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These rumors are not going away!!! -IAN- Dave Meltzer: It takes a fight, which means a champion and a challenger, and a dynamic to draw on PPV, and this lacked a challenger that anybody knew and a dynamic. Its sole drawing aspect is that Rousey was fighting, two months after her previous fight. During the week, to promote the fight, Dana White was constantly pushing that Rousey was the companys biggest star. It all depends on what you mean by biggest star. She is the most in-demand for interviews and media appearances. She is obviously the most in-demand in Hollywood. With Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre gone, she most likely, on her own against a broom, so to speak, can draw as much as anyone, perhaps more than anyone. But her contenders list is a broom closet, as compared to the lineup of contenders that Jon Jones and Chris Weidman have at light heavyweight and middleweight. McMann is out of the running. Tate, who has lost twice via armbar, is out of the running right now. Sarah Kaufman, who lost in seconds to an armbar, is coming off a loss. Jessica Eye just lost. Carmouche just lost. Julianna Pena, who had the most exposure of anyone who isnt coming off a loss, is out until 2015 after a horrible knee injury. Rousey has two potential opponents, both of which would draw huge for different reasons. The first is Gina Carano. Carano hasnt fought in four-and-a-half years. There would be hell to pay in criticism for UFC if they were to make that fight, if Carano would even have interest in it. But it would draw far more, perhaps nearly double, of what anyone else available would do, and would easily be the biggest womans combat sports fight of modern times. Theres also a chance it would be a first round armbar and all the criticism coming in would be the same going out. But this is the kind of thinking out of the box that put UFC on the PPV map in 2006. The other is Cris Cyborg Justino which is a whole different round of criticism.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:11:02 +0000

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