ufc 71 bill so far

cowzerp

Is it just me or are these bills getting lower in standard than the ufc 65-69 ones? im not impressed by this at all-i was expecting the overall bills to drop in standard due to higher wages etc.. but that was in the future not straight away.
UFC 71 "Liddell vs Jackson"
May 26, 2007
Light heavyweight title bout
Chuck Liddell vs Quinton Jackson
Terry Martin vs Ivan Salaverry
Josh Burkman vs Karo Parisyan
Chris Leben vs [t.b.a.]
Sean Salmon vs Eric Schafer
Thiago Silva vs James Irvin
Jeremy Stephens vs Din Thomas

PeakOutput

because they have so many fights in each show it is inevitable that there will be one major fight with relative minnows warming up for them. as it gets more popular the big guns wont want to be in every show and dana wont want them in every show either or else it gets stale for the viewers.

i think the need to do a little re branding and have regular smaller shows monthly and then have the big "UFC 72, 73 , 74's etc" maybe three times yearly i dont know if it would work but it would mean the smaller shows could be free to view getting in the average person who dosnt know what pay per view is and then more people will be interested and pay the pay per view.

now that they have pride they can bring over more big names but that will be a short lived novelty in the grand scheme of things imo and they need to give some serious thought to the longetivity of their brand

dlofnep

Liddell/Rampage alone will sell the card.

Karo/Burkman will be a great fight too.

It's good to see Salaverry back, but the rest of the card is less than impressive.

It could be worse. UFC 72 for example

cowzerp

Dont get me wrong-im sure there is no bad fighters on it but in the 65-69 fights i was interested in nearly every fight like as if it was a top billing fight in its own right-ufc 72 looks poor aswell, and you would think they'd try extra hard over here for the 1st time at least.

mikeruurds

Hell yeah... Rampage vs. the Iceman will be class.

I always enjoy watching Parysian's fights. The rest are a bit meh.

72 needs to be improved. Kampmann against Franklin won't be a bad fight, but in my opinion it's no headliner. Scott Smith vs. Ed Herman should be good for the TUF fans.

Dirty Dave

2 Title fights, the much hyped Ortiz V Evans grudge match and the UFC debut of Nog.


From MMA Weekly:
UFC 73: JULY 7, 2007 IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA

-Anderson Silva (#2 Middleweight in the World)* vs. Nathan Marquardt (#7 Middleweight in the World)*
-Tito Ortiz (#9 Light Heavyweight in the World)* vs. Rashad Evans
-Sean Sherk (#10 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Hermes Franca
-Chris Lytle vs. Jeff Joslin
-Jorge Gurgel vs. Diego Saraiva

-Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (#2 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA

ThatBloke

71 looks alright to me, Jardine is supposed to be fighting on it too.