UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos

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November 12 LIVE and free on Fox

The Main Event will be the only guaranteed TV fight with a full Preliminary card live on Facebook

Main Event:
Cain Velasquez vs Junior Dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight Title

Prelims:
Ben Henderson vs Clay Guida #1 contenders bout in the Lightweight Division
Dustin Poirier vs Pablo Garza
Cub Swanson vs Ricardo Lamas
DaMarques Johnson vs Clay Harvison
Kid Yamamoto vs Darren Uyenoyama
Mackens Semerzier vs Robert Peralta
Alex Caceres vs Cole Escovedo
Mike Pierce vs Paul Bradley
Aaron Rosa vs Matt Lucas

The UFC brass is hoping for 20 million viewers. Since I don't really follow the NFL I don't know how hard they are advertising on Fox. I did see them have a countdown show on this past Sunday

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Predictions:

Prelims:
Rosa Decision
Pierce Decision. Mike is going the wrong way, I want him to drop to Lightweight but instead he went to Middleweight
Escovedo 1st Round Submission
Semerzier 3rd Round Submission
Yamamoto Decision
Johnson Decision
Swanson 3rd Round Submission
Poirier 2nd Round TKO
Henderson 3rd Round Submission

Main Event:

I really have no idea. I like Dos Santos more but Velasquez has ran through everyone and improves by leaps and bounds in between every fight

I guess Dos Santos Decision in a classic

Fight of the Night:
Velasquez/Dos Santos
Sub of the Night:
Henderson
KO of the Night:
Poirier

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The UFC brass is hoping for 20 million viewers. Since I don't really follow the NFL I don't know how hard they are advertising on Fox. I did see them have a countdown show on this past Sunday

FOX does a great job of cross-promoting ALL of their programs. When they have an event they make sure you know about it. The UFC on FOX promotion began immediately after the deal was announced. They do multiple in-game promos, commercials and so forth. Velasquez was on the FOX pre-game show with Terry, Howie, etc. this past Sunday at the tail-end. And this also marked the first UFC on FOX Primetime (Zuffa's answer to 24/7. Not their typical Countdown show). It was a big thing to have Joe Buck open the show with a rundown of the UFC, it's fighters and this fight.

By chance, where did you hear about Zuffa wanting 20million viewers for the first show? That's a pretty lofty expectation. Just curious of the source.

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By chance, where did you hear about Zuffa wanting 20million viewers for the first show? That's a pretty lofty expectation. Just curious of the source.

I doubt I can find the source now, but after the deal was announced I believe Dana said something along those lines. Now he probably changed the expectations since because he loves to flip flop. Also now that I think about it, I think he said something along the lines of hoping for 20 mil instead of expecting 20 mil.

[ACCBiggz]

I think optimistically I would put money on 7-8 million peak for the show. Although if it reaches 10 I wouldn't be shocked. But World Series on FOX, up until the final two games, was only in the 11 million range. And as much as baseball has fallen I stick think the World Series will trump the UFC, lol. So, yeah, I'm looking at 7-8 for my prediction.

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Main Event on Fox:
Cain Velasquez

Clay Guida
Dustin Poirier
Cub Swanson
Clay Harvison
Norifumi “Kid”(2-3-) Yamamoto-(LOST)
Robert Peralta-(2-2)WON
Cole Escovedo(1-2)Loss and it wasn't close I.M.O.
Paul Bradley(1-1)LOSS SPLIT DEC
Aaron Rosa-(1-0)WON(NOT MUCH OF A FIGHT VERY ONE SIDED)

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High school football time I am done watching.

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Results:

Rosa Decision (1-0)
Pierce Decision (2-0)
Caceres Decision. Shocked here I thought Escovedo's experience alone would win him this fight (2-1)
Peralta 3rd Round TKO (2-2)
Uyenoyama Decision. Another fight I'm shocked about (2-3)
Johnson 1st Round TKO (3-3)
Lamas 3rd Round Submission. Bad pick on my part (3-4)
Poirier 2nd Round Submission. (4-4)
Henderson Decision. (5-4)

Main Event:
Dos Santos 1st Round KO. 1:04 seconds. (6-4)


Not what the UFC wanted at all. All the build up for 1 minute of action, none of the prelims were aired so that was all any new viewer was able to see. If it was a regular card then it was fine, but since it was the only televised fight it was slightly disappointing.

Fight of the Night: Henderson/Guida
KO of the Night: Dos Santos
Sub of the Night: Lamas