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Post by Shadess on Jun 29, 2016 1:05:17 GMT 1
They wouldn't need to. They have the product, localize the graphics to Chinese and hire a Chinese fighter per card or so.
They are working with Fight1 for all the kickboxing stuff already, they have the China fight connections and I think even a guy/an office in China at least in the same way Glory has an office in Singapore (meaning TotalSportsAsia has one). Viacom has tv channel(s?) and in general dealings in China.
There are at least three of four separate MMA ventures backed by billion dollar companies that have happened or are happening this year in China that all had less of a starting point than what Bellator would have.
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Post by karaevfan on Jun 29, 2016 2:16:17 GMT 1
It'd be pretty interesting to get to know how Viacom (actually) views Bellator in general. I don't know about the kickboxing stuff but mma sites and everyone else never seem to mention or maybe fully understand that the Bellator product airs on a bunch of Viacom channels internationally. If they can be even remotely financially okay within the US then for all the other countries it's basically free fairly good looking programming that's way less hassle than Glory or anything else they could have. Possible. Incidentally, Bellator streamed on AbemaTV in Japan. They got 200K cumulative viewers which was about what Krush and ONE got and about 5 times what the last UFC event got. |
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Post by fartsmeller on Jun 29, 2016 11:47:58 GMT 1
They wouldn't need to. They have the product, localize the graphics to Chinese and hire a Chinese fighter per card or so. They are working with Fight1 for all the kickboxing stuff already, they have the China fight connections and I think even a guy/an office in China at least in the same way Glory has an office in Singapore (meaning TotalSportsAsia has one). Viacom has tv channel(s?) and in general dealings in China. There are at least three of four separate MMA ventures backed by billion dollar companies that have happened or are happening this year in China that all had less of a starting point than what Bellator would have. It's possible but I just don't have any faith in their ability to meaningfully improve their product or push it forward, let alone in a new market. Like I could see them building up Raymond Daniels the way they did with Cung Le, but the rest of it is a mess. I can't make any sense out of their other kickboxing bouts unless it turns out that every single member of Gilbert Melendez's family has a Nielsen box. |
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