Fights On Facebook Coming To An End With New Fox Deal In Place
UFC President, Dana White, made an announcement yesterday to “El Octagono” that will change the way the UFC Preliminary cards will be viewed.
Since UFC 129, the UFC has been in bed with the popular social network, facebook.com and as such has been delivering un-aired preliminary card bouts for free via live internet stream.
The new viewing format for these once un-viewable bouts will be live TV starting in 2012.
Dana White explains the change:
“[The Facebook fights] will go away when the FOX deal starts which is in January because all that programming now, I mean the reason we did the Facebook fights was because nobody could see those fights. So we put them up on Facebook as an option for fans, because we always love to give more fights. But with the fact that FOX wants to pick up all these fights, they’ll be on television now.”
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Classic dickmove, Dana.
Why is it a dick move?? FOX wants to air the fights, so they will be seen on broadcast TV now.
as long as they are on basic cable. HDnet sucks cuz i don’t have HD cable.
is FX basic cable?
Dick move? How? I think a majority of people would rather watch the fights on TV than on FB.
dana could shit out a cure for cancer and people would still call him a dickhead
I second that. I just hope that they show ALL the prelim fights on Fox.
Not a dick move at all…..we get to see free fights without broadband access……pretty nice I think….its a buisness first, lets not forget that……
LOL, doitsustyle read the headline and not the article.
obv some ppl will be left in the dust. but if you get the channels, this is great news because now you can DVR the fights if you’re not around. it’s hard to dedicate 5 straight hours to fights every other weekend.
Totally…im so glad they are on fox now so I can pvr…i have a 2 year old so for me to stop what im doing on a Sat afternoon is impossible without having an angry toddler and wife on my back…many times I had to just miss all the prelims….facebook was fine but this is much better.
That’s funny man, I have same problem.
Me too…lol
Hilarious, my son will be 2 in November and I go thru the same shit.
Some people are smart enough to find ways to bypass paying cable companies for their poor support and over priced service. The prelims on facebook were a way. I bet these won’t be HD like the facebook fights were, and even if they are, they aren’t free now because your paying for HD service. Why not provide both options?
I take it these fights will be aired on the UK Fox channel aswell? Hope so, love watching the fights on Facebook so it’ll be sad that i had to get off my ass and go to the living room earlier but as long as i get to see them
If not, then it is a Dick Move
Pedro, the apostrophe in “fight’s” in not needed. The way you used it, it means “fight is.”
Lol!
Rowe, you should not have used the word “in” after you wrote “fight’s”. The proper word would be “is”.
lol fkn grammar police
yeah its great if you live in america, but anywhere esle in the world that dont have fox is getting screwed
Maybe Fox will come up with a way of streaming the prelims for the rest of the world. It would only make sense, and they would stand to make more.
Some people don’t live in the US and facebook is a great way for them to watch the fights live. But I guess Dana didn’t think of that…