2. No Conor McGregor
Unless Conor McGregor ends up fighting Tyron Woodley in Ireland, there is a good chance he will not be on the UFC’s PPV menu until late 2017. That represents a significant financial blow to the company’s new owners.
Conor has been the main event of 4 out of the company’s top 5 highest selling PPV events of all-time. That represents a significant chunk of UFC’s total revenue. Conor taking an extended leave of absence to have a kid, film Game of Thrones, or simply vacation means WME-IMG’s first year as owners will bring in significantly less revenue than the years before it.
That won’t look good to the lenders, and could send the company into panic mode.
I don’t agree I think 2017 is wen we will see what they plan for the future an the way the ufc is putting their events in as many different countries as they are I can see the idea of maybe agreeing with u on the too many different champs an as a way of countering that I see them after establishing all the top fighters from all the globes corners an having a once yearly super tournament where whicheva country chosen to hold it an all the best come together to compete against the best of each other so there will be the one true champion of his weight division, atm they seem to be going around signing a range of different fighters but in fairness they all seem to be the top few guys/ladies from each fighters region
The Ali Act would be AMAZING! But the UFC will be piiiiiiiissed, it will mess them up, they never really worked with merits, if the Ali act had been around for a while, McGregor wouldn’t have gotten a title fight, Ronda would never have held a belt, Sonnen would never get big fights…
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