http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/ Engadget Comments for UFC pay-per-view comes to the Roku Player http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/
I am a ridiculous MMA fan. I can run stats on fights from years ago, I stay up until the middle of the night to watch international fights live, etc.

I really can't stand a lot of teeny bopper MMA fans. But with that said, I also can't stand idiots like you either.


Maybe when you are done here you can talk about how football guys are all fat beer drinkers, soccer fans are all limp-wristed european guys, and that basketballs fans are all....well you get the point.]]>May 17th 2010 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/
Ah, in the words of Baby Stewie... "...hoisted by my own petard!"]]>May 17th 2010 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/
the problem with your analogy is those sports have existed for a long time.

UFC/MMA on the other hand is relatively young (14-15 years?) and mma fans are REALLY the same people who love WWE/WWF, the sport was and still is marketed toward that market and not legitimate sport fans. Why do you think the f*ckin thing takes place inside a steal fenced cage? Seriously, MMA/Fans are collectively some of the dumbest people youll ever meet. Im telling you, go to one of their online forums, or better yet go to a bar or an actual live event to see the extreme idiocy in person.]]>May 17th 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/
UFC fans does not necessarily equal MMA fans...why do you speak as if they are one in the same?

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" Why do you think the f*ckin thing takes place inside a steal fenced cage? "

Because when the Gracie family wanted an arena to prove their style of fighting could beat other styles, they created a new platform so that no one would have a sort of "home team advantage".

Of course, over the years, the cage and fence have become an apparatus to be used as much as anything, but its a give and take (ring vs cage)

FYI. MMA has largely existed in Japan in a ring since its inception, and all of the previous martial arts that eventually fed into MMA took palce in a cage not a " steal (sic) fenced cage? ". And while most won't admit it, MMA has an inextricable link to Pro wrestling thanks to the Japanese MMA culture. So yeah, pro wrestling leads to MMA in a ring. MMA in a cage is thanks to a bunch of brazillians with serious egos (and arguably the talent to back it up).


Also, I'm ignoring the rest of your post since your sample takes place at a bar. Surely you see the problem with going to a drunken sports to collect proof of your assertion that MMA fans are all idiots, right?]]>May 17th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/
But since you like profiling im gonna go ahead and lump you together with the other trolls on engadget, you are now no better than account5 and Doctor Kwame Nkrumah who do nothing but spew ignorant hate all over these boards... cheers!]]>May 17th 2010 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/
Not true, theyve stated in many interviews they used the "fence" as a maketing tool that they adopted from "extreme cage matches".

That said, I'll repeat myself. MMA/UFC fans are some of the dumbest people youll ever have the misfortune of meeting. ]]>May 17th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/You're a moron...]]>May 17th 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/
So what exactly is "not intelligent" about my posts?
I think MMA fans are dopes, you disagree.
Have you actually attended an MMA event?
I have multiple times and the majority of UFC/MMA fans are complete idiots. The sport is mildly entertaining but the fans are effin morons.
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@walkietalkie nothing about you is smart, an intelligent person wouldnt go around basing their judgment on a single experience or small percentage of a groups members. You have shown your lack of intelligence simply by referring to EVERY ufc fan as a moron because you were stuck around drunk people at one event... i am much smarter than you and i am an avid UFC fan so i guess that makes you less than an "effin moron?" ]]>May 17th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/yes and no, is it competitive yes, in various ways as any performance. is it a sport in the way that its not predetermined, then no. but also mma origins are in pro wrestling. look at uwfi bushido in japan, pancrase was also the same way in japan. 2 pro wrestling companies with full on legit contact and fighting styles, to work the crowed into thinking it was a legit fight. also you can go further back with antonio inoki vs muhammid ali. ali feared inoki thinking he would embarass him in the ring, so required that kicks only take place when grounded. and even had rules against much grappling. ali was a great boxer, but that was it. anyways it was a boring fight due to ali restrictions. but also led to his brain damage from several kicks from inoki .

pro wrestling as we know it started out as a legit compettion, but then the carny folks out did them with a worked/staged event, and for years no one could tell the difference (granted they tried to look real back then, even had hookers( a hooker is someone who can legit stretch the fark outta ya ) to face random town folk in special challenges to show that they were legit.

will mma as we know it always be non scripted? maybe, maybe not, it wasn't always "real"]]>May 17th 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/ufc-pay-per-view-comes-to-the-roku-player/May 17th 2010 2:44AM