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The UFC’s 2018 is in bad need of saving. Don’t think so? Consider this: Conor McGregor hasn’t been inside a cage for almost two years, Ronda Rousey is now …
The UFC’s 2018 is in bad need of saving. Don’t think so? Consider this: Conor McGregor hasn’t been inside a cage for almost two years, Ronda Rousey is now …
The UFC’s horrible run of PPV numbers continues.
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Last Saturday night’s (Sat., July 7, 2018) UFC 226 from Las Vegas was supposed to be the biggest UFC card of the year.
Featuring a heavyweight superfight between record-breaking champion Stipe Miocic and light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, the card also boasted a stacked lineup of top-level talent that, for the most part, produced an extremely entertaining night of action-packed fights.
True, the card lost its Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega co-main event only three days before fight night and the new co-main, an awaited heavyweight slugfest between Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou that turned out to be anything but didn’t deliver, but the prospect of Miocic vs. Cormier for the heavyweight title was legitimately one of the best match-ups in UFC history, at least on paper. However, that reportedly failed to translate into success at the box office despite a shocking KO from Cormier.
According to MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer, the card didn’t exactly do gangbusters at the box office, continuing a disturbing trend of UFC PPVs that have failed to draw anything resembling great numbers as of late:
“The expectation going in was that this would be the biggest show so far this year. But the most preliminary of pay-per-view estimates have the show doing a little under 400,000 buys. There are those who believe the loss of Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega hurt interest, but Cormier vs. Miocic on its own should have been able to do bigger numbers.”
The preliminary card did decent numbers by comparison, with the bouts earning FOX Sports 1 the top spot for cable sports networks. In terms of overall television sports broadcasts, the UFC got third place behind NASCAR on NBC at 4,437,000 viewers and Major League Baseball on FOX at 2,217,000 viewers. The prelims peaked at 800,00 viewers for the featured Paulo Costa vs. Uriah Hall match.
However, the FS1-aired pre-fight show only earned 254,000 viewers and the post-fight show only 155,000 viewers, very disappointing figures considering the circus-like atmosphere Brock Lesnar fostered after Cormier’s win over Miocic.
The low pay-per-view buys continue for the world’s MMA leader, with UFC 226’s estimated sub-400,000 buys following up June’s concerning 250,000 buys – a number that was initially projected at a paltry 150,000 buys. That’s why the UFC is bringing Lesnar back, but at this rate, it may not be worth the perceived insult to the integrity of the UFC – if it has any left at this point.
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One former UFC champ thinks Brock Lesnar is ‘absolutely’ on ********.
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Former UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar’s UFC return is all but a formality – if he can pass series of stringent drug tests, that is.
After the WWE star returned to the UFC in an over-the-top, circus-like affair following Daniel Cormier’s first-round knockout win over Stipe Miocic in the main event of last weekend’s (Sat., July 7, 2018) UFC 226 from Las Vegas, USADA recently revealed the earliest date Lesnar can return to MMA – next January.
With “The Beast” still serving a roughly six-month suspension from his failed tests for clomiphene during his 2016 return at UFC 200 in a victory over Mark Hunt that was overturned to a no contest, Lesnar has only just re-entered the testing pool. The UFC granted him a waiver of the normally mandatory four-month testing period for un-retiring fighters, and they looked incredibly bad for making a glaring exception for Lesnar only to see him fail.
So the heat is back on Brock, so to say, and it may be a tougher fight for him to pass all his required drug tests than his match against Cormier (yes, even though the early odds say Cormier will destroy him with ease). One former UFC champion doesn’t believe he will be able to in order to cash in on arguably the least-deserved title shot in UFC history, as Lesnar hasn’t won since 2010.
Dominick Cruz told the Scott & BR Show on 1090 AM in San Diego (via MMA News) that he absolutely thinks Lesnar is doping:
“Absolutely. One hundred percent,” Cruz said. “If he makes it to the fight I’d be shocked. And I just mean that because USADA is the toughest anti-doping system there is on planet Earth, and that guy is absolutely doping. Period. No ifs, ands or buts about it. And he’s not been in mixed martial arts, so of course he’s been doing that stuff.”
In fact, Cruz believes it so much so he’d be surprised if the hulking professional wrestler actually makes it to the fight:
“How they’re going to get him to be clean on fight night is beyond me.”
You’ll be hard-pressed to find several fans who disagree with Cruz’ opinion here, as Lesnar has long been suspected of PED use and has of course been officially busted in MMA now.
He’ll be eligible to fight again on next January, but he’ll be facing a full gauntlet of USADA tests required to return in the meantime. Is Cruz right in his assumption, or will Lesnar buck the odds and make it to fight night versus Cormier without incident?
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Brock Lesnar is back in the UFC and he’s not pulling any punches with the heavyweight division. The former UFC champion and current WWE superstar has officially announced his intention to fight again after entering the USADA drug testing program …
Brock Lesnar is back in the UFC and he’s not pulling any punches with the heavyweight division. The former UFC champion and current WWE superstar has officially announced his intention to fight again after entering the USADA drug testing program as of July 3 and it’s expected he will fight for the title in early […]
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Daniel Cormier is already a betting favorite before he’s even signed on the dotted line to face Brock Lesnar. This past Saturday night (July 7), Cormier challenged Stipe Miocic for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight title. Cormi…
Daniel Cormier is already a betting favorite before he’s even signed on the dotted line to face Brock Lesnar. This past Saturday night (July 7), Cormier challenged Stipe Miocic for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight title. Cormier knocked out Miocic in the first round to become a two-division champion. “DC” is the only UFC […]
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Daniel Cormier very well could defend his light heavyweight championship before fighting Brock Lesnar. “DC” won the heavyweight championship at UFC 226 this past weekend (Sat. July 7, 2018) when he defeated Stipe Miocic via first round knoc…
Daniel Cormier very well could defend his light heavyweight championship before fighting Brock Lesnar. “DC” won the heavyweight championship at UFC 226 this past weekend (Sat. July 7, 2018) when he defeated Stipe Miocic via first round knockout. After the fight Cormier was confronted by Brock Lesnar in a shoving match, before UFC President Dana […]
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