Cymbols Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Why put the women as Co-Main? It's main event worthy for sure. Good for the paying customer, less good for the Women's division. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 It might end up a good move, Silva - Weidman would get a much bigger crowd/buyrate, and the vast majority of that will also watch the woman's fight, and hopefully be impressed and go on to buy the next woman's fight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summers Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Agree with Eddie. It'll pull in huge numbers and that will longterm help the womens division. Will be interesting to see how Silva bounces back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Silva will do like Sonnen II. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Yeah, Silva never clowns when he's faced with an actual challenge, like Sonnen, Okami, etc. Not sure on whether he wins or not though. Weidman's really, really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar hendershow Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 That card doesn't really need anything else. Rousey breaking Tate's arm the rematch are enough for me to block off Dec. 28 in my calendar already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 You've got to hope at least this time, she goes for the other arm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 For a rematch she needs to up her game and take out both arms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Why put the women as Co-Main? It's main event worthy for sure. Good for the paying customer, less good for the Women's division. Tradition, if you look at events where there are more than one title fight in the UFC they put them in ascending weight order, Dana has said as much in the past and it happened as at UFC 112 for example where BJ Penn/Edgar was co main to Anderson vs Maia Also lets look at buy rates for Rousey and Silva title fights: Rousey; UFC 157 - 450,000 (buys) Silva UFC 148 (sonnen II) - 925,000 UFC 134 (Okami) - 335,000 UFC 126 (Belfort) - 725,000 UFC 117 (Sonnen I) - 600,000 UFC 112 (Maia) - 500,000 (and this card was on middle of the afternoon for North America) Silva is a better performer at the box office, unless convention puts it otherwise you put your best performer at the top of the card. This means even more eyes on Rousey/Tate for me as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Only Mike Bourke gets caught in double armbars. Silva/Rousey combined does a million. Guaranteed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Why put the women as Co-Main? It's main event worthy for sure. Good for the paying customer, less good for the Women's division. Tradition, if you look at events where there are more than one title fight in the UFC they put them in ascending weight order, Dana has said as much in the past and it happened as at UFC 112 for example where BJ Penn/Edgar was co main to Anderson vs Maia Also lets look at buy rates for Rousey and Silva title fights: Rousey; UFC 157 - 450,000 (buys) Silva UFC 148 (sonnen II) - 925,000 UFC 134 (Okami) - 335,000 UFC 126 (Belfort) - 725,000 UFC 117 (Sonnen I) - 600,000 UFC 112 (Maia) - 500,000 (and this card was on middle of the afternoon for North America) Silva is a better performer at the box office, unless convention puts it otherwise you put your best performer at the top of the card. This means even more eyes on Rousey/Tate for me as well. I'm pretty sure he didn't say Tate-Rousey should be main over Silva-Weidman, just that they should be separate cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 That is not the way I read it. Also they want Silva-Weidman II ASAP, and if you put back Rousey and Tate it is a year between women's title fights, we could do with getting the division moving along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymbols Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Oh yeah, I meant it as in Rousey/Tate should be a main event on another card, not on the same card as Weidman/Silva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanDMan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Only Mike Bourke gets caught in double armbars. Silva/Rousey combined does a million. Guaranteed. Do you think Rousey could armbar Silva though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Piece of piss. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I doubt this card could break UFC 100's record, but with two championship fights where the champions have been pushed like crazy by both MMA media and mainstream media, I think this could definitely beat the Carwin versus Lesnar card into second place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Gi3jLRJmVKU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGi3jLRJmVKU%26feature%3Dyoutu.be I'm on my phone, but goddamn if that is not the best 4 minutes I spent today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymbols Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 I forgot to record it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 Oh, Bellator. You're becoming the TNA of MMA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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