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“Fighting is fighting and we know what fans want – fast action, entertainment and competitive matches,” CES president Jimmy Burchfield said. “We’re taking the same grassroots promoting and marketing plan we’ve used so successfully for many years in boxing and taking it into MMA. I’ve been studying MMA for nearly three years in order to learn how to build the best team possible. Boxing plays a big part in MMA. Some athletic boxers want to try MMA, some powerful-punching strikers want to box. CES is now in the unique position to offer boxers and MMA fighters opportunities to cross over.
Mixed martial arts fans seldom see nights of abundance like this. UFC events mostly are on pay-per-view, but The Ultimate Fighter 12 finale, like the rest of the reality show, is free on Spike (9 p.m. ET), provided you pay the pesky cable bill. What's more, unlike the reality show's other weekly melodramatics, this night of fights is being televised live. Which presents a new challenge for Strikeforce. While in the past UFC counterprogramming has come in the form of canned fights from the MMA behemoth's vast archive, Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET) faces live competition.
MMA is a young sport so we will look at another sport and use it as an example. The NFL has been around much longer and booing seems to be common place at games around the country. The same goes for college football and it ’s fans. Can you imagine going to an Ohio State versus Michigan game and not hearing one side or the other boo for the opposing team? This is a way for fans to show dislike for the other team. Passion in college football runs deep amongst the fans and that is not limited to the passion for their favorite team. No, that passion also is seen in the hatred they have for their biggest rivals come game day. I have been to a few college games and never once heard another a player or coach from my favorite school tell the fans to not boo our rivals. The opposite seems to hold true in college football. The coaches and players want a raucous crowd to be loud, crazy and boo the team as they come out of the tunnel.
As we have seen in football, it is not just fans booing for the opposing team. There are times when fans will boo their own team in order to show frustration for the play calling, for coaches decisions and for awful plays by players or the team in general. This is a way to vent these frustrations and make your voice heard in a sport that is generally not as interactive as MMA tends to be today. Very seldom due fans get easy access to players and coaches like we have come accustomed to getting with fighters, trainers and others involved in the sport of mixed martial arts.
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