Main Event is a title fight and the other 2 fights involve 1 major star fighting a fighter who has a chance for an upset, but that the star is expected to beat and look great against.
You have a major legit main event, you have star power, you have opportunities for major upsets, and you likely have exciting finishes. Basically everything you could want in an MMA show.
Like it or not, most major MMA stars built their legendary statuses beating up on "cans". Fedor, Wanderlie, Overeem, Cro Cop, even Anderson and GSP. Most of the spectacular finishes by these fighters involve guys who weren't expected to have any chance against them.
Put guys you want to become household names in there with beatable competition and let them get some highlight finishes. Hell, put Wanderlie in there with a guy hovering around the top 15 and we'd have ourselves a classic Pride beatdown.
This is a way to get the stars on free TV without "giving away" your marquee matchups, which the UFC will want to save for PPV.
For example: GSP vs. Serra (huge upset or exciting finish for the star, no lose situation.)
What do you guys think? It can't be worse than what we got last night.
You have a major legit main event, you have star power, you have opportunities for major upsets, and you likely have exciting finishes. Basically everything you could want in an MMA show.
Like it or not, most major MMA stars built their legendary statuses beating up on "cans". Fedor, Wanderlie, Overeem, Cro Cop, even Anderson and GSP. Most of the spectacular finishes by these fighters involve guys who weren't expected to have any chance against them.
Put guys you want to become household names in there with beatable competition and let them get some highlight finishes. Hell, put Wanderlie in there with a guy hovering around the top 15 and we'd have ourselves a classic Pride beatdown.
This is a way to get the stars on free TV without "giving away" your marquee matchups, which the UFC will want to save for PPV.
For example: GSP vs. Serra (huge upset or exciting finish for the star, no lose situation.)
What do you guys think? It can't be worse than what we got last night.