UFC 129 Will Air One Hour Earlier

I am ET but where I live Daylight savings isn’t applied so UFC events start an hour later. So i am in favor of this change.

Having a job where I wake up at 4:45, I agree with this.

Yes.

Why would anyone say no?

9 to 12 is a much better timeslot.

This doesn’t really impact me too much.

I def would rather get the night started at 8 with prelims and 9pm for the PPV.

When I was on ET the fights starting that late really sucked as I am a spoiled west coaster. I can’t see any reason why moving them up one hour would hurt.

 It’ll make my girlfriend happy knowing my whole Saturday night isn’t compromised when a UFC is on, or I can head to a bar after for more than last call.

I have DISH, and I am in PT, so UFC events start at 7:00pm for me. Prelims start at 6pm when they have them. However, 6pm to 9pm doesn’t make much difference for me, so I’m not against it.

And I’m unnaffected by this. What time do US PPVs normally start ET? I start watching 3am till 6am. Does this mean I’ll start watching it at 4am?

So if this is a one-off deal, it won’t affect them at all.

Love this. I fly out of town from Texas to the east coast early many Monday mornings so having an extra hour of rest for Sunday would help.

Kid, you tease at an interesting point about the move up and Bellator’s schedule. Are they doing it f because research shows that fans are more receptive to that time or are they that Scoot C. Broussardian? Now factor in that Spike hasn’t countered a Strikeforce card since King Mo vs Feijao (it was Strikeforce who countered the TUF final in December). Hmmm…

Move it up. I like getting it done early and keeping my evenings free.

before the main event, she’ll be happy. I guess it’s nice for me too. I’d watch anyway though.

I’ve heard many a story of people either staying up to watch or setting their PVR to record it, only for the broadcast to cut out when it hits 5am our time. If you subscribe to ESPN through the Top Up TV service via Digital Freeview, the technology shuts down at 5am. I spoke with UFC UK President Marshall Zelaznik about it last year and he says it’s a technology issue with the Digital Freeview service and it’s out of his hands. Those with ESPN via a Sky or Virgin Media system are unaffected (unless the event over runs and their auto-PVR setup doesn’t compensate)

I’m outside of US and it’s still in the middle of the night, so I say…no.

I really can’t get to bed until after 2 on UFC nights. This is a welcome development.

I’m in the UK and I say hell yea. I work Sundays so I usually get about 3 hours sleep if I stay up to watch the UFC. Starting one hour earlier would be perfect, and I think it would make it more likely that other UK people stay up to watch the event live

so many people in the ET voting “no”.

I’ve always thought UFC’s start an hour too late, especially in the hour when I’m waiting for it to come on.

I would love it to start at 9:00 except for this particular event because I have to attend a wedding at 7:15 that night. I was pretty sure I could sneak out to catch the 10:00 start but 9:00 may be a bit too early. For all other events, I am completely in favor of the earlier start.

Now I might actually buy a ppv, although the chances are still pretty slim. How are those ufc streams qualitywise? Is it 720p?

Central time here so an 8pm PPV start is great for me.

As I live in Denmark the PPV starts at 4 am, so it would be nice if it started earlier (or maybe just a couple of hours later? One can dream..)

West Coast here and having to be at work by 5:30am makes a 6pm ppv very attractive.

I work Retail and So do all the guys I watch the fights with, so we’d be forced to always watch the fights on Tape Delay

Being an Eastern time person, I like it. Now I don’t have to make the decision to go out or watch the UFC PPV.I prefer watching PPV’s at home so now I may be able to catch up with friends after the event is over rather than just going to bed since it’s usually almost 1 am when it ends. Wish 129 would start even earlier, but I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

but when you think about SPIKE prelims and Facebook prelims, you would probably start watching the fights at 7:00 PM.

I’m still not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad things, but it does seem weird. I guess the only way to find out is to see how different it really is after UFC 129

And I’m usually at the bar by 3:45 pm for the fights. I’m a west coaster, so an hour earlier doesn’t mean much to me except that I’m not as drunk by the time the main card starts. So that will mean A) I have to drink faster to get just as drunk for the main event, or B) I can take the same amount of time drinking and appreciate the fights more. Whether I choose A or B depends on how shitty my work week was.

I think a lot of people have voted ‘yes’ because they are lazy and didn’t read properly, thinking the question would be something like “Is 9pm a good time to start the ppv?”
I did this myself and I’m sure a lot of others did the same, judging by the comments..

I think it will be great. UFC PPV’s are an event the night is planned around anyways so the earlier the better. I think you are giving way too much credit to Bellator to think the UFC may be moving up their shows that 500k people pay $50 on average to go head to head w/ a show that 200k watch for free. I watched Bellator the other night, and quite frankly it sucked. The Hornbuckle/Wiedman fight was decent, Hawn/Wallhead was a shitty kickboxing match between two grapplers, I caught a few minutes of Heiron between Strikeforce rounds and just a smidgen of the Good fight between rounds. The picture quality was poor and there were a bunch of bad camera angles. However, the commentary was surprisingly good, but I am a pretty serious MMA fan, and I have almost zero interest in the rest of the WW tourney.

Hawaii is one of the 50 states. It’s as much a state in the union as Texas is. We have a time zone. The poll options are Pacific, Central, Eastern, and “outside the U.S.” show Hawaii a little love.

I work until nine thirty every Saturday night. So I hate this plan. Means I miss even more live MMA.

I’m already missing 10 mins of the first fight, lets not make it an hour and 10 mins.
(Eastern Time Zone)

By being concerned how late the show goes the inverse problem is that now the show starts too early for some people. I thought MMA was marketed to the adults. Adults are the ones with the money and some of us work…not necessarily 9-5. Now I have to race across town breaking speed limits and running over people to get to the party in order to not miss any of the fights. I’M SWITCHING TO STRIKEFORECE!!!!…….nah, nevermind, no im not.

I’m in the Atlantic timezone, so 10pm PPV start time is perfect

Only thing that would suck is I might have to flip back and forth between the end of the hockey game and the start of the ppv.

Get that shit started at 8.

10 was late. It was excruciating to get up early the next Sunday.

I work Saturday PST until 5:30-6:00 so this means I’ll miss prelims and the start of the broadcast.

Sunday 1pm instead of 2pm? Pretty much the same to me.

I live in AZ and right now the main cards start at 8. In the summer they start at 7 when everyone sets their clocks an hour earlier. So that means this summer, main cards will start at 6? Sweeeeeeet. Some cards are like counting down the days to Christmas, then having to wait til 8 o’clock at night to open your presents. It sucks. But, 2 hours earlier than what they have been is good.

…especially for this card. As a Torontonian, I’ll be able to watch the card at home, but it will still give me time to go out and see who’s talking about it. Sweet stuff.

Here in the Philippines the UFCshow usually starts around 1130am and then replayed by 10pm. By the way, we get to watch all the UFC shows FOR FREE!!!