I wonder how making a fight on the 31st would be fair to the fighters? they are also people who have family and who have the right to be with their families to spend the 31st together, they shouldn't be greedy to let the family spend the 31st without them just because they want to fight and earn money, when they stay sick people will be in bed and will need the family to take care of them, their money doesn't have the legs and brains to take care of them
also people on the 31st travel and others are just focused on spending the day resting and doing activities with their family and friends, but most of the time they are not activities of watching or betting on fights, I think that even the casinos or the promoters of fights would be at a loss because few people would watch the fight on the 31st, it would not be advantageous for any fight promoter to put a fight on the 31st
It is all about money. I find it ok to work on December 31. That is persons work, his choice. Police, medical guys, taxi drivers and etc do work on December 31 after all. A fighter could add a clause in his contract, that he will take his family with him. But like I've said, it was Pride FC, asian promotion. They dont celebrate New Years eve, they have their own New Year in January.
If I was offered to work on December 31, now, I think would accept such offer with some extra payment. But, if some of my relatives gets sick, I will think about quit that days job. Yet again, depends on a situation. High temperature and being in hospital are two different things,
I understand that from the fighter's side it's all about money and he wouldn't think too much, he would accept it immediately, but from the fight promoter's side who also thinks about the money, he needs to think logically, for example the fight promoter needs to think about the following : what else do people do on the 31st? most people will be on vacation and as a consequence they will be enjoying themselves in some country, in some other city with family and friends or else those who stay at home will be enjoying themselves with family and friends and will not be on TV or in casinos doing bets
With that in mind, the fight promoter needs to think about whether it's really worth organizing a fight that won't have many views and people to buy tickets and watch the fights and consequently won't be able to raise much money, how will the fighter be paid? How will you pay the cost of operations? and what profit will they have? Wouldn't it be better to organize the fight when people will already be free from this festive period? this is what i think the fight promoter would think. honestly I don't see any advantage in organizing fights on December 31st
Good news... Stake has a betting market for all 5 match ups in the Bellator vs Rizin cross over event.
https://stake.com/sports/mma/bellator/bellator-mma-vs-rizinAt first glance I got all the Bellator fighters winning except one, Kyoji Horiguchi. Dunno.. Just a hunch. I saw him fight against Patchy Mix and lost in the bantam weight grand prix in one of the Bellator events. It was prolly because of the size difference but still, Patchy Mix isn't really that good and it's a match up that Horiguchi should be winning. He could be in a slightly early decline at 32.
Anyway yeah, excited to to do a little tape study now and make a parlay out of these 5 matches.
what caught my attention was the day of the fights, honestly they're going to fight on the 30th, don't these guys like to celebrate with their families? if one of them gets KO and ends up in the hospital, then he will spend the 31st in the hospital bed and the family crying because of his injuries, I know it's a job and you need to earn money, but there are times when you need to have common sense, finally as a bettor I will make some bets but I will not watch any fight