A Quick Look at the TUF Season Finale and Strikeforce: Saint Louis Ratings

You mention 10:15 to 10:30…well for us west coasters, it was 7-10 for TUF Finale. So we got to watch the first hour, than the Strikeforce event came on, and many people had to switch over, or back and for between them. I also think if you put on a Strikeforce Challengers event up against a UFC PPV, UFC wins every time. So isnt that what we have here? Strikeforce events on Showtime is the closest they have to PPV, and TUF finale this time was about on par with a good SF:Challengers fight (ex. SFChallengers July2010 – Female belt on the line, and slam heard round the world, Mike Kyle/Albongo, etc). This finale was filled with good solid fights, but really a bunch of fluff the UFC typically relegates to the non broadcast part of PPV. Even the main event would likely have been very early on a PPV, or even untelevised. No question that Strikeforce had the more exciting event this time, lucky for them. If this event had finished with a bunch of decisions we would be writing very different articles today. We would be focusing on how Hendo/Babalu/Smith/Daley etc lack the KO power they once had, how thier ‘natural born killer’ instincts are gone…Even if 3 of the TUF finale fights ended in spectacular KO’s, who cares? If I read that Nam phan was KO’d by Garcia, Bonnar KO’d, than read that Babalu, Smith, Lindland were all KO, its easy still to know that Strikeforce was the better event…. So lets keep ourselves that comparing Challenger/TUF Finale to UFC PPV/Strikeforce on Showtime isnt a fair comparison under any condition…and that with few exceptions (Fedor/Werdum) that Strikeforce isnt putting on top level events in comparison to the average UFC PPV. I bet most of us could easily pick six absolutly fabulous UFC events this year, can anyone name 3 from Strikeforce?