UFC Officials Dissapointed with TUF Finale

Maybe they shouldn’t waste 20 minutes interviewing dudes from some crappy TV show and showing previews for that awful looking Angelina Jolie movie.

What made the group of fights even worse for me was that I DVR’d it and never knew they showed the Mcfedries vs Eastman fight.

This is not the first event where the fights went over the slotted time and I missed something. Note to me to set the DVR to record for an hour after it’s over

They should stick to making the only TUF cast members to get televised being the finale. Riddle vs. Rivera was mildly interesting because of the talk by Rivera that he was going to retire if he lost and Riddle being a bit of a character on the show, but I can’t believe that most people ahead of time would not have expressed an interest in seeing Lister/Horn or Hazelet/Burkman instead of that fight. That one change alone would have made the televised card better.

Fisher/Stephens was a good fight to watch.
Sanchez/Fioravanti was a good fight to watch.
Grove/Tanner was not a bad fight to watch and had some great moments—that knee Grove delivered while Tanner had his other leg wrapped up was very Urijah Faber-BJ Penn -esque.
Dollaway/Sadollah obviously had to be televised, and was a good fight to watch while it lasted.

From a fight perspective, I thought the televised card was actually pretty good. Just take Riddle/Rivera out of there and put all of the TUF cast fights except the finale up on the web instead. Replace that one with one of the fights listed above, then try to convince Spike to let you forego the stupid promotions of upcoming television shows that are bound to fail anyway, and you’ve fixed the problems with this broadcast. Oh, and make it 2 1/2 hours instead of 2 hours so you can actually televise the fights you want to and get them in the allotted time. This show had to do enough ratings to warrant it—what else would people watch on Spike on a Saturday night anyway?