Strikeforce On Nbc Was A Joke This Week

terriblet · #1 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 10:11 AM

Did anybody happen to watch Strikeforce on NBC Saturday night/Sunday morning @ 4:00 am this weekend or maybe you recorded it?Anyway I thought this episode was really weak and looked very low buget. The 2nd fight they showed was Eugene Jackson vs Mike Seal.....who? Mike Seal !!! I've never heard of him either,back to the fight,in the 1st rd there were some ameturish looking exchanges with both of them getting wobbled and they were exchanging again when the bell sounded for the end of the rd. Then after the commercial Jackson and Seal were nowhere to be found and the announcers were introducing Josh Thomson and Nick Gonzalez for the next fight.(Thomson sub'd Gonzalez in 1 1/2 min.) So I decided to look up the Jackson/Seal fight to see what happened and I saw that Jackson TKO'd Seal @ 2:49 of the 2nd rd and I also saw that the fight happened 2 years ago.The 1st fight was MMA legend Tank Abbott as Lon McEachern put it(the announcer)footnote#Tank's won 1 fight in the last 10 years,anyway Tank was knocked out in 30 seconds by Paul Buentello. The show lasted, commercials included 21 minutes. I want this show to succeed but I was embarrassed for MMA,Strikeforce and NBC after watching this episode.It's bad enough that they seem to be trying to hide in a time slot that nobody will see but they can't even fill in the whole half an hour or show the entire fights that they're supposed to be promoting their Strikeforce brand with. I'd have to give them a D- for their effort this week.

DeathOrGlory2 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 10:42 AM

cheer up bro, at least its a step up from Iron Ring

Clint · #3 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 11:13 AM

The reason it was in that timeslot is because it was paid programming (like those spots for ginsu knives and weird exercise equipment), so the only paid programming slots on network tv are in the middle of the night

terriblet · #4 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 11:39 AM

Don't get me wrong,I'm damn glad that it's on a major network,PERIOD. That's a huge step for MMA. I'm just worried that it might not last if the episodes are as cheezy as this last one was. I was hoping that I had just FF'd my DVR too far and missed the 2nd rd of the Jackson/Seal fight but that wasn't the case,they just spaced it and that's probably why the show ended after only 20 minutes. Hopefully this was just a one time only incident and the show is somewhat of a success.

gogoplata · #5 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 12:03 PM

lol man why dont these dicks at nbc give US these mma production jobs. I bet I could make it something special!

thecoylewis · #6 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 12:43 PM

Remember, the Strikeforce tv show shows older fights to familiarize the fans on the building of Strikeforce. Within a year, all of the fights will be up to date. They are showing some of the older fights so you can see where they came from and lead up to where they are now. There were alot of hole in the wall co-promotions but some of the fights were really good. It's just a building block.

mmasince91 · #7 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 01:19 PM

What can you expect? They are running the show on pretty much no budget.

atj-lucko · #8 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 01:53 PM

Strikeforce on NBC thread all three shows are up and I am updating them every week, check it out here..

http://forums.mmanews.com/mma-pictur...isode-1-a.html

terriblet · #9 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atj-lucko

Strikeforce on NBC thread all three shows are up and I am updating them every week, check it out here..

http://forums.mmanews.com/mma-pictur...isode-1-a.html

Right on dude,that's really F***IN' kool of you. I downloaded a couple of 'em then tried to REP ya but it said that I had to spread the love B4 I could REP you again,even though I never got to REP ya in the 1st place. That's messed up isn't it? What's up w/ that N E way?