"There's no other title in combat sports that carries more prestige, more significance, and more noteriety, than the UFC, Heavyweight Championship"
- that's gotta be up there with his Ronda quotes for me.. or his Boxing is dead stance he tried to take a few years back.. The HW title isn't even prestigious by UFC standards. What makes the quote even sillier was the Joshua - Klitschko fight that just went down and the noteriety and mainstream attention it received and that was between a guy coming up and a guy most Americans say killed the division for a decade. & neither guy is American.
Why not? Arguably the baddest man on the planet. I can see his point here. maybe mma is not as mainstream as boxing (yet) but those in the know would certainly agree I think?
Rogan says a lot of stuff, he isn't to be taken seriously at all. Like you said did he not notice the 90,000 fans and a whole country watching the heavyweight championship of the world in boxing being contested? It was one of the best heavyweight fights in the past 15 years and Anthony Joshua's star will only grow larger after such a terrific contest.
Why not? Arguably the baddest man on the planet. I can see his point here. maybe mma is not as mainstream as boxing (yet) but those in the know would certainly agree I think?
The UFC Heavyweight Champion is the baddest man on the planet.
The alphabet soup heavyweight boxing champion (Lets just assume out of the hundreds you picked the top ranked one) is the baddest man in a boxing ring when we set rules that only allow hands to be thrown and prevent any other form of fighting to take place.
"What are you laughing at? I remember a two time UFC heavyweight Champ fighting a 50 year old retired HW Boxer and getting KOed in 8 seconds."
Or a WWF wrestler walking in with about 1-2 years of experience and winning the UFC heavyweight championship. UFC fans are delusional if they think the UFC heavyweight champion is the baddest man on the planet. Not enough money in the sport for that to be the case.
OP is correct on the prestige of pay, but that's it. Stipe has the title of baddest man on the planet. Mioc... Stipe vs JDS will have more views as well.