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Old 12-13-2012, 11:13 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by Kris P Lettus View Post
And, to be fair, there are 9 belts now, including the women 135 title, so that's three quarters of yr year just having a title fight a month..
Yes and only three of those titles (HW, LHW and WW) are consistent draws. As great as Anderson is, unless he was stacked on a card with another champ like B.J. Penn, people weren't buying PPVs until the feud with Sonnen and if the last PPV buyrate was any indication, those numbers were purely related to the Sonnen feud.

155 PPV numbers are always poor and mainstream interest in 145 and 135 is pretty much non-existent. We'll see how Rousey draws. MMA is just like boxing in the sense that having a title fight isn't enough to be a major draw no matter how popular MMA gets or how it's promoted compared to how boxing was promoted at its peak. There's always going to be a few major draws whose fights are events that draw the public in and every other fight is going to be dependent on the matchup or just serve as filler.
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