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www.wrestlingnewsdesk.com reporters Anna Elizabeth Anderson and Matthew Cooper have posted a major breaking story in THE NATIONAL LEDGER regarding tomorrow night's UFC 79: NEMESIS pay per view and the New England Patriots' quest to become the only 16-0 team in NFL history.
 
The ramifications on UFC are significant to say the least.
 
You can read the entire story here: http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272617947.shtml.
 
The article states the following:
 
UFC Gets Knocked Out By The NFL, New England Patriots Get Network Time

By Anna Elizabeth Anderson with Matthew Cooper
Dec 28, 2007     

The UFC 79: NEMESIS Pay Per View just got choked out.  In the worst possible turn of events for UFC President Dana White, television history will be made in direct opposition to the UFC pay per view, when two major American broadcast television networks -- for the very first time ever in history -- will simulcast an NFL football game. And it's not just any football game we're talking about. It's the final game of the season for the New England Patriots. And they're trying to make football history.
Since the NFL expanded the regular season to 16 games, no team has ever gone undefeated. The Patriots are 15-0, and have one game left, against the very popular New York Giants. And of course, with the Giants comes interest in the biggest media market in the world, New York, which will tap into UFC's buyrates even more.
 
The game was originally going to air nationally exclusively on the NFL Network, but the football league has been under pressure because many cable subscribers were not going to be able to see the potentially historic game on Saturday. This prompted the NFL to arrange for CBS and NBC to simulcast the game.
 
“We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “What we have seen for the past year is a very strong consumer demand for NFL Network. We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game. Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever.
 
According to Mmanewsdesk.com, what makes matters worse for UFC is that in recent weeks, the Patriots have delivered the two biggest ratings of the year (a 20.1 in Week 9 and week 14's 18.4), the biggest NBC Saturday Night Football rating ever (13.4 in Week 12), and the biggest NFL cable rating ever (11.1 in Week 13).
 
"This is the doomsday scenario for this UFC pay per view," noted Mmanewsdesk.com  editor Arturo Collozo Jr., "There is no positive spin that can be placed on this. To show you how enormous this game has become, this is the first three-network simulcast in NFL history, as well as  the first simulcast of any kind of an NFL game since the original Super Bowl in 1967 when CBS and NBC both televised the very first meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League."
 
The UFC pay per view, which boasts the 3rd match pitting Matt Hughes against Georges St Pierre, as well as the long-awaited (and some would say, "too late") 1st time matchup between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva, is already suffering from lack of hype. "The Mayweather-DeLaHoya, and Mayweather-Hatton 24/7 series changed the way big fights are promoted," Collozo stated, "UFC has fallen behind boxing, and UFC is supposed to be the successor to the boxing world. This year, boxing caught up."