Otoko,
Who is expected in Japan to win the Open Weight tourney? Also, how is the boxer expected to do (sorry I forget his name)?
PS- When the tournament begins, don’t post the results here unless you mention in the title that it is the results. In Canada atleast we get the Pay per View on a delay, usually one day.
Yep, I’m referring strictly to America. There’s such a renewed interest in UFC here, with tons of new fans. Pride is much bigger in Asia and other parts of the world than UFC currently is, or ever has been, in America. People like Bob Sapp have reached movie star levels of celebrity through MMA in japan.
Pride has mentioned many times in the past that they would like to have a bigger presence in America. And now is the perfect time to do it.
One thing that I think would hurt Pride in the US as far as the casual fans is the 10 minute first round. I don’t think the masses have the attention span for that. I’ve been a hardcore MMA fan for 12 years, and even I get bored with some of the slow 10 minute rounds.
The UFC paydays seem to be public information, but I’ve never seen any Pride payoff data. Anywhere to find this? I’m just curious.
PRIDE is a much larger (financial) organization than the UFC. Thus, they are able to pay their fighters more money. I think the UFC is on the right road to eventually pay their fighters more money.
I would not be surprised if the UFC replaced boxing as the number one combat sport in the USA with in 5 years.
[quote]MickeyG wrote:
I disagree that Pride has to jump on the MMA bandwagon. Maybe in America, they are trying. Not in the rest of the world though.
Yep, I’m referring strictly to America. There’s such a renewed interest in UFC here, with tons of new fans. Pride is much bigger in Asia and other parts of the world than UFC currently is, or ever has been, in America. People like Bob Sapp have reached movie star levels of celebrity through MMA in japan.
Pride has mentioned many times in the past that they would like to have a bigger presence in America. And now is the perfect time to do it.
One thing that I think would hurt Pride in the US as far as the casual fans is the 10 minute first round. I don’t think the masses have the attention span for that. I’ve been a hardcore MMA fan for 12 years, and even I get bored with some of the slow 10 minute rounds.
The UFC paydays seem to be public information, but I’ve never seen any Pride payoff data. Anywhere to find this? I’m just curious.
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Yes maybe the ten minute round is too long. But Japanese fans are quite knowledgable abot ground fighting, so they do not find it that boring. I have not have the pleasure of watching a UFC broadcast, so I do not know how the fans respond.
Pride does not release payoff information. This is typical of Japanese companies. Very opaque. You would have to read the Japanese sports dailies to get the payoff information. I actually think they prefer it that way. I like the UFC`s transparency.
[quote]Ruggerlife wrote:
Otoko,
Who is expected in Japan to win the Open Weight tourney? Also, how is the boxer expected to do (sorry I forget his name)?
PS- When the tournament begins, don’t post the results here unless you mention in the title that it is the results. In Canada atleast we get the Pay per View on a delay, usually one day. [/quote]
Dont worry I wont post any results.
The boxer, Nishijima… well he gave a gutsy performance against Mark Hunt, that is why he was brought back. I think they gave him Yoshida because that guarantees a Japanese fighter in the second round.
I haven`t heard anything about his ground skills, because maybe he has none.
I think the talk of the OWGP will start escalating next week in Japan.
On Sherdog they said the NSAC is super worried about fighters falling out of the ring (like when Frank Shamrock got KTFO by hitting his head on the cement) and is going to force any Pride fights in Nevada to be in a cage