Has any fighter in history in any combat sports got their a** kicked in front of more people than Conor Mcgregor?

[Bigmoney4166]

Serious question, I am genuinely curious, if any fighter in any combat sports got their ass kicked in front of more people than Conor Mcgregor. It could be boxing, MMA, kickboxing etc.

Conor has got his ass kicked by Nate Diaz in the first fight (1.3 million PPV buys)



Conor got his ass kicked by Khabib (2.4 million PPV buys)

Dustin Poirier vs Conor Mcgregor 2 (1.6 million PPV buys)

Dustin Poirier vs Mcgregor 3 (1.8 million PPV buys)
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Floyd Mayweather vs Conor Mcgregor (4.3 million PPV buys)

Adding all the PPV numbers up, it comes to a total of 11.4 million PPV buys. Lets assume the average PPV buy is for a household or gathering of friends of 4 people, but then we include places like sports bars and busy places that air the PPV to hundreds, so lets say average 5 per PPV buy)
5 x 11.4 million is a staggering 57 million people

Roughly 57 million people watched Conor get his ass kicked, and that's only the live audience of PPV buyers, and not including those who watch it through illegal streaming, watching on YouTube the day after, watching on MMAcore weeks later etc). If we include all that its probably close to 70 million people.

So, has any fighter in any sport come close to getting their ass whooped in front of more people than Conor? (approx 70 million). I can't think of any fighter that comes even remotely close

Most likely Mike Tyson

 

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Hard to think of anyone else.

 

[markg171]

The haters are 100000x more embarrassing than the fanboys

 

[TheTickG]

Serious question, I am genuinely curious, if any fighter in any combat sports got their ass kicked in front of more people than Conor Mcgregor. It could be boxing, MMA, kickboxing etc.

Conor has got his ass kicked by Nate Diaz in the first fight (1.3 million PPV buys)



Conor got his ass kicked by Khabib (2.4 million PPV buys)

Dustin Poirier vs Conor Mcgregor 2 (1.6 million PPV buys)

Dustin Poirier vs Mcgregor 3 (1.8 million PPV buys)
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Floyd Mayweather vs Conor Mcgregor (4.3 million PPV buys)

Adding all the PPV numbers up, it comes to a total of 11.4 million PPV buys. Lets assume the average PPV buy is for a household or gathering of friends of 4 people, but then we include places like sports bars and busy places that air the PPV to hundreds, so lets say average 5 per PPV buy)
5 x 11.4 million is a staggering 57 million people

Roughly 57 million people watched Conor get his ass kicked, and that's only the live audience of PPV buyers, and not including those who watch it through illegal streaming, watching on YouTube the day after, watching on MMAcore weeks later etc). If we include all that its probably close to 70 million people.

So, has any fighter in any sport come close to getting their ass whooped in front of more people than Conor? (approx 70 million). I can't think of any fighter that comes even remotely close

Foreman had about 50 million people watch him get beat by Ali.

 

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[JakePaulMMA]

Maybe not, but he also won the Aldo, Diaz 2, and Alverez fights you omitted.

Get very fucking lucky againt Aldo and ran away from Nate (Condit v Diaz went the same way years ago. Running away wins in the eyes of the judges). Starched the shit out of Eddie. That fight didn't even look fair and I'm not even bad mouthing Eddie.

 

[AmonTobin]

In a single mma fight, Conor must be at or near the top for attendance records. Tony Ferguson must be catching up to him with all these losses on big cards.

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

There was a time, way back in the day, where a guy named Andrew Golota was basically the perennial punching bag of the Heavyweight boxing division…

Don King Promoted like 3 of the 4 alphabet boxing champions, and instead of letting them fight each other, he at them take turns fight Golota…

And of course, since it’s Don King we are talking about, many of those fights were on PPV…

 

[El Fernas]

Its interesting how people still tune in for years and a lot of loses in a row, his return fight will still sell 1 million PPV buys most likely, and he might lose again, its special cause boxers dont jump from losing to another hard fight, so they rarely go through multiple PPV loses.

Maybe not, but he also won the Aldo, Diaz 2, and Alverez fights you omitted.

Of course those were not mentioned, its the point of the thread...fighters losing on PPV.

 

[orca]

Those 3 added together don’t even add up to the number of people that saw him lose to Mayweather. WAY more people have seen him lose than win. And it’s not even close. The difference is in fact several million.

Imagine still washing Conor’s balls a week out from 2024. That’s bizarre, imo. He’s a lowlife.

pretty sure many newer people still watch his highlight reels
people nowadays just watch highlights

 

[BigOlJeet]

If you're being honest with yourself it's probably 95% of the same viewership that watched him become the very first fighter to capture 2 UFC belts.

I don't see the need to pile on Conor nowadays, he's been humbled and took his L's. And it appears that he's potentially dealing with drug addiction too, fighting isn't even gonna be part of the equation until he figures that out if it's true.

He took his L’s and he’ll take more L’s whenever he gets back, but he def never got humbled lol him and his rabid nuthuggers still believe Khabib retired out of fear of a rematch

 

[Osculater]

And made the most money!

 

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