Based on Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, the UFC has been having an issue recently regarding its lack of stars.
Over the previous couple of years, the UFC has grown exponentially and has turn into an enormous rival to the game of boxing, with a giant portion of the combat sports world preferring the UFC product.
Although the UFC has already undergone a serious growth period, CEO Dana White continues to tease further growth of the promotion, claiming it is going to turn into the most effective promotion on the planet, across all sports.
The promotion is about to undergo an enormous change in the approaching weeks as their broadcast take care of ESPN recently ended, meaning they’re currently free agents on the lookout for their next huge deal, which they’re rumored to be on the lookout for double their last deal.
Eddie Hearn claims the UFC goes through a ‘lack of stars’ problem
Regardless that the UFC had an enormous 12 months in 2024, a big majority of the fanbase has seemingly turn into bored with the product, especially because the promotion continues to deal with events on the UFC Apex with a particularly limited amount of fans.
Not only that, however the premier promotion is seemingly struggling to place fights together between the most effective fighters, leaving divisions in query.
For instance, lightweight champion Islam Makhachev is constant to refuse to fight Ilia Topuria in a light-weight title fight, leaving that division up within the air.
Heavyweight champion Jon Jones continues to delay a possible fight against Tom Aspinall, which has constantly irked the fanbase.
Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn believes that the UFC could also be going through a ‘lull’ due to their ‘lack of stars’.
“How’s the UFC as of late and MMA?” Hearn asked on The Ariel Helwani Show.
“There’s nothing fecious in it, it’s a real query. I feel like boxing in the intervening time is just skyrocketing when it comes to eyeballs, attention, narrative conversation, digital narrative and look, the UFC is a large business but, do they should make a Jon Jones vs Tom Aspinall style fight to actually, not get back on target since the business is incredible, but, I don’t know,” Hearn continued.
It’s widely believed that one in every of the largest issues for the UFC in the intervening time is its lack of competition, which is something that Dana White admitted he’s frightened about.
“Is it a scarcity of stars? By the best way, I feel that is cyclical, people speak about it in British boxing in the intervening time… Sometimes there’s just that lull,” Hearn added.
UFC misses out on huge fight because of injury
Some things are unavoidable in combat sports, and injuries are one in every of them.
Earlier this week, news began to flow into that middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis has suffered a major injury that can keep him out of a possible fight against Khamzat Chimaev.
This now leaves the 185lb division in a difficult position with there potentially being an interim title added to the equation.
