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Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou left the UFC earlier this year to eventually sign with the PFL, while former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones would win the title vacated by the departing Ngannou.
Randy Couture is a former two division UFC champion and is now a member of the PFL broadcast team and he believes that the established relationship between both promotions and ESPN is a good start to eventually see Jones fight Ngannou.
“The TV part of that, the network and exposure part of that is solved because both entities are on ESPN,” Couture told MMA Junkie Radio. “I think the landscape of our sport and the contracts, the restrictive contracts in our sport, are gonna prevent that.”
Couture himself was at odds with the UFC during his tenure with the promotion after the UFC brass refused to co-promote a fight between himself and Fedor Emelianenko.
The former UFC fighter also believes that the lack of an ego from the PFL brass could also help the potential super fight come together.
“I don’t think the PFL has an ego problem like that,” Couture said. “I think they would be happy to entertain a co-promotion between another promoter and themselves to make a big fight like that happen, certainly in the pay-per-view model they’re getting ready to roll out. So, I don’t think it’s out of the question there.”
