Sonnen is the only opponent who will get Jones close to or over 1 million buys. This fight is the best option for everyone and dismantling it would be the single worst conspiracy ever.
It takes popular fighters, plus a big fight to do a million buys. This is not a big fight. It would do well to draw 700k.
I've noticed a lot of people think the chael thing is a plot to get the ratings up and I dot disagree. But what about a bigger twist, instead of having chael pull out, wouldn't it be crazy if jones got injured? Then have chael still fight for the title against like Gus or whoever then jones do the champion vs champion thing like gsp
KZTT_FawkingxD -I've noticed a lot of people think the chael thing is a plot to get the ratings up and I dot disagree. But what about a bigger twist, instead of having chael pull out, wouldn't it be crazy if jones got injured? Then have chael still fight for the title against like Gus or whoever then jones do the champion vs champion thing like gsp
Mind=blown
Bad Monkey -KZTT_FawkingxD - I've noticed a lot of people think the chael thing is a plot to get the ratings up and I dot disagree. But what about a bigger twist, instead of having chael pull out, wouldn't it be crazy if jones got injured? Then have chael still fight for the title against like Gus or whoever then jones do the champion vs champion thing like gspMind=blown
Boom, that just happened
Well that is certainly more likely to happen than jones/sonnen.
I look forward to it, but will also be surprised if this fight actually happens.
But I'm pretty surprised when any scheduled fight happens now. How times have changed.
I think it is an interesting fight, not as interesting as Jones/Gus, but it would be fun to see how Jones handles the pressure Chael brings.
What it comes down to is this- People want to see Sonnen/Jones on TUF, but there won't be much excitement for the fight. They put Chael on to boost ratings for TV, and get Jones exposure so he draws the PPV numbers no matter who he fights.
It's the only thing that makes sense!!! And it looks like a smart move because very few of us fans seem to realize what is happening.
WAKE UP EVERYONE!!! You are being played by Dana "the muthafuckin puppet master" White.
Every time Dana talks about the lwh division he helps to prove my point about this fight not happening.
Now he is saying Cormier could be next to fight Jon Jones. He isn't saying DC could be given a title shot vs the winner of Jones/Sonnen because he knows they aren't going to fight.
Don't believe everything they tell you. Jon Jones will not defend his title against Chael.
It looks like it's gonna be Andy!!!
This is way better than any of the dozen fights that made more sense than Sonnen.