fukk I gotta make excuses for, I'm right. You compared anderson to manny paquio, a fighter in a different sport that had a much bigger market in their primes
You wanna talk all this white this white that but why aren't GSP, Dominick Cruz, Chuck Liddell, royce gracie or matt hughes as known as ronda if they all white too?
I'm not gonna argue you that dana plays favorites or that ronda has been a product of media hype and marketing I been saying all that shyt for years in the mma thread. But the logic behind it has always been money. Mainstream "marketing" money isn't thrown at fukking anyone the names above prove it. Ronda had an angle they successfully exploited with the femnism/girl power wave. Conor had organic hype with bigger and bigger stakes on each fight. Both own all the top 5 or even 10 most successful ppvs ufc has ever had so it worked
If you wanna talk white fighters getting fan support easier thats whatever but you know damn well black ppl don't even check for mma and have more than likely checked for more ronda fights than silva, jones or woodley fights combined
you have a ton of revisionism in your hindsight. When has the UFC ever NOT tried to sell a fight? When has Dana and Joe Rogan ever NOT tried to talk up a fighter? Am I tripping or am I the only one who remembers the marketing campaign for Jones vs Cormier complete with on air ESPN livestream beefing and fighting at media events?
And everybody loved ronda huh... even when the entire arena boo'd her after she snubbed miesha's post fight handshake? Even when they been begging dana to let cyborg maul her for years?
Conor's comeup has been an anomaly of it's own which I explained already and again you're acting like the world wasn't clowning him when he lost to diaz or that people haven't been discrediting him the whole way up. Every fight it was "
he hasn't fought a top 10 fw ,
A top 5 fw,
a wrestler,
Jose aldp,
someone who's not a 'midget',
a legit champion at 155 , a title defense"