Comments Thread For: UFC's White Claims That He Won't Block Mayweather-McGregor

[Pigeons]

How do they believe this PPV will do good. It aint surpassing Pac Mayweather. Im surpirse if Boxing fans buy this Mismatch. I understand UFC fans, but boxing fans know this a one side boxing lesson, and I wouldnt pay $100 to see something I already know is going to happend.

It will sell millions of PPVs.

[hectari]

Wtf so is floyd asking ufc to pay him 100 million? Makes no sense, and he gets the ppv? The best thing dnana white can do is bring up floyds last ppv with berto, it did 300k buys and wasnt sold out.

[MrRolltide91]

Dana must have gotten a phone call

[Reloaded]

Wtf so is floyd asking ufc to pay him 100 million? Makes no sense, and he gets the ppv? The best thing dnana white can do is bring up floyds last ppv with berto, it did 300k buys and wasnt sold out.

The UFC wont promote it and wont be paying Floyd, his 100mil will come from sponsored purse and back end percentages which will be all Floyds way..

Because it was Berto, don't you realize you need 2 to make the really big numbers, Floyd Connor will do fantastic numbers that's why both of them want to do it the money is huge.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Wtf so is floyd asking ufc to pay him 100 million? Makes no sense, and he gets the ppv? The best thing dnana white can do is bring up floyds last ppv with berto, it did 300k buys and wasnt sold out.

Lmao you're mad! Crying like a female over another man lol weirdo

[lefthooklead]

It will sell millions of PPVs.

For sure. Probably even more than Pac v May. It's not the hardcore fans who make up the big numbers its the casuals. McGregor is a proper hype man and the whole UFC fan base will tune in. Mayweather brings his own fans, plus he'd be hitting the big 50 wins. Boxing v MMA.

There's so many ways to market it and PPV would be huge. In the UK it'd probably do massive numbers alone.

[Scipio2009]

this is a play for the casual combat sports fan, and that's about it

How do they believe this PPV will do good. It aint surpassing Pac Mayweather. Im surpirse if Boxing fans buy this Mismatch. I understand UFC fans, but boxing fans know this a one side boxing lesson, and I wouldnt pay $100 to see something I already know is going to happend.

Floyd Mayweather Jr has universal name ID among boxing fans and likely about that with MMA fans; Conor McGregor has near universal name ID in MMA.

Put both names on the marquee, and you've got a fight featuring fighters that the entire MMA audience know of one fighter, and the whole of boxing and MMA audience know the name of the other.

Add the sheer amount of talk that's going to come in the hype of the fight (with the MMA vs boxing tribal war making things even more interesting for the casual fan), and you've got a heck of a spectacle. Price it however you want, you're going to end up with a massive fight weekend.

And then, come fight night ... you'll end up with Floyd boxing McGregor's ears off and, if Conor even hints at tiring late, possible late maul down stoppage.

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ufc is in the toilet

[Scipio2009]

White does NOT have that kind of pull. The UFC guys who bought the company calls the shots.

White gets paid the big bucks to be out front, take the heat, and leave the names of the money folks out of the audience's mouth.

The UFC, whether it comes from Dana White or WME, is never going to actually greenlight the fight, and White is talking to TMZ to try and take some of the heat for blocking the fight off of the UFC.

Conor McGregor, during his layoff, is using Floyd's name and his mouth to keep his heat going up, and when Conor is ready to get back into the grind of fighting, he'll say some nonsense about "Floyd is scared", the UFC will end up cutting a deal where Conor sees a significant piece off of the full shows that he headlines, and the UFC will trot out the most marketable fight that they have in their fold, McGregor vs Diaz III, for some time in the summer/early fall.

[Scipio2009]

Floyd thinks this fight has public demand equal to the Pacquiao fight thus the reason for his delusional asking price of $100 million but it's jus not so.

EVERYONE wanted the Pacquiao fight.

The Mcgregor fight doesn't have that kind of demand.

If he seriously wants to make the fight he's going to have to come down off his asking price.

McGregor-Diaz II did 1.6m PPV buys. Let that sink in for a moment. The MMA audience puts money behind the McGregor name, like they don't do for any other fighter in their sport.

Floyd is boxing's biggest star, and that's without much doubt.

With a guarantee of $100m to Floyd, and $15m to McGregor, you're basically looking at needing 2.5m PPV buys @$75sd to cover (the gate/closed circuit and international TV money should more than cover the costs of the event and the rest of the guarantees).

1m buys for MMA fans, 1m buys from casual boxing fans, All Access pushing up the casual sports fan interest, and we'll see how big a game the two guys can talk.

Floyd is retired, and happily retired; to get Floyd back into the grind of training for a fight, Floyd's price is $100m (and that's likely not going to change). Don't have Floyd's money, and he moves on with his life.