UFC Nightmare Scenarios 2016

[WouldNotBang]

McGregor testing positive for Peds, and finding out the UFC was aware. (He has put on some mass in a few months) Also McGregor losing to RDA and Frankie back to back.

 

[Exemplar]

Credit to Diggem in another thread.

* McG loses to RDA at 155
* RDA moves down and takes the 145 strap from McG

The UFC, McG fanboys would all need suicide watch.

 

[Evangelion]

All Ufc champs have a champions clause.

The only way McGregor leaves is if he loses his next two fights which would obviously kill his marketability anyways.True Rousey will only fight once this year but multiple Jones fights will offset that.

There will be no mass exodus to Bellator. The Ufc still pays elite fighters far better and lower level fighters as well.

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

The ONLY thing I see is the Reebok deal.

Think about it. The mass-exodus and Bellator rising are all a result of the reebok deal. People leave (the exodus), mainly to Bellator (rising) because of the $$$ the reebok deal takes away from the fighters.

Hopefully, Reebok will re-adjust their payouts in the near future. UFC will need to step up their fighter payouts too, and maybe release some "filler" fighters so they don't have to pay those fighters, opening up more budget too add to the payout of the fighters they still have. (Ino it probably doesn't really work that way, but just my 2 cents)

I think it's pretty much set-in-stone that the contract between UFC and Reebok is $70,000,000 over six years, which locks the payscale to whatever it is now, however they want to divide it (I won't be surprised if they go back to the "ranking" incentive system hoping to confuse some of the fans in thinking that they've "fixed" the Reebok sponsorship problem).

But the fact that there was serious ambiguity about whether or not Overeem and Sterling were about to defect to Bellator (despite both being in the top five in the UFC and on the cusp of title shots) shows that the attitude has very much changed towards Bellator. Bellator's no longer this distant secondary promotion known only for six-week tournaments full of unknown fighters as it once was.

And all it would take would be a serious commitment from Viacom to really invest major money in Bellator MMA (and live sporting events are some of the most coveted programming on television) for it to be a legitimate threat to the UFC.

 

[Zarra]

USADA.