Dana pretending Aspinall is a substitute for Ngannou vs Jones is weak as f##k

[TheMaster]

Nobody outside the MMA hardocre fanbase knows or cares who Aspinall is. He is still most famous for asking that Nina Drama cringe questions at this point. Let's see him win another 2-3 fights at HW, build his name and brand recognition since he is still basically a random in the public mind at this time, and then it may be worth Jones time in maybe a year.

Dana messed up badly with scuffing the Jones - Ngannou superfight, he isnt convincing anyone that this is the biggest fight of the year let alone of all time lmao.

 

[svmr_db]

Lol @ framing Ngannou as some big superstar by comparison. Remind me how many PPVs he sold in the cards he headlined vs Gane & Ferreira?

 

[TheMaster]

Lol @ framing Ngannou as some big superstar by comparison. Remind me how many PPVs he sold in the cards he headlined vs Gane & Ferreira?

Fought much more high profile UFC title fights
Fought the biggest HW boxing star of the past 15 years.
Yes he a huge superstar in comparison.

 

[JosephTessaro]

I would honestly like to see Jones relinquish, drop back down and fight Alex at LHW. I think it would be unfair for the UFC to skip over Aspinall to make Jones vs. Alex at HW.

If that can't happen in the next let's say 6 months or so...now that Jones appears healthy, then a HW fight with Aspinall is probably what needs to happen since Tom is the HW interim champ...

But the UFC can be known for making the fights they think will pull the biggest numbers so who knows what's going to happen.

At the end of the day, Jones is 37, he's going to want the biggest pay day and easiest fight on paper...

 

[MigitAs]

Ngannou old

 

[Dave Poodle]

Francis isn't in the UFC anymore. It has nothing to do with him. They held up the division for 2 years to give Jon a meaningless fight he wanted. Now it's time to unify with the interim title and get the division moving. It's incredibly obvious to anyone with a functioning brain. Don't know why some Jones fans have such difficulty grasping it.

 

[SpiderFan187]

Lol @ framing Ngannou as some big superstar by comparison. Remind me how many PPVs he sold in the cards he headlined vs Gane & Ferreira?

I had this discussion with a friend recently, just need to look at their social following to see how much of a bigger star Francis is. From memory it was something like 16 million to 600k on one of them.

 

[Brigfa2]

I had this discussion with a friend recently, just need to look at their social following to see how much of a bigger star Francis is. From memory it was something like 16 million to 600k on one of them.

How many of that 16 million bought the Ngannou vs Ferreria PPV?

 

[SpiderFan187]

How many of that 16 million bought the Ngannou vs Ferreria PPV?

He asked the same question and my response was that's a PFL thing and not a Francis thing.

 

[Brigfa2]

He asked the same question and my response was that's a PFL thing and not a Francis thing.

That proves he is nothing without UFC or a huge name like Fury

 

[lsa]

I mean, Aspinall is in the UFC, Francis is not.
Why would he hype a fight that is not possible to make.

And right now at HW that IS the fight.
Unifying the belts.

 

[Brigfa2]

Ngannou trend died faster than Fidget Spinners, he was popular for 3 days when he fought against Fury and after that no one cared about him

 

[SpiderFan187]

That proves he is nothing without UFC or a huge name like Fury

lol you're so dramatic ay.. being a "nothing" hw made millions more money being a somebody in the UFC. You can argue it as much as you want but he's more well known than Tom.

 

[MarioLemieux]

Dana says Aspinall and Tom will be the biggest HW fight ever and that he has no interest in Jon fighting Pereira.

Jon and his fans won't be able to worm themselves out of this one I'm afraid.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

How many of that 16 million bought the Ngannou vs Ferreria PPV?

How many people bought the World Series? The World Cup? The Superbowl?

Mainstream recognition is beyond PPV, PPV is for niche stuff. UFC fans have a terrible time recognizing this. That's why they always randomly compare boxing PPVs to UFC PPVs not realizing that PPVs are more important to the UFC than they are to boxing.

Ngannou is WAY more famous than Aspinall, and has made way more money. He's made more money than Tom will ever make unless Tom leaves the UFC also.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Jon/Ngannou is still a bigger fight but all this "Tom is a nobody" shit is getting tiresome now. Hes almost cleared out his division all via first round finishes and had people chanting his name at the Jon/Stipe press conference. He is more than big enough to fight Jon in a PPV main event at this point.

 

[David Street]

Ngannou old

Yeah, he has been talking retirement too. No loss him not fighting anymore UFC.

 

[Brigfa2]

How many people bought the World Series? The World Cup? The Superbowl?

Mainstream recognition is beyond PPV, PPV is for niche stuff. UFC fans have a terrible time recognizing this. That's why they always randomly compare boxing PPVs to UFC PPVs not realizing that PPVs are more important to the UFC than they are to boxing.

Ngannou is WAY more famous than Aspinall, and has made way more money. He's made more money than Tom will ever make unless Tom leaves the UFC also.

I don't care about how much money Ngannou or Aspinall makes, they are not giving me a cut from their paycheck. We are talking about PPV's because he say this would be the biggest fight of all time. Dana doesn't care if some boxing fan talks about the fight for 10 seconds, he cares about the money and Ngannou will never be a cash cow. PPV is important for boxing btw, Ngannou got millions because of the Saudis so that's different. Floyd wouldn't got hundreds of millions if he was not a PPV star
Even hardcore MMA fans didn't care about the Ferreira fight, people talked about it for a day and that's it.
Even Conor vs Chandler would get more buys than Jones vs Ngannou.

 

[World eater]

That proves he is nothing without UFC or a huge name like Fury

I’m guessing that applies to any fighter.

 

[Thy]

Dana says Aspinall and Tom will be the biggest HW fight ever and that he has no interest in Jon fighting Pereira.

Jon and his fans won't be able to worm themselves out of this one I'm afraid.

they gonna clone him to fight himself?