Yikes. That was hard to watch

Jones on twitter saying send the deal in regards to fighting Ngannou. Seems like a bad idea given how much he's been hit in his last few fights. Don't really see him moving up to take the toughest fight in the division when the guy isn't even the champ though. Especially if the payday is going to be less than it should because no crowd.

Definitely weird to see Jones in a couple of days go from saying he wont take the risk of Reyes rematch unless the UFC treats it like a superfight to then say he wants to fight Frances.

The New York Times critized UFC for its handling of covid-19. Here is Dana White's response (NSFW language):

Almost no one respects journalists nowadays. The reason for this is that most of them work in the service of politicians - accordingly, they work against the interests of the people. As in this case, they often try to sabotage and rarely build anything. **** them! They deserve such treatment.

Who are the locks tn

Man i really thought Edson won that fight.

yeah i've been watching more of the undercard the last few cards and 3 rounds just kinda sucks, so many fights decided by slim margins, not enough time to really decide a winner. Especially at lower weight classes.

That one and yadong both feels like bad decisions. Yadong looked legit super surprised when they raised his hand.

You, me, and 28 media outlets. 2 gave it to Ige though.

This is the co main event????? Wtf?

I’m apparently terrible at judging because I thought Johnson won that fight

Just on the main card I had Chito Vera, Edson and Hill winning. All close fights but judges gave it the other way.

wow I couldn't believe they didn't stop that when harris was wailing on him

Harris should've had a point taken for grabbing the cage multiple times

Happy that Reem didn't have to spend his birthday in the hospital

Harris was one punch away from a stoppage for sure. Two fights last week got stopped faster. Super impressive by overeem to somehow withstand those blows.

Obviously just agent talk so might not be in the cards at all but interesting matchmaking. Honestly i would prefer they just do Masvidal vs Usman and the Nate/Conor trilogy. Gotta imagine Usman would just grapple Conor to death.

By "interesting matchmaking" I suppose you mean terrible matchmaking.

Every other word out of Masvidal's mouth should be Conor. WTF is wrong with this dude? Does he hate money?

Both Mcgregor and Masvidal are most likely asking for the bag to face each other and Dana doesn't want to pay those salaries without a crowd or proper way to promote it.

Mcgregor is going to fight Gaethje for the LW title taking into consideration Khabib father's health.

The problem I have is Masvidal was hardly calling for the fight even before Covid-19. He was trying to get Usman. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Probably bought his own hype a little bit and thinks he can sell fights without McGregor. Also, might feel slighted when McGregor didn't bother to mention his name after his win over Cowboy. Just talked about proper 12.

Doesn't seem like any of these big names are that enthusiastic about fighting infront of empty arenas though.

Jon Jones stated he makes $5+mill/fight, am i the only one who's surprised? It seems that the champs in the UFC are making way more $ than we first thought.

Depends who it is probably, I'm not too surprised about Jones. He is probably factoring in merchandise, sponsorship or whatever else is part of his total deal.

I don't think someone like Stipe, Usman, Holloway, Cejudo, Izzy is making anything close to that though.

Probably just Khabib, Jones and obviously McGregor is a different level altogether.

Curious if Nunes is in a tier between.

Back in 2013 Jon's brother Arthur stated that Jon makes more than his 2 brothers combined. They were each making around $2 million a year in the NFL. Jon had 3 championship fights in 2011, 2 in 2012, and 2 in 2013.

Back then Dana White stated that only one fighter had ever had a $5 million payday. He specifically said that it was an active fighter and it wasn't Jon Jones or Brock Lesnar. This pretty much narrows it down to Georges St. Pierre, most likely for UFC 158 (vs Nick Diaz) which did 950k ppv buys with not much other star power on the card (or possibly UFC 129 vs Shields due to the ridiculously high gate).

Jones has definitely become a bigger PPV draw than he was. He sold 650k ppv buys vs Anthony Smith, who is a relative nobody compared to most of the fighters Jones has faced over the years. It was a good card, and the WW championship (Woodley vs Usman) was the co-main but still back in the day when he fought relative no names like Texeira, St Preux, or Gustafsson I, Jones would only do 300 to 350k ppv buys.

Pay across the board has gone up because the UFC has more revenue streams so while 650k us ppv buys couldn't get anyone a $5 million payday back in the day perhaps it can now when you consider additional revenue is coming in from ESPN as well as from international PPVs (not to mention PPVs being more expensive).

Dana White said Khabib's net worth is probably in the $50 million range. Khabib has only had 3 potential money fights in his entire career. First he faced Al Iaquinta for the title (just 350k ppv buys) then faced McGregor (obviously his biggest payday) and then fought Poirier. It makes sense that he would have gotten an 8 figure payday for each of his last 2 fights.