Comments on: The WEC's Pay Per View Problem: Why Should I Pay for Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber at WEC 48?

By: Damion

Damion — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:53:19 +0000

WEC is by far better that the UFC. These chumps at higher weights seem to think just making it to the UFC cage is the goal. I don’t enjoy fat fuckers falling on each other and dropping ham fisted hammer fists like a giant baby tantrum. (I”m looking your way Broke Lesbo!!)
I like speed, laser precise strikes, quick take downs and an athlete that has enough heart to try and get up off his back back. I was thoroughly impressed by Faber/Aldo PPV and will probably buy them in the future. UFC is stale and lazy. Not all of course, but in general, the higher weights are slow and not entertaining.

By: bodypuncher

bodypuncher — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:59:49 +0000

WEC should not be PPV and neither should UFC be PPV because too many fights are mismatched, uncompetitive, and totally predicatable. After a few years of disappointing mismatches on UFC’s ppv fights, I realized 1) the sport is too young to have a large talent pool of evenly matched high level guys; 2) Even when opponents are matched well, the small size of the gloves means a single punch, sometimes a lucky one thrown by the less skilled fighter, can end the fight instantly. I respect the skills of many of these great athletes, and I appreciate the realism like it is in a street fight, but it just does not make as good a use of $45 as a classic boxing match, a great football, game etc. It seems I invest a few hours waiting all night for one or two guys I was looking forward to watching, and their fights end in 20 seconds or 5 minutes. Put all these fights on free TV. Your ratings will be there and be satisfied with the money you get from the advertising on the network. Don’t ruin a good thing. Boxing got too expensive and ppv only to the point that nobody watches it anymore or can name the champions anymore…people lose interest.

By: Machiel Van

Machiel Van — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:33:25 +0000

Good points. There really is no added value to this event as opposed to the usual WEC card broadcast on Versus. Multiple title fights on one WEC card? I feel like I’ve seen that done before… multiple times.