Counter programming alert: UFC 84 to air for free on Spike TV July 26

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UFC counter-programming is the new black
Published 7/9/2008 by fightlinker at Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap
... do with the competition at all. I didn’t even know there was a show.” How about someone in the press corps do their job and call Dana on being a fucking liar? I couldn’t care less that he counter-programs shit … hell, that’s his job. But for people to sit in the press conferences and let him get away with pretending he’s not doing it kinda sickens me. Grow some balls, people. So where was I? Oh yeah. Rather than blow some money on creating a new special, the UFC has decided instead to just show UFC 84 (featuring Sherk vs Penn, Ortiz vs Machida, and Silva vs Jardine) again. ...

The Wednesday Crunch
Published 7/9/2008 by Bobby Deren at MMA Crunch
... The UFC will counter EliteXC’s next television event with a program of its own that will air on Spike TV. However, it will simply be a rebroadcast of UFC 84 to coincide with EliteXC’s event entitled ‘Unfinished Business.’ ...

I Love Dana White's Ruthlessness
Published 7/9/2008 by Luke Thomas at Bloody Elbow
Sink or swim, children, because this is a shark tank: UFC 84: “Ill Will” — perhaps the most action-packed pay-per-view (PPV) event for the promotion thus far in 2008 — will air for free on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET on July 26 — the same night and time as Elite XC “Saturday Night Fights” on CBS. And just in case you miss that episode it will re-air again at 11:30 p.m. ET. In addition, Spike TV will feature a full day of mixed martial arts programming that begins at 4 p.m. ET with a rebroadcast of UFC ...

More Counter-Programming Coming Elite XC’s Way
Published 7/9/2008 by bfowlkes at www.cagepotato.com
... Not quite. Try a rebroadcast of UFC 84: Ill Will, featuring B.J. Penn and Sean Sherk. Spike TV will be running it all night, beginning at 9 pm EST, to be preceded at 4 pm by a rebroadcast of the Silva vs. Irvin Fight Night from a week before, just in time to match main events with the Showtime portion of the Elite XC card, which begins at 8 pm. ...

UFC 84 to air during CBS Saturday Night Fights
Published 7/9/2008 by Michael Huckaby at Five Ounces of Pain
MMAmania is reporting that SpikeTV will air UFC 84: Ill Will ( Penn vs Sherk ) at the same time CBS runs their second installment of Saturday Night Fights ( Lawler vs Smith II) on July 26th. This comes one week after UFC will run counter programming in the form of Anderson Silva vs James Irvin to battle Affliction: Banned on PPV. I’m someone that says competition is never a bad thing and only breeds new innovations. If you’ll remember, UFC ran programming to battle EXC’s first CBS show but that show still drew massive ratings for it’s demographic. In summation: In ...