1500-2000 paid in San Jose

[Warner2BruceTD]

Zuffa has officially killed the town.

[EmpireWF]

They should only be doing PPVs and/or with the AKA guys at the Pavilion.

[CrimsonGhost56]

having the event in the middle of the afternoon on a wednesday didnt lend itself to having a monster crowd

[Warner2BruceTD]

having the event in the middle of the afternoon on a wednesday didnt lend itself to having a monster crowd

What's the excuse for the Strikeforce show?

Dana blaming a Wednesday during the presser was comical. DONT RUN SHOWS ON A WEDNESDAY THEN, ASSHAT.

He also blamed the town, saying its full of computer geeks and nerds. Because as we all know, San Jose was never a good MMA market, right?

[Liquidrob]

Lol @ complaining about a Wednesday show when you're the one who picked the day, and complaining about a record holding MMA city!

[Liquidrob]

I still remember all the goofballs saying SF didn't know how to promote, too funny

[EmpireWF]

I still remember all the goofballs saying SF didn't know how to promote, too funny

Well, they gave Fedor his money and ended up selling....

[Liquidrob]

What does that have to do with what I said?

[Liquidrob]

18,000 in San Jose before even being on showtime

12 to 15k before Fed or even showed up

[EmpireWF]

SF had a good thing going in their neck of the woods, people always come out to see Frank, Cung or most of the AKA guys. When you give San Jose shit cards featuring out of town guys who aren't big names...let alone on a Wednesday afternoon....you're basically planning a shit night for business.

[Liquidrob]

Still nothing about what I said

[EmpireWF]

I went through every SF MMA card since 2006, here are the figures. I'll include the date, the listed attendance number (not going back to find all the individual paid figures) and the main event (plus more if necessary). I'm not including any challengers shows or non-major cards at lesser buildings. These are just for San Jose…not Fresno, Stockton, San Diego or Los Angeles.


March 2006 - Frank Shamrock vs. Renzo Gracie - 18,265 (17,465 paid)

June 2006 - Clay Guida vs. Gilbert Melendez / Alistair Overeem vs. Vitor Belfort / Cung Le vs. Brian Warren - 10,374 (9,672 paid)

December 2006 - Cung Le vs. Jason Von Flue / Josh Thomson vs. Nam Phan / Bobby Southworth vs. Vernon White - 8,701

June 2007 - Frank Shamrock vs. Phil Baroni - 9,672

November 2007 - Cung Le vs. Sammy Morgan / Alistair Overeem vs. Paul Buentello / 185 Championship Tournament - 7,249

March 2008 - Frank Shamrock vs. Cung Le - 16,326

June 2008 - Gilbert Melendez vs. Josh Thomson - 7,288

November 2008 - Bobby Southworth vs. Babalu Sobral - 8,152

April 2009 - Frank Shamrock vs. Nick Diaz - 15,211

August 2009 - Gina Carano vs. Cyborg - 13,976

December 2009 - Cung Le vs. Scott Smith / Thomson vs. Melendez - 14,749

June 2010 - Fedor Emelianenko vs. Fabricio Werdum - 11,757

October 2010 - Nick Diaz vs. KJ Noons - 7,559

January 2011 - Nick Diaz vs. Cyborg Santos - 9,059 (8,817 paid)
--------Zuffa Purchases Strikeforce----------

May 2012 - Josh Barnett vs. Daniel Cormier / Melendez vs. Thomson - 5,413 (2,804 paid?)

[Warner2BruceTD]

killed the town