New UFC TV deal on Spike TV

[FieldingMellish]

Excellent news for UFC. A press release from Spike TV:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050503/nytu171.html?.v=8

Another series of TUF, 2 live specials later this year and 4 more in 2006 AND 26 episodes of a one hour show featuring past UFC fights. Just hope they put a bit more thought into that last one than the series they ran in Europe in 2002 that just showed fights utterly at random and did nothing to build up current fighters.

[Paul T]

Good news! thanks for sharing that with us.

I hope they continue to learn, and the second season
is better than the first.

great news for MMA in general, and UFC specifically.

[Global Honored]

Great News. Spike is going with MMA/UFC. Yes! This will bring MMA even more into the mainstream here in the states, and hopefully make for better business and opportunities for all involved. TUF was fascinating and the characters really were brought out. Hopefully they can continue with getting quality fighters, and entertaining personalities to compete. Chuck and Randy were good choices for coaches, but perhaps they could bring in someone new. Team Couture didn't show too well.

But even better than that is the live events..on regular TV..NICE!

The 26 shows of old events will be nice to checkout too and give past fighters their props, while also helping to build up steam for their current events and up coming PPVs.

Great job Spike!

[( o Y o )]

Holy shit.....how did I miss this thread?

[heckyl]

hell if i know. i wondered about the lack of action it got back when i saw it.

[( o Y o )]

I know now......this was posted the day after I left for MAX