| Description: | Since I was completely incapacitated yesterday due to an illness of epic proportions, heres some of the news that hit the wires yesterday:
- DREAM.7s ratings really werent that bad according to an article by smoogy over on BloodyElbow.com. The combination of a poor time slot, non-holiday weekend, poor quality fights, non-drawing names, but.. mostly a terrible time slot pushed the lowly 2.4% rating for DREAM.7.
Further into the article, its revealed that a 2.4 rating for the timeslot is actually fairly satisfactory considering it was such a late night slot. It just goes to show that much of the MMA blogosphere jumped the gun on this one.
- Interestingly enough, our prediction came true. The UFC will, in fact, counterprogram Strikeforce. SpikeTV will air a full day worth of UFC Primetime, TUF reruns, UFC Unleashed, and all of this culminating into a final shot at Strikeforce with the airing of UFC 94. Did you really think the UFC would leave Strikeforce alone? Give me a break.
- Yoshihiro Akiyama is currently in talks to take on Alan Belcher at UFC 100 according to MMAJunkie.com sources and this 5OuncesOfPain.com article. This makes perfect sense considering it will be an overseas bout in which Akiyama can draw some fans to the event. It looks like the UFC is trying to make Belcher the "Japanese-import" Killer.
- Paulo Filho wont be signing with Bellator due to some contractual issues. Filhos manager, Guimaraes, stated in the article that Bellator was unwilling to add a clause that stated the contract would lose validity if Filho was on the shelf for more than four months. Filho doesnt seem like the type of fighter who wants to fight that much, but I can see his point of not being benched for a long time. Money is an issue.
Im sure there was some more important news in the community, but I really didnt care to mention it. Did you hear Siver vs. Hartt got booked for UFC 99? Yeah, nobody cares. |