My top 10 Needle Movers list

[OneGloveGracie]

This is who I think the current top 10 most popular active UFC fighters are
1. Conor Mcgregor
2. Ronda Rousey
3. Jon Jones
4. Anderson Silva
5. Lyoto Machida
6. Nate Diaz
7. Robbie Lawler
8. Nick Diaz
9. Junior Dos Santos
10. Cain Velasquez

agree/disagree? post your lists.

 

[UberTouchbutt an trt sald]

Omg those guys are all junkies?

 

[Brock Tober]

9 and 10 need to go for sure.

 

[mikehunt]

 

[IMSAYIN]

Nick is under suspension.

 

[Hans Gercmiov]

Lombard, Yoel, Barentt, Vitor, Tibau.

 

[OneGloveGracie]

Nick is under suspension.

well he fought in 2015 and he will most probably fight this year.... so I consider that active.

 

[MMAViewer]

GSP?

 

[Greedy Dana]

GSP?

Active

 

[Greedy Dana]

Lombard, Yoel, Barentt, Vitor, Tibau.

I'm not too proud to admit that this joke took me a solid 10 seconds to understand.

 

[OneGloveGracie]

GSP?

"active fighters". GSP hasn't fought in over 2 years and IMO he probably won't fight this year despite the rumors.

 

[Hans Gercmiov]

I'm not too proud to admit that this joke took me a solid 10 seconds to understand.

Better later than never.

 

[Bend NvR Break]

1. Ronda
2. McGregor
3. Jones
4. Andersen
5. Rumble
6. Werdum
7. Cain
8. Faber
9. Overeem
10. Machida

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

Avg PPV Buys (with at least 3 Main Events; limited to present-2011*):

1,175,000 -- Conor (3)
770,000 -- GSP (4*)
706,667 -- Weidman (3)
680,000 -- Ronda (5)
660,000 -- Anderson (7*)
570,000 -- Nick Diaz (4)
514,444 -- Jones (9)
475,000 -- Cormier (3)
466,667 -- Condit (3)
452,500 -- Cigano (4)


- Velasquez' average is 400,000
- Machida, Vitor, only have two PPVs since 2011 (as M.E.)

 

[OneGloveGracie]

Avg PPV Buys (with at least 3 Main Events; limited to present-2011*):

1,175,000 -- Conor (3)
770,000 -- GSP (4*)
706,667 -- Weidman (3)
680,000 -- Ronda (5)
660,000 -- Anderson (7*)
570,000 -- Nick Diaz (4)
514,444 -- Jones (9)
475,000 -- Cormier (3)
466,667 -- Condit (3)
452,500 -- Cigano (4)
- Velasquez' average is 400,000
- Machida, Vitor, only have two PPVs since 2011 (as M.E.)

Well those numbers are very deceptive. Gotta look a little deeper into those stats. Weidman's average is helped by his 2 fights with Silva. Still hasn't proven if he can hold a main event ppv on his own. Condit's numbers are helped by GSP and Nick Diaz.
PPV buys tell a lot (in fact that's how I compiled my list) but they don't tell you everything.

 

[613]

Avg PPV Buys (with at least 3 Main Events; limited to present-2011*):

1,175,000 -- Conor (3)
770,000 -- GSP (4*)
706,667 -- Weidman (3)
680,000 -- Ronda (5)
660,000 -- Anderson (7*)
570,000 -- Nick Diaz (4)
514,444 -- Jones (9)
475,000 -- Cormier (3)
466,667 -- Condit (3)
452,500 -- Cigano (4)


- Velasquez' average is 400,000
- Machida, Vitor, only have two PPVs since 2011 (as M.E.)

Looks about right. Although guys like Nick, and Weidman likely benefited from fighting huge draws

 

[613]

Well those numbers are very deceptive. Gotta look a little deeper into those stats. Weidman's average is helped by his 2 fights with Silva. Still hasn't proven if he can hold a main event ppv on his own. Cigano same thing, her numbers are helped by her fight with Rousey. Still gotta prove if she can hold up a PPV on her own. Condit's numbers are helped by GSP and Nick Diaz.
PPV buys tell a lot (in fact that's how I compiled my list) but they don't tell you everything.

Nicks not a big draw. His numbers are helped by fighting GSP and Anderson in his comeback fight.

 

[tdluxon]

I'm always excited for a vitor fight, he has some great knockouts.

And of course the Diaz bros... No other fighters are as consistently entertaining

 

[dildos]

lyoto too high

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

Well those numbers are very deceptive. Gotta look a little deeper into those stats. Weidman's average is helped by his 2 fights with Silva. Still hasn't proven if he can hold a main event ppv on his own. Cigano same thing, her numbers are helped by her fight with Rousey. Still gotta prove if she can hold up a PPV on her own. Condit's numbers are helped by GSP and Nick Diaz.
PPV buys tell a lot (in fact that's how I compiled my list) but they don't tell you everything.

They're just the numbers.