Strikeforce Potentially to Sign With NBC

A Strikeforce show is expected to air on Saturdays beginning in mid-April on NBC.

The show will apparently be patterned after the "PRIDE Fighting Championships" shows that air on FOX Sports Net and the "UFC Unleashed" episodes that broadcast on Spike TV. However, the Strikeforce shows will likely also include fighter interviews with the organization's better-known personalities, such as Frank Shamrock, Cung Le, Gilbert Melendez and Nick Thomson -- fighters that have been significant draws in California, where Strikeforce is headquartered. One source said the shows could also "extensively" promote Strikeforce pay-per-views and other upcoming live events.

As it stands, the only major network currently slated to feature live events is CBS, which announced a deal with EliteXC's parent company earlier this month. The deal will put four live EliteXC events on CBS every year. The first is expected to take place in May and will air in primetime on a Saturday night.

As of right now, no other organization is ever on TV except for UFC though. While people are murmering about the emergence of other organizations landing tv deals, we have never seen one on our television sets. EliteXC, HdNet, Dream 1, IFL (which lost it's tv deal), Strikeforce, M-1 Global, HFC, XFA. None of those fights have been on anything other than the internet. It's tough to have a few people over to watch a 17 inch monitor full of scrambled fights.

As much as Dana White may be treating the fighters like garbage, he has a seriously valid point about all these other organizations talking about how big they're getting and the deals they're putting together. I haven't seen it, and neither has anyone in the U.S.

The only thing we can be assured of is every month there is a UFC event live on pay per view (which have been sub par as of late) and a live event on Spike TV every 3 months.

I'll prove to you how little it means that these other organizations are out there. Mirko 'Cro Cop' fought last night and no one probably even knew he was even supposed to. If that fight was in the UFC you would have heard about it for a full month prior to the fight.

These other organizations are just trying to dip into the popularity of MMA and try to make a quick buck off a rising product. However, if the product is invisible, there's not going to be any thing to dip into. By the way, Cro Cop fought a spaz and won in 56 seconds.