Fedor's loss a ratings win for Showtime Sports on June 26 in San Jose
by Jesse Holland on Jun 29, 2010 2:00 PM EDT
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The Strikeforce: "Fedor vs. Werdum" main event broke a lot of hearts last Saturday night (June 26) when it featured top ranked heavyweight fighter Fedor Emelianenko losing for the first time in over nine years to jiu-jitsu wizard Fabricio Werdum.
Just don't count Showtime executives among the legions of unhappy fans.
Strikeforce returned to its home base of San Jose in impressive fashion, garnering a peak household rating of 2.1 during the Showtime telecast from the HP Pavilion, according to an industry source. That mark puts it just behind Strikeforce: "Miami" and "Carano vs Cyborg" as the third highest rated fight card ever for the cable television network.
"Fedor vs. Werdum" also featured Women's 145-pound Champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos defending her belt against Jan "Cuddles" Finney as well as a middleweight rematch between Scott "Hands of Steel" Smith and Cung Le.
That's a lot of star power for one event -- which could explain the staggering 56% increase in ratings over last month's "Heavy Artillery" card from the Scottstrade Center in St. Louis.
Comparisons to Spike TV's replay of UFC 113: "Machida vs. Shogun II" are likely, but competing broadcasts are difficult to grade against one another when they exist on different platforms.
Spike TV is available on basic cable and can be seen in approximately 98 million homes. Showtime is a premium subscription service currently available in approximately 18 million homes.
For complete results and coverage of Strikeforce: "Fedor vs. Werdum" click here and here.
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Not really surprising.
Gina can pull big numbers with pervs!
But a true champion, face to face with his darkest hour, will do whatever it takes to rise above. A man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. Because surrender is death, and death is for pussies. - Kenny Powers
Not All Pervs
I love Womens MMA not all for looks
by AintNoSunshine on Jun 29, 2010 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions
True.
I watch Cyborg for the fighting, but I have to admit that isn’t really why I watched Gina. haha
by naturalshadow on Jun 29, 2010 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions
OJR = perv. Guilty as charged. All kidding aside, I read that Cyborg match was brutal. I am obviously a sexist pig so I can't get interested in women's MMA.
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
-Stephen King
+1
Fedor invented a language that incorporates Sambo and Kimuras.
So next time FEDOR is kicking your ass, don't be offended or hurt, he may be just trying to tell you he likes your hat.
Me and my friends were yelling at the TV for like 3 minutes for the ref to stop the fight. It was pretty bad, IMO.
Finney’s a really tough chick, but it was obvious she was done and Cyborg was just smashing her. It was that idiot female ref that looks like Skeletor, so I wasn’t shocked. Gosh that ref makes Maz and Tan Dan look like absolutely perfect refs.
"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove."
Yeah, I don't think MMA resembles a sport anymore with examples like that. A one sided beatdown is not athletic in nature.
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
-Stephen King
It was just pointless. At a certain point, the fight needs to be stopped, and that line was crossed about 5 times that fight. I can't tell you how much I hate that ref. Kim Winslow...tell me she doesn't look like Skeletor
"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove."
Strikforce has...
6 mo – a yr b4 it is all over. There is no PPV model. Fedor losing just speeds it up.
nah
you don’t need a ppv model to survive, they’re doing just fine, and they have plenty of good fighters. Not the best, but a few top 10’ers.
And Bobby Lashley and Hershey Walker
by Body Triangle on Jun 29, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions
they’re like a good version of elite xc..
For what profit is it to man if he gains the world , and loses his own soul?
- Matthew 16:26
Glad to see we have such experts on how to run an MMa promotion here.
You guys have made it sound so easy. I bet anyone can run a successful promotion. In fact, why don’t you guys ask your parents for some cash and put Strikeforce out of business. It’s so easy right, and you gibbronies seam to have all of the answers.
I say risk the family fortune on it.
i wish i were as cool as you strikerdave
coming down from your mighty pedestal to lecture us peons.
by Body Triangle on Jun 29, 2010 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions
LMAO "dicktits"
I’m going to google that and see what comes up lol
On being champion - "The best thing that’s come out of me being champ is I got a chance to meet Beyonce, so I’m happy about that. That was my lucky day, 7/7/07." - Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
yeah..."dicktits" wasn't as fun as I thought =/
this was all I could salvage from it:
On being champion - "The best thing that’s come out of me being champ is I got a chance to meet Beyonce, so I’m happy about that. That was my lucky day, 7/7/07." - Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
Good enough for me!
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
-Stephen King
Gibbronie...Jabroney....
Tomato…Toma(h)to.
I dont give a shit dickweed. Sorry if I made you cry and hold your peepee. But I like how thats all you have to say when i challenge you promo running abilities.
Fact of matter, you dont know shite about what you are blathering on about.
hey striker dave
what the fuck do you know about mma promotion? Fact of the matter, you never know shit about what you’re talking about.
Dickweed? Who are you, beavis and/or butthead? Did we just travel back to 1992? Cry and hold my peepee? How fucking old are you?
I’d like to point out that the only thing you mentioned in this whole thread is about how much everyone here doesn’t know anything. Thanks StrikerDave, your dick-measuring ability is still intact.
god damn the internet isn’t serious business but you just…suck…so bad.
by Body Triangle on Jun 29, 2010 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions
“what the fuck do you know about mma promotion?”
The same as you…not much…Only I am not the one here pretending to wax poetic about PPV models and the nature of the business. You are.
“Dickweed? Who are you, beavis and/or butthead? Did we just travel back to 1992? Cry and hold my peepee? How fucking old are you?”
Listen son, I feel I can call you that after I have cum in your Mom, do you cry about every name that someone calls you and then complains that the internet isnt such a serious place?
“I’d like to point out that the only thing you mentioned in this whole thread is about how much everyone here doesn’t know anything.”
This whole thread?..you mean in the whole two previous posts I have made on this topic. One to point out that you dont know shitwhich you are speaking about and two respond to you being a crybaby about be called out.
BTW, you still dont know shit about MMA or running a promo. ANd I haven’t said anything about anyones else lack of knowledge on this topic. Keep talking out of your ass little kid.
would you call it a classic striker v grappler battle?
by Body Triangle on Jun 29, 2010 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL...BT is a tough blog nut to crack....he keeps his witz
Fedor invented a language that incorporates Sambo and Kimuras.
So next time FEDOR is kicking your ass, don't be offended or hurt, he may be just trying to tell you he likes your hat.
who is trying to run an org?
As a full time fan and mass consumer I know what I want and know what you want too…
Fedor invented a language that incorporates Sambo and Kimuras.
So next time FEDOR is kicking your ass, don't be offended or hurt, he may be just trying to tell you he likes your hat.
yep...they need to stay the course and not get greedy or try to compete...follow the UFC and be happy with 2nd place...pick up Jardine and guys like him and keep growing the roster
Fedor invented a language that incorporates Sambo and Kimuras.
So next time FEDOR is kicking your ass, don't be offended or hurt, he may be just trying to tell you he likes your hat.
I agree
I agree they don’t need to grow to fast. They need to grow slowly thats where others have failed they try to compete right out of the gate and in any business that doesn’t work unless there isn’t competition. I think they need to focus more on lighter weight classes too because there are a ton of Japanese fighters in the lighter weight classes. I think it would be easier to compete with the WEC than the UFC. They can still have the heavier weight classes which would be a bonus to the lighter weight classes but don’t compare them to the UFC.
Man, that’s foolish. STRIKEFORCE has numerous good fighters, particularly in the heavyweight division. Werdum proved himself by beating Fedor who is still the overall best MMA fighter of all time. So you’ve got Werdum, Fedor, and Overeem who is a beast. I think the interest in this past Saturday’s fight demonstrates that people are interested in SF and its fighters, and as long as that remains the case it will do fine. Just don’t let yourself get convinced by Dana White or others that STRIKEFORCE fighters can’t compete, because as far as I’ve seen, especially among the three I mentioned, they fight and beat the best.
They don't compare
I think its foolish you believe they are on the same level. If you go through the weight classes the disparity is shocking. Overeem has already been beat by Chuck Liddel if you didn’t know look it up. Fedor never fought in the UFC so you can’t say he would of done great things there. Werdum got knocked out by Dos Santos and was 2-2 in the UFC so there goes your top 3 heavyweights. UFC is so deep from top to bottom its crazy. The only division that isn’t close is 185 and thats because of AS.
yeah but...you think overeem could be liddell now?
talent changes! (i understand they’re at a different weight class, just jokin)
by Body Triangle on Jun 29, 2010 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions
beat. pretty sure overeem is not liddell
by Body Triangle on Jun 29, 2010 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
lidell would be going home in a body bag if that fight ever happened again
by xquisitewretch on Jun 29, 2010 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Mostly because Chuck is 40 now, and Reem is on the Roids.
by naturalshadow on Jun 29, 2010 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions
excuses are like assholes
everyone has one and they all stink!
by xquisitewretch on Jun 29, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah...
Like those aren’t legitimate excuses. We already saw the fight with a prime Chuck and no juice, how did that one end?
by naturalshadow on Jun 29, 2010 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
nah
they are doing good. Fedor makes less than they used to pay frank. this is their 5th year as a promotion and they are doing great.
the ppv model is not the only successful one. they sell out and have a tv deal, which is really good.
Frank used to make more than 2 million a fight?
"Right Leg Hospital, Left Leg Cemetery " ~ Cro Cop.
"One time my wrist watch stopped from fear". ~ Cro Cop.
Here is my fight card
Fedor/ Werdum
Big Foot/ Overeem- to keep him busy and in the public eye
Hendo/ Mousasi
Gilbert Melendez/Eddie Alvares or Tatsuya Kawajiri
Shields/ Santiago or Jacare Souza
Diaz/ Paul Daley- I would love to see this fight
PPV Card
Overeem vs Werdum- Main Event
Fedor vs Big Foot
Hendo vs Babalu
Rogers vs AA 2
Gil vs Alvarez
Diaz vs Noons 2
Manhoef vs Mousasi
Who was Tank Abbott's Protégé?
by ChuckMastaCheese on Jun 29, 2010 2:37 PM EDT reply actions
not bad...
Fedor invented a language that incorporates Sambo and Kimuras.
So next time FEDOR is kicking your ass, don't be offended or hurt, he may be just trying to tell you he likes your hat.
As much success that theyve had..
Its not the time to enter the PPV market. Don’t ruin all the success you’ve been able to achieve. SF will always be a #2 promotion! So be happy with that, make the money you make and continue to put on free shows..
…
I think MMA needs SF though. PPV does get expensive after awhile.
by kinghaze on Jun 29, 2010 2:42 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
oh and one more thing..
Change that gay ass music they play throughout their shows!
by kinghaze on Jun 29, 2010 2:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
You should not use the word gay with your profile pic looking like that. Just saying.
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
-Stephen King
Get in a time machine, go back one week and tell yourself that. 50 bucks says you back hand yourself and scream LIAR.
Grow some nuts & bet me then tuff guy!
by d*locc on Jun 29, 2010 3:57 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Thts wut I thought . Get in a time machine go back ten minutes & slap yurself
For bitching out in front of every1 like a puss.
by d*locc on Jun 29, 2010 4:30 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It's alrite Jared I didn't think U were actually guna man up or anything=D
U did a gr8 job of 1/2 stepping tho ;)
by d*locc on Jun 29, 2010 5:09 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Hmmm
Oh him. God i almost forgot who he was. He is fading my memories, like the girl i had a one night stand with..
I love the UFC...but...
But gotta say I’ve been real pleased with the fights that strikeforce puts on.
Something needs to change with how these guys get paid.
Carwin making $40k for this weekends fight is a disgrace. Cung Lee and Scott Smith Made more for a strike force show… unreal.
Read The Carwin Article About How Happy He Is With the UFC
No where did he cry about his 40k DISCLOSED salary
by AintNoSunshine on Jun 29, 2010 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Fedor who? Are you serious?
Fedor is the greatest MMA fighter of all time, The one loss against a good fighter like Werdum doesn’t take that status away from him in any way. Don’t be lulled by what Dana White says about Fedor. STRIKEFORCE put on a great show this past weekend, and I hope we get to see another one featuring a rematch between Fedor and Werdum.
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