UFC stacked 299 on purpose to give illusion that Sean O’Malley is a PPV draw

Holy fuck O'malley deep in your head lol. The fuck do the UFC gain by convincing people he's a draw if you say he's not a draw? Listen to yourself. Lol

You could have just said they stacking the card because O'malley can't carry it by himself at this point of his career. Instead you went into some stupid conspiracy theory lol. Wtf
 
Facts.

Dustin is the biggest name on the card by far. After how he saw the card shaped up he even said Benoit fight wasnt happening and he probably negotiated a higher amount because its obvious hes the biggest draw on the card.
 
Poirer vs. Saint Denis doesn't even seem like particularly strong support.

Cards like 251 have had 3 title fights.
 
Fatback96 said:
It’s the oldest story in the book:

Big promoter is trying to sell it’s “cash cow” to the public and no better way to convince them but to surround said cow with interesting matchups with big names as well.

Once the PPV sells decent/good numbers, big promoter and it’s shills will quote this one event for eternity as reasons why their “big star” is a PPV draw.

It’s a method that obviously works, everyone is hype to see the card, it’s just very obvious what they’re doing.

Basically what I’m saying is, Sean O’Malley isn’t a PPV draw on his own, which granted is a very hard thing to do. He needs help, and the UFC is willing to invest in him.
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That tactic is how they continue to justify wmma. If they had a wmma event, nobody would watch outside of the anomaly that was ronda rousey
 
Russie said:
I doubt that there was any thought of that. If anything they didn't want a PPV before 300 that everyone would pass on. So they have this nice run of stacked PPVs 298,299 and 300.
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My guess it's more likely they wanted a banger card to overshadow ngannou boxing match
 
tramendous said:
That tactic is how they continue to justify wmma. If they had a wmma event, nobody would watch outside of the anomaly that was ronda rousey
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Good fighters justify WMMA. Just like good fighters justify MMA.
 
There is no conspiracy here minus the illusion part. Do people really think the UFC doesn't have their own algorithm when it comes to viewership and stuff. They want to see how he does as champ with a stacked ppv. Next time they will see if he can main event a non stacked ppv.

They have a formula for everything
 
Fatback96 said:
It’s the oldest story in the book:

Big promoter is trying to sell it’s “cash cow” to the public and no better way to convince them but to surround said cow with interesting matchups with big names as well.

Once the PPV sells decent/good numbers, big promoter and it’s shills will quote this one event for eternity as reasons why their “big star” is a PPV draw.

It’s a method that obviously works, everyone is hype to see the card, it’s just very obvious what they’re doing.

Basically what I’m saying is, Sean O’Malley isn’t a PPV draw on his own, which granted is a very hard thing to do. He needs help, and the UFC is willing to invest in him.
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Sean O'Malley isn't Paddy Pimblett. 2 very different levels.
 
Seems like a good idea what’s wrong this?
 
markg171 said:
It's hilarious to me that people still think cards sell for anything other than the main event. We Sherdoggers might care about how deep a card is, but there's only 174,661 Sherdog members. If we all bought a card instead of streaming that's Mighty Mouse levels of PPVs. We're irrelevant to how well cards do.

Casuals drive the PPV buys and the casual asks "Who's fighting tonight?" not "What's the card look like?". A deep card is a surprising bonus to them that they find out only after looking up what the main event was.
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174661 fans who influence 1 milion, we are the core. Grassroots marketing.

As for Sean, well selling 350 k is good. The WMMA goat couldn't do that.

People think if you don't sell 600 k you're not a big draw. 350 k is better then what 99.9% of all other mma fighters could sell as a main event spot.

There's only a few Jone Jones, Mc Gregors and Rouseys.

Masvidal had a hype on steroids, that died after like 2 losses.

Nate Diaz is totally out of his prime

Conor, Jones fight once in a blue moon. Almost retired.

Who is gonna outsell Sean. He's top 10 draw in MMA as long as he holds the title.

So basically as long as Merab doesn't get his shot. He can not beat Merab and Usman. Even Cody is a problem.
 
Hey at least they started offering the $10 discount if u do it a week before the fight. I took that on last 2. That said, I’m most hype on BSD/Poirier but I am excited for O’Malley/chito
 
which will only make it funnier when Chito wins
 
markys00 said:
My guess it's more likely they wanted a banger card to overshadow ngannou boxing match
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O'Malley vs Vera 2 was announced last November, and the vast majority of the matchups followed in December. Joshua/Ngannou wasn't announced until January.

Poirier/BSD is the only fight that was announced afterwards, but then we learned from the Dustin saga that it had been planned before that announcement too.

So no, the UFC was not at all trying to counter program Joshua/Francis. This card was built before it was ever announced. If anything it's the complete opposite and boxing tried to counter program the UFC once they saw their strong card.

Not that that happened either seeing as Joshua/Francis is occuring March 8, not March 9. They're on different days.
 
Fatback96 said:
It’s the oldest story in the book:

Big promoter is trying to sell it’s “cash cow” to the public and no better way to convince them but to surround said cow with interesting matchups with big names as well.

Once the PPV sells decent/good numbers, big promoter and it’s shills will quote this one event for eternity as reasons why their “big star” is a PPV draw.

It’s a method that obviously works, everyone is hype to see the card, it’s just very obvious what they’re doing.

Basically what I’m saying is, Sean O’Malley isn’t a PPV draw on his own, which granted is a very hard thing to do. He needs help, and the UFC is willing to invest in him.
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i dunno. the card has attention drawing fighters based off names but the matchups that they have by themselves is not really gonna make any casuals wet.
 
So which one is it this week, UFC is bad because it doesn't promote its champions by putting them on weak cards, or UFC is bad because it promotes its champions by putting them on strong cards?
 
El Panteron said:
So your theory is casual fans check the PPV buys to decide if they want to follow someone?
Yeah man not buying it.

To me it's either or both of these:
1. They see in O'Malley the potential to be a cash cow so they want to draw eyes to him and profit later (I don't know, and don't care if he DOES have the potential, they see it)
2. They want to try and overshadow the Ngannou card, I think it was the same day.
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Ngannou vs Joshua is on Friday, i thought it would've been on a saturday.

Poirierfan said:
Sean O'Malley's fight is the least anticipated fight for me out of the whole main card. The mother fucker isn't a star imo, he has no personality.
I'm not invested at all in the Chito fight.
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Merab fan?
 
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