>>11674321I think maybe it’s not that simple. People loved Connor because of his work rate originally. If he couldn’t perform no one would care, he would just be a loud mouthed dorky tattooed potato eater. He was electric in the cage even though people really into UFC knew he was very protected. Fight selection wise. Every time he has had a shitty performance his popularity takes a nose dive.
I think maybe MMA is a little different. Jon Jones LARPed as the most boring Christcuck babyface imaginable and he was a huge draw. When people found out he was actually a born heel and maybe a legit evil human he was still a draw. It’s great to cut a good promo and it helps but someone like Anderson Silva pretended to not speak English and had heat with management and was still a huge draw.
I get the idea, that it would be the equivalent of liking vanilla midgets or flippyshitters, it’s just the work rate in UFC is the product. Wrestling? It’s maybe 1/3 of the product.
