Not sure what you are setting me up for, but...
W2B
Do you agree that this was the biggest event in the UFC and got the most mainstream media attetion?
I don't think this can be debated. It's expected to do between 1.4-1.7 million ppv buys, and was the lead story on every show on ESPN, and most of sports talk radio the next day. It set the record with 5,000 bar/restaurant ppv buys.
Scary part is, Frank Mir is not a draw. Put Brock in there with a bigger draw, with GSP & a hot tough feud on the undercard, and you would challenge 2 million buys and the boxing records.
Liquidrob said:
Do you agree that Brock is the most successful Pro Wrestling star to enter MMA?
In the U.S., unquestionably.
(We will leave Japan out of this, because alot of big japanese wrestling stars have dabbled in MMA, but it would digress from the point)
-Lesnar was a bigger pro wrestling star than Bobby Lashley.
-Ken Shamrock was a wrestler first, but only a low level indy guy (As "Vince Torelli") before he switched to MMA. Then the line was blurred when he was working half his fights for Pancreas, and shooting the other half. He then went back to wrestling in the mid 90's, and was a pretty big star (who helped put over a young Rock), but never a tippy top guy. Regardless, Brock was a bigger prowres star anyway.
-Daniel Puder was a no name fighter first, a pro wrestler second, who would have no name in either sport had he not tapped out Kurt Angle on national TV in a shoot stunt that went terribly bad for Mr. Angle. His entire claim to fame is that angle, and his 15 minutes are on 14:55 at this point.
-Dan Severn was a fighter first, and never a big pro wrestling star anyway.
-Tank Abbott, see Dan Severn.
-50% of the 61 UFC fighters who did prowres were low level indy guys who even hardcore prowres followers wouldnt know about (Krzysztof Soszynski, Tom Lawlor), 49% are big stars wrestled in Japan (Mark Coleman, Josh Barnett, etc), and the other 1% were legit major league pro wrestlers in the US, some listed above.