vote wth my wallet as I’d buy the Affliction PPV for sure. Maybe next time Atencio and the boys can hook it up so that us European fans can support it as well. Sadly I’ll have to download it instead (and avoid Mania like the plague until Ive watched it first).
why is it sad? example:
say you drive an ice cream truck. one day another ice cream truck shows up in the same neighborhood. Are you going to let him keep “stealing” your business, or are you going to go out, buy better “treats” and get there an hour earlier every day? “sad” thing is, he’s taking your livelihood, so my guess, you’ll be out there selling better treats, earlier in the day!
Aaaah, but Kevin….are you an owner of an ice cream truck, or are you a potential buyer of ice cream?
I agree that as a business owner of the ice cream truck, you would need to establish your area and come up with a solution, but as a potential customer, you should welcome two ice cream trucks. Without the second guy moving into the neighbourhood, you’d still be getting the same old ice cream treats…later in the day.
Great example of how Affliction is good for MMA….thanks Kevin.
like I said before bro, in 99% of cases, competition is good for the consumer! In this case it dilutes matches we want to see and means more ppv’s for us, the consumers! We agree to what it means introvert, we disagree to who it hurts!
you in on the trip introvert?
wow i like the way u guys broke that down.
keep it going~
im thinking introvert did a pretty good job in his response.
what u got for that kevin?
u guys both have some interesting points.
You both have good points but the bottom line is you wouldn’t be able to see all the dream match-ups solely in the UFC because of the exclusivity rule which is BS for the fighters and the fans. That rule only exists so that the UFC has control of the whole pie.
Affliction on the other hand are looking out for the fighters and the fans by (A) allowing the fighters to compete when and where they like, and (B) in the process giving the fans what they want by putting on dream match-ups.
Where else would you get to see FEDOR vs ARLOVSKI if Affliction didn’t put it on? That should be the important point and if they continue to grow and aquire more top fighters who knows what they could achieve.
More PPV’s?? Im sure you can scrape together an extra $45 every 6 months if its worth it right? That way Dana makes sure his cards are even better to make sure you buy his and vise versa. Competition is ALWAYS good for the consumer as Introvert rightly pointed out.
you would have seen it in UFC
If Fedor would have signed
I am not going to buy better “treats” i am going to slash the other guys tires and then beat his ass haha.
One or two competitive orginizations isn’t a problem, but if more keep springing up we’ll have ten or fifteen different MMA orginizations with a bunch of different champions who can’t fight eachother. Just like what happened with boxing. This is a smart buisness decision by Dana White to protect his product and protect MMA as a whole.
Ehoglund, that’s exactly what Dana is doing. Figuratively speaking, of course, not literally. I don’t think.
Sometimes 2 large organizations can be a pain in the ass. An example would be how long it took us to see Liddell vs. Silva because of 2 stubborn promotions. After Wand signed with Zuffa, it was put in motion.
the only problem is that in they are so worried about their own company instead of the sport.. all they need to do is to cross-promote and have the champs fight eachother even if it’s 10 big organizations in the world..
While I prefer UFC productions, I’m not going to miss the fight between AA & Fedor. Nice try, Dana!
Besides, Couture/Lesnar wasn’t that great a fight…
I would like to see the affliction fights live is always better, but the card is not worth 45 bones. Unless my buddies change their mind I’ll be watching a replay of the best HW in the game Brock.
Funny…I’m paying 45 bones so that I can watch the best HW in the game. His name definitely isn’t Brock.
lmao wow you think brock is the best heavy weight in the game YOUR A JOKE BUDDY fedor would murder lesnar faster then he did to tim
sweet
channelsurfing.net for affliction,spike tv for ufc.. thanks to mexicutioner i can watch all ppv for free :]
lol, I watched the dublin event on the german web site someone on here posted (thanks). I never did that before, but with all these ppv’s this month, I had to! I’ll watch tonight on the computer and buy next weeks!
randy murders, you need to go to different neighborhoods in san fran. I’ve been there a dozen times in 3 years and never seen what you’re talking about! Go to more cultured places (museums, alcatraz and nice restaurants), you won’t be disappointed! I’ve been to cities all over the country, and would have to say san fran is pretty nice!
i used to work out there when i worked for my dad so i didnt get that chance to pick where i went but its not my kinda area in general, next time go to the napa valley or sonoma best wine in town and pretty good scenery.. id much rather be at a race track then a museum or a prison lol
lol, I don’t drink anymore, and my 7 year old would ratjer a museum or a prison! I get your point, but I think the fog mid way up the bulidings is good scenery!
Then you would love NYC.
thank you Randy. Was gonna wait 5 minutes and watch Fedor on Youtube but now got the hookup!
haha no problem, thanks mexicutioner for giving me that link dating back to ufc87 i started using it.. to expensive to order that many cards in a year the ufc cards are bad enough you throw in affliction and its insane 1 card is damn near doubling your cable bill that month
i was told this site (freesportsnetwork.net) plays free ppv. have you ever used it? i have never watch for free but i cant afford all the ppv this month
they should of countered with UFC 92 instead of UFC 91
This is great!
I don’t want more than one promotion that is mainstream. It have to be other promotions too where the lower level fighters can fight, but I think it’s great with one world leading one.
I hope Affliction goea bankrupt so all the great fighters can sign with the best promotion, which right now is the UFC.
I want all the best att one place, so we can see who is really is the best in each weight class.
Right now UFC have about 90% of the top 10 in each weight class. I think it would be great if the other 10% also signed with UFC.
The more promotions, the more controversy about who really is the champ.
They won’t sign with the UFC….they would have already.
Most had signed with the UFC..Lost and washed out! Not Fedor of course
only barnett “washed out” arlovski wanted to go to boxing so he flatout left,sylvia wanted the fedor fight,and vitor/lindland both just flatout left although i hear lindland was letgo for wearing an unnaproved shirt to weigh ins
I just read through that nice pile of steaming cow dung that Dana White called an interview on sportsline and I have some interesting comments.
I can officially say that Dana is the most unprofessional CEO of a billion dollar+ company that I have ever seen.
The whole interview with CBS was totally unprofessional but that’s nothing new and seems to be Dana’s schtick. He’s so enamored with hearing himself cuss, that he can’t even lay off to do a national interview.
I would like to say that Dana is brutally honest, but that isn’t necessarily true. He just has emotional Tourettes. The man speaks the first thing that comes to his mind, regardless of the veracity involved. It seems his business decisions follow the same model.
Dana constantly bad mouths the competition and he seems to have it out for the IFL. First off, the IFL model is great and if they can survive the costs of starting up a league (and thats a big “if”) then they will be providing great entertainment for years to come. Every non-mma fan that I have talked to lately has nothing but praise for the IFL. They might not know the league’s name but that is a marketing issue that can be overcome. Even my grandfather watches it and asks me about “those fighting dudes on TV” whenever he sees me.
Just because Dana comes from a boxing background and not a wrestling background, he thinks his “solo man against the world” model is the only valid system. Teams in combat sports and traditional individual sports have been around for longer than Dana has been alive. Wrestling, gymnastics, 400 meter / 1600 meter relay, and swimming are all examples of individual sports with team components to them. must I go on? Just because the IFL thought of a way to market the concept first, Dana has to bang on them.
Oh, and speaking of business choices, how about the biggest slice-n-dice job in the short history of MMA?
Q: I know it’s easy to second guess, but with Pride’s demise do you feel that in hindsight Zuffa made some miscalculations when it came to due diligence that led up to the acquisition?
DW: No. No, not at all. I knew I wanted that library bad. It was what I wanted. So no, we didn’t miscalculate anything except the whole deal was a nightmare. Getting that deal done was a nightmare. We didn’t miscalculate anything. We knew we wanted it and we got it.
Q: With it proving to be a nightmare, if you guys knew then what you know now, would you still go through with it?
DW: Yes.
Q: Because you felt with the library that it was worth it?
DW: To me it was. To me, personally, I wanted that library.
Since when does somebody pursue a HUGE problematic business acquisition because of a personal desire for a tape library? Dana is too shrewd a business man for such a response. For all his faults, he isn’t dumb. His cryptic answer smells of back pedaling. All the reliable sources out there at the time of the acquisition were stating that the UFC did no due diligence until AFTER there was a verbal agreement for the PRIDE purchase.
They probably knew that there were problems, just not how bad they were. With all his vaunted honesty, why can’t he just come right out and admit that he bought PRIDE to eliminate the competition, disallow others from resurrecting the giant, and had no intentions of actually running it as a separate entity.
Dana is for one thing and one thing only. Lining the Fertitta brothers pockets. In a capitalistic world, he has that right but don’t expect us to believe that your sole cause in life is to further MMA. The one beneficial thing that the Zuffa era of the UFC has been sanctioning in a lot of states. The only reason Dana has sought sanctioning in each state is so that he can run his PPV’s in any venue he wants across the country.
Where is health insurance for your fighters?
What “feeder” and grassroots organizations are you supporting with Zuffa money to further the MMA cause past the next PPV?
What alliances have you established with other organizations for the betterment of the sport?
What youth outreach programs have you supported in an effort to educate younger people about the benefits of MMA and martial arts in general?
What martial arts / combat sports ideal have you touted to the public as being a life-long commitment? (discipline, honor, comraderie, restraint, pliability, humility, self-assurance)
Instead he touts guys with personal issues, who break the rules, and espouse nothing from the discipline of martial arts, as being “nice guys” and “I’d let them back in spite of their flagrant violations of sportsmanship and honor…”. He “gets” the thug element in the fight game and ignores the high road of discipline and honor. Real good message there Dana. Keep up the good work. You do us all proud in the MMA community.
good post!
health insurance won’t happen, the fighters are considered independent contractors. Maybe he did want the library, and he could afford it! I agree he’s very unorthodox for a big company president, but it works for him, and he seems real!
We all know Dana’s full of shit.
That library is a valuable promotional tool. Without he couldn’t have used the video from the first two Wandy-Rampage fights to promote the last one. With so many PRIDE fighters in the UFC now he needs access to their old fights for that very reason.
I hope the event is good for Affliction, I like seeing some decent competition with the UFC. I like watching the UFC, but also Strikeforce, HDNet fights (always have a few good fights), Sengoku and especially DREAM. If Affliction did go bust, I’d want their fighters to go to DREAM. There’s something about Japanese MMA shows, PRIDE was great and DREAM is near there, but is lacking in some weight divisions (light-heavyweight, heavyweight, welterweight). DREAM’s lightweight division is simply stacked, Aoki, Hansen, Ishida, Uno, Calvancante, Alvarez, Kawajiri, etc. Its too bad Kid Yammamoto wont be in their featherweight grand prix, he’s an awesome fighter.
I am a business owner and I have zero issues with Dana. All the haters in here and the Pride nut huggers are laughable, the bottom line is Dana White has made its owners massive amounts of money. Isn’t that what it’s all about? I’m not a Dana fanboy who thinks he’s untouchable or that he’s always right, but he is a likable guy who makes alot of right choices. If he misses some, that’s ok too. But please, get off his back already. Good Lord. GoRandy, that is a nice post and I’m not zeroing in on your specifically, just an FYI. You made a nice post and explained your position, I respect that.
sorry ufc, but i’ll be getting the affliction ppv, not watching a rerun of a mostly crappy card.
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channelsurfing.net for affliction,spike tv for ufc.. thanks to mexicutioner i can watch all ppv for free :]
does that really work?
how do u watch it ounce your on the site?
Scroll down about 3/4 of the page …… you will see the Affliction logo …. click on the link next to it at the time specified
ill buy affliction just due to the fact i wanna see another mma organization besides ufc suceed, better for the sport. not to mention vitor, arlovski, fedor,barnett, soko babalu and lil nog on it. some pretty damn good fighters
The biggest event of 2008 was ufc 92!
Holla below if u agree
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Sick card…HOLLA :>
Here’s my prediction: If Fedor wins this organization grows if Fedor loses this group will fall in the same way Kimbo’s loss brought down his. I’m buying to support my local boy Dan Lauzon and to keep the UFC honest. The bonus is I get to see Fedor on my 60 inch live against some real competition. I can’t wait.
I’m a hardcore Fedor fan so I will be watching the Affliction show
side note wasn’t Affliction “Banned” on July 19th opposite Fight Night 14
where could i watch the affliction card on the internet?
well, i hope you got to see it cuz its ova now!!! and i thought Tito did an okay job.
Tito needs to stop the word GOT. He gots this, he gots that, it just sounded bad.