Hi Mike,
Thanks for your considered and intelligent post.
There is one very important point to make on the subject of the Briella vs. Boo Boo catfight. It didn't sell because it was short, it sold because it was a fantastic catfight that contained that precious rarity and what is to the catfight fan pure ambrosia... genuine needle. When a catfight of such genuine competitiveness, emotionality, bitchiness, trash-talking, hard fighting, sheer ruthlessness and the fact that Brielle is hot, cocky, determined, arrogant, and hates losing; plus the fact that her opponent Boo boo is out to upstage Briella and is not impressed by her at all regarding her as a prima donna that needs to be put down and beaten.... we have a classic catfight on our hands. The word gets around like wild fire, catfight fans talk to catfight fans, a genuinely good catfight sells like hotcakes, it's length becomes an irrelevance.
The fact that it was cut short not by the producer, but by tempers being lost, and the catfight had to be prematurely terminated probably due to one girl refusing to carry on indicates it was scheduled to last longer. And in a situation where a catfight fan had to choose which alternate world he would prefer to exist in between the one we now inhabit where the fight ended prematurely, or the reality where Briella fought on and the catfight continued in its nasty bitter bitchy trash talking excellence, a catfight fan would have to be a bit of a fool to say 'no' to seeing the continuation of such a mouth wateringly rare example of genuine female ferocity and mutual animosity between two hot looking catfighting women.
And when these rare nasty emotional spats of mutual animosity randomly occur in catfighting and continue beyond a few minutes they become catfights of legend, because they have a quality about them that allows them to be re-watched ad infinitum due to the fact that they embody the ideals of what all genuine catfight fans want to see when two women fight each other, a genuinely feminine bitchy need to put down, defeat, and humiliate a rival female via ruthless and aggressive means that ensures victory.
But such a fight as the Briella/Boo Boo catfight to have continued, would have been a plus as opposed to a minus. Think: ECC 43 Tracey vs. Alex / ECC 41 Cat vs. Michelle / ECC 47 Lexie vs. Johanna. Genuine bitchy spats that are of a longer length.
Therefore, Briella vs. Boo Boo was fantastic not because of its length, but for its other amazing qualities.
I think therefore the excluded middle is the way forward, neither the 5 minute fights of some of the CCC titles, nor the 30 min fights of ECC, but a middle ground of 15 to 20 minute fights seems very appealing to me personally. Something both DWW and Foxy Combat discovered several years ago as the preferred happy medium of catfight fans, neither artificially too long or frustratingly too short.
p.s. Amazing photo by the way. Thanks.