Cageside Quote: Jim Ross Not Thrilled With UFC Primetime, TUF 13
by Kaleb Kelchner on Apr 15, 2011 2:51 PM EDT
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WWE personality and color commentator Jim Ross shared his thoughts on the recent UFC Primetime featuring Georges St. Pierre and Jake Shields, as well as The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team Dos Santos. I can't say I'm surprised with his comments, which he posted on his blog:
Watched the GSP-Jake Shields 30 minute UFC Prime time special Thursday night. It was OK but not a compelling show largely in part to both fighters being somewhat low key and remaining professional. I'm going to buy the PPV nonetheless from Toronto but the TV special, while having good production values and being well edited, felt sort of like a nice bowl of oatmeal with nothing on it.
The TUF TV rating has been disappointing to me. I understand that Spike is no powerhouse network but I thought that more UFC fans would invest in the show on Wednesday nights. Because Spike's overall TV rtgs aren't stellar one would think that airing ample amounts of promos for TUF on other networks would be advantageous.
TUF is largely about the cast and no one individual on the cast stands out to me as of yet.
UFC Primetime pulled an average 610,000 viewers, which isn't bad considering that it aired at midnight, but one has to think that the show would be better served backing a fighter that hasn't been featured as many times as GSP. What's more important though, is that if I keep on quoting JR's blog, I may very well end up buying some of his BBQ sauce.
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it's the time slot as much as or more than the content
is Spike trying to drive the UFC’s ratings down in a negotiating year?
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The time slot is definitely doing the UFC no favors at all. It doesn’t help that the season is dull, or that Primetime is ANOTHER GSP show, but the regular time slots wold likely save the numbers from being quite as bad. Is Spike looking to play hardball when it comes time to step up to the negotiating table? Probably. They’ve finally been able to create some non-UFC programming that isn’t terrible, they’re probably looking to free up some cash to continue to do so. I think that’s probably a good thing for Spike in the long run, but they have to be careful not to bite the hand that feeds them. Otherwise UFC programming will get pulled and all those “guy flicks” that were filling up the timeslots will be put back to good use.
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by Kaleb Kelchner on Apr 15, 2011 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Ross’s got a great point about nobody standing out in the TUF cast right now… I’m not sure I could name one of the guys, and we’ve had 3 hours of the show so far! Last season, we had Leroy, Marc Stevens (mini-Kos!), Micheal Johnson, McKenzie, and a few others… all guys we latched on right from the start. Nobody so far this season.
what really gets me...
is primetime is a HYPE show. how can your hype show be so EFFING boring? i was so pumped for it and than my bubble got popped quick. also,why the hell is it GSP…again?
I guess they felt that with Shields poor performance against Kampmann they needed to prop him up going into the GSP fight…but honestly, the dude is legit whether he performed badly or not, hasn’t been defeated in 7 years and absolutely dominated Dan Henderson after surviving an early scare…the fight was sold in my eyes right off the bat. I actually was calling for an immediate shot when Shields signed so that this very situation WOULDN’T come up. This fight was easily more interesting before the Kampmann fight, even though I honestly believe it was just an off night for Shields.
Dana White’s line of “Whatever you didn’t learn about GSP in that past Primetimes, you’ll learn in this one” is terrible. We didn’t learn it the first couple of times because it wasn’t interesting or important. GSP’s story has been told, you can only retell and add on so much over so little time.
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by Kaleb Kelchner on Apr 16, 2011 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions
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