What was more confusing is that when I turned on the event (at its “scheduled” time). The simpson fight had just begun and ended in a 20 second knockout thereby adding to my confusion thinking that WEC’s greatest knockouts was still on.

This timing issue is scary. Why are they only showing 4 fights (technically 5)? Why was that event only 2 televised hours?

If Sonnen and Fabers fights would have been and gone 5 rounds we would have only seen 1.5 fights!

This was my main issue with the UFC’s last card. They wasted 30 minutes of the PPV doing a Silva Cote hype session then “once the event started” it was Rogan and Goldies turn to hype it up and the first fight didn’t even start till 45 minutes in.

I had a friend over who had never seen a UFC event before and he was bothered by the amount of time it took for the fights to start.

If the UFC keeps doing this I’ll stop buying their PPV’s and just download them 30 minutes after the event is done. I will make god damned certain that they will never see another penny of mine. I’ll even download the shit they put on SPIKE just to not watch the commercials.

Who the fuck wants to pay two dollars on the internet to see fights that I paid to see for 50 dollars on my TV!?!

“Yeah, hey guys now the events over and we still have pizza and beer so lets gather around my laptop and I’ll pay 2 dollars so we can watch a low resolution fight on my 12.1″ Lenovo tablet!

While were at it guys how about one of you stick your dick up my ass so I can literally feel what the UFC is doing to me by making such a brash and self-serving proposition.”

With WEC it’s harder to complain because it’s free. But I still can complain because their revenue is contingent upon me (the viewer) watching.

The fact that they didn’t have enough time to show they main card should be a huge indicator of a lack of planned timing.

Both of these cards I was totally pre-occupied with the fact that I was missing other fights. Anytime a fight would go to long (Filho I’m looking in your direction) I would think “this is cutting into the pre-lims”

Its really aggravated me the last 2 cards. I can see this happening with the UFC because its turning (quite obviously) into sports-entertainment. Lesnar former WWE and Cotour actor/entrepreneur in the main event and Machida no title shot because his style and personality are not marketable.

Now its spilling to the WEC. That’s just sad. They were the sports card. Not a ton of fame just great cards and great production.

I really hope a lot of people (in some positions of power) start complaining about this.

In the mean time I am just going to compulsively e-mail MMA Live to see if I can get my complaint in the form of a question answered on air.

signed,
dis-enchanted MMA-fan 1416943

The past few events somebody from Five Ounces has been less than excited with the cards. My comment was more directed at the lack of enthusiasm for recent events than anything else, as I disagreed with them (thus I remembered them.

And to Robert,
I was at 90, so it was probably a different experience to me, but I found it very exciting. I have no idea how much of the undercard made it, but Aurelio-Franca and Horwich-Miller had a great fight. Yes, the Maynard-Clementi fight was boring, and Silva-Cote was pretty boring and left everyone with a bad taste, but I felt it was a pretty stacked card. Alves and Koscheck had a great fight. UFC 89 looked good originally, but with Silva-Machida falling off, it did lose a lot of starpower. Other than that, especially for a free card, I felt it was pretty good.

As for the Zuffa fanboy comment, I love all MMA. I loved PRIDE, the IFL, I went to an Extreme Challenge show over watching UFC 89 on the first run-through, and watched all the EXC shows. And with the exception of the Kimbo fights, I thoroughly enjoyed them, especially their last event. I was really looking forward to their Nov. 8th event with Alvarez vs. Diaz. I haven’t gotten to watch DREAM due to me not having HDNet, but I’ve watched some videos and hope the promotion continues to put on great fights.

I’m sure Brown really shares your dissapointment.
Also I’m sure most people would be just as interested to see Silva vs. Sonnen than they were to see Silva vs. Cote. My two cents, otherwise good read.

Great write-up, Sam Caplan.

I said this yesterday before the card and I’ll say it again. Cerrone vs. McCullough should have been on the televised card. Especially considering the title implications and circumstances.

At this point I’m not concerned with Filho as a fighter or where his career is going. He is in obvious need of help and I hope he get’s it before attempting to go further in the sport.

Rosholt better learn how to tuck that chin in somewhere between the WEC and the train to the UFC, because if not, he’s going to be making friends with the Bud Light Decal on the floor of the octagon.

I’m a huge fan of Faber, Torres, Varner, and Condit but would anybody pay for a PPV that headlines Mike Brown and maybe one of the other champs?

WEC should stay on Versus HD where it belongs.

Great attitude by Faber, by the way, and I hope he comes back better than ever. The unorthodox style that wins so many fights cost him this time. Shit happens.