While we are at it, UFC are dominating boxing ppv's in the main from what I understand.

I think Conor is going to get hit a lot and stopped in the Mayweather fight, thus he'll have to take a 6 months - 1 year break from combat sports. A lot of things happen in a year.

His next fight in the UFC would be a war with either Nate or Tony Ferguson. I doubt GSP can make 170 still. Khabib is pretty much history at this point, that's why Kevin Lee and Tony fight for the interim belt. Who knows if Khabib makes 155 anymore and he's a total liability, fights once in years and it's just not worth doing a world tour with a walking question mark. He gets injured one more time, has to do Ramadan or whatever and we're talking another year off for him. A fight with Paulie could probably generate the same or maybe even more than an UFC fight, but he'd have to look decent v Floyd. Probably the easiest fight for Conor and that's what he wants.

Neither him or Ronda would even come close to having a decent acting role, the film industry doesn't care about them, except a cameo role/commercial here and there and they're not getting paid much for that. That's not how Hollywood works.

^^ Conor turned down a major movie role this year, forgot which one, some dumb remake where he would've been the star though. He said the $ wasn't enough to take months off his training, where as Ronda legit took 3-4months off for a movie & then did a training camp & thought she could juggle both, Conor knows better.

The ufc keeps 100% of the ppv through ufc.tv, i wonder what % of the ppv buys they get from that source as apposed to the cable providers, would be fun to know.

Define "major"?

It's up in the air how good he is and I don't really feel like debating that too much right now. But it's probably unlikely he reels off 5-6 title defenses in a row just because nobody really does that and the 155 division is also pretty stacked.

If he starts losing fights he will still be a huge draw but you can't be a Floyd level star when you are realistically only like 60% to win every fight. You're going to have to run good to not lose a lot.

UFC PPV buys have basically been in freefall this year, this is coming after beeing sold for $4bn on the back of McGregor bringing in the 3 highest PPV buys in UFC history last year. The new owners will no doubt pay McGregor a substantial amount to get back in the cage.

He could want co-promotion and then what happens when his deal is up? Imagine how much Viacom (owner of Bellator) would give him?

At the very least, it'll be interesting to see all the dynamics in play as McGrgor is the 1st UFC fighter than has an argument that he is as big as the organization itself. Will be very, very interesting.

That's not "major". Major is RDJ, Di Caprio or McConaughey aka Oscar winners/nominees that have been in the industry since forever and are the biggest draws out there aka 25m+ for a movie.

Conor/Dana say a lot of things, they exaggerate a lot, especially numbers and everything. Of course the money wasn't enough, nobody would pay something relevant to Conor or Ronda, when they can pay a real actor 10 times less for a better job. Conor would attract some extra viewers, but still not enough to be that much profitable. They're not draws in Hollywood and they will never be even close to legit famous actors known worldwide. None of the Big Six major film studios would invest tens of millions of dollars for a movie with Conor. And everything else is just not profitable enough for Conor.

Don't listen to Schaub and Rogan's hype, especially about Hollywood. I just listened a few parts of their latest podcast, they were saying Conor would become the biggest athlete in the world and the biggest athlete ever if he beat Floyd. He would be neither, not even close.

By major i just meant he had a main role in a featured film, clearly they didn't offer him 25mill or whatever.

p.s if he beats Floyd he's up there with any athlete, don't downplay that bro.

Exo, do you think Connor is better odds than 50/50 against khabib or ferguson? Why on earth would he fight them when if you're being generous he's a 55/45 favorite. He's most likely a dog against both.

no

Well, yeah, but that's nothing special for someone like Conor or the film industry, whereas people thought he would make tens of millions of dollars in Hollywood just because he's Conor and it doesn't work like that. He could get some cool cameos, some commercials, but that's pretty much it. And anyway, he wouldn't be paid much and it's probably not even worth doing it for him, unless he really wants to do it. They're not throwing big money at nobody in Hollywood, unless they get something very, very special and Conor isn't special, not for the film industry.

The big majority of people don't have a clue who's Floyd or Conor, or might have heard something about them fighting for a lot of money or something. Pretty much everybody knows who's Cristiano, Messi, Neymar etc. He'll make a ton of money, beating Floyd would be incredible, but for us, fans of boxing and MMA, not for the randoms who don't follow these sports, especially people from Europe. They're hoping 3-4 mill people buy the PPV, whereas the Champions League/World Cup final is seen by 300-350m people. Last season's Real Madrid v Barcelona in the Spanish league was watched by 650m people from 185+ countries. He'd probably be in the yearly top30 most famous athletes or something, but the gap between him and the top15 or smth is huge. Very, very, very far from being in the discussion of the best athlete ever, that's just absurd.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Conor's, but those are ridiculous statements from Rogan and Schaub.

I thought the PPV provider does take 1/2 on average but it is possible for bigger fights like some of Floyd's fights that they will take less.

Conor is huge favorite vs Ferguson & huge dog vs khabib, think he makes ferguson match look easy and khabib dominates him tbh. Ferguson too sloppy on the feet & he doesn't use his wrestling offensively enough for me to worry about it. Conor is a guy that likes to challenge himself though, has stated that he wants Khabib in Russia & the fact khabib isn't currently booked opens up that opportunity. If Conor comes back to the ufc and fights nate diaz in trilogy over khabib fight i will be really dissapointed, that's the fight i really want to see.

What would bookie odds be if this was thunderdome rules?

Didn't Conor say after his last fight that khabib would have to show he wont pull out of fights before he would consider fighting him and since then khabib has pulled out of a title fight and been unavailable for the rescheduled fight

pinny and everywhere else is down to -400!

https://www.proboxingodds.com/

WTF

When it comes to placing bets, timing beats speed.

Someone make sense of this other than "RIGGED"

All the big $ is coming in on Floyd

i honestly cant

Many many idiots are placing bets on Connor. That's the explanation

Yup. Books are reporting 90% of bets have been on CM. Sure, FMJ is getting some large wagers (with many more to come) but that doesn't outweigh the volume that's come in on CM.

At a certain point, skill can't make up for size and length, especially when the skilled side isn't known for having power. Who knows if Conor is at the point though.

Left handedness is a thing as well.

Conor being white is probably something, as there are probably some extra ethnic pride dollars going in on Conor.

Finally, not many want to lay 400+ to win 100.

Yea he did say that & it makes sense, the reason he brought up Khabib is because he said it would feel like he's in a Rocky movie fighting mayweather(apollo) & then going to russia to fight Khabib(drago). He could be joking but who knows, Conor fights anybody, anytime, anywhere, don't put anything past him at this point.

90% of bets at an avg of $50 a bet shouldn't outweigh 10% of bets at an avg of 5k tho

And why would books care to balance by moving the line lower on Floyd? Just take way the best of it rather than open yourself up to high roller Mayweather action that you think is likely +++++EV.

So as Jim Mora once said "What the hell is goin on out here!"