UFC To Air Two UFC 106 Preliminary Fights On Spike TV

by Kelvin Hunt on Nov 10, 2009 10:09 PM EST in News Comment 12 comments

The UFC's cable broadcast home Spike will air two UFC 106preliminary matchups prior to the pay-per-view portion of the card, a pair of sources confirmed to FanHouse on Tuesday.

The two bouts scheduled to air include the welterweight clash between Marcus Davis and Ben Saunders, as well as a middleweight tangle pitting Jake Rosholt against Kendall Grove.

This continues the current trend of airing prelim fights on Spike TV that began with UFC 103. The ratings for the preliminary fights haven't been off the charts, but they must be having a positive effect on PPV numbers since the UFC continues to air the fights. The ratings for the UFC 104 prelim fights that aired on Spike TV averaged 1.4 million viewers, and the numbers for the UFC 103 prelims that aired are relatively the same. Dana White has gone on record as saying the PPV buys for UFC 103 were very good, and the numbers for UFC 104 are trending toward 475K buys. I think that's much better than the UFC could have hoped for, and thus the reason why we are getting these fights at UFC 106. Chea!

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Cool

I dont plan on ordering the PPV

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by _Felix_ on Nov 10, 2009 10:10 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Charles

is going to order this one for me ;)

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by Kelvin Hunt on Nov 10, 2009 10:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Both of these prelim fights should be entertaining.

by SlickRick00 on Nov 10, 2009 10:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Good news here...

Maybe one day they’ll show an entire card on the PPV. Like I said last time, it’s a start so that’s cool.

by The Real T-Bone on Nov 10, 2009 11:04 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

they won't

the reasoning behind it is that the fans who paid out more for live event tickets get that little more…

makes sense, even if it isn’t what i want either

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by RearNakedPoke on Nov 11, 2009 5:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

they did show all of UFC 91 on the PPV broadcast :)

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by Kelvin Hunt on Nov 11, 2009 7:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

there's always one....

LOL! nice one Kelvin, showing me up :)

in my defense that card had 4/5 1st Rd stoppages on the main card with the 5th ending in the 2nd Rd, it wud have been pretty lame to not show all the prelims. that is the exception not the rule too!

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by RearNakedPoke on Nov 11, 2009 9:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs