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Originally Posted by rubbrband
Conor sells more ppv than all of boxing. He sells more than the rest of the UFC put together by a larger margin. How does teaching him a lesson by not letting him fight make any sense? He has all the bargaining chips.
How does he hold all the barganing chips? UFC has him under contract and is the only game in town where Conor can make the kinda money he's making. I think you vastly underestimate the UFC brand, marketing, structure etc if you think Conor could just leave to bellator and make anywhere near what he's making in the UFC. And sitting out hurts him as well. Not to mention him even getting licensed to fight Mayweather is slim. CSAC already said he'd need to win a high level fight first. Any major state will likely say the same.
Conor definitely has a ton of leverage but not to the point where the UFC has to do whatever he wants and will let him go get embarrassed in boxing likely not making a penny off of it and it possibly leading to him never fighting in MMA again.