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UFC 225 Continues Trend Of Poor PPV Numbers

The numbers are in, and they aren’t pretty. According to a report from Lance Pugmire of the LA Times, UFC 225 — which took place last Saturday night at United Center in Chicago, Illinois, and which featured a brilliant main event between mi…

The numbers are in, and they aren’t pretty. According to a report from Lance Pugmire of the LA Times, UFC 225 — which took place last Saturday night at United Center in Chicago, Illinois, and which featured a brilliant main event between middleweight studs Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero — did less than 150,000 pay-per-view […]

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Dana White: If You Can’t Respect CM Punk, Then You’re a ‘[Expletive] Idiot’

CM Punk may be done with the UFC but that doesn’t mean he’s lost the respect of UFC president Dana White. It was White who inked Punk to a multi-fight deal back in 2014 after the former WWE superstar decided to give up professional wrestlin…

CM Punk may be done with the UFC but that doesn’t mean he’s lost the respect of UFC president Dana White. It was White who inked Punk to a multi-fight deal back in 2014 after the former WWE superstar decided to give up professional wrestling and try a new career in mixed martial arts. More […]

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Joe Rogan Destroys CM Punk’s UFC 225 Performance

Joe Rogan didn’t hold back in assessing CM Punk’s UFC 225 performance:

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Last Saturday (June 9, 2018), former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Phil “CM Punk” Brooks made his second Octagon appearance, taking on Mike Jackson on the main card of UFC 225 from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

And while the fight lasted longer than his professional debut, which ended in just minutes when he was submitted by Mickey Gall at UFC 203 in September 2016, the fight was still quite lackluster to say the least, as Punk suffered a one-sided decision loss.

Following the fight, UFC President Dana White said that the 39-year-old should retire and it’s likely that we’ve seen the last of him in the UFC. As far as his abilities go, Punk is clearly leaps and bounds behind his opposition at this stage of his training and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan even went as far as to say that he ‘does not have athletic talent’:

“He’s a very nice guy and he’s a hard worker, but he does not have athletic talent,” Rogan said on a recent edition of his podcast. “He’s missing….he’s a showman, and when he was in the WWE, he was allowed to say, ‘I am the fucking man!’ And throw his hand up in the air and say he is the man, and they had it scripted so that he was the man. But when you’re in there with a guy like Mike Jackson, who had zero fear of him and was just so casual, popping him in the face anytime he wanted to, he literally could’ve stopped him anytime, if he got angry and wanted to stop him, he could’ve at any point in the fight.”

Rogan also said, however, that Punk’s lack of success in the sport thus far is certainly not because of his coach, the well-respected Duke Roufus, but once again due to his lack of athleticism:

“He doesn’t have the ability to move his body right. There’s a lot of guys you can take out there, track and field guys, football players and you can get them to fight better than him in a couple of weeks easily because they are athletes,” Rogan said.

“They’d understand how to shift their weight and throw a punch. He doesn’t have any talent, is all it is, he doesn’t have physical talent for whatever reason. Whether it’s his approach, his intensity. It’s not his coaching, it’s Duke-fucking-Roufus.”

What do you make of Rogan’s comments?

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UFC 225 Bombs Massively At The Box Office

The UFC could have a real problem on their hands here:

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If initial reports prove true, last weekend’s (Sat., June 9, 2018) UFC 225 from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, was a massive flop at the box office.

According to a report from the LA Times’ Lance Pugmire, the Robert Whittaker vs. Yoel Romero-headlined pay-per-view event did under 150,000 buys, putting it on par amongst the worst-selling UFC pay-per-views of all-time.

UC 225 was supposed to be the biggest pay-per-view of 2018 thus far, a card featuring two title fights (although one became a non-title bout due to Romero missing weight) and the return of supposedly bankable pay-per-view seller CM Punk. But the card reportedly failed to deliver on that hype, with both title fights and the former pro-wrestler’s ghastly second UFC bout failing to top even 200,000 buys – or reportedly even 150,000.

The promotion has seen a number of cards hit that low mark in recent years, with last July’s UFC 213, also headlined by a Whittaker vs. Romero interim title fight also drawing in the neighborhood of 150,000 buys after its original Amanda Nunes vs. Valentina Shevchenko main event fell through at the last minute. Overall, the number puts it in the territory of multiple pay-per-views headlined by dominant flyweight champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson, who is often derided for his lack of an ability to sell PPV cards.

However, from the looks of things, it may not just be Johnson’s fault, as the UFC’s lack of true stars in addition to seemingly never-ending last-minute changes to events due to weight cutting has put them in a clear down period for pay-per-view buys.

The absence of Conor McGregor, who will appear in court tomorrow on assault charges stemming from his April 5 outburst in Brooklyn, New York, obviously has much to do with the UFC’s continued down stretch of PPV buys, but so could the supposed oversaturation of UFC content – a trend that doesn’t seem to be ending with the promotion’s new television partnership with ESPN.

At this point, it’s looking like more than just a down stretch, because it’s been happening for over a year now.

What, if anything, can the UFC do about their slumping pay-per-view sales?

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Top WWE Star Thinks He Could Beat Mike Jackson In MMA Fight

Mike Jackson has reacted to one WWE superstar thinking he could beat him in an MMA fight.

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Mike Jackson has reacted to one top WWE superstar thinking he could beat him in an MMA fight.

That star is former WWE champion Daniel Bryan. This WWE talent has been a long-time follower of MMA and even did some training at Xtreme Couture in 2009. Bryan holds a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and uses the techniques that he has learned in his pro wrestling matches.

However, Bryan does have a history of suffering concussions as he was forced to retire from in-ring competition in 2016 as a result but was finally cleared by a team of medical experts back in March and is now back in the sports entertainment company as a full-time wrestler.

During a recent live Instagram story that was posted by his wife, Brie Bella, Bryan was asked if he could beat Jackson and Bryan replied with the following:

“Did they just ask me if I could beat Mike Jackson in a fight?” Bryan said. “I could beat him on the ground, for sure, I think. If the WWE would let me fight in the UFC, maybe [I would prove it].”

As seen in the opening bout of the main card for Saturday’s (June 9, 2018) UFC 225 pay-per-view event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, Jackson was able to beat Punk, real name Phil Brooks, by unanimous decision.

It didn’t take long for Jackson to respond to Bryan’s comments and had a lot to say.

“A friend of mine, who is a journalist reached out and said, ‘Yo, did you hear Daniel Bryan called you out?’” Jackson said to FanSided. “I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ He sends it to me and I remember seeing that headline. I was like, ‘Yo, this is getting out of control now.’

“He says, ‘Man, I can beat him on the ground in a UFC fight.’ Look Daniel Bryan; I will do you worse than I did your man Punk because I will have no reservations in punching this guy in the face 100-percent. And at will. . .

“If Daniel Bryan wants the smoke, just call me the chimney man because I’ve got the smoke.”

This led to Jackson also taking to social media to comment on the statements made by Bryan as well as send him a warning.

“Hey, @WWEDanielBryan, don’t let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash. You don’t want to get potatoed like your mans did at #UFC225.”

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Mike Jackson Reached Out To Dana White To Discuss CM Punk Fight Controversy

Mike Jackson may have defeated CM Punk at UFC 225 in dominant fashion this past weekend (Sat. June 9, 2018), but UFC President Dana White was nowhere near impressed. In fact, the UFC boss was furious at Jackson for showboating and dragging the fight ou…

Mike Jackson may have defeated CM Punk at UFC 225 in dominant fashion this past weekend (Sat. June 9, 2018), but UFC President Dana White was nowhere near impressed. In fact, the UFC boss was furious at Jackson for showboating and dragging the fight out longer than it needed to go. White feels that Jackson […]

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