Who is the biggest UFC star in Europe right now?

[20falarVerdades]

The answer is Michael Bisping and here's why. I understand why people might naively say it is Connor but this is not true. Connor is only popular in Ireland which is a micro country, while Bisping is popular in the whole United Kingdom

Ireland 6 million
UK 65 million

The rest of Europe is irrelevant as MMA is not a thing there

 

[Luger]

Lobov by far

 

[qw3rty]

Aisling Daly by far

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

Conor and it's not even Close.

 

[Etype]

Lobov by far

This.
Russian-Irish, so 142M hardened Russian fans plus the 6M Irish drunks who started watching UFC when Runner McTapper joined.

 

[Bogeyman]

Going by your logic, Alex Reid is the biggest UFC star in Europe. He's certainly more well known in the UK than Bisping.

 

[KOfinger]

Overeem without any doubt... but that's because of k-1 which is still 100x bigger than the ufc in europe.

 

[CasterMard]

Dennis Siver, German from Russia, 85 million + 150 million. UK is a small country so it's irrelevant.

 

[Merman]

Artem....Khabib has been ducking him!

 

[Mixedfights]

Conor is the most popular anywhere.

 

[ilfirin]

The answer is Michael Bisping and here's why. I understand why people might naively say it is Connor but this is not true. Connor is only popular in Ireland which is a micro country, while Bisping is popular in the whole United Kingdom

Ireland 6 million
UK 65 million

The rest of Europe is irrelevant as MMA is not a thing there

Eh. It's plenty relevant in the rest of Europe. However no one outside the UK gives a flying fuck about Bisping. Conor has brought more fans to the sport in a couple of years than Bisping could in a lifetime.

 

[raubobrabo]

bisping????buuuhahahhaaahh

 

[kevo1295]

Nice job TS. All you provided were the population sizes of the UK and Ireland without providing any fan-base statistics.

 

[Gnomecuddler]

Overeem due to K1 and of course Fedor

 

[JT RIPPER]

So Conor having 1/10th the population yet gets more PPV buys...please explain

(And I'm usually a Conor doubter but come on!)

 

[wilKO]

Man. Your troll account is tiresome. And you have the audacity to sport Arsenal AVs. Conor is more popular in Manchester than Bisping. Let's not even compare Europe