Boxing will never lose its market share to MMA and vice versa.

[scap]

Boy o boy have we heard alot of talk, animated talk I might add about who is the better sport, pro boxing or mixed martial arts.

If a boxer hit the ground he'd be dead or if an mma guy had to stand on his feet he would be a fish out of water...boxing has no action, mma resembles a bar fight I saw last weekend...this is what we hear regarding the two sports right?


**** all this talk, these sports CAN and WILL coexist!

Boxing fans are not going to change, they are not going to see a 3 minute cage match and abandon the history of Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran etc.

Some high school wrestler who has never watched boxing in his life that has fallen in love with the UFC is not going to be persuaded by some boxing fan that proclaims his heroes are wild street fighters.

TWO SEPERATE FANS BASES! Neither side is going to TAKE from the other in terms of current fans bases. ( I know alot of MMA fans, not one of them ever was a real boxing fan who watched our sport, MMA has taken nearly ZERO in terms of boxing market share!)

Sure Dana White and the UFC marketing is much better then boxings and they may bring in new fans at a higher rate...for a while at least but boxing is boxing and when the dust settles no fan of the sweet science should be worried.

Ya know in a way boxing is like the Bush Administration and its current approval ratings...30% is as low as Bush and his boys can go...they could gang**** a group of puppies on the white house lawn and that 30% is pretty much unmoveable.

Boxing is at that 30% stage itself, the sport is not being represented very well currently but the fact is that the base is not going anywhere and there is absolutely nothing that could happen to make that base turn its back and run....yup not even a 2 minute brawl in a cage.

If boxing wants to grow and gain future market share it needs some work no doubt but as my good friend Sean Hannity likes to say "let your heart not be troubled" the sweet science is alive and kicking and only has room to improve!

Anyone else have anything to add regarding this? Does anyone know of a huge boxing fan that has abandon the sweet science for Liddel and Ortiz?

[Nacho_Analstain]

your scap, so i agree with you

[Kayjay's Ghost]

I agree for the most part. But there is a not insignificant portion of the available fanbase that has switched, so to speak, from boxing to MMA. The receptionist here at our office is such a guy, someone who grew up watching HBO Championship Boxing but decided the matches you want to see never get made, and similar complaints. I don't know how many such people there are, but my guy here can't be the only one.

[paul750]

One thing, certainly where I'm from, that I've noticed is that MMA/UFC etc is much more popular with women. Make no mistake about it too, women can have a big say in these things.

[scap]

One thing, certainly where I'm from, that I've noticed is that MMA/UFC etc is much more popular with women. Make no mistake about it too, women can have a big say in these things.

I know a lot of chicks who have told me that the UFC is far too brutal for them too watch.

Chicks want to see some dude on the tube that they could see sucking off, Oscar fits that bill, Wlad Klitchko fits that bill...Chuck Lidell? (Im joking of course)

[paul750]

I know a lot of chicks who have told me that the UFC is far too brutal for them too watch.

Chicks want to see some dude on the tube that they could see sucking off, Oscar fits that bill, Wlad Klitchko fits that bill...Chuck Lidell? (Im joking of course)

I would have thought that was the case, but not here it seems, or the rest of the UK I'm assuming.

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

I think we have a lot more crossover appeal due thanks to assessabilty. MMA draws more from the Martial Arts fanbase then Boxing does. Yeah, you're going to see a lot of high school wrestlers watching, but again, wrestling is a Martial Art. The Accessabilty also brings a lot of women fight fans as well as women competitors.

[Double]

I know a lot of people who can't get past the grappling and hugging on the ground in MMA

[BrooklynBomber]

I think if women like it, it is for the MMA's reality show appeal, women like to get all personal, see how the fighter is a family guy and takes his little kid for a walk and crap like that.

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

I think if women like it, it is for the MMA's reality show appeal, women like to get all personal, see how the fighter is a family guy and takes his little kid for a walk and crap like that.

Are you talking about in the US or around the world?