{"id":311651,"date":"2010-02-12T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-219277:1"},"modified":"2010-02-12T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:15:01","slug":"white-tires-of-hearing-pay-per-view-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/311651","title":{"rendered":"White tires of hearing pay-per-view complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Injuries tore apart the UFC’s star-studded roster over the last eight weeks. It left the promotion with pay-per-view shows built more on depth over star power. After UFC 109, when asked about the fans complaining about PPV prices and value, White flipped his lid:  <\/p>\n

"UFC fans are spoiled," White explained that every UFC PPV can’t be a megacard. "There’s gonna be the people that always bitch and I say what I always say, ‘don’t buy it!.’ If you don’t like the [expletive] card don’t buy it. I don’t give a [expletive]!" <\/p>\n

White reached a boiling point after hearing and reading the complaints before the Mark Coleman-Randy Couture card.<\/a>  <\/p>\n

"People who are real fight fans and want to sit home on a Saturday and watch fights, will watch it. Nobody’s [expletive] making you buy fights and watch the pay-per-view. Watch "American Idol," I could care less."<\/p>\n

Probably not the best choice of words by White but he does have a point when comparing MMA PPV’s to what boxing offers. Boxing still builds its cards around one fight. If that main event is a flop, the consumer is hosed. At least you get five-to-seven fights on an MMA card for your $45-$60. Is that enough value? Over the long haul, the market will determine if UFC is presenting too many PPVs. <\/p>\n

With a little reflection, White would probably say he does give a [expletive]. He’s just a little cranky right now. To think, this PPV discussion was before he found about Vitor Belfort being out of UFC 112! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Injuries tore apart the UFC’s star-studded roster over the last eight weeks. It left the promotion with pay-per-view shows built more on depth over star power. After UFC 109, when asked about the fans complaining about PPV prices and value, White flipped his lid:  "UFC fans are spoiled," White explained that every UFC PPV can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}