Khabib was by far Conor`s most difficult opponent, he was far stronger than anyone Conor had ever fought and handled him like he was a child.
The fact its taking insane Saudi money to make something vaguely in the ballpark of a basic UFC PPV in terms of card depth says a lot. I wouldnt exactly call them "really good" either. They have terrible pacing, no atmosphere and the constant bootlicking over "his excellency" is vomit inducing.The contrast between the last one and UFC 299 the next day was pretty big.
I will say this: Under Dana White, the UFC was what i always wished boxing to be: A sport in which fans could go to Target or Walmart and buy action figures and t shirts of fighters!
The last Saudi PPV "Knockout Chaos" was a 10 hour broadcast. Absolutely ridiculous. And it was 10 fights, which isn´t that many at all.
Boxing's only legs to stand on is fighter's pay. Besides that, it's cards are crap. Watch any boxing ppv, you only care about two fights per card. The Ufc has far more famous fighters in volumes, only the top boxers get paid well, the rest no one cares about. you have boxing champs who have little to no social media followers, and that should not be the case. Boxing has done it to itself, the match making is trash. Ufc pay sucks but they at least dont have bums in the undercard getting paid to take dives for the next boxing prospect and pad their record, those can beaters are worst off than the average ufc fighter because at least a percentage of ufc dogs that win matches are 46% , that is a sign of a heathy competitive sport. Boxing favorites win 90% of the time. it's the sport of mismatches.
Nobody in this thread has put 2+2 together that UFC is able to put these cards together because of its pay structure. It's taken oil money at vast levels to put comparable cards together because boxers won't make good fights for less. Either criticise UFC for not paying enough, which might be a fair argument, or criticise boxers for pricing fights out. The truth is probably halfway but we can't pretend this isn't the core issue in boxing at least.
Yep. I do think UFC guys should be paid better (plus be allowed to have their own sponsors etc again) but at the same time boxing money is ****ing ridiculous. Somewhere in the region of $70m in purses just to make something like AJ/Ngannou, thats almost certainly more than the entire payroll for both UFC 300 and 299, two absolutely stacked cards.
No denying that. Sadly McGregor was sold out and disinterested by that point. I am not sure the outcome would have been different but the fight would have been better had it been when he fought Alvarez. The only way that would have happened was if Khabib had the belt though.
