Do you think Bellator will ever surpass the UFC as the #1 MMA promotion in the world?

[ThatGuy7698]

The UFC is off to a very rough start right now for 2018. They're running out of starpower and their ratings are dropping to all time lows.

Meanwhile Bellator is off to a very good start, with their recent event Rampage vs. Sonnen hitting very high view counts for Bellator standards.

Is this possibly a sign of things to come in the future? I'm not talking anytime soon, but maybe a decade or 2 down the road.

 

[Baba Ghanoush]

No.

 

[Fight Professor]

No. Bellator biggest stars are from the UFC or PRIDE and out of prime.

 

[Cowboy787]

If the UFC doesn't start paying their fighters more and or letting them cash in on their own sponsorship's than it is possible. Not very likely but possible.

 

[RudimarChute]

If WME-IMG keep running it into the ground then maybe.

 

[Sonny Qc]

The UFC is so far ahead.

WME try hard to change that tho...

 

[dim_]

Meanwhile Bellator is off to a very good start, with their recent event Rampage vs. Sonnen hitting very high view counts for Bellator standards.

Bellator 192 with probably their biggest "stars" headlining average 970k, peaked at 1.3m ON FREE TV

Bellator 193 did 470,000 on FREE TV....

in what land is that a good start to the year.. ?



in answer to your question, no.. not if we all live to be 100

 

[LockardTheGOAT]

Bellator's biggest stars are the UFC's leftovers. That Heavyweight grand prix is just embarrassing - Every combatant involved except for Ryan Bader is some old fighter in their late 30's/early 40's.

 

[jonathan274]

The UFC is off to a very rough start right now for 2018. They're running out of starpower and their ratings are dropping to all time lows.

Meanwhile Bellator is off to a very good start, with their recent event Rampage vs. Sonnen hitting very high view counts for Bellator standards.

Is this possibly a sign of things to come in the future? I'm not talking anytime soon, but maybe a decade or 2 down the road.

no i doubt it, history tends to repeat itself

 

[CC27]

Bellator is off to a good start?

Their biggest event did 770k viewers dude, thats what Bjorn's weekly tournament with no name Russian dudes did. Thats not good.

Also their last card just did under 500k again.

 

[ThatGuy7698]

Bellator 192 with probably their biggest "stars" headlining average 970k, peaked at 1.3m ON FREE TV

Bellator 193 did 470,000 on FREE TV....

in what land is that a good start to the year.. ?



in answer to your question, no.. not if we all live to be 100

It's very obvious you didn't pay attention to the part where I wrote "for Bellator standards".

 

[GENERAL AZUL]

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[Cowboy Cerroliveira]

At the trajectory WME is taking it? It's certainly a possibility.

I think we could see promotional dominance in certain divisions, like what Pride once had with the heavyweights.

 

[FrankieNYC]

UFC's profits DESTROYS Bellators whole revenue.
They are not even comparable now

Bellator lost millions on their stacked PPV a few months ago & Rampage/Chael did not pull in good numbers.

MMA interest as a whole is down, but the market share financially is not remotely close!

 

[sustantum]

pfl is here. ufc is done.

 

[BoD 2.0]

Chael Sonnen just advanced to the second round of the Bellator HEAVYWEIGHT tournament.

No.

 

[FrankieNYC]

It's very obvious you didn't pay attention to the part where I wrote "for Bellator standards".

It didn't even do that by Bellator standards
Look at numbers from a few years ago for big Bellator TV cards

The fact you qualified it shows its a silly discussion

 

[Weidman]

With idiots that run UFC today, it very well might.

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

They need every old legend, LOTS of steroids, and iron injections for Chuck's chin.

 

[magicmarker]

It didn't even do that by Bellator standards
Look at numbers from a few years ago for big Bellator TV cards

The fact you qualified it shows its a silly discussion

You're not wrong, but don't you think that being on a network that didn't exist until two days before the fight hurt those numbers.

I watch TV on sling with roku and they didn't even pick up the paramount network channel until a week after it launched so I couldn't have watched it live even if I was prepared and ready to do so, due to the circumstances of how new that network was..