Why MMA is starting to regularly do better PPVs than Boxing

[savorduhflavor]

People need to get that it's so much easier when one promotional company nearly monopolizes a sport in the US.

If guys in boxing never got used to making the ridiculous sized purses they make, and either TR or GBP owned the vast majority of talent, that would be possible in boxing also. But it's simply not feasible because boxing has sooo many promoters, networks to deal with, and fighters that are used to getting 10+ million for one fight, not to mention 4 different sanctioning bodies. Dana White doesn't have to deal with that.

Think of UFC like the WWE. One champion in each division, a whole **** ton of talent that he controls and who have signed contracts with him. It's just totally different.

[alishuffle]

The thing with UFC is that they have a very small number of fighters compared to Boxing, and therefore their names are more "household", which makes even a weak card seem like a list of great matchups. Whereas boxing has thousands of fighters that even die hard boxing fans couldn't keep track of. The actual quality of the undercard fights between UFC and boxing are pretty equal, but in the UFC, everybody has somebody to root for because everybody knows who everybody is. The undercards in the UFC are not very exciting all the time either.

[ИATAS]

never heard of any of those guys besides silva.

also, they will have the same problems boxing has already gone through. I hear MMA fans complaining that there are too many PPV's.

BTW, this belongs in the MMA forum.

[Ryn0]

The reason MMA is getting so many Pay per views is because the gay community generally has money to spend.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a boxing fan first and a well honestly a Fedor fan and a Anderson Silva fan everyone else in MMA I have no interest in.

But UFC is putting their cards and PPVs on the way Boxing should and IF boxing did do that It wouldn't be a stretch to say it may become a mainstream sport again.

[mrpain81]

I've posted about this before and this **** has been been beaten to death.

A main org would not be able to keep the fighters under contract like the UFC does and that main org would eventually break up to what boxing is now, it's going to happen to the ufc sooner or later and they will end up just like boxing.

People are getting caught up into thinking the UFC is the way to go, I already posted earlier what the boxing PPV cards would look like if they were on a monthly basis like the UFC and didn't have SHO or HBO backing them up.

January

Trinidad vs Jones -PPV
Mollo vs Golota-PPV
Karmazin vs Bunema-PPV
Chambers vs Povetkin -HBO
Malignaggi vs Ngoudjo -SHO

Feburary

Pavlik vs Taylor -PPV
Montiel vs Castillo-PPV
Klitschko vs Ibragimov-HBO
Williams vs Quintana-HBO
Berto vs Trabant-HBO
Angulo vs Cortes-SHO
Guerrero vs Litzau-SHO

March
Peter vs Maskaev-HBO
Campbell vs Diaz-HBO
Marquez vs Pacquiao-PPV
Casamayor vs Katsidis-HBO
Vazquez vs Marquez 3-SHO

April

Dawson vs Johnson-SHO
Tarver vs Woods-SHO
Cotto vs Gomez-HBO
Cintron vs Margarito-HBO
Calzaghe vs Hopkins-HBO

May

Delahoya vs Forbes-HBO
Gamboa vs Jimenez-HBO
Angulo vs Gutierrez-HBO
Diaz vs Pacquiao-PPV
Dirrell vs Hanshaw-SHO
Witter vs Bradley-SHO

June

Forrest vs Mora-SHO
Quintana vs WIlliams-SHO
Ward vs Ravelo-SHO
Abraham vs Miranda-SHO
Lorenzo vs Marquez-SHO
Pavlik vs Locket-HBO
De leon vs Lopez-HBO
Berto vs Rodriguez-HBO
Arreola vs Witherspoon-HBO

July

Klitschko vs Thompson-HBO
Cotto vs Margarito-PPV
Torres vs Holt-SHO
Alvarado vs Bazan-PPV

August

Judah vs Clottey-HBO
Kirilov vs Darchinyan-SHO
Dirrell vs Pashall-SHO
Wolak vs Smith-SHO
Teron vs Lozada-SHO

September

Bradley vs Cherry-SHO
Diaz vs Katsidis-HBO
Juarez vs Barrios-HBO
Mosley vs Mayorga-HBO
Berto vs Forbes-HBO

October

Gamboa vs Ramirez-HBO
Angulo vs Tsurkan-HBO
Martinez vs Bunema-HBO
Pavlik vs Hopkins-HBO
Tarver vs Dawson-SHO
Peter vs Klitschko-SHO
Bute vs Andrade-SHO


November

Moliter vs Caballero-SHO
Mijares vs Darchinyan-SHO
Dirrell vs Oganov-SHO
Calzaghe vs Jones-PPV
Taylor vs Lacy-HBO
Malignaggi vs Hatton-HBO
Vera vs Kirkland-HBO
Williams vs Phillips-HBO
Arreola vs Walker-HBO

December

Delahoya vs Pacquiao-PPV
Klitschko vs Rahman-HBO
Holt vs Hopkins-SHO
Ortiz vs Resto-PPV
Lopez vs Medina-PPV

The best in boxing will fight the best, it just takes HBO and SHO to put preasure on them and tell them they won't put the fighters on their network for big money unless the fights are quality.

[FreshPrince]

Who cares about PPV numbers? It doesn't make either sport better. Cotto vs Clottey got 0 ppv buys. Margarito vs Mosley got 0 ppv buys. Berto vs Collazo got 0 ppv buys.

Mayweather vs De La Hoya got 2.4 million ppv buys yet it was a meaningless, and boring fight.

[F l i c k e r]

For a sport that started in 1989, you cannot tell me that it isn't catching up to boxing. It took boxing 100 years to get like it is now, it took MMA roughly 19 years to get to where it is now. Which is right on the heels of boxing.

Perro even had a theory to why Mayweather-Marquez was postponed. Which makes complete sense. If people forked all their cash over on UFC 100, what would Marquez-Mayweather's buys be? Exactly.

MMA isn't doing better than Boxing in 1 PPV event BUT when you have consistently good PPV buys, its all gonna add up sooner or later.

[BROOKLYN CESAR]

Fcuk this bull****!!! fcuk off with this crap to an mma site!!!

[TheNegation]

Fcuk this bull****!!! fcuk off with this crap to an mma site!!!

LOL. U Mad?

[Ryn0]

Bloody hell, all I was doing was using the UFC's promotion and cards as an example of how Boxing could take their PPVs and fights to the mainstream and much bigger steadier PPV numbers.

For example Marquez-Vazquez DESERVED to get much more viewers than it did putting a stacked card on a fight like that would guarantee some new Boxing fans.


Some of you are too sensative, acting as if I attacked Boxing or something.