UFC 147

pauldoo

Main Card

Wanderlei Silva Rich Franklin
Sergio Moraes Cezar Mutante
Godofredo Pepey Rony Jason
Fabricio Werdum Mike Russow
Yuri Alcantara Hacran Dias

Preliminary Card on FX

Anistavio Medeiros Rodrigo Damm
Delson Heleno Francisco Drinaldo
Jonh Teixeira Hugo Viana
Thiago Perpétuo Leonardo Mafra
Marcos Vinicius Borges Pancini Wagner Campos
Felipe Arantes Milton Vieira


Maincard-3am on ESPN

pauldoo

Dont think ive looked forward to a card less than this one!

El Guapo!

The silva - franklin fight should hopefully be good but the rest of the fights are all from the Brazilian TUF and the fights were terrible in that season. I stopped watching halfway through. If it's he card goes anything like the TUF Brazil show then we're in for a pretty boring card.

ben.schlomo

An event to satisfy the growing/massive Brazilian market really, main event could be good, interesting to see how Werdum goes too. Nothing else of interest to me.

Mr. CooL ICE

Main event is a rematch that I couldn't really be arsed about. However, I really want Werdum to destroy Russow. If Russow wrestlefu**s his way through 3 rounds for a win, it means he could be in line for a title shot he really doesn't deserve (IMO).

fightireland

pauldoo wrote: »

Fabricio Werdum Mike Russow

Worth watching - always liked "Fabriz"

Mr. Manager

I just keep overlooking this in the anticipation of 148.

Locomotion

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

I just keep overlooking this in the anticipation of 148.

Ditto! WAR CHAEL!!!

JoeyJJ

I am looking forward to the FX card this weekend far more, this is probably one of the worst cards of the year however it will defo be watched however not live.

ASJ112

I am looking forward to the FX card this weekend far more, this is probably one of the worst cards of the year however it will defo be watched however not live.

Agree with this assessment. Silva vs Franklin will be a great fight as they both always bring it, but boy this is a poor card. I could see Russow grinding out a boring decision.

These are two great fights from the FX card

Clay Guida vs. Gray Maynard
Spencer Fisher vs. Sam Stout


Still two UFC cards over one weekend is always good !

The Bored One

I'm interested in watching the Silva-Franklin fight, and I always like getting to watch Werdum. I'm not too pushed on any of the TUF Brazil stuff because I wasn't too impressed with that season.
I'll end up watching it anyway of course. Its an illness really....

ASJ112

Any idea what time the UFC on FX facebook+fuel tv prelims start at here ?

reganreggie

Im amazed that Russow has made it this far in the ufc while working as a cop fighting full time professional fighters

adamski8

so its ufc on fx tonight then tomorrow night ufc 147? strange they are so close together

unknown13

I am going to be very interested in seeing the PPV numbers for this card. The lowest in recent times was UFC 85 with 215K but that card was a lot more stacked than this card.

In my opinion this is the worst PPV in modern times.

El Guapo!

Thought this was pretty funny.
http://mobile.bloodyelbow.com/2012/6/23/3113074/ufc-147-rich-franklin-gets-stuck-in-an-elevator-with-wanderlei-silva

themandan6611

Dean09 wrote: »

Thought this was pretty funny.
http://mobile.bloodyelbow.com/2012/6/23/3113074/ufc-147-rich-franklin-gets-stuck-in-an-elevator-with-wanderlei-silva

i'd say sonnen and silva would be very similiar

El Guapo!

themandan6611 wrote: »

i'd say sonnen and silva would be very similiar

Imagine how awkward that one would be!

El Guapo!

This is just starting now on Facebook.
It's a pretty poor card but ya have to love the Brazilian crowds. The place is jammed to the rafters and it's only the first Prelim fight.

Mr Blobby

Wow ....... things are buzzing here

iMuse

Over in the 1st round, werdum with the win

PerrinV2

I'm telling ye lads,franklin looks a ringer for forrest with that haircut

robwalsh

anywhere to watch online?

GTR63

PerrinV2 wrote: »

I'm telling ye lads,franklin looks a ringer for forrest with that haircut

More like Lloyd Christmas' older brother

PerrinV2

GTR63 wrote: »

More like Lloyd Christmas' older brother

Ha you're right actually

El Guapo!

Went to bed last night and didnt set this to record. Raging I missed the Wandy fight. Gonna have to check it out online later.

MrStuffins

Jesus, the TUF finals were very poor!

I was like everyone here, couldn't stick TUF Brazil to the end. And it looks like I didn't make a mistake!

stiffler123

The Ferreira capoeira kick was awesome.

leggo

I loved Ferreira/Moraes personally. Very exciting, back-and-forth fight. Ferreira obviously didn't bring his A game (judging by research alone, I didn't have time to squeeze TUF Brazil in) and Moraes stepped up to capitalise, but it made for a fun fight.

The rest of the card...well it was something to watch, I suppose...

the_doctor199

This is surely the quietest thread for a numbered event for a hell of a long time! Says a lot about the card!

MrStuffins

the_doctor199 wrote: »

This is surely the quietest thread for a numbered event for a hell of a long time! Says a lot about the card!

I really don't understand the logic behind making this a numbered event. Complete lack of star-power, 2 TUF finals and a main event that could've been a decent headliner on a Fight Night card.

Why wasn't it just a TUF Finale? As someone said above, i'd love to see the PPV numbers for this!

Shazbot

MrStuffins wrote: »

I really don't understand the logic behind making this a numbered event. Complete lack of star-power, 2 TUF finals and a main event that could've been a decent headliner on a Fight Night card.

Why wasn't it just a TUF Finale? As someone said above, i'd love to see the PPV numbers for this!

It was originally meant to have Silva vs Sonnen 2 as the headline with Belfort vs Silva as the co-main event. That's more than enough to warrant a numbered event. I guess with the late rearranging of the card they had to keep the number attached. The UFC even offered full refunds on tickets due to changes.

MrStuffins

Shazbot wrote: »

It was originally meant to have Silva vs Sonnen 2 as the headline with Belfort vs Silva as the co-main event. That's more than enough to warrant a numbered event. I guess with the late rearranging of the card they had to keep the number attached. The UFC even offered full refunds on tickets due to changes.

Ah yes, very true! I had completely forgotten about the Silva v Sonnen fight being scheduled for this event.

What an event THAT would've been!

El Guapo!

MrStuffins wrote: »

Why wasn't it just a TUF Finale? As someone said above, i'd love to see the PPV numbers for this!

+1
The ppv buys for this will be terrible. I had a look around for info on it this morning but nothing has been released yet. Some people are saying it got much less than 200k buys but nothing confirmed yet.
Maybe it'll be a kick in the arse for the UFC to put on more stacked numbered events. Although to be fair this is very poor by normal standards.

MrStuffins

Dean09 wrote: »

+1
The ppv buys for this will be terrible. I had a look around for info on it this morning but nothing has been released yet. Some people are saying it got much less than 200k buys but nothing confirmed yet.
Maybe it'll be a kick in the arse for the UFC to put on more stacked numbered events. Although to be fair this is very poor by normal standards.

The FX show was a much better collection of fights than this.

Although, I really enjoyed Silva v Franklin. You're never gonna put those 2 guys in a cage and not get a good fight!

jayteecork

Terrible card I thought.

El Guapo!

jayteecork wrote: »

Terrible card I thought.

Yep. Really poor fights. They should've had that as the UFC on FX card and made the FX one a numbered event.

adamski8

mark goodards standing fighters up pissed me off.
that ferreira chap looked pretty poor in the stand up, what the hell were roberg on about praising him all the time??!
much preffered the fx fights the night before alright.

jayteecork

The PPV numbers mightn't have been terrible, that's if the Brazillians pay PPV.

According to Joe rogan TUF Brazil airs on the Brazil equivalent of RTE2 and attracts 12 million viewers per show.

MrStuffins

UFC is shown on free TV in Brazil. No PPV!

UFC 134 Silva v Okami - 30m viewers in Brazil

UFC 142 Aldo v Mendes - 23m viewers in Brazil

UFC 147 Silva v Franklin - 20m viewers in Brazil

TUF Brazil averaged 10m viewers a week

147 set an attendance record and was watched my a huge amount of people in Brazil, but is expected to have had the lowest PPV buyrate since UFC 55!