UFC 237 Live Discussion - 5/11/19

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Dick Niaz

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Apologies for this vent, but FUCK THIS ESPN DEAL!!! We cut the cord, so I was fine subscribing to ESPN+. Discovered tonight that I can’t even watch the prelims live through the app without a cable provider subscription! What in the fuck is that about?!? So I need to have an $6/month ESPN+ monthly subscription in order to have the privilege to pay $60/PPV, but the only way to see the prelims is if I have a $40+/month cable subscription too?!? Are they trying to get rid of me as a fan or just push me to stream everything? Solid business value proposition.
 

Jesus X

4 drink minimum.
Sep 7, 2015
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Apologies for this vent, but FUCK THIS ESPN DEAL!!! We cut the cord, so I was fine subscribing to ESPN+. Discovered tonight that I can’t even watch the prelims live through the app without a cable provider subscription! What in the fuck is that about?!? So I need to have an $6/month ESPN+ monthly subscription in order to have the privilege to pay $60/PPV, but the only way to see the prelims is if I have a $40+/month cable subscription too?!? Are they trying to get rid of me as a fan or just push me to stream everything? Solid business value proposition.
I pay for cable and I still miss like 75% of this card if I don't pay for espn+ and the pay per view I used to get more fights on the fox sports days
 

jason73

Yuri Bezmenov was right
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Jan 15, 2015
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dom is not bad with DC .when he is paired with rogan he gets all smug
 

Judobill

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Dude’s hands must be fucked up. He’s only throwing elbows like Faber did back in the day.
 

Splinty

Shake 'em off
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What in the fuck is that about?!? So I need to have an $6/month ESPN+ monthly subscription in order to have the privilege to pay $60/PPV, but the only way to see the prelims is if I have a $40+/month cable subscription too?!? Are they trying to get rid of me as a fan or just push me to stream everything? Solid

UFC wants more money from me that HBO that provides $15 million per episode shows. Netflix offer thousands of movies and original programming. Same with Amazon.

Those are $15 a month or less.

I'm willing to spend twice that for the UFC only. Subscription, 20-30 bucks a month every month. 360 a month every year. That's the same as 6 ppv.

Do they really have so many people buying more than six pay-per-views a year as to pass up a subscription model which is a proven way to pad your revenue during slow times?

They have been fracturing their model for years.

If I stream illegally I watch Facebook prelims to prelims to the pay-per-view in one long session.

It's only getting worse to be a paying fan while modern tech should be making this easier.
 

wiz

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Jan 31, 2016
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holy crap. span even mounted nog and almost submitted him too like it was nothing.