May
29th 2008
CBS will be showing the first MMA event on network TV this Saturday. MMA has been very sucessful on cable, but this is a very big leap. How this show does will probably determine if there will be any future for the sport on network TV.
The promotion is EliteXC. Internet sensation “Kimbo Slice” will headline. (Google him.)
There will also be what is really a superior card (Faber vs. Pulver) by a superior promotion, WEC, on Versus on Sunday.
roho on 29 May 2008 at 10:31 pm #
I would love to know the story about how China spent 4000 years perfecting the martial arts, and finally one man said, “I need a gun! But first I need to invent gun powder!”…….”To hell with all this exorcise!”
T. Chan on 31 May 2008 at 12:35 am #
I only watch what is available online since I don’t have a TV, but didn’t NBC already bring MMA to late Sat/early Sun programming?
http://www.nbc.com/Movies_Specials_More/Strikeforce/video/episodes.shtml?apl=true
T. Chan on 31 May 2008 at 10:48 am #
veoh.com has some EliteXC clips:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v12519286tnbd2EpF
dylanwaco on 01 Jun 2008 at 4:27 am #
As an MMA fan since its inception, just wanted to point out that perhaps the biggest opponent of the business in the United States has been none other than John McCain.
RedPhillips on 02 Jun 2008 at 6:09 pm #
Dylan, I have been a fan since I rented my first UFC video. It was UFC 3, and I really felt kinda naughty renting it. At the time, the box sold the whole human cockfight angle. Back then it was still a style against style thing, and I was facinated by how these life long experts could just be rendered helpless. In the 90′s I used to hang out in the Underground Forum.