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Message: [QUOTE="underdog140, post: 2922551, member: 45060"] Again, I agree he is a star and makes him and others boatloads of money. My points were: Based on an educated guess, Conor is likely to not be as popular as G.S.P./ Anderson and other greats as his career goes on / ends ect. He may not be as popular today as G.S.P. is or was ( lets see what a GSP come back PPV does ) Dana likes to say outlandish things and people eat it up. Conor breaking all these records is one of those things. It feeds fire to the fuel. Gets fans excited and keeps them interested. He is a promoter. Why hasn't he released PPV numbers yet if they are so great ? No doubt they are good but I am starting to doubt if it did break the record. I agree about your later Youtube comment .. Dana would consider that but not seriously ... he would use it for hype .. it is the very reason I don't take his comment that Conor broke all sorts of records at face value. G.S.P. does deserve credit for UFC 100. ( he was a co-headliner ) Without him it doesn't do 1.6 million .. without Brock it doesn't do 1.6 million. If you take a close look at PPV sales you will see GSP is on par with Brock. G.S.P had two PPV close to 1 million buys ... 920, 000 and [b]his closest 950 000[/b] and one that was 1.6 million ... Brock had two that broke 1 million and the 1.6 million. Brock Top PPV's just edges G.S.P's top PPV's. Brock 4th biggiest was 900 000 while G.S.P forth biggest was 800 000. The rest of Brocks PPV were 500 000 / 600,000 / 625 000... To say casuals didn't want to watch Holly ( the girl who just beat up the one and only Woman UFC champion - this PPV did 1.1 million buys ) is a little silly ( no offence ). These are the type of fights casuals tune into see. Now that Holly lost ... casuals most likely lost interest in her and chalked her win on Rousey as a fluke. They will line up again to watch ( what they think ) is going to be Ronda getting her revenge. Nate boosted sales as well. His following isn't near Conors but it is big enough to boost sales in a fight vs Conor. Due to both fighters attitudes and persona. [/QUOTE]

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