Comments on: Tuesday headlines: UFC Fight Night

By: Canson

Canson — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:50:43 +0000

Lynchman and I win

By: Tomer Chen

Tomer Chen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:41:47 +0000

Yes, that was nitpicky about the Kimura. That’s the whole point. If you’re going to call someone else, you better make damn sure you have everything right yourself. Period.

Got a source on the grammatical legitimacy to writing ‘Kimura’ instead of ‘kimura’? I’ve never read that techniques are considered proper nouns…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:03:44 +0000

Yes, that was nitpicky about the Kimura. That’s the whole point. If you’re going to call someone else, you better make damn sure you have everything right yourself. Period.

By: chairibofjustice

chairibofjustice — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:30:28 +0000

What do you mean not true? As I mentioned, there are plenty of events where the crowd isn’t captured on television.

Personally, I could careless as long as the fights are good.

By: Mr. Roadblock

Mr. Roadblock — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:26:23 +0000

Not true. The CBS & FOX does an excellent job of capturing the crowd at NFL games. As I mentioned HBO does the same on boxing.

By: chairibofjustice

chairibofjustice — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:36:05 +0000

“I’ve been to UFC’s where the crowd is bonkers and then watch the show on TV and the crowd sounds muted.”

That could apply to virtually any sporting event you watch on television really, it’s the nature of the medium.

By: Mr. Roadblock

Mr. Roadblock — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:40:55 +0000

I’m not someone who says everything is better than UFC. But Cotto-Judah was a better top to bottom production. Good matchmaking, good pacing and nobody does fights like the HBO Production team. From the amount of cameras, to the corner talks and the way the shows are lit it’s phenomenal. Usually UFC events are much better than HBO boxing events because HBO lets the promoters run hog wild with their money and put on half assed shows. But when a boxing promoter gets it right, as Arum did Saturday, boxing on HBO is as good as it gets.

I read weeks back where Arum said he would copy the pacing of UFC shows. He did even better. The fights were on one after the other almost like it was a smoker card. That crowd was super hyped. That’s one thing UFC has to work on, they don’t mic the crowd the right way. Everyone I know that was in Columbus, OH said it was deafening in that building. That didn’t come across on TV. I’ve been to UFC’s where the crowd is bonkers and then watch the show on TV and the crowd sounds muted. Just an observation.

By: GassedOut

GassedOut — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:40:49 +0000

.944 Frustratingly close, but you can’t round up.

LOL Body_Shots! It’s true by the sound of it from all the stuff I’ve read and/or wrote myself. I hope I wasn’t that bad, but it could be a mild version of #3 in some cases. Seriously, though…you work for the UFC, don’t you.

By: Fightlinker.com

Fightlinker.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:59:17 +0000

I like how we officially have an internet mob. Kudos.

By: Body_Shots

Body_Shots — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:15:05 +0000

How to make the Finals relevant again • If you find yourself writing a sports column and want to know whether anyone out there is paying attention, here's the quickest way to find out: Write something even slightly derogatory about UFC in particular and mixed martial arts in general. • Three things you will find out about yourself from reading through some of the hundreds of e-mails: (1) You are either a closeted boxing fan or a boxing fan who is attempting to destroy MMA as a means of keeping boxing alive; (2) you wouldn't last three minutes in the octagon with the writer of the e-mail, and; (3) you are, dear sir, an ass.