RearNakedSilva - "So how do you decide whether or not to purchase a PPV? All you have is what the card looks like on paper. Sometimes great cards on paper tank as well though (like the first round of the Pride 2005 GP.)"
- Exactly.
PPV-worthiness is a judgment that can be based only on the card beforehand - whether an event turns out to be great is then defined afterwards.
(Btw, the first round of the Pride 2005 GP is the perfect example of an absolutely loaded card from top to bottom - the single most stacked 16-man lineup ever - that turned out to disappoint because of how the fights themselves ended up.
But it was still unquestionably worth buying in the first place - even without being worth remembering as a great event afterwards.)
And also, WTF is up with the weird incomprehensible logic that people frequently cite to defend non-big-name cards for a PPV - where the supposed justification is that less known and established fighters tend to go for it more?
Well then by that same rationale, you should be ordering every KOTC or any other smaller show, even more so than a UFC.