UFC 122: Belfort vs. Okami Shaping Up

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If they don’t get a decent co-main event this will be the worst non-TUF Finale/Fight Night card in UFC history on paper.

Holy hell, this is a bad card.

I’m not really interested at all. Happy it’s a free card because I wouldn’t have paid for it. Joe Silva does really well at booking but it just seems like this is a case of “everyone’s booked already and we gotta get okami/belfort in before 2011”

The cards that have lots of mid-tier or new or turn-around fighters on it tend to be really exciting fights because the fighters let everything go to win. When you get cards full of upper echelon and contenders and title fights, the fighters have so much more to lose from a loss that they fight more conservatively and the fights are generally less action packed.

This is of course, only a rule of thumb and there are exceptions, but time and time again, when cards with fights like this are announced, everyone poo-poos their disinterest (in the fighters) but the fights themselves turn out to be wicked good.

Can they really sell tickets in Germany on the UFC brand alone? Maybe that is what they are trying to figure out.

Are complaints. After the string of absolutely stacked cards the UFC has put on, to bitch about a FREE card seems a Tad entitled, doesn’t it?

I mean cmon guys, are you MMA fans or not? If Krazy Horse vs. Baroni was the main event, and it went downhill from there, I’d still watch as long as its free.

German fans might be ticked though.

Am I the only one looking forward to Matyushenko vs Brilz?

To add with Vitor/Okami, Rivera/Sakara, and Siver/TBA.

If Sadollah or McCray is on the main card I’ll be livid.

Sakara’s beard v, Luke Thomas’ beard……..who ya got?

I’m bummed, I wanted to go, but driving all the way up to Germany for only one fight I care about is a bit hardcore even for me. I’ll pass.

UFC is UFC, and if it’s free I’d watch it … except for tape delay. It takes me out of the “intrigue” element. I don’t see anything good about watching fights that already happened, so I’ll be skipping this and reading over the winners and losers.

“I don’t see anything good about watching fights that already happened”.

So you just skipped over essential moments in MMA history like Rampage vs Henderson and Cro Cop vs Gonzaga cause they aired on tape delay? Also, does this mean you don’t go back and watch old fights? Do you just read their records and rely on that?

I’m from Southern Germany and was thinking of attending this show. I’m really excited about the main event, Belfort is a legend and Okami has looked amazing lately. The other fights are decent, but I’m not sure yet whether I really want to travel the 300 miles for the show. I will probably do it, since I missed 99, and I still regret it.

I hope Siver gets a decent opponent. With his wins over the likes of Fisher and Kelly I think he should draw a top 10 155er, which could fire up the card.
 
Sobotta is one of Germany’s better prospects, but he just started training on a pro-level. His loss as 99 was disappointing, I hope he gets the better of Amir. Rivera vs. Sakara and Brilz vs. the Janitor could be good too.

It’s too bad that the UFC needed a replacement for nog and booked cro cop for 119. cro cop is one of the more popular fighters in germany and he would have sold quite a number of tickets on his own. with only belfort as a name fighter on this card, I doubt the UFC will really sell a lot of tickets. I sometimes visit a German message board discussing MMA and quite a lot of people are not willing to pay for this card.

yes, there a number of hardcore fans also in Germany who are excited for belfort vs. okami, but i doubt the base is big enough with that fight alone. We’ll see.

They can’t honestly expect German fans to buy a card with GORAN RELJIC in the co main can they?!! They should seriously think about shifting Shields-Kampmann to this card.