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If Conor can be a 2 weight champ he should demand 5 mil a fight minimum. He will have so much bargaining power I think it's in the UFC's best interest that Conor loses
Report: Big riff between McGregor & Dana White
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You could be right. However, this happened with BJ Penn. He beat Matt Hughes very quickly for the WW belt and was also considered the best LW in the world due to beating Gomi. He left the UFC and beat Renzo and a couple of other guys on his own promotion (or his brother's) ROTR but it didn't compare to the UFC.
But times are different. Maybe McGregor could do it.
Awesome news. Conor is going to blow the whole game open for everyone. Unless Zuffa changes it's course quick, they're going to lose their stranglehold on MMA.
And btw I called him setting up his own promotion earlier this week ( Report: McGregor demands more money, delays UFC 197 announcement | Page 3 | The MMA Community Forum ). Conor's not stupid, he's a student of the game and knows how to "play". He's seen what Mayweather has done and the money he's made by becoming his own boss and promoting himself, and that's exactly what he's going to try to work out with the UFC.
For people here that watch boxing, you're familiar with cards that have multiple different promoters. Mayweather/Pacquiao was done by Golden Boy, Mayweather Promotions and Top Rank.
Eventually you're going to see that on every card Conor main events. A UFC/McGregor Sports joint promotion.
And after that... McGregor is going to start promoting other UFC fighters, and he's going to co-promote every UFC that his guys/girls are on.
Mark my words! Conor is going to take over the game completely, he's the forerunner, he's on some next level shit and when he does it, past stars are going to be kicking themselves that they never had the balls to do it.
And btw I called him setting up his own promotion earlier this week ( Report: McGregor demands more money, delays UFC 197 announcement | Page 3 | The MMA Community Forum ). Conor's not stupid, he's a student of the game and knows how to "play". He's seen what Mayweather has done and the money he's made by becoming his own boss and promoting himself, and that's exactly what he's going to try to work out with the UFC.
For people here that watch boxing, you're familiar with cards that have multiple different promoters. Mayweather/Pacquiao was done by Golden Boy, Mayweather Promotions and Top Rank.
Eventually you're going to see that on every card Conor main events. A UFC/McGregor Sports joint promotion.
And after that... McGregor is going to start promoting other UFC fighters, and he's going to co-promote every UFC that his guys/girls are on.
Mark my words! Conor is going to take over the game completely, he's the forerunner, he's on some next level shit and when he does it, past stars are going to be kicking themselves that they never had the balls to do it.
To be fair, I don't think the UFC is worried about Conor trying to co-promote Cathal Pendred.
"Therefore we had to turn to the WWE model which was, they have Monday Night Raw, Thursday Night Smackdown, which were television shows that told a story, and the story was trying to convince you to transact on Sunday night on PPV."
What if I told you that the WWE's biggest ratings ever were when their biggest star, and the boss hated each other?
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Conor will start grabbing up talent, not necessarily those in his team. Out of the blue you'll hear that Anthony Pettis and Donald Cerrone are under McGregor promotions. Then a few other guys. Then suddenly Jon Jones is like "wtf Dana, I want to co-promote my fights too or else you can go fuck off" and then the whole game is blown open.
I like how you think bro.
We see eye to eye, you and I.
What if I told you that that same era of pro wrestling had frequent "title thefts" and a main eventer know for telling guys that fighting him would make them famous? Starting to sound familiar, isn't it?
Nope, but I will.
It's from when they were watching Aldo vs Mendez, and were discussing options, I tried timestamping it but not sure if it went through, 2h 38m or so is the relevant bit.
Wait, that's Conor's coach
Conor may be putting this out there in order to have more negotiating power with the UFC. Either way, hopefully he gets paid and helps change the way fighters are treated and paid.
High School coming back to haunt Dana
Oh...he's gonna get paid. Believe that. He's likely already made more than any other fighter in UFC history.
Exactly. Conor's coach joking about the bullshit that media says to get clicks.
So if there is a rift, even Kavanagh is downplaying it.
Starting a ufc level org would probably cost one billion dollars he would need some investors ,bj started rumble on the rock and that doesn't seem to be high profile,their are a few other orgs started in the minor leagues owned by fighters.
This. He's not going to have money to throw at an upstart promotion and let's face it, Conor likes his money too much to be broke. I think this may be him posturing to get brought in as a partner with the UFC. I just can't imagine him giving up all the money he gets fighting on a pipe dream of starting a new promotion. He seems too smart for that.
I agree all this is is Zuffa stealing yet again from wrasslin. They should be up front and go ahead and hire the writers for WWE and be done with it.