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UFC 91 11/15 Las Vegas card
By Zach Arnold | November 10, 2008
- Welterweights (170 pounds): Matt Brown vs. Ryan Thomas
- Lightweights (155 pounds): Alvin Robinson vs. Mark Bocek
- Lightweights (155 pounds): Jeremy Stephens vs. Rafael dos Anjos
- Lightweights (155 pounds): Jorge Gurgel vs. Aaron Riley
- Welterweights (170 pounds): Dustin Hazelett vs. Tamdan McCrory
- Middleweights (185 pounds): Nate Quarry vs. Demian Maia
- Heavyweights: Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Josh Hendricks
- Middleweights (185 pounds): Amir Sadollah vs. Nick Catone
- Lightweights (155 pounds): Kenny Florian vs. Joe Stevenson
- UFC Heavyweight Title match: Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar
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Not a very god card.
I think it is a god card.
Because Brock Lesnar *is* god.
This shithouse card will only be worth the money if we get to see Brock botch a moonsault.
The top two fights are very good, Maia vs Quarry is pretty good, and Hazelett vs McCrory will be entertaining. Aside from that… meh. Half these fights are UFN undercard quality.
That said, it’s still the favorite to be the biggest PPV event of the year. I hope The Ultimate 2008 manages to overtake it, if nothing else than for the message it’ll send to promoters.
On a side note, Amir should consider himself very blessed. How many 0-0 fighters win a promotional platform like TUF, score their first official pro victory on national television in front of millions, then follow that up by fighting on the main card of one of the biggest UFC events in history. Crazy. I think the guy sold his soul to the devil.
The Countdown show was solid.
I’m not sure what it is about Kenny Florian… I just don’t get excited for his fights.
I tend to like this card more than many others. It’s got some match-ups that might be much more well-regarded a few years from now once some of this young talent develops into top talent.
In particular, McCrory vs. Hazelett and Stevenson vs. Florian really interest me.
Dana White is predicting 1.2 millions PPV buys.
MMAPayout.com has this to say about that:
“MMAPayout.com has learned that the premiere of Countdown to UFC 91 on Spike drew only 537,000 viewers last night. That number is 11.7% below the average of 608,083 viewers drawn by the first twelve editions of the series this year. The program aired at 11PM EST in hopes of taking advantage of WWE Raw as a lead-in.
Based on MMAPayout.com’s formula for predicting pay-per-view buys based on Countdown viewership, UFC 91 would be expected to draw only 468,801 buys. While the actual pay-per-view number is virtually certain to be well exceed that projection, the rating is a troubling early sign for the UFC’s hopes of surpassing one million buys given the past strong correlation between Countdown viewership and pay-per-view buys.”
Another case of MMAPayout jumping to conclusions without putting their theory through the thought grinder first.
(1) The Countdown was on a different night than normal.
(2) There are multiple Countdowns this week that may divide viewership.
(3) Fans may have already made up their minds to buy this PPV so had no reason to watch it ,especially opposite a MNF time slot.
It is unreasonable to think that UFC 91 will have fewer buys than UFC 90. Their logic of “If A, therefore B” is rather simplistic. They need to throw in some critical reasoning before shooting from the hip. That is a what good journalism is about.