True or false: Kamaru usman is now a bigger star than Jon Jones

[Peli]

Usman has now finished all 3 of his title defense opponents. Ufc 251 sold over a million buys but was a snoozer but usman redeemed himself and his knockout of masvidal is going way the hell viral.

Dana now has two stars that are champions in the matter of a few months.(ngannou and usman)

Now colby is next. Usman's win over colby in their first match and the viral knockout of 261 can help sell colby-usman 2.

261 may or may not have done a million but it doesn't matter if they got a star out of it or if they can generate some money fights from it.

Is usman star power now bigger than Jon Jones? I think Francis -ngannou is the fight to make. And jones should be paid a lot of money for that fight but outside of that fight, will usman end up making more money than Jon in the long run?

Usman-chimaev if khamzat lives up to the hype could be another massive fignt

 

[Deleted member 576123]

At this point, Roxanne Modafferi is a bigger star than Bones

 

[RemyR]

Doubt

 

[Ballsaque]

Nop, no one cares about him.

 

[PabloMEX]

Who?

 

[Rvd Slmr]

Well, Usman has been a lot more active in the last few years (not being suspended for PED helps...) and had better fights against more popular opponents. Casuals have a short memory so it wouldn't be surprising that Usman is currently a bigger star.

 

[The-AxeMurderer]

Jones stardom is overrated.

He has never had PPV over 1 million buys.

 

[Peli]

Doubt

I'm 50-50. I think colby vs usman is going to sell now because of this viral finish and because of the bad blood and the previous match. I wouldn't be surprised at 900k/1million

Chimaev too is another seller if he lives up to the hype. That would sell too.

 

[Satan's Daddy.]

Jones stardom is overrated.

He has never had PPV over 1 million buys.

He had multiple, don't believe all the numbers. There's a lot of casual fans so who knows, word gets passed around from folk to folk and ppl buy it one after another.

 

[FanofC]

Yep

Usman vs Colby 2 >>> Jones vs Ngannou

 

[13Seconds]

I'd say yes. Jones is yesterdays news. Dropped his belt over a year ago, rarely appears on camera, rarely get's mentioned... The LHW division moved on well with the gigantic titlefight that was Jan/Izzy.

Meanwhile Kamaru is active as fuck, destroying his challengers, bromance with the popular HW champ Ngannou getting viral attention, does alot of media

 

[jk7707]

Jon who?

 

[Rvd Slmr]

He had multiple, don't believe all the numbers.

And we should believe you because...?

 

[King in the North]

Probably true but Jon isn’t that big a star. He never was. Bigger than average, yes. But he’s no Mcgregor.

 

[Simple Southerner]

False

 

[Peli]

He had multiple, don't believe all the numbers. There's a lot of casual fans so who knows, word gets passed around from folk to folk and ppl buy it one after another.

Daniel Cormier said the most money he made was with Jones, that ppv did around 800k buys. The UFC anti-trust lawsuit reveals that number.

I highly doubt he did a million anywhere else.

 

[SerbBerserk]

Usman already did over a million with Masvidal, and has been more active and exciting lately, plus his association with a rising star in Ngannou helps, bigger star then jones imo.

 

[Peli]

Usman already did over a million with Masvidal, and has been more active and exciting lately, plus his association with a rising star in Ngannou helps, bigger star then jones imo.

Plus he got the khabib co-sign.

 

[John Creed]

Not right now, of course not. Jones has been on top for too long.

 

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