MMA Thread

Gina Carano speaks on UFC offering her the fight, and Dana White's down on hands and knees apology

jayrebb said:

They see Gane, Gaethje, Covington with 4-5 titleshots each. 15 titleshots combined in just 3 fighters. That's without getting into all the guys with 2-3 titleshots or bottom 10 with a titleshot.

It's not like the old days where you actually need to be the real number one contender. If you are a top 10 that's good enough. Maybe that's a good thing for the sport, but the matchmaking hasn't been great. I think they could do a lot more with it.

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o'malley talks a lot of bs, but every now and then says something interesting. while back he was talking about how rankings don't matter, it is all about, how much they are paying you and your popularity. they are just trying to maximize their investment now and it shows with all the weak cards they are putting out.

ufc is already screwing over fighters, read a comment that during the peak ppv years, fighters got something like 17-20% of the grosses and now estimates say it could be in the 13-15% range. would bet their goal is to get it down to 10% during the paramount years.

with trump's support, ufc doesn't have any fear of an ali like act passing for mma and they are actively trying to weaken it and screw over boxers now.

Goatface said:

o'malley talks a lot of bs, but every now and then says something interesting. while back he was talking about how rankings don't matter, it is all about, how much they are paying you and your popularity. they are just trying to maximize their investment now and it shows with all the weak cards they are putting out.

ufc is already screwing over fighters, read a comment that during the peak ppv years, fighters got something like 17-20% of the grosses and now estimates say it could be in the 13-15% range. would bet their goal is to get it down to 10% during the paramount years.

with trump's support, ufc doesn't have any fear of an ali like act passing for mma and they are actively trying to weaken it and screw over boxers now.

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MMA journalists had a great point that offering Jon Jones the same exact money as Conor Benn.

Jones draws significantly more than Conor Benn, who is a relative nobody and unproven draw. You can't hardball 15 million dollars when you just paid Conor Benn 15 million. This is expected to affect the Conor McGregor negotiations this year also. If they offer McGregor 15 and not 25 it's a non-starter.

The two top draws in the UFC aren't taking Conor Benn money to fight. That's a given.

Lanx said:

i can't be the onlyone , that the first week of hearing this i thought that mcgregor is fighting some noob named ben

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I won't say Conor Benn doesn't have potential to some day be worth that kind of money (depends on the popularity of Zuffa Boxing and boxing continuing to grow). But you just offered Ngannou 8 million dollars for 5 fights. You can't turn around and sign Conor Benn for 15 million with no draw. Nearly all households have no idea who Conor Benn is. Whether you like Jon Jones or not, this is professional sports. These guys at the top of MMA deserve NFL %. It's the White House, it's an all-time card, it's Poatan (future PFP GOAT), and you come to Jones with Conor Benn money....

If you can't point to at least 2-3 athletes making NFL % then what the fuck is that.

People are just waiting for them to offer the same 15m to McGregor, who can sell a stadium worth 15m on tickets alone.

An Ali Act is inevitable for MMA-- albeit not until Trump is out of office as goatface said.