News from UFC on FOX press conference, television deal announced

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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    FX seems like it will be the place for a Friday Night Fights type UFC show 32x year, which is AWESOME if live/true.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    The Ultimate Fighter will be live on FX. Live? Interesting.

    Maybe it's going to be a hybrid of TUF and Big Brother.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et: lots of breaking news

    Power agent Ari Emmanuel worked Peter Hill on the UFC's behalf, calling him every other day.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    TUF Live:

    The events of the week will be taped, then the fight will be shown live. 13 week run.

    Coaches will have a concurrent training camp with the show and will fight live on the finales again. Nice.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Six fight nights on FX plus the live fights for TUF make up the 32 shows.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    The next season of TUF (Mayhem/Bisping) will be the first season of TUF Live? Looks like it. Sorry, Spike.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Looks like fans will vote who fights who each week via text.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    There was a rumour that Spike owned the exclusive rights to broadcast the UFC back catalogue. Obviously not since the UFC is showing everything on Fox right now.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Doesn't sound like FOX will tamper much with the UFC's production. This is something the UFC insisted on that eventually broke their one-time deal with HBO.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Saturday, November 12th is the first live prime time event on Fox, from Anaheim.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    The deal with Fox is for seven years.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Prelim fights will move to Fuel from Spike, obviously.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Fox canvassed a large group of advertisers and found that more sponsors were interested in UFC than not interested.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Fox will have their own guys for the pre and post shows but the UFC will mostly produce their events as usual.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    Deal seems to be all about the male 18-34 demographic.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    UFC expecting 30-40-million people to watch the fight in Brazil later this month since it's on free tv (Ready TV) in that country.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    The look of the PPV and television, graphics, show openings, everything is getting revamped. Finally.

    Fox has expertise in presenting sporting events in a modern way.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et

    ^ The gladiator opening is going away. Nice.
     
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    Re: UFC + FOX press conference today at 1et: lots of breaking news

    The four fighters just sat there and never even had the camera on them after being introduced. Thanks for coming out, guys.
     
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    Nice. I remember seeing my first UFC event and saying "that is the lamest thing I've ever seen" only to be informed that they do the same gladiator thing before every event since the UFC started. I wouldn't mind seeing it at milestone events (UFC 200? something like that) again but its tired as fuck and so out of place in modern sports broadcasts.

    BTW its now twitter official via DFW:

     
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