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 |  Subject: UFC 137 gets "UFC Prelims" special on Spike TV Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:56 am | |
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- October's UFC 137 event will get a "UFC Prelims" special on Spike TV, MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed with event sources.
The one-hour special precedes the night's pay-per-view main-card broadcast, and it'll feature two preliminary-card bouts.
UFC 137 takes place Oct. 29 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. In the PPV main event, champion Georges St-Pierre puts his UFC welterweight title on the line against Nick Diaz, who vacated his Strikeforce belt to rejoin the UFC for the first time in five years.
No fights have been determined for the "UFC Prelims" broadcast, though possibilities include lightweights Sam Stout (17-6-1 MMA, 6-5 UFC) vs. Dennis Siver (19-7 MMA, 8-4 UFC), light heavyweights Eliot Marshall (10-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) vs. Brandon Vera (11-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC), featherweights Hatsu Hioki (24-4-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. George Roop (12-7-1 MMA, 2-3 UFC), and featherweights Bart Palaszewski (35-14 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Tyson Griffin (15-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC).
In addition to UFC 137, Spike TV also airs "UFC Prelims" specials with the upcoming UFC 134, UFC 135 and UFC 136 events. UFC 137's in the 11th of 12 that the UFC and Spike TV contracted for 2011.
The UFC and Spike TV first offered a PPV teaser broadcast for UFC 103 in 2009, when the UFC went head-to-head with a boxing PPV broadcast featuring Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez. The Spike TV specials proved effective enough at generating last-minute PPV buys that officials from the UFC and the organization's longtime cable partner decided to make them a regular offering.
However, that partnership ends in 2012 with the UFC's move to FOX, FX and FUEL TV. Source More MMA on TV = Good | |
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| | Subject: Re: UFC 137 gets "UFC Prelims" special on Spike TV Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:15 am | |
| I hope fox worked this into their new deal. | |
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| | Subject: Re: UFC 137 gets "UFC Prelims" special on Spike TV Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:47 pm | |
| Damn them Rat Bastards... I myself have bought a few "last minute" ppv's that I was not going to buy.... mostly cards I didnt think would pan out... most of them didn't.
But I do like the free prelims, you never have to want to have your money back. | |
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