In what seems a lifetime ago now, the UFC tried their first foray into fan voting for performance bonuses. The event was UFC 124, and despite a one-sided jab-heavy performance in the main event, Georges St-Pierre and Josh Koscheck walked away $100,000 richer.
It’s no surprise to anyone who’s ever seen an NBA All Star game, considering GSP was far and away the most popular fighter on the card. Yet, the somewhat foreseeable result quickly convinced UFC president Dana White to drop the whole concept.
“No, they blew it tonight,” White told the assembled media after the event, when asked if the promotion would try their fan voting experiment again in the future.