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On Sunday night June 29^th, WWE is presenting its second annual WWE Vengeance: Night Of Champions event, in which every WWE Title will be defended. In this column, I’m going to apply the WWE Night Of Champions concept and apply it as a possible UFC event, along with the positives and negatives of such a happening.

 

First off, the UFC championships that would be defended are the UFC Interim Heavyweight Title held by Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, the UFC Light Heavyweight Title held by Quinton Jackson, the UFC Middleweight Title held by Anderson Silva, the UFC Welterweight Title held by Georges St. Pierre and the UFC Lightweight Title held by BJ Penn.

 

Now, for this event to happen, that would mean the UFC would have two hold the two prior months worth of events without a single title fight. This must be done because the UFC usually schedules their champions to fight every three or four months, so they can get proper rest. With that being said, that would mean that the next two UFC pay-per-views and other live events could not feature title fights of any variety.

 

That would be a hard selling point to the company because they usually only run one or two events a year on pay-per-view that doesn’t feature a title fight. Those events, while having good quality fights on the card, lack the drawing power of the events that feature championship fights. That raises the question, would the UFC possibly sacrifice two mediocre pay-per-views in order to rest particular fighters for a super show of five UFC title fights?

 

This issue would also take effect for the two pay-per-view events following the UFC “Night Of Champions” event, which means that four out of five pay-per-views in this span would be events without any kind of title fight. So, assuming a fan would purchase the five UFC events for about two hundred dollars, only one event you paid for would have title fights.

 

What about the possible event itself, just sit back and imagine how awesome a UFC pay-per-view with all five UFC titles on the line could be. It you base the fights off of the top contenders for each title right now, the event could feature UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira defending against Frank Mir, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton Jackson defending against Forrest Griffin, UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva defending against Patrick Cote/Ricardo Almeida, UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre defending against Jon Fitch and UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn defending against Roger Huerta/Kenny Florian.

 

UFC is all about making history and just think about the history five individual UFC fighters could make if every championship changed hands. That could be potentially a future money making scenario as well for the UFC because if all the championships changed hands, there is five potential pay-per-view main events down the line.

 

Another situation I want to bring up about this potential event is easily the most important factor, the cost of this pay-per-view event. Currently, the UFC charges about forty five dollars for standard definition pay-per-view and fifty five dollars for high definition pay-per-view. If a five title fight UFC pay-per-view were to occur, would the UFC keep the prices the same or would they go up?

 

No matter how good a past UFC card has been, for the average MMA fan, money plays a bigger factor than the interest in the event brings. I tend to believe that the UFC would keep the prices unchanged, but lets take a ride down the negative side of the potential event. I would think that if the prices for both standard definition and high definition by even ten dollars, you could see a dramatic drop in pay-per-view buys, but they could still make money because of the raised prizes.

 

As of this moment, there is no plans by the UFC to run a “Night Of Champions” like pay-per-view, but if it were to come to fruition, factors like pre/post event pay-per-views, fighter health and pay-per-view charges could determine the success of a potential event.