Awesome card this Saturday

Took a hit action-wise with Akiyama dropping out but still a sweet, and pretty unpredictable card. Awesome aired prelim fights too, although they will be conflicting with March Madness

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
Champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Jon Jones (for light-heavyweight title)
Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland
Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus
Nate Marquardt vs. Dan Miller
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Brendan Schaub

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)
Luiz Cane vs. Eliot Marshall
Edson Barboza vs. Anthony Njokuani

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
Ricardo Almeida vs. Mike Pyle
Kurt Pellegrino vs. Gleison Tibau

PRELIMINARY CARD
Joseph Benavidez vs. Ian Loveland
Raphael Assuncao vs. Erik Koch
Nick Catone vs. Costantinos Philippou

Yeah it's going to be an awesome card. Still pisses me off seeing lil Joe not being broadcasted at all.

Yeah kind of a weird matchup for him. I'm sure he'll be on televised cards in the future.

Great card, soon enough we will see all those fights


MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
Champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Jon Jones (for light-heavyweight title)
Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland
Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus
Nate Marquardt vs. Dan Miller
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Brendan Schaub

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)
Luiz Cane vs. Eliot Marshall
Edson Barboza vs. Anthony Njokuani

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
Ricardo Almeida vs. Mike Pyle
Kurt Pellegrino vs. Gleison Tibau

PRELIMINARY CARD (Showtime)
Joseph Benavidez vs. Ian Loveland
Raphael Assuncao vs. Erik Koch
Nick Catone vs. Costantinos Philippou

You are on crack! you think they will split a card like that? Part on showtime, part on facebook and part on spike? Must more likely IMO it is all converted to Facebook.

I'm joking around, I don't even think that relationship continues past current contracts.

I doubt we see any UFC on showtime...

the only fight I am waning on enjoying is the CC match up.

I've been watching some interviews. CC doing a nice job yet again of pretending like he's fully healthy and now has his full arsenal of kicks with him and said he's going to stop Schaub

Surely this is Cro Cops last chance to prove he's got anything left ?

I don't really like any of the legends being thrown to the young prospects, Cro Cop's at a point in his career where he should only be involved in interesting fights.

Cro Cop vs Couture needs to happen !

i'll be purchasing it...like really

how many buys will it do?

This will do decently I bet. 600K minimum. There is just a lot of mma buzz right now, Shogun and Bones are more known with each event, though, March Madness could dominate the casual sports market this weekend too. I'll change to equal or greater than Rua/Machida II at 520,000.

GDPofDRC wrote:

This will do decently I bet. 600K minimum. There is just a lot of mma buzz right now, Shogun and Bones are more known with each event, though, March Madness could dominate the casual sports market this weekend too. I'll change to equal or greater than Rua/Machida II at 520,000.

Yeah I think that Rua/Machida # is about right for this.

I think March Madness will hurt it some, should still be good but not what it would have been.

Other March PPVs during the Tourney:
2010
3/27/2010 UFC 111 GSP vs. Hardy 770,000
2009
None
2008
None
2007
none
2006
none


What a mostly useless post.

I think the main event is epic. And Faber is always interesting. The rest of the card is OK.

I might just try to crash an applebee's at 11 pm.

This is a showcase fight for Faber. They are going to make him even more of a star than he already is.

Great card for sure, absolutely cannot wait for this main event. Shogun all day.

Definitely sucks that Benavidez bout isn't going to be shown but there will be a lot of that nowadays.

I'll be there , can't wait! This will be my first live event.