UFC 103 Preview Video Hits the Net

by bag flack on Sep 2, 2009 10:23 AM EDT

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The days after a big event are usually pretty sad for an MMA fan: even if your favorite fighter won, you have to wait at least a week to watch some solid live fights again. August was supposed to be a month of non-stop fights with UFC 101, WEC 42, Affliction Trilogy, Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg, and UFC 102. One of those got cancelled and one of those got half-destroyed by bad luck, so the month become somewhat less action-packed. Fear not, for Zuffa has another fight on the way as they fight for global MMA domination and control of our thin wallets. UFC 103 will feature Rich Franklin vs. Vitor Belfort and Cro-Cop vs. Junior Dos Santos as co-main events. If that doesn't get you excited, what will?

The rather lengthy preview video and full fight card after the jump.

UFC 103 Preview Video

Vitor Belfort vs. Rich Franklin
Junior Dos Santos vs. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic
Martin Kampmann vs. Mike Swick
Josh Koscheck vs. Frank Trigg
Hermes Franca vs. Tyson Griffin
Efrain Escudero vs. Cole Miller
Tomasz Drwal vs. Drew McFedries
Steve Lopez vs. Jim Miller
Nick Lentz vs. Rafaello Oliveira
Paul Daley vs. Brian Foster
Jason Brilz vs. Eliot Marshall
Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Igor Pokrajac
Rafael dos Anjos vs. Rob Emerson

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Me and Snowden going to this card. He will have better seats. Kind of a weak mix here. Do we expect entertainment, let alone a good PPV buyrate?

by Ty Lannister on Sep 2, 2009 11:19 AM EDT reply actions

C buyrates have broken a plateau and the bigger cards will be hitting 1,000,000 on the regular.

I think it will at least break 500,000. It seems like the UFC buy-rates have broken a plateau recently and the bigger cards will be hitting 1,000,000 on the regular. No title on the line will hurt this but it’s breaking in a new market (Dallas) and has enough names to do better than any of the European cards have done.

by bag flack on Sep 2, 2009 11:25 AM EDT reply actions

Breaking a new market may affect the gate, but I don’t see how it affects the PPV buys. I like the two AKA fights and Cro Cop. Everything else is blah….

by Ty Lannister on Sep 2, 2009 11:49 AM EDT reply actions

Paul Daley’s fight could be an exciting debut. It’ll also be nice to see Vladi come back. I think the top five fights all have awesome potential. The undercard isn’t the most exciting but not all of them can be.

I meant that breaking in a new market may be a consolation for the lower PPV buy-rate.

by bag flack on Sep 2, 2009 11:53 AM EDT reply actions