Yeah the WWE is surely bringing in way more money. They're running upwards of 5 cards a week selling tens of thousands of tickets, have multiple shows doing bigger ratings than UFC shows, have their own streaming service thats much bigger than Fight Pass, and obviously their merch deals for...
Gane and Ngannou would be harder fights for Rico in kickboxing than any challengers hes had there in years tbh.
Whether he could do well in MMA? who knows. For HW MMA hes at the higher end of athleticism and obviously technical striking though.
Fun match up stylistically. Lewis is basically a sloppy brawler with a shit gas tank and often folds under pressure, but then he is big, strong and has a ton of power. Fight probably doesnt last a round.
PFL/Bellator unfortunately has that AEW vibe where you want to support them as a major competitor/alternative but they piss away all the goodwill with their incompetence.
The NHL has 82 game regular seasons with team rosters that are like half the size of an NFL teams, and somehow its still much more common to see players having super long careers and playing into their late 30s and 40s.
If you tried to pull that schedule with American football there would be...
Apples to oranges in most ways obviously, but you are going to find way more people that follow the UFC spread across a wider range of countries and demographics than hockey, and MMA has more stars.
Sounds like bullshit honestly. Hes one of the biggest stars in the UFC and him vs Costa is a pretty big fight. 200k/200k is like 2008 level pay for a fight like that.
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