This week I’ve been getting more and more excited about tonight’s Strikeforce event as days went by. Strikeforce‘s “Heavy Artillery” features two prominent names in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu – Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza and Roger Gracie – as well as an exciting main event: Alistair Overeem vs. Brett Rogers. It sounds like a great event for just about anyone interested in MMA and Jiu Jitsu.
But today one of Strikeforce’s major shortcomings is becoming evident to me in a very real way: I can’t find a place to watch the fights.
“Heavy Artillery” is showing on Showtime, a premium cable network, which is similar to HBO in case you are not familiar with it. But most (all?) bars in town don’t seem to carry Showtime. My friend said it best as we where trying, earlier today, to find a place to watch it: “this seems like such a stupid problem to have.”
As of writing this, I have just under five hours to solve this problem or me and my friends will be making other plans this evening. I’m definitely interested in the event so I hope something uncovers itself.
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I agree with you, they should at least make it available on Strikeforce website for $24.99 like they did for some of the other events. Otherwise people who can’t get Showtime who are not in the US are stuck. They will never get good exposure to the audiences outside of the US like this.