UFC Counterprogramming Strikeforce: Shamrock vs Diaz

[BruceLee]

I don't know if anybody noticed but UFC 94: Greasegate is Counterprogrammed agasint Strikeforce tonight.

I thought Dana was cool with Scott Coker and Strikeforce.

[Valour5]

I don't know if anybody noticed but UFC 94: Greasegate is Counterprogrammed agasint Strikeforce tonight.

I thought Dana was cool with Scott Coker and Strikeforce.

I think he was until Strikeforce "aquired" all the pro-elite contracts and thus lost him the chance to pick up Sheilds, Lawler, Rodgers, Diaz, Melendez and Babalu on the cheap.

[RangerLee]

Strikeforce is not as small as it once was, and they are still a competitor, with showtime and CBS, people are going to hear their name even more now.

So I am not surprised.

[Cbear]

Hey, its bidness. And since a whole bunch of people don't get Showtime, its at least some mma on free Sat night.

[JamieMCFC]

I don't know if anybody noticed but UFC 94: Greasegate is Counterprogrammed agasint Strikeforce tonight.

I thought Dana was cool with Scott Coker and Strikeforce.


They have been running UFC programming all day.

[Guilty]

I thought Dana was cool with Scott Coker and Strikeforce.

I think they're still cool cause Dana hasn't come out and said "**** scott ****ing coker mother ****er is a ****ing idiot. I ****ing hope he loses all his ****ing money and has to eat from a ****ing soup kitchen for the rest of his ****ing life" like he does against Atencio or did against Shaw. But I guarantee we will start to see that if Strikeforce pulls in strong numbers.

[JungleCat]

Dana doesn't have a personal problem with Coker, but now that strikforce is gaining speed of course he sees it as competion now and thus, will try to keep it from growing. I must say I really dislike the whole way they're marketing the UFC 94 replay. "Oh, lets talk all about grease and cheating to get people to watch it over Strikeforce." That's something they should be trying to keep under the rug not put it all over the TV. Horrible marketing, just sell it the same way you did before the fight.

[Vanno]

Dana doesn't have a personal problem with Coker, but know that strikforce is gaing speed of course he sees it as competion now and thus, will try to keep it from growing. I must say I really dislike the whole way they're marketing the UFC 94 replay. "Oh, lets talk all about grease and cheating to get people to watch it over Strikeforce." That's something they should be trying to keep under the rug not put it all over the TV. Horrible marketing, just sell it the same way you did before the fight.

I agree, knowing they are just trying to justify the eventual 3rd match between the two.

[Aaronyman]

why wouldn't he counterprogram? it doesn't matter if he's "cool" with them...it's business, not personal

[BruceLee]

why wouldn't he counterprogram? it doesn't matter if he's "cool" with them...it's business, not personal

Well the theory was that Dana was cool with Scott Coker so he wasn't going to try to put them out of business like everybody else because Strikeforce did things rights. So Dana wasn't against competition and isn't looking to be a monopoly.

But it looks like he's trying to crush Strikeforce too. So then all that "I welcome competition" talk is Baloney.

[Aaronyman]

Well the theory was that Dana was cool with Scott Coker so he wasn't going to try to put them out of business like everybody else because Strikeforce did things rights. So Dana wasn't against competition and isn't looking to be a monopoly.

But it looks like he's trying to crush Strikeforce too. So then all that "I welcome competition" talk is Baloney.

lol, why would Dana welcome competition? his goal is to make the competition much less well known, so everyone with a dollar to spend on mma, is spending it on the UFC and the UFC only.

but the Strikeforce show was kickass and I think fans are really going to look at it as a rival to the UFC.

[BruceLee]

lol, why would Dana welcome competition? his goal is to make the competition much less well known, so everyone with a dollar to spend on mma, is spending it on the UFC and the UFC only.

but the Strikeforce show was kickass and I think fans are really going to look at it as a rival to the UFC.

So in other words you are saying Dana was lying when he said he welcomed Strikeforce and Scott Coker and wasn't going to pull any Shennanigans on them like he did with Affliction and Tom Atenico the Masseuse.

[Aaronyman]

So in other words you are saying Dana was lying when he said he welcomed Strikeforce and Scott Coker and wasn't going to pull any Shennanigans on them like he did with Affliction and Tom Atenico the Masseuse.

of course he was lying. i dunno why he'd say that to begin with....any good businessman wants to squash competition....Dana wouldn't be doing the right thing if he wasn't trying to steal dollars away from Strikeforce

[Snapcat]

It's one thing to throw up counter programing if it's to pull people from paying money to see a show like a PPV show, but for the people who already have Showtime Stirkeforce is free, so it's not going to pull people away from StrikeForce who know about it and want to watch it. The only thing it might do is make the casual fan stop to watch the UFC show and maybe prevent them from finding the StrikeForce event on their already paid for Showtime channel.

I can see the genius in it when they counter a PPV program with their free event, but not when they counter an essentially free program with another free program.

[BulldogWrestler]

Bruce,

Dana never said that.