McGregor won't return to ufc if he's not a co-promotor

[LeMAO]

Mayweather thought him, dumb Pacquiao staying with Arum

 

[DougFunnY]

The ufc never co promotes, but with business looking funny and the buyrates being down, conor might get his wish

 

[MJ Truth]

If jon jones

Wasnt a crackhead

He could have done this

Jon Jones isn't/wasn't as big as Conor breh (for obvious reasons). If anybody should've done this prior it was Lesnar or Rousey.

 

[MJ Truth]

Jones was well on his way to building up to major endorsements and being sealed as GOAT

He messed it up for himself.

He could have either defended a couple more times or done some heavy weight fight and then just Demanded Co promoter credit or he's leaving. Plus you can tell how his mind was already working due to his comments leading up to the Conner floyd fight... "Glad hes getting money" "im thinking about the business side more too" and he was over the top supportive.



Conner will lose his next couple fights- which will look horrible for the promotion

They need a new star quick.

Jones was confirming his GOAT status but he wasn't trending to be as commercially big as some people seem to think.

 

[Kenny West]

Lol ain't no one saying he has been handed everything but if you honestly think they didn't keep him away from Edgar for dear life then I got a bridge to sell you

They really didn't. The revisionism on this forum can be really crazy when nikkas are in hater mode.

If they were protecting him then they would have never chosen Mendes, a wrestler who was higher ranked than frankie at the time of the fight, as the opponent at UFC 189. Everyone was picking Mendes to win that fight, now everyone is acting like he was a scrub because he lost. They had no reason to protect Connor back during the Siver and Porier days, he was an up and coming prospect who had an usually high following from his home country, that's it.

The real issue was that nobody cared (and still don't) to see frankie in the title picture.

 

[Roman Brady]

They really didn't. The revisionism on this forum can be really crazy when nikkas are in hater mode.

If they were protecting him then they would have never chosen Mendes, a wrestler who was higher ranked than frankie at the time of the fight, as the opponent at UFC 189. Everyone was picking Mendes to win that fight, now everyone is acting like he was a scrub because he lost. They had no reason to protect Connor back during the Siver and Porier days, he was an up and coming prospect who had an usually high following from his home country, that's it.

The real issue was that nobody cared (and still don't) to see frankie in the title picture.

Wasn't the Mendes fight a last ditch effort to save a card due to aldo pulling out? That's an extenuating circumstance if ever I seen one. Mostly faces perennial strikers and the only person that is stylistically a bad matchup for him is a late replacement they never wanted to book in the first place. It just smelt funny, I don't disagree with the last sentence. Its the same reasoning for why you will never see Woodley in a money fight

 

[Kenny West]

Wasn't the Mendes fight a last ditch effort to save a card due to aldo pulling out? That's an extenuating circumstance if ever I seen one.

Point blank, they chose a stylistic mismatch for him on short notice which is about as far away from "protecting" a fighter as you can ask for. I mean people act like FW didn't have enough scrubs and middling fighters like Ross Pearson, Jeremy Stephens, Llamas or Olivera to call up and feed to conor. Instead the ducking path is through Max Holloway, Porier and Mendes??? nah There were excuses the whole way up. If he knocked out frankie the same nikkas would start saying how frankie is too small and wasn't ever shyt. I'm over it.

Connor is literally the first fighter I've seen people of ducking for fighting the #1 contender of his divison ranked multiple spots ahead of himself.

Mostly faces perennial strikers and the only person that is stylistically a bad matchup for him is a late replacement they never wanted to book in the first place. It just smelt funny, I don't disagree with the last sentence. Its the same reasoning for why you will never see Woodley in a money fight

A late replacement like that stylistically favors the wrestler. I don't understand whats so bad smelling about it, they could have easily pulled that fight from the card (already had a title fight on there) and Frankie was the other option instead of lower ranked options. If they chose frankie you'd be saying the same shyt on how it's fishy they had him fight the smaller, lower ranked, less heavy handed and less talented wrestler option in frankie instead of mendes.Hater logic is circular

Also Nate is a worse stylistic matchup (Better reach, competent boxing, taller, way more stamina, better grappler) and they fought twice.

 

[DougFunnY]

Nobody knew mendes was stylistically a bad match up until after the fight. We never saw his ground game at the time, so of course there were doubters. When the ufc saw conor being controlled by an out of shape mendes, they knew right away to keep conorfar away from frankie.

They thought nate was an easy fight too. They expected conor to beat him then face GSP at 200

 

[dh86]

What leverage does he have? Did either the rashad or rampage fights do a million? And that was before his first offense





Ps as for Connor I hope they make him a co promoter but it's going to look hilarious now he's just going to be a loser. No way he beats Ferguson and no way he beats khabib. Don't think he can beat barboza either so at some point he will just look like a chael sonnen

YES. With Ronda Rousey exiting stage left and Brock Lesnar being 40 and done, Jones is the #2 star pending suspension. He had the leverage Conor has.

 

[Roman Brady]

YES. With Ronda Rousey exiting stage left and Brock Lesnar being 40 and done, Jones is the #2 star pending suspension. He had the leverage Conor has.

No he really didn't

 

[Kings County]

Taught this yacubian devil how the business works.

Told the lil nikka yo i can get you out your deal

40 mill from ufc and he aint sell a ppv for em

 

[dh86]

No he really didn't

Jones Cormier 2 did around 860k. What non Conor ufc matchup does that? Only one other ufc show did over 300k in 2017 (GSP/Bisping)

 

[Roman Brady]

Jones Cormier 2 did around 860k. What non Conor ufc matchup does that? Only one other ufc show did over 300k in 2017 (GSP/Bisping)

Based on what breh, they might have reported that but it's not on wiki what does that tell you? Inflated numbers perhaps? Besides that was a big feud so it's not an indicator of Jones average. Why don't you cite his number against OSP?

 

[dh86]

Based on what breh, they might have reported that but it's not on wiki what does that tell you? Inflated numbers perhaps? Besides that was a big feud so it's not an indicator of Jones average. Why don't you cite his number against OSP?

Why would I cite a fight from over one year ago? UFC is obligated contractually to provide real PPV buy numbers to top fighters.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

Wasn't the Mendes fight a last ditch effort to save a card due to aldo pulling out? That's an extenuating circumstance if ever I seen one. Mostly faces perennial strikers and the only person that is stylistically a bad matchup for him is a late replacement they never wanted to book in the first place. It just smelt funny, I don't disagree with the last sentence. Its the same reasoning for why you will never see Woodley in a money fight

Yes it was. Conor had no time to prep for that style and was calm throughout the fight. Had he had adequate time, there's no way Mendes gets close to him that consistently.