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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I always laugh at the comments about Dana/UFC suffering when a champ loses. At this point Zuffa are hype machines and known how to build stars. Remember the posts how the UFC is going to suffer when GSP retired, Silva lost etc etc? New stars emerged, new stars will continue to emerge. While those guys left Ronda Rousey and Connor Mcgregor dominated the ppv market like those before them.
In meantime the rematch will be huge dollars for the UFC and Ronda is still a bonafide star.
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Well the reason I think that the UFC suffers is because I don’t think Holm can sell PPVs the same way. I think we have seen that with Weidman as well compared to Anderson Silva. Connor can sell fights at this point, but if he gets beat up and exposed by Aldo then his draw probably decreases as well. Will people pay $60 to see Rousey fight say Zingano or Tate with no title involved? Will they pay $60 to see Holm defend against Tate or Zingano? Maybe, but probably a smaller audience is my guess.
Then you have other fighters who are going to be very interested in what Ronda gets paid. I saw one tweet about a guy saying 'so now Rousey gets the $5k Reebok sponsorship when she fights?' kind of thing. Interesting impacts from this fight.