Mailbag: Is the UFC serious to abandon PPV in the next diffusion rights agreement?

He must sting when Paddy Pimbett goes on television and calls you a lizard or a fungus, right? (Sam Navarro-Imagn images)

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Is the UFC serious to move away from payment by view with a new dissemination rights agreement? Is Khabib Nurmagomedov bad to defend Arman Tsarukyan on Ilia Topuria during the next light title confrontation? How lucky Tko has to transform MMA fans into boxing fans? And how much would it harm your feelings to be called an insult invented by Paddy Pimbett?

All this and more in this week's postal bag. To ask your own question, hit @Benfowlkesmma Or @ benfowlkes.bsky.social.

@justlikelasagna: If the UFC eliminates PPV, how will we know what is a big card? Will they start again to name them nice names like bad intentions or bitter rivals?

Like those of us who lived the era of the named events of the UFC undoubtedly remember, You miss good names very quickly. You start with a cold fury and a final countdown, but before you know, you do things like UFC 76: KO. (This event had six decisions and zero knockouts, by the way)

I think that the numbered denomination agreement, as well as the headliners, could always work to report which UFC events really matter. If the Apex era has taught us something, it is because we are all perfectly capable of discerning between the different levels of UFC content even if the company never comes out and says it.

As for the occasion, the UFC will completely move away from payment to vision with a new agreement on the diffusion rights, I will believe it when I see it.

@ Shadore66: Do you think TKOS bet that UFC fans will look at boxing are correct? I look at the UFC and I never look at boxing. Or power slap.

No one really looks at the slap beyond the clips that make its way on your phone. Because it's incredibly stupid. But boxing? Of course, I think it is quite possible to turn MMA fans to that. The question is how and with whom.

Just call him Tko Boxing or something else and having Dana White Shout about how he is great will only take you so far. You need boxers that people care and connect with it. You need personalities. Combat sports will always be a business focused on stars. The UFC has done an excellent job to do its brand the MMA star, so that it can slap these three letters on almost all combat cards and fans will see it as instantly significant. This will not be enough when you start in boxing in boxing.

@ Beastin364: What is your argument to say that Khabib is wrong that Arman deserves the most than one LW title? Why can Ilia jump it online when Arman actually won him

Have I never used the word D. deserves? In this company? Just as William Munny said, deserves nothing to do with that.

Look, Arman Tsarukyan has deserved a title shot. No one disputes this. And he obtained his title. Then he withdrew the event week, and we had to watch Islam Makhatchev do an easy job at Renato Moicano instead. It was a kind of disappointment.

It was Tsarukyan's chance. He missed the opportunity, and now the movement of Ilia Topuria in weight a Given the UFC a chance to make a real mega-combat This will bring many more viewers and money than Makhatchev against Tsarukyan could not hope. For what? Because more people will care about it.

An exciting Knockout artist who seemed to be about to be a big one in a division suddenly moves to face a truly frightening champion who is bigger than him? Yes of course. This is how you become a legend in this sport. It is a daring choice of Topuria, and we all want to see if he can remove it. On the other hand, Makhachev against Tsarukyan is only another title fight. It's … very good. It is not special, however. And that's what matters.

@ Tallbrian11: Can you give me a brief classification of non-insulting insults Paddy Pimbletts? Call someone a fungus, a lizard, or a whopper, etc.

I can't give you a ranking because I don't all remember them. But I love it, honestly. He begins to call these names to people, and I never know if it is something that is in intensive use in Liverpool or if it is only things that Pimbett invented.

Which one, if you are on the reception, must worsen things, right? Call me one of the usual names that I could be called in traffic or on the internet one day given, and this takes place simply from my back. It is a dead language, in a sense. We all heard it so much that we barely hear it. But call me a little fungus? Then you forced me to think about what it means. You will have to examine my face in the mirror. Is this my nose? Is it my haircut giving my head the shape of a fungus? What does he mean?!? Then I should admit that he really did it. He came to me. Checkmate, world.

@Eyeofmihawk: How do you balance the quantity vs quality in goat discussions? What about losses? Aldo still has a few more defenses than Volk at 145, but Volk beat Aldo and Max 3x. But if you only go to quality, you have McGregor and Topuria to come and it does not seem fair.

The first thing to remember is that the aim of these goat debates is that they are debates. Like book classifications for bookThey exist mainly to be asserted. It is their value in our lives. This is what we like about them (and we also hate them).

That said, I think there is a balance. If a champion defends his title 15 times against a heap of Jobbers, who cares? I do not think that it prevails over three solid reigning defenses against guys who looked like champions themselves. But I also think that a dominant champion sometimes creates an atmosphere where no one has lucky to develop too much. Then, the defenses of the title may seem less impressive simply because we lacked challengers and we had to throw all those that we were able to find. (See also: the long reign of the UFC title by Demetrious Johnson.)

@Jietzsche: Why so few MMA fighters implement a good blow? He's a low -risk game winner when he is well done. Rob get it but even he sometimes applies it inconsistently. It may not be glamorous, but many fights could apparently be won with a well-implemented Jab and calf kick strategy.

How dare you come here and say that just after seeing Alexander Volkanovski do an excellent job with his blow in this victory on Diego Lopes at the UFC 314. In fact, Volkanovski is an excellent example of all the things that a good jab can do for you in mmaable to set up meters and build a whole offense around him.

I remember that Trevor Wittman used to tell some of his guys that they could be champions on their jab alone than if they would use it correctly. He also told some of these same guys that they should never again launch an uppercut. Then I looked at at least one of his guys being cleaned while ignoring these tips. You can drive a horse to the water, as they say, but you cannot have it browse.

@JMPROBUS: Who would you like to see the Pico match with its beginnings?

Probably not Movsar Evloev, who could reasonably say that he should do something other than the reception of new arrivals with his undefeated record and nine consecutive victories of the UFC. Instead, how about someone like Arnold Allen? It seems to be a fun couple who Tell us where Aaron Pico is in the featherweight division of the UFC.

@Shonplant: a chance that you have a pepinsy and that you throw a link with a live episode from The Craic? Really my favorite MMA show on the air, shoutout to y't

But … but each episode is live. Oh, I see. You mean to a live audience, the way people sometimes make podcasts in a theater as they are a variety show in the Vaudeville era. I don't want to talk for guys, but I think we would like it. Just make sure that there are a lot of Guinness at hand, otherwise Petesy will never arise.

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