Ever since the clash between heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and No. 1 contender Junior Dos Santos was moved to take place on the first ever event the UFC will have on the Fox network, many people have been speculating what will replace the fight on November 19th and many fans attending the event are complaining about the lack of a pay-per-view-worthy main event now with the title fight being moved.
Currently, the high profile fights on the card include Martin Kampmann vs. Rick Story, Ryan Bader vs. Jason Brilz and Urijah Faber vs. Brian Bowles. Those fights mixed in with the other fights currently on the card would make for a great “Fight Night” card, but it’s hard to hope for north of 500,000 PPV buys with that, let alone 250.
Right now, the UFC is focused on the promotion’s debut on Fox, Brock Lesnar‘s return, Alistair Overeem’s UFC debut and returning to Japan next February. Because of this, several cards, like this one, are suffering.
That is why one change to this card will make it at least a little more pay-per-view-worthy:
Make the Urijah Faber-Brian Bowles match for the interim bantamweight championship the main event.
It might seem like an odd move, seeing as how there is a bantamweight championship match happening not two months earlier between champion Dominick Cruz and Demetrious Johnson, but the move does make a decent amount of sense:
1. The Bowles-Faber fight is already a No. 1 contender’s fight, so this being added to the mix would just be the icing on the cake.
2. The winners can be billed as fighting for the “undisputed bantamweight championship” sometime in 2012, possibly the Super Bowl weekend card.
3. Both of these guys have won championships before, so it wouldn’t be new territory for them.
It would be a long shot for the UFC to make the change, but if it were to be done, it would make UFC 139 a little more marketable
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