Co Event

[DABIGMOBSTA]

I think that it would be a great idea if different promotions can do fight cards together, for example hold a show that champions of each promotion will fight the other champion to figure out whos the better fighter and better champion.

[pat666]

And the looser will have his champion Down?, loosing ratings to your own fed?.... i wouldn't book my champion in a non-title fight against another Competitions Promotion's champions

[Zoloftjunkie]

Yeah Co Events like Dynamite! are fun. Aoki is my hero after that show.

[DABIGMOBSTA]

And the looser will have his champion Down?, loosing ratings to your own fed?.... i wouldn't book my champion in a non-title fight against another Competitions Promotion's champions



well if the fighter is in contract with both promotion, he'll be the champ for both organization.
if not thats still oka.
this just happened last month in japan and it was a success and im sure everyone enjoyed that

on the other note, i said its a goood idea for the next game. if you dont like it, u dont have to do it

[Blackman]

Like Dream's cooperation with K-1 (or who?).

You know, the new year's eve show with Mousasi vs Goodridge.

It was copromoted. It would be a nice addition to WMMA3, once it arrives.

[brashleyholland]

Like Dream's cooperation with K-1 (or who?).

You know, the new year's eve show with Mousasi vs Goodridge.

It was copromoted. It would be a nice addition to WMMA3, once it arrives.

Dream *is* K-1. It's the name of their MMA show. Used to be called K-1 Heroes and before that K-1 ROMANEX, whatever the hell that meant. :p

The NYE show wasn't stricktly a co-promotion, in that Sengoku didn't make any money from it; they basically loaned some fighters to Dream on one-fight deals. In the Japanese fight game, sponsors and the TV companies themselves front the money for shows (both production and fighter purses). Sengoku's main sponsor didn't like the bill for the Yoshida vs Ishii fight, (and knew that it would tank in the ratings going up against the Masato retirement bout on the K-1/Dream show on the other station) amongst other things.

Japanese MMA is in a HUGE slump at the moment; the feeling was that a single MMA show would be more benneficial to the sport than two competing ones on NYE.

Worked out horribly for Sengoku...their two top lightweights got spanked and they've lost Gomi - pretty much killed thier lightweight division.

[Daffanka]

Yeah there's no in-game or real life reason to do it, especially with your biggest fighters. The organization that loses is going to have its champions look bad and that's not even talking about revenue splits, sponsorship problems, coverage etc.

Sengoku, DREAM and K-1 co-promoted because they're not big enough to do individual new year's eve shows that compete with each other, and it practically killed Sengoku since they'll be shut down within the year. This is more because Sengoku did a terrible job at growing their own talent, but if it hadn't been exposed they might've puttered on for a while. K-1 coasted on it with their youth division.

If I sound negative it's because Sengoku made Aoki - Kawajiri not happen. :mad:

But since organizations never compete against each other in their home territory when they're not big enough to sustain themselves I don't see any reason for this.