All the UFC 129 Prelims Will Be Streamed for Free In Facebook
by Anton Tabuena on Apr 21, 2011 5:13 AM EDT
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A while back, Dana White had promised that we would soon be able to see every single fight on a UFC card, and now he has kept his word. The UFC had announced today that five UFC 129 preliminary bouts will be streamed for free on Facebook. With the 2 bouts on Spike TV, and 5 bouts on Facebook, this means that there will be no dark matches, and all 12 fights scheduled will be available for your viewing pleasure.
From the UFC twitter account:
Take two: 5 reasons to "like" us at http://www.facebook.com/ufc: we're airing ALL FIVE UFC 129 prelims on 4/30 live and free on Facebook.
Claude Patrick vs. Daniel Roberts and Ivan Menjivar vs. Charlie Valencia were earlier announced to be streamed on Facebook, and now more Canada vs. USA match ups, Jason MacDonald vs. Ryan Jensen, John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson, and Yves Jabouin vs. Pablo Garza have been added to the streams on the popular social networking site.
Main card:
Georges St-Pierre vs. Jake Shields (welterweight title)
Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick (featherweight title)
Jason Brilz vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
Randy Couture vs. Lyoto Machida
Mark Bocek vs. Ben Henderson
On Spike:
Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald
Jake Ellenberger vs. Sean Pierson
On Facebook:
Claude Patrick vs. Daniel Roberts
Ivan Menjivar vs. Charlie Valencia
Jason MacDonald vs. Ryan Jensen
John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson
Pablo Garza vs. Yves Jabouin
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wow
Awesome news to wake up to!
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by lowellthehammer on Apr 21, 2011 7:20 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
that is the weirdest mating dance I have ever seen
by TheBiggertheyare... on Apr 21, 2011 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions
The wild junior pounds the ground, in response to the beautiful ramsey's advances. He then separates, appearing disinterested
But returns for coitus. The Wild junior’s coaclea is located in his shoulder.
by Body Triangle on Apr 21, 2011 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
I really wanted to see the Makdessi vs Watson fight, and now I get to.
I hope to see some crazy tae kwon do moves from Makdessi
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by chrisbboy82 on Apr 21, 2011 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Very nice. It doesn’t have the biggest names but most diehards will be watching it.
I’m excited for Patrick vs. Roberts.
Also, I would like to know does being on FB help fighters in terms of getting more money from sponsors. Because the exposure sure helps, I’m guessing the UFC know the quantity of viewers they are getting through their fight stream.
They chose an awesome event to start doing this.
Excited that i get to see the Makdessi fight!
me too
I hope he’s able to put on another fancy kick clinic. They gave him a grappler in Watson so there’s a good chance if Makdessi can wrestle defensively as well as he did against Audinwood.
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Watson will know that it is coming though, which Audinwood clearly didn't.
Makdessi should be a huge favourite though, and i hope that you are right.
Terrible news for me
As I don’t have facebook.
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Yeah, it’s not like you have to actually use it for anything else unless you wanted to.
by Empty Thoughts on Apr 21, 2011 5:50 AM EDT up reply actions
i made a phony facebook just for the fights
"...was like a couple a' whores fightin' over a loose dollar."- Don Frye.
by gspisoverrated on Apr 21, 2011 5:50 AM EDT up reply actions
There's always that one guy in every one of these FB stories who makes this claim
But humor us anyways, why haven’t you made a fake account just to view the fights?
Hubris and principles?
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by Drunken cutman on Apr 21, 2011 7:16 AM EDT up reply actions
NOBODY!!!!! NOBODY DID THIS TO ME!!!!!!
by Body Triangle on Apr 21, 2011 9:47 AM EDT up reply actions
I learned it from you dad..
I learned it by watching you.
by cmons on Apr 21, 2011 10:20 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
Every time I've looked...
I’ve noticed you can also access the fights straight from ufc.com’s live events page.
Fitch is awesome, I don't care what you think...
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Thank you
That is very helpful to me.
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by Drunken cutman on Apr 21, 2011 7:17 AM EDT up reply actions
You know facebook is free and available to everyone, right?
Make a couple clicks, type a few words and you could be watching free fights in just a few minutes.
Not sure how that is a negative personally as pretty much everybody I knows who watches MMA sets aside the entire evening already for it. A couple more hours earlier won’t bother anybody I know I don’t think.
All and all I’m stoked for this news. Here is hoping that it stays.
by Empty Thoughts on Apr 21, 2011 5:51 AM EDT up reply actions
a great thing for overseas fans
that want to see a live-match or two, for free nonetheless, without tuning in at 4:00 in the morning
I wish the UFC embraced new technologies and devices as quickly as they have social media. If anything, their increased needless use of Flash on the redesigned site last year suggested that they’re going backwards. There’s no good reason for not making this stream available on iOS/Android devices.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Flash still the most-used technology for this type of content nowadays? How about you blame iOS/Android makers for refusing to support Flash instead of the UFC?
UFC already has an iPhone app (for the US at least, it isn’t available elsewhere) that allows people to watch PPVs on their phone. They could easily expand the app to support free prelims.
I’m only bitching BTW because the Facebook prelim stream will start at about 7:30am where I am and I don’t really want to wake up and move over to my laptop that early in the morning.
Here's a thought-
it’s a fucking laptop. Put it on your lap.
If you’re too lazy to move over to your lap top, you can easily just set your computer next to your bed before you sleep.
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by ElliotMatheny on Apr 21, 2011 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions 10 recs
Adding this to the list of...
Honey badger don't care.
by KatGirl on Apr 21, 2011 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 7 recs
Good news but I really hope they improve the quality of the streams no matter what web Browser I use or connection the quality is dire most times.
by Hioki's Hamster on Apr 21, 2011 7:08 AM EDT reply actions
It’s your hardware then. I have no problem getting the stream in almost HD quality
by TheBiggertheyare... on Apr 21, 2011 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Streams are a shaky, shaky thing. Nothing about the internet protocol standards was ever built with the expectation of sustained long connections of massive data flow.
Hell, you could have a pristine 100MBps connection and a computer from the future but if you happen to be in just the wrong place you’ll still get bad, choppy streaming quality. It mostly depends on where you are in relation to the local distributed streaming source.
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by AHutch on Apr 21, 2011 7:55 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Those are actually all great fights.
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This makes my clownshoes a little happier. Get back from pub, watch facebook fights, set DVR wake up before wife, make Bailys/Kahlua/Coffee combo & watch the Spike and PPV fights for free……..please, feel free to envy.
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Great news. Not only is this a good move to give fans all the fights but this should mean a bump in sponsorship money for the fighters fighting on the undercard because their fights are guaranteed to be seen by a lot of people.
Maybe I’ve just missed it but why has no one ever asked Dana what kind of viewership they are getting on Facebook? I realize he may not give a direct answer but it seems like a relevant question to ask.
Just BE.
Spike TV bouts aren't shown here in the Philippines,
so I wish that they would just put all the good fights on FB instead.
by Anton Tabuena on Apr 21, 2011 9:33 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
my mind is blown
now what the ufc really needs to do is sell their fights for a reasonable rate after the event.
no reason why i should have to pay more than $5 to watch Shogun/Bones right now if I want to. Even that is pushing it a bit.
If you could go to UFC.com and buy fights the day after they happened for cheap I’d do it for sure.
It’s like 1.99 a fight for me on UFC.tv
Though i am pissed that i have a subscription to the vault, yet they stopped putting prelim fights on there, and have instead put them on UFC.tv. So now i have a useless subscription
by TheBiggertheyare... on Apr 21, 2011 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions
nice.
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by Earl Montclair on Apr 21, 2011 10:14 AM EDT reply actions
GIGGITY!!!!!
I think I just had a negligent discharge in my drawers. From the front.
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by mburtoni on Apr 21, 2011 10:27 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
This is wonderful!
I wonder if anyone would notice if I brought my laptop to a wedding reception…
Honey badger don't care.
FUCK YEA!
I get to see the Makdesi fight.
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