Dana White announces Zuffa Boxing will have its own belt and will NOT recognize the other bodies

I think they are going to use the Ring title to legitimize the promotion, so thats why they are keeping it separate. They can manipulate the ratings as they please, and guide someone in the Zuffa/TKO stable into a fight for the Ring championship. Then they will claim that the Zuffa/Ring champion is the best in the world, and the world champion, while keeping everyone locked out of the title and status.

Once they give on of their own fighters the Ring belt, then there will be no way for outsiders to contend for it. I do hope in that case that they get sued into oblivion.

 

Yes but his hate for Usyk drives him on

 

Opinions on the whole Jon Jones situation then please?

 

Once Dana starts paying boxers he will cap out after a few million each. The massive pay days in boxing will become merely 7 figures from d white

 

Plenty of people consider Ngannou to still be the best HW even now. A few years back there was occasional discussion over whether AJ McKee or Volk was the best FW, and whether Leon or Amosov was the best WW. It doesnt happen often sure, but thats because the UFC genuinely does have the best champion the overwhelming majority of the time.

As far as the Fedor thing, I would say in the last year or two before he finally lost people were starting to question his status more, because the UFCs HW division was improving. Also just look at the guys that beat him, Werdum had gotten KTFO in the first round by JDS in the UFC 18 months earlier, Hendo had recently been in the UFC too. The UFC then brought them both back soon after those wins, along with signing Reem, DC and Shields.