Former UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta liked to say the UFC booked fights fans wanted to see. That wasn’t always true (Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre), but it was true a lot more often than it wasn’t.
That’s no longer the case.
If it were, we’d be talking about UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou vs. ex-light heavyweight kingpin Jon Jones. Instead, the UFC is fixing to book a rematch between Ngannou and Derrick Lewis and considering a scrap between Jones and ex-heavyweight titleholder Stipe Miocic. If one were to poll fight fans, I’d expect more would want to see Ngannou vs.