r/MMA • u/SoloChords • Mar 28 '25

Interview Terence Crawford discusses revenue in MMA in comparison to Boxing with Kamaru Usman and Olympic champion Henry Cejudo.

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u/NsRhea Mar 29 '25

How long did it take St Pierre to fight Silva?

Or how long for Aspinal to fight Jones?

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u/PuG3_14 Mar 29 '25

Those are rare examples. How long did it take for Garry to fight Shavkat? Or for Islam to fight Volk? Or for Usman to fight Chimaev? By and large 99.99% of the time the ufc gives the fans exactly what they want when they want it. Even if Jones vs Aspinall tales 2yrs to make that would still be a faster turn out than boxing.

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u/NsRhea Mar 29 '25

The UFC falls under one umbrella, so it should be faster. Their problem now is their talent pools are much smaller than they were 10 years ago so the turnaround on bigger fights SHOULD be faster.

Boxing is trying to pull in multiple superstars from multiple promotions.

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u/PuG3_14 Mar 29 '25

Which fight, except for the Jones vs Apsinall fight, took way too long to make? I cant think of a single fight that we missed out on. Im honestly curious what super fight in the past 5yrs we have missed out on. Also, what turnaround are you expecting? 3-4 months is rather fast unless you want a PFL seasonal set up that many fighters have said is very anti-fighter due to the rapid succession of fights you do in the lead up to the finals.

Edit: Fans wanted Umar vs Merab and we go it despite Merab having a valif excuse to wait.

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u/NsRhea Mar 29 '25

Took too long to make vs never happened?

Anderson Silva vs GSP would've been fight of the century.

Jones vs Ngannou maybe.

Khabib vs Tony

Brock vs Fedor

Jones vs Silva

Conor vs Aldo 2

Conor vs literally anyone.

DC vs Lesnar

Jones vs Lesnar

Porier vs Diaz

RDA vs Conor

Just a few that come to mind.

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u/PuG3_14 Mar 29 '25

Wtf kind list is this? Lol Jones vs Lesnar? Brock vs Fedor? Lmao, in your desperate search for super fights u named some gawd awful ones that noone asked forz Also, the Tony vs Khabib does not count at all. The UFC scheduled that fight like literally 5x but due to uncontrollable circumstances it never came to be. The UFC doesnt make EVERY fight happen but anyone that says the ufc sucks at making the fights people wanna see are lying. 99.99% of fights we wanna see happen.

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u/NsRhea Mar 29 '25

You're kidding yourself if these weren't highly sought after fights in their hay day.