UFC Mid Year Awards

Well that's the lead in that was on the UFC's website. They had listed a bunch of fights in certain categories.

They started with the 5 best knockouts of the year, then went to the 5 best submissions, then finished up with the 5 best upsets of the year so far.

It's a great idea to keep the fans updated with what has happened over the course of the year but less than half of the fights mentioned were even televised. Not even televised on pay per view. The only mention of these fights is if we actually had to look it up on the internet and hope the story was accurate.

The UFC keeps talking about their networking privelages and how SpikeTV allows them blocks of time yet they're not using it to their full capacity, and I believe there's a reason. Greed. It's aggravating that all of these awesome fights have yet to be shown on UFC Unleashed. Oh sure, they'll show them on UFC 'On Demand'. That's right folks, you had to pay $45 for a pay per view and now you have to pay even more to watch the undercard. If I see Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre 2 anymore I'm gonna vomit. I have just about every UFC Unleashed fight committed to memory because they show the same 15 fights over and over again.

I'm all for people being smart businessmen but now it's just a matter of greed. I don't think the UFC has a reason to feel threatened by the smaller organizations but they're not doing a very good job of keeping the current UFC fans happy by continually stomping on our wallets.

Honestly, when was the last fight card that had a really stacked event? I'm not talking just 1 or 2 fights, when were all 5 that we're privelaged to see so stacked that you would very willingly shell out the money for the pay per view???

To check out the mid year awards and read about the fights you never got to see, check out www.ufc.com.