Actually the title of this topic is no longer true because i've seen joe rogan "preview" ufc 73 with his backwards hat and deer in headlights look (probably suggesting that he's thinking "Fear factor was cancelled, why am i still on tv?") on sportscenter. The best damn sports show also had a best of rampage jackson feature where they showed some of his fights (all of which i felt were sloppy and boring and yes i watched most of it to make it easy for me to be contradicted with the line "If its so boring why did you watch the whole thing?" ) and billed it as "How the biggest name in mma got where he is today". Before the liddell fight no one in america even talked about him in the mainstream media. They only interviewed liddell and kept billing him up to be the baddest man alive and since he's lost i haven't heard anything about him except for the spike guys choice awards where he won "most dangerous man" .

If it would disappear back into the shadows from whence (is that even a word?) it came but still have some ppv's and its show on spike, i wouldn't have a problem with it, just don't try hyping it up as better than boxing (or give joe rogan any reason to be on tv) and we'll be cool. If you wanna say its equally and go back underground, i'll accept that.