Sunday, May 1, 2011
Ramsey Nijem Makes His Case for Jake Shields, Talks TUF Episode 5
by Michael David Smith
Our weekly interview with The Ultimate Fighter cast member Ramsey Nijem includes not only a look at the fight that took place on this week's show -- Clay Harvison defeating Mick Bowman -- but also the fight that everyone in the MMA world is discussing this week, Georges St. Pierre vs. Jake Shields at UFC 129.
Although he knows he's in the minority, Nijem is picking Shields. That's motivated in part by Nijem's status as one of Shields' training partners to help him get ready for the St. Pierre fight, but it's not just talk: Nijem says he put down some money on Shields.
Nijem also comments on this week's Ultimate Fighter episode. The full interview is below.
Our weekly interview with The Ultimate Fighter cast member Ramsey Nijem includes not only a look at the fight that took place on this week's show -- Clay Harvison defeating Mick Bowman -- but also the fight that everyone in the MMA world is discussing this week, Georges St. Pierre vs. Jake Shields at UFC 129.Although he knows he's in the minority, Nijem is picking Shields. That's motivated in part by Nijem's status as one of Shields' training partners to help him get ready for the St. Pierre fight, but it's not just talk: Nijem says he put down some money on Shields.
Nijem also comments on this week's Ultimate Fighter episode. The full interview is below.
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Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/04/28/ramsey-nijem-makes-his-case-for-jake-shields-talks-tuf-episode/
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Bellator 41 draws lowest rating of season four on MTV2
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Bellator ran unopposed once again on Saturday night on MTV2 from the Cocopah Resort and Casino in Yuma, Ariz., headlined by a bout featuring Bellator Featherweight Champion Joe Warren and his controversial decision win over Marcos Galvao, but the event drew a series low for viewership on the network.
After garnering their second highest rating last week with Bellator 40 - which featured an hour of overlap with Strikeforce's "Diaz vs. Daley" event on Showtime - Bellator 41 drew just 132,000 viewers to MTV2, according to a report from MMAJunkie.com.
That marked a 39 percent decrease from the previous event, and was 18,000 viewers shy of the previous low, the March Bellator 37 event. The ratings for each of season four's events are below:
* Bellator 35 ratings: 200,000
* Bellator 36 ratings: 230,000
* Bellator 37 ratings: 173,000
* Bellator 38 ratings: 150,000
* Bellator 39 ratings: 174,000
* Bellator 40 ratings: 218,000
* Bellator 41 ratings: 132,000
Link to Original Source Article
Penick's Analysis: The shifting timeslots, the day of the week, the non-HD broadcasts, the unknown names, etc., it's all factoring in to having no momentum for these broadcasts. The number last week could have meant MMA fans who were already going to tune in for Strikeforce on Showtime also decided to flip over to Bellator since it was on, but the marks for the unopposed broadcasts are getting worse. This is not a good number unopposed, and this weekend's broadcast could get even worse. Then they take a week off and who knows where the numbers will lie when they come back the first weekend of May. I'll continue to contend that Saturday night's were a really bad night to run for them. Saturday is typically a going out night for the key demographics for MMA, and though the UFC can get a large viewership for multiple events a month, no organization is going to get viewers to tune in every Saturday for three months straight. Maybe it doesn't matter, as the numbers are still larger than what MTV2 was getting in this timeslot, but this drop is not a good sign.
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After garnering their second highest rating last week with Bellator 40 - which featured an hour of overlap with Strikeforce's "Diaz vs. Daley" event on Showtime - Bellator 41 drew just 132,000 viewers to MTV2, according to a report from MMAJunkie.com.
That marked a 39 percent decrease from the previous event, and was 18,000 viewers shy of the previous low, the March Bellator 37 event. The ratings for each of season four's events are below:
* Bellator 35 ratings: 200,000
* Bellator 36 ratings: 230,000
* Bellator 37 ratings: 173,000
* Bellator 38 ratings: 150,000
* Bellator 39 ratings: 174,000
* Bellator 40 ratings: 218,000
* Bellator 41 ratings: 132,000
Link to Original Source Article
Penick's Analysis: The shifting timeslots, the day of the week, the non-HD broadcasts, the unknown names, etc., it's all factoring in to having no momentum for these broadcasts. The number last week could have meant MMA fans who were already going to tune in for Strikeforce on Showtime also decided to flip over to Bellator since it was on, but the marks for the unopposed broadcasts are getting worse. This is not a good number unopposed, and this weekend's broadcast could get even worse. Then they take a week off and who knows where the numbers will lie when they come back the first weekend of May. I'll continue to contend that Saturday night's were a really bad night to run for them. Saturday is typically a going out night for the key demographics for MMA, and though the UFC can get a large viewership for multiple events a month, no organization is going to get viewers to tune in every Saturday for three months straight. Maybe it doesn't matter, as the numbers are still larger than what MTV2 was getting in this timeslot, but this drop is not a good sign.
Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/Bellator/article_9107.shtml
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