Bump..
With Dana "saying" Conor has to fight by the end of March or vacate, and that Khabib vs Tony winner will then fight Conor. Plus, the biggest event the UFC took part in last year, was a boxing event with an MMA athlete in it.. One can reasonably begin to assume, Nate vs Conor 3, could happen St Patty's Day (March), in Ireland or even Boston, maybe NYC, in a boxing ring. In doing so, if Conor gets beat by Nate, the UFC protects Conor as the UFC LW Champ, for a future fight in possibly July (if Tony beats Khabib) at International Fight Week, or in Sep (if Khabib beats Tony) in Russia or LA, to unify the 155 belts. I say vs Nate, because it's the biggest "money fight", the UFC can do in terms of ppv numbers and marketability, mma or boxing, beside a Conor vs GSP mma match.. which isn't going to ever happen.
If the boxing match were in Ireland, the ppv card could reasonably be:
Nate vs Conor 3 main event
Bisping vs Masvidal co-main
Mendes vs Artem
Duffy vs CVH
If the boxing match were in Boston or NY, the ppv card could reasonably be:
Nate vs Conor 3
Rumble vs Ngannou
Cody vs Choi
Cruz vs Cub
Then Zuffa/UFC boxing, has future fights like Stipe vs Rumble, Nick Diaz vs Bisping, Nick Diaz vs Masvidal, Nate vs Holloway, Nate vs Masvidal, Mendes vs TJ, Edgar vs TJ, DJ vs Edgar, Edgar vs Cejudo, Cody vs Cub, Cub vs Johnson, Aldo vs Johnson, Choi vs Cruz..
Say they do 3-4 ppv boxing events a year, plus add in some young prospect boxers and a few older boxers who have said they would box a mma athlete if the situation was right.. like Zab, Berto, Mayfield, Gervonta, Lomachenko, Garcia, GGG, Porter, etc.. like Paulie vs Conor, Roy Jones Jr vs Anderson Silva or Ngannou vs Fury, and the Duffy vs CVH fight I listed earlier for Ireland.
