How Can UFC Compete With This

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Wtf is wrong with you?? cotto << beaten,washed up. pavlik<< alcoholic,dethroned,bumm jmm << shot fighter , scared to fight khan. hopkins << how old is he?? 67? klitchkos <<< zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz dawson << who?? lol mosley <<< yea right lol mayweather<< fights once in 4 years berto<< please stop lol Those are the people keeping boxing alive??? I guess the sport is dead , UFC took over a long time ago,champions fight champions there. In boxing one is scared to take a blood test and the other one is scared to fight the one if he doesn't take the blood test. Boxing is all money now,the fans are being treated like sh**, we can't get the fight we want to see. Back in the days champions fought champions if you didn't you lose your belt..now days too many sanctions in boxing..the fighters do w/e they want ( the rich fighters such as mayweather,pacquiao or bernard hopkins) Go Blaze one tune into the ufc channel and enjoy your stay because they're the only ones giving fans what they need.:439: how is the sport dead???? When pacquiao made the fight with cotto ufc moved their fight date or it got destroyed one of the two. Also you put ufc best fight against pac vs. mayweather which will happen and ufc fight will get destroyed in ppv and ticket sales. Also there are other fighters too like gamboa, juanma,khan, ward. The boxing is dead quote has been going on for yearssssssssssss if boxing is how i'm going to die i'm going to be living for a very long time.

Wtf is wrong with you?? cotto << beaten,washed up. pavlik<< alcoholic,dethroned,bumm jmm << shot fighter , scared to fight khan. hopkins << how old is he?? 67? klitchkos <<< zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz dawson << who?? lol mosley <<< yea right lol mayweather<< fights once in 4 years berto<< please stop lol Those are the people keeping boxing alive??? I guess the sport is dead , UFC took over a long time ago,champions fight champions there. In boxing one is scared to take a blood test and the other one is scared to fight the one if he doesn't take the blood test. Boxing is all money now,the fans are being treated like sh**, we can't get the fight we want to see. Back in the days champions fought champions if you didn't you lose your belt..now days too many sanctions in boxing..the fighters do w/e they want ( the rich fighters such as mayweather,pacquiao or bernard hopkins) Go Blaze one tune into the ufc channel and enjoy your stay because they're the only ones giving fans what they need.:439: great post i mean very good. Did you know that there is a super six going on right now and that mosley is fighting mayweather, and pavlik is fighing sergio martinez and o yeah boxing is having a fight in dallas cowboy stadium and yankee stadium??? Um also i think the boxing community was treated very well last year and this year is shaping up great too. I don't want to pretened like I know anything about mma or the ufc as a brand. I will say this dana white is a great promoter, but it is what it is some people like boxing some people like mma just leave it. I"m happy being a boxing fan period

Wtf is wrong with you?? cotto << beaten,washed up. pavlik<< alcoholic,dethroned,bumm jmm << shot fighter , scared to fight khan. hopkins << how old is he?? 67? klitchkos <<< zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz dawson << who?? lol mosley <<< yea right lol mayweather<< fights once in 4 years berto<< please stop lol Those are the people keeping boxing alive??? I guess the sport is dead , UFC took over a long time ago,champions fight champions there. In boxing one is scared to take a blood test and the other one is scared to fight the one if he doesn't take the blood test. Boxing is all money now,the fans are being treated like sh**, we can't get the fight we want to see. Back in the days champions fought champions if you didn't you lose your belt..now days too many sanctions in boxing..the fighters do w/e they want ( the rich fighters such as mayweather,pacquiao or bernard hopkins) Go Blaze one tune into the ufc channel and enjoy your stay because they're the only ones giving fans what they need.:439: Uh....the UFC or mma in general is not immune to the ails of boxing. Tito Ortiz absolutely refused to fight Chuck Lidell until backed into a corner. Dana White entered Chuck Lidell in a pride tournament to prove UFC's superiority over Pride Juggernaut Wanderlei Silva and Lidell gets beat by Rampage in the semis. Dana White absolutely refuses to sign the best heavyweight in mma and continues to showcase the likes of grandpas cotoure, coleman and noguiera

i agree with this post^^^^^^ we live in an advanged age where average joes can turn into worldwide sensations overnight.......UFC is just a fad, Boxing is older than civilisation itself and still going strong Wow, your ignorant arent you. UFC is a fad... dont you mean MMA? and if you do... i highly doubt that, the UFC just came to Sydney Australia, i tried to get some tickets and 25,000 seats sold in less than 1 hour, and im sure theyve sold close to a mil in PPV's. The UFC is a brand, and they know how to sell their product and they do it well, they put the fights together the fans want to see, unlike the corrupt money-hungry boxing promotions that exist in the world today. Dont get me wrong, thats just my thoughts on boxing politics, i love the sport and i do pay for the big mainevents when they do roll around, im just unhappy that fighters can duck whoever they want, half the time ppl dont get to see the fights they desire. And this TS is ignorant to say that Mixed Martial Artists arent technical lol thats laugh. Proof please?

My wife recently brought home the new Ring 2010 Almanac, and on the back cover it has an HBO ad showing Kelly Pavlik, Juan Manuel Marquez, Paul Williams, Miguel Cotto, Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather, Wladimir Klitschko, Manny Paquiao, Shane Mosley, Vitali Klitschko, Andre Berto, and Chad Dawson. Anyway, what does UFC have that can even try to compete with that lineup? Just saying... Wtf is wrong with you?? cotto << beaten,washed up. pavlik<< alcoholic,dethroned,bumm jmm << shot fighter , scared to fight khan. hopkins << how old is he?? 67? klitchkos <<< zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz dawson << who?? lol mosley <<< yea right lol mayweather<< fights once in 4 years berto<< please stop lol Those are the people keeping boxing alive??? I guess the sport is dead , UFC took over a long time ago,champions fight champions there. In boxing one is scared to take a blood test and the other one is scared to fight the one if he doesn't take the blood test. Boxing is all money now,the fans are being treated like sh**, we can't get the fight we want to see. Back in the days champions fought champions if you didn't you lose your belt..now days too many sanctions in boxing..the fighters do w/e they want ( the rich fighters such as mayweather,pacquiao or bernard hopkins) Go Blaze one tune into the ufc channel and enjoy your stay because they're the only ones giving fans what they need.:439:

Why be impressed? We live in advanced times. Technological times. Tons of revolutionized marketing resources. Boxing is the NBA of combat sports, MMA is the NHL. MMA will never surpass Boxing, no matter how old it gets. nhl is older than the nba. both are older than the nfl. but the nfl is biggest sport in the US.

The simple answer is that the ufc cannot compete with that. But you would have to be completely retarded to not be impressed by a fledgling sport that is not yet even 20years old to have risen in popularity the way it has. What they have in the UFC or mma in general may not be as polished as boxing but if they continue their trends when their sport becomes 200years old it will be far more popular than boxing.Why be impressed? We live in advanced times. Technological times. Tons of revolutionized marketing resources. Boxing is the NBA of combat sports, MMA is the NHL. MMA will never surpass Boxing, no matter how old it gets.

The simple answer is that the ufc cannot compete with that. But you would have to be completely retarded to not be impressed by a fledgling sport that is not yet even 20years old to have risen in popularity the way it has. What they have in the UFC or mma in general may not be as polished as boxing but if they continue their trends when their sport becomes 200years old it will be far more popular than boxing.

proof? because I think youre lieng While UFC boasts PPV sales in the six-digit neighborhood, most industry observers believe the numbers fall quite short of these figures given that UFC refuses to allow a third-party audit their books. Following a head-to-head competition in September between the Mayweather/Marquez boxing match and UFC 103, Golden Boy Promotions President Rich Schaefer challenged UFC to an audit of PPV sales after Dana White said the UFC would outsell them that night. The UFC declined the invitation as rumors circled that sales were less than 20% of the boxing card. http://www.benchwarmersunited.com/wordpress/2010/01/05/ufc-preparing-crackdown-on-ppv-pirates/

I remember when Richard Shafer offered to pay a top 3 accounting firm for an audit of UFC's PPV numbers since the UFC is a private promotional company and can release any figures they like as oppossed to a publicly traded company such as HBO. The UFC declined the invitation. proof? because I think youre lieng

Proof? I've always read the opposite. Google it lol, its not opposite at all, UFC beats out boxing every time in term of numbers, its the most bought of anything on PPV besides porn. Not in just overall numbers but individual events. Whoever told you its the opposite doesnt know what they are talking about. Dana White talks about it all the time.. The only PPV last year that beat boxing beat UFC was on the same day, UFC 103 and the boxing PPV was Mayweather-Marquez, and the Main event for UFC's card was Rich Franklin-Vitor Belfort (a horrible main event). And as for the UFC stacking there cards, well whats wrong with that? Don King and Bob Arum and guys like that need to start stacking there cards as well, why do you think so many people buy the UFC over boxing?

Are you saying that just because it's HBO? A company that's NEVER inflated their ratings or earnings? :lol1:Have you any idea what the fed's would do to HBO if that happened? Do you know what a public traded company is? Do you know what a privately held company is? As long as Zuffa is a private company, we will never really know how accurate the pay-per view numbers for UFC are.

They do. Every one knows their numbers are true. HBO is a publicly traded company, they cant release any numbers they'd like, UFC can. Are you saying that just because it's HBO? A company that's NEVER inflated their ratings or earnings? :lol1:

What does that have to do with anything? Do you assume Schaeffer or Oscar would hand over anything having to do with their company's information just to say, "Hahaha we make more than you!!!" I think you can take a step back and easily say the UFC makes MILLIONS of dollars every year, just as GBP does.They do. Every one knows their numbers are true. HBO is a publicly traded company, they cant release any numbers they'd like, UFC can.

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ufc does make sure their heavyweights are in tiptop shape before they let them fight what does that have to do w/anything?

ufc does make sure their heavyweights are in tiptop shape before they let them fight

First off, there's more money involved in boxing when it comes to their elite athletes purses. Also, it makes the negotiating process harder when you have different promotional companies involved. UFC all fight under the same umbrella, Strikforce-same umbrella, and so on. Exactly why UFC wont "die" as fad.They are able to put fights that people want to watch.When people say nba they automatically think of the sport of basketball, you can't say that about boxing b/c it's not just one company.There's way too many politics involved.Plus theres about 5 belts in each division w/a whole bunch of divisions.

I remember when Richard Shafer offered to pay a top 3 accounting firm for an audit of UFC's PPV numbers since the UFC is a private promotional company and can release any figures they like as oppossed to a publicly traded company such as HBO. The UFC declined the invitation. What does that have to do with anything? Do you assume Schaeffer or Oscar would hand over anything having to do with their company's information just to say, "Hahaha we make more than you!!!" I think you can take a step back and easily say the UFC makes MILLIONS of dollars every year, just as GBP does.