Demian Maia has been one of my Top 3 since the Ed Herman fight at UFC 83. Which was an iconic card and super underrated IMO. Five UFC champions fought on the card, and we got the Quarry-Starnes running man incident, and some other great fights including Goulet's prelim knockout.
Crazy that Paige has finished more fights than Joanna, or anyone else in that division for that matter.
He'll be back but I don't blame him for saying that shortly after that loss. As someone said, that was more demoralizing than a one punch KO.
just finished watching. For some reason I wanted Pettis to destroy Oliveira. It was a strange visceral feeling. Nothing against Oliveira. Guy is good and great to watch.
Have always like Pettis but mainly wanted him to win because there's some potentially great fights ahead at 145 for us to watch. Feels like 145, 170, and 185 title fights are pretty clear for almost the next 2 years since those divisions are so deep right now.
Knowing exactly what Maia wanted to do to you, and being completely inept in preventing it has to be a pretty defeating feeling. Im sure he just needs time to lick his wounds and heal his pride.
Current estimates indicate that UFC 202, the Aug. 20 show headlined by Conor McGregor's decision win over Nate Diaz, will be the most successful non-boxing pay-per-view event in the history of the genre. Current estimates have the show doing 1.65 million buys on pay-per-view, putting it slightly ahead of UFC 196, the first McGregor vs. Diaz fight, which was estimated at 1.6 million. Both would be ahead of the prior record set at UFC 100for the second Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir fight. Sources close to the situation reveal that the DirecTV numbers were the highest in the promotion's history. UFC's own pay-per-view orders through the Internet were believed to have also broken the record set at UFC 196. The 1.65 million projected number would not include orders directly through the UFC for streaming rather than traditional television. However, the streaming numbers give the UFC immediate figures where they can project how well a show is going to do. The UFC does not usually release pay-per-view numbers. Dana White did say after the event that it was trending to be the biggest show ever. Usual strong indicators, such as television ratings for the prelims and other programs related to the show, and Internet searches regarding the event were all strong, but none were at record levels. Television numbers were likely held down due to competition with the Summer Olympics, but that didn't seem to affect pay-per-view numbers. What is interesting is the lack of correlation between live ticket sales and pay-per-view. The show sold 12,657 tickets, and that's with late discounting of tickets, and there were 14,060 in the building. The live gate announced the night of the show was $7,629,010. The Nevada Athletic Commission didn't have a final gate figure as of press time. UFC 200 at the same T Mobile Arena sold 15,154 tickets and had 16,691 in the building for a gate of $10,746,248. The key to the figure, or at least the record-breaking aspect, looks to be the press conference a few days before the show, which ended abruptly. McGregor arrived 30 minutes late, and a few minutes after he arrived, Diaz abruptly walked off, apparently on the directive of older brother Nick. As he did so, it degenerated from there with McGregor swearing, a bottle or bottles being thrown by members of the Diaz camp at McGregor, and McGregor throwing bottles back. Dana White immediately called the press conference off and security took McGregor to the back while Diaz left. Diaz and McGregor received two of the three largest announced purses in UFC history, with Diaz getting $2 million and McGregor $3 million guaranteed, not including their percentages of the pay-per-view revenue. Each also got a $50,000 best fight bonus. With the exception of boxing matches, the UFC is the only promotion ever to top 1 million buys on North American pay-per-view. The WWE, before largely getting out of the pay-per-view business, did more than 1.2 million buys on two separate occasions for WrestleMania events, but those are worldwide numbers and they did anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of their buys outside North America. This was UFC's third show of 2016 to top the 1 million mark, with UFC 200 in July joining the two Diaz vs. McGregor fights. Previously, only a handful of UFC shows have topped that mark, most headlined by either Lesnar, Ronda Rousey or McGregor.
According to multiple #sources, co-main of UFC 205 will be Lawler vs Cerrone, main event will be Alvarez vs McGregor. UFC looking to break more records.
Conor better put in OT on his takedown defense. Alvarez is gonna try to bore the world to tears by wrestle fucking him for 5 rounds.
Would rather that be Aldo than Alvarez unless Conor just feels he can't do 145 anymore. Conor's such a huge draw regardless but I think there'd be more interest in the Aldo rematch. Weidman/Romero is also rumored for MSG.
Punk at least looked the part of a young fighter at weigh ins. Looked lean, and not completely dried out. Still expect him to get beat rather easily.
If this Alvarez fight happens, then Conor will have fought 3 times since winning the belt from Aldo last December and never defending. That is grounds for being stripped of the belt. Dana emphatically stated after the last Nate fight that if Conor doesn't defend FW title next that he'll be stripped, but he's their most profitable star. So who knows? Aldo won the right to be named undisputed champ if Conor gets stripped. If that happens, I'd expect Aldo vs. Holloway then.
Hearing now that Lawler vs Cerrone will not be the co-main. Working on getting a deal done for Woodley-GSP at 206.
I'd be very surprised if GSP v Woodley did not headline UFC 206. So stupid. I smell a lawsuit though.
Faber had video of the elevator incident on Instagram, and Dolloway seemed fine. I'm guessing lawsuit as well. Dana posted a screenshot of his texts from last night, and Cerrone told Dana he was in town and wanted to replace Dolloway against whoever he was fighting. Remember, this fight is at LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. Cerrone is a damn lunatic, in a good way.
The new co-main that is being worked on is a "championship fight", apparently. Obviously it's not 265, 185, 155, 145, or 125. That leaves Woodley, Cormier, Cruz, or the women. Woodley is being planned for 206. Don't think it's the women. I'd bet that Cormier-Rumble is the co-main of 205.
I have a feeling tonight is going to set a record on fewest PPV buys. Won't even be enough to find a free stream. anyway acestream://5c06a652a5285a2f49c1f29a323ca8d7d3861083
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