Rousey vs Holm

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canofsticks

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There also wasn't any good reason for that to be an interim title fight, but they wanted to hand out a belt come hell or high water, lol.
Pure speculation but I think it served a purpose. They had changed their rule regarding two title fights on a single card. It had been that the heavier weight class got the main event slot while the smaller weight class got co-main. For McGregor they switched this and gave him the main event and Lawler/Macdonald Co-main.

If they would have changed it to a non-title fight it would have looked bad having Conor in a main-event non title fight while Lawler/Macdonald fought in Co-Main. So I think they said "Fuck it. Just make it an interim shot". That way the card maintains its integrity (that is, two advertised title shots) and didn't have a weird lineup
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Pure speculation but I think it served a purpose. They had changed their rule regarding two title fights on a single card. It had been that the heavier weight class got the main event slot while the smaller weight class got co-main. For McGregor they switched this and gave him the main event and Lawler/Macdonald Co-main.

If they would have changed it to a non-title fight it would have looked bad having Conor in a main-event non title fight while Lawler/Macdonald fought in Co-Main. So I think they said "Fuck it. Just make it an interim shot". That way the card maintains its integrity (that is, two advertised title shots) and didn't have a weird lineup
There certainly could be something to that. IMO, having an interim title as the main event looked as awkward as having a non title fight in the main would have.
 

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When Holm was signed Dana said she would get an immediate title shot. It was obviously based on her boxing credentials. I believe a title shot is something Holm negotiated into her contract. After she was signed though she said she hoped the ufc would give her a couple of fights first. Well she got the tune up fights she asked for and now its time to live up to the hype or not.
 

dacofty

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I agree. However, on the business end of things it seemed Rousey Tate 3 wasn't something everyone wanted to see. We wanted to see it but in marketing to the generic, newer MMA fans, undefeated former boxing great vs Rousey will put butts in seats.
well thats true, but thats why the Ali act is needed, you just cant pick and choose what you want to benefit the pocket book, that would be like the Steelers scheduled to play the Chargers but decide to play the Falcons because the Chargers have won 4 straight.
 

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When Holm was signed Dana said she would get an immediate title shot. It was obviously based on her boxing credentials. I believe a title shot is something Holm negotiated into her contract. After she was signed though she said she hoped the ufc would give her a couple of fights first. Well she got the tune up fights she asked for and now its time to live up to the hype or not.
LMAO
 

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I dont see Holly winning...hopefully she puts on a show and makes it out of the first round..
 

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I would shit if she caught Honda and KOd her...weak weight class or not Honda is getting better and can only beat who they put in her way.. Her and Mighty mouse are the two oist dominant champions there are..but get the least respect due to the lack of Comp...but regardless thy are unreal fighters who deserve everything thing the get..Honda will go down as one of the greatest fighters ever imho..
 
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Holm better stay on her bike and back peddle while throwing, a la Chocolate Al.
 
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When Holm was signed Dana said she would get an immediate title shot. It was obviously based on her boxing credentials. I believe a title shot is something Holm negotiated into her contract. After she was signed though she said she hoped the ufc would give her a couple of fights first. Well she got the tune up fights she asked for and now its time to live up to the hype or not.


“We were talking about Miesha from the start, then as we started sitting around we were saying, ‘Everyone has seen the Miesha fight already. A third fight in a rivalry usually comes after the stuff we’d see in [Arturo] Gatti-[Micky] Ward,” White said of the classic boxing trilogy. “With Miesha, the result has been the same twice. Everyone’s already seen that fight.”
White insisted that Tate did not complicate negotiations with outrageous demands and he added that there was no contractual requirement that Holm receive a title shot in her third UFC fight.

“Everyone has jitters in their first fight. Holly came back from that and destroyed a woman who’d looked damn good in her previous fights,” White said. “When you talk about the possibilities of what Holly can do … she’s a world-class boxer … the Holly Holm fight for Ronda is way more intriguing.”

That doesn’t mean Tate will be left out in the cold completely. White says he’s working on setting up a fight between Tate and No. 4 ranked bantamweight Amanda Nunes for the same card.
Apparently no contract requirement.