i say if its not in the us it’s FREE!!!!

hawaii also !!

ITS NOT FREE!!!!

I’ll pay £12 per month for the espn channel on top of my normal SKY+ HD subscription which is £56.00 per month.

Free on Virgin, and HD too (as long as you got the XL TV package). Sweet!

so can you still not get it if you only have freeview ?

get over it… you americans make tons of money anyway!

and nobody in europe would watch the UFC or any sport for that matter if it was on PPV!.. ´

Awesome news that Virgin have ESPN, sounds like this new channel is going to be a more reliable Setanta, with pretty much the same programming. Once again I get the UFC as part of my XL package, so I don’t pay a thing extra get in.

Punch and jay, all yanks are fat, lazy, thick slobs who run around shooting people who think that they can tell everyone else how to live. How’s that for trolling?

Seriously, as all of us British posters have been trying to explain, right now PPV is not financially viable for the UFC in this country, they make more money by selling the rights to TV channels than they would from putting on a sport that is still barely recognised if at all by the mainstream on at 3am and charging people £15 to see it. Until the sport grows to the level of boxing or pro wrestling in popularity, PPV is not going to happen, even MMA fans in this country would be put off ordering a 3am PPV for £15 so no casual fans will watch.

However, the UFC needs overseas markets if it is going to expand, they can’t just cater to American fans because that limits their profits, if WWE had have taken that attitude then they’d have gone bust because they make more money on international tours, TV deals and PPVs then they do in North America as it is still popular worldwide but has dipped there. If the UFC refused to expand to other countries then suffered a dip in popularity it would be disastrous, but with overseas markets they have a much wider following of customers for live events and PPVs than they would if they blacked us out, plus there is a chance that other promotions would look to tap into these untapped markets if the UFC didn’t.

Currently, all European UFC shows have sold out, despite the cards being of a lesser quality than the North American shows. This proves that there is a following over here for the sport and if this continues to expand in the way it has been, then we will make the UFC a lot of money. Right now TV deals are the way to go but I wouldn’t be suprised if in the next few years we are charged for the bigger shows, like boxing and wrestling charge for their top cards. But, now is not the time to do this and no amount of moaning from American fans is going to change this.

Great post Dave, totally agree except UFC 95 was nowhere near sold out! Trust me on that, I was there.

dude its jealousy, but still what a bellend

I was hoping to get more English insults lobbed back at me. I don’t even know what a wanker means aside from a general insult like “fucker” here in the U.S. But you guys let me down and responded maturely. :)

I think it’s safe to describe you as a “wanker” ovaries!

How do you not know what a wanker is? You must be joking.

This new ESPN channel better be fookin’ good. It’s got the EPL too so I have to get it. Still hoping they can get Special One TV.

I hope it’s 20euro a month and no ppv.

He doesn’t know what a wanker is because it is gay Europe slang. The civilized world doesn’t care what words you slongs make up.

The civilised world eh?…Go back to school.

That’s it. I’m wikapedia’ing “wanker.”

Wanker is a pejorative term of English origin, common in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and British-influenced territories like South Africa. It initially referred to an onanist but has since become a general insult. It is synonymous with tosser.

Great WTF is an onanist? Back to wikapedia.
OHHH, okay it’s: a man who masturbates

In that case, yes, I am definitely a wanker. Maybe even a pro wanker.

JCSuperstar is me by the way. I left that name on accident after doing something stupid in a different post.

haha. I was expecting bigger and better comments. Obviously I was trolling.

a wanker is a dirty name for a dude that masterbates. so its safe to say we’re all wankers lol

Me too Jay,

Guess you can’t troll the Brit’s

Yeah I think Setanta was around $20 a month but for just the standard digital package and sports it was working out at like $125 a month. No way would I pay more again on top of the $20 for ppv to watch something that starts at 3 in the morning, 4 for mainland Europe, even worse.

How can we ever be charged £30+ for a PPV event that starts at 3 in the morning, it’s never gonna happen. PPV is an American phenomenon that will never take off here in anything like significant numbers. Hell they couldn’t even sell PPV soccer matches here at prime time, let alone a sport nobody’s heard of going out in the middle of the night!

“We don’t want you here” that is not nice. :-( Compared to your other immigrants, who want to behead those who draw the prophet, you think I would be welcome!

I do think it will move to PPV in the future over here in the uk.

Sky do it with the boxing (Hatton) and that’t at 3am. (they hit 200-300k PPV buys but thats at £14.99/$25)

When UK have BETTER mma fighters not just Bisping whos not that good anyways, then people will pay to watch it.

=)

Those fights are once in a blue moon. Sky wouldn’t get anywhere near those figures for the UFC if people had to fork out that kind of money every four weeks, people would soon get very tired of that.

It’ll be a good 5 to 10 years before we have any significant numbers of British world class fighters, maybe longer.

They start at 1am, I can’t see the figures being great as WWE tend to chase the younger demographic now, most sales would be Sky plussed due to kids having school the next day. That’s something I would never do, if I’m being charged PPV prices I wana see the show LIVE, and at three in the morning they’d never get my dollars!

I can’t find any UK figures but last couple of PPV WWE events did around 250,000 globally. So I am guessing the UK number may be around 5,000 at most. Can’t remember the price but I think £15 per show so that is around £75,000 that Sky have to split with WWE.

Peanuts!

I would pay $50 dollars to watch ufc at 3 in the morning if I had to, I’m addicted……….

You’d be in the minority my friend!

Yeah and you dont get charged for the overseas shows!! At least you can watch them in the morning rather than the middle of the night.

The monthly charge is £12 not $12 and that’s on top of the £40+ subscription we all have to pay to Sky to get the extra channels!!!

You cant seriously expect people in Britain to pay $50 for a show that goes out at 3 in the morning, no Americans would pay that!!!

You guys whined so hard before the olympics that all the swimming finals had to be changed to the morning just so you could see Michael Phelps swim at prime time and you weren’t even paying to see that!!!

attakdog. I didn’t say pay. I said UFC should black you dudes out. They don’t need you.

No the UFC doesn’t need us, you’re right. I mean what company wants to be a global company and maximise their profits??? How the f@ck would they be able to do their live shows here if nobody could see any fights? Thankyou for confirming my initial observation, you are officially ret@rded!