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UFC counter-programs Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg on Aug 15th:

"For those wondering about UFC vs. Strikeforce, well, UFC will be airing five straight hours of programming on 8/15 head-to-head with the Carano vs. Cyborg fight. They will be replaying the 100 greatest fights for five hours. It's not like they are putting a tape of a major PPV, so it's not the all-out assault they've done in the past, but it's still countering."

HT: f4wonline.com

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5 hours of KOs,

tkos, subs is still NOT an all out assault against strikeforce?

by theblade on Aug 7, 2009 9:05 AM EDT reply actions  

Airing UFC 100 would have been an all-out assault. =)

by Nick Thomas on Aug 7, 2009 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

I think they’re going to save that one for their buddy Fedro.

by Phildo on Aug 7, 2009 9:16 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah...

WTF! If they really wanted to crush it, UFC 100 would have been smart to use.

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by Leland Roling on Aug 7, 2009 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions  

that’s what i would do!

that and poop on their lawn.

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by funnytiger on Aug 7, 2009 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not when Spike has been showing those 5 episodes since the week before UFC 100.

by erogers72 on Aug 7, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions  

Also, smart move on spike’s part.

There will be something for me to switch over to when the skinless monsters are explaining to me the difficult aspects of mma, like a double leg and a jab.

by Phildo on Aug 7, 2009 9:17 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

Watch this reenactment of Dana White explaining to Scott Coker how badly he messed up by signing Fedor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V1YmiT8qKg&feature=related

by MMAEruption on Aug 7, 2009 9:56 AM EDT reply actions  

LOL at airing a clip show being portrayed as ‘counter-programming’. Especially a clip show that has been running non-stop on the network ever since it was first aired. I must have flipped past it a half-dozen times in the last month while channel surfing. Has it been counter-programming this whole time, or does it just magically become counter-programming when something else is on.

What’s next? TUF marathons as counter-programming? Three year-old Unleashed reruns as counter-programming?

At some point, the alarmists need to realize that UFC programming is the only thing Spike has going for it, and it is not counter-programming, it is just run-of-the-mill programming.

by Steve4192 on Aug 7, 2009 10:03 AM EDT reply actions  

you wouldn’t believe how many people I know that tell me about watching UFC 100 like it was a new show

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by lovingmma25 on Aug 7, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions  

Sounds like a good thing.

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by iiowyn on Aug 7, 2009 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

Come on...

This is simply using low level counter programming to draw from a show that relatively few people are going to watch anyways. If this was a CBS show, we would be seeing a replay of 100 or something.

The UFC isn’t concerned, because the majority of the people that will be tuning in to SF, would do so regardless of the counter programming (unless it was NEW UFC).

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by BJJDenver on Aug 7, 2009 10:27 AM EDT reply actions  

You’re probably right – but I think this is more of a shot across the bough than anything else. It’s a message that Dana’s not afraid to reign down the fire, even on Scott Coker. If Strikeforce tries a PPV, we’ll probably get a free UFC show on the same night.

by MMAEruption on Aug 7, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions  

They are actually dumbing it down, look at what is shown the next weekend. 25 hours of UFC content over June 22-23. FN 4, UFC 75, UFC 89, Fight for the Troops, UFC 75, Ultimate Iceman all on Saturday in a row. On Sunday Fight for the Troops followed by 8 hours of UFC Unleashed.

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by iiowyn on Aug 7, 2009 11:32 AM EDT reply actions  

What do you mean by dumbing it down?

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by lovingmma25 on Aug 7, 2009 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

Compare what is shown “counterprogramming” Strikeforce to what they are showing the next weekend on Spike. There is less programming against the Striekforce card. This is probably because the schedule was set before Strikeforce signed Fedro.

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by iiowyn on Aug 7, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

June?

Where did you pull that one out of?

Am I supposed to wait for UFC 100 again?

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by SSreporters on Aug 7, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

No idea…meant August.

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by iiowyn on Aug 7, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Don’t think this is gonna do that well. A PPV replay would have been better. UFC 98 please. Thats the only one that wasn’t at my house so I don’t have it on my DVR.

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by xFenixKnightx on Aug 7, 2009 12:14 PM EDT reply actions  

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