Bile Fascination: This is pretty much the only reason why people, especially paleontology fans, would watch this series after the 2000s anymore. See So Bad, It's Good below.
It has often been claimed, even on this wiki, that the Allosaurus and Utahraptor from this show look nigh-identical to their counterparts from Walking with Dinosaurs... except they don’t. One look at the Utahraptor from WWD and JFC respectively shows that they look quite distinct from each other, and while the JFC Allosaurus is somewhat similar to the WWD one, it’s only in the most superficial sense (red crests with a darker, grayish body) and they otherwise look quite different. note Since the brow crests were likely a display feature, them being a bright red color is an obvious and logical design choice.
No, the biting sperm whale in “Deep Sea Killers” isn’t Livyatan melvillei but its more obscure cousin Brygmophyseter shigensis, albeit a very oversized version. Though, as noted under Accidentally-Correct Writing, it’s easy to see why even the paleontologically savvy would misremember its identity.
Condemned by History: When it first aired in the late 2000s, Jurassic Fight Club was moderately popular. But following the growing number of paleontology enthusiasts voicing their opinions online, resulting in increased awareness of paleontological media such as this series and Monsters Resurrected misusing the genera for the sake of sensationalist content with an emphasis on gratuitous violence instead of educating people about prehistoric wildlife, as documentaries are meant to do, and further perpetuating the Prehistoric Monster stereotype, as well as its lax attitude towards scientific accuracy (such as being a major offender of many Raptor Attack cliches), Jurassic Fight Club quickly became the most scorned out of paleo-documentaries, with many people who watched it and enjoyed it as kids being very critical of it once they grew older. Furthermore, for a show that's supposed to be about prehistoric slugfests, most of the battles are laughably anti-climactic and one-sided, even when the combatants feel equally matched (like Albertosaurus vs Pachyrhinosaurus). The best praise most can give it these days is to call it a guilty pleasure.
Ensemble Dark Horse: The Ceratosaurus ended up becoming this around the same time the Allosaurus was reduced to Scrappy status. For one, Ceratosaurus is given one of the more normal depictions out of any animal in the show, and despite the show's insistency of turning it into a chew toy to "emphasize" on Allosaurus being a badass, Ceratosaurus instead became a sympathetic underdog that was treated unfairly by the showrunners, in contrast to Allosaurus's depiction being more akin to a comically raging murderer and a Barbaric Bully, especially in Hunter Becomes Hunted where the Ceratosaurus depicted were a mated pair, which made their one-sided deaths more depressing and aggravating for viewers.
Memetic Loser: Ceratosaurus is effectively this in-universe, as both of its appearances emphasize how “primitive and obsolete” it is and it’s only there to be curb-stomped by the “superior and more advanced” Allosaurus.
Memetic Psychopath: The show’s depiction of Allosaurus has gained this reputation due to coming off as exceptionally bloodthirsty and violent even by this show’s standards, and in “Bloodiest Battle” it makes some pretty insane decisions, such as abandoning a trapped Stegosaurus and her dead baby in favor of mauling a giant Camarasaurus.
Narm: Quite a bit of it everywhere, like in the fight scenes (especially the short-faced bear vs. American lion fight), as well as George Blasing's uses of "he" when describing prehistoric species and repeatedly referring to the the "little Gastonia" (which in real life was over sixteen feet long and weighed about two tons, making it heavier than the Utahraptor it was fighting and only marginally smaller).
There’s also the Dromaeosaurus pack from “Raptors vs T. rex”, due to their ugly designs, the fact that they embody every single Raptor Attack stereotype imaginable, to such an extent that they make Jurassic Park seem nuanced by comparison (down to nonsensical theories like them using hand signals to communicate), and for being involved in one of the dumbest and most implausible moments in show (second only to the events of “Bloodiest Battle”), where a pack of five tiny Dromaeosaurus brings down an adult Edmontosaurus. And to make things worse, despite the episode’s title, they never actually fight the T. rex (who is a mere Advertised Extra here); they just run away from it.
Rounding them out is the Pachyrhinosaurus, for being an egrigous case of In Name Only to the real dinosaur (right down to having a horn when it didn't).
So Bad, It's Good: The series is considered one of the worst dinosaur documentaries ever made by dinosaur experts, but many dinosaur experts watch it just to see some of the ridiculous "facts" they try to push in the documentary.
Uncertain Audience: A major problem with the series. People who wish to be educated about prehistoric animals and/or want them to be represented realistically are going to be put off by each episode’s end goal being an overblown brawl that oftentimes contradicts real-life animal behavior (to put it mildly). Meanwhile, those that just want a prehistoric slugfest will likely be bored by large chunks of each episode being dedicated to talking heads discussing paleontological trivia (with most of it being inaccurate or not up to date), often by repeating the same point over and over again. Not helping matters is how many of the fights end up being little more than a dragged-out Curb-Stomp Battle, due to one combatant easily outclassing the others in terms of size and strength (i.e. Allosaurus vs the smaller Ceratosaurus). Most adults are likely to find this show pretty juvenile and gratuitous due to its Skewed Priorities, while all the excessive Gorn makes it unsuitable for young children. So the only real demographic left is adolescents with an interest in paleontology, who will then see the show’s many errors once they grow up and get a better grasp on the subject that interests them (as many of its current detractors have).
Unintentionally Sympathetic: Ceratosaurus is an unusual example from a documentary (albeit of the speculative kind). Compared to the Allosaurus, it is repeatedly stated to be smaller, weaker, and an obsolete relic from a bygone age, destined to be usurped by the superiorAllosaurus. Except, the Ceratosaurus is the combatant who gets humanized far more, being both the underdog in the scenario and having a mate (who the Allosaurus kills), and is apparently smart enough to feel grief for his mate’s death and attack his enemy because of it, while the Allosaurus is depicted as a bloodthirsty loner who barges into the territory belonging to the Ceratosaurus pair and instead of simply chasing them away (since they don’t pose a threat to him), he kills both of them in cold blood. The end result makes the Ceratosaurus look like an innocent couple lost in the woods while the Allosaurus is the Ax-Crazy serial killer who mercilessly slaughters them with ease.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Likewise, the Allosaurus is obviously intended to come off as an exceptionally skilled and powerful animal and something we are intended to root for. However, because of its glorification at the expense of the Ceratosaurus, such praise does feel unjustified and cheap, not to mention its utter curb-stomps over every Ceratosaurus it meets. Fighting a "rival" predator that is said to be more obsolete just makes it look a lot more like petty bullying in comparison. Not to mention in their other episode, Bloodiest Battle, they get involved in some pretty stupid shenanigans too.
Visual Effects of Awesome/Special Effect Failure: The show's CGI is mostly the former, but falls into the latter with the American Lion and Short-Faced Bear, inevitable given the show's budget and that fur is extremely difficult to animate.
(who does sport a keratinous horn) that the idea died for good. Furthermore, the rhino-like horn given to the show's version of Pachyrhinosaurus was actually quite conservative compared to many other horned depictions