Another MMA/Boxing thread, yeah yeah, hear me out though

[Trax416]

and thats why Boxing had an all around better year?
How many UFC events were there this year?
usually in a UFC event they put a lot of big names, since there isn't too many PPV.. Not like boxing.
Yet Boxing PPV usually have one big name fight or two and the rest are ok or **** but thousands of people still pay to see them.
Miguel Cotto vs Shane Mosley did pretty well and I doubt that if you just put one big name fight in a UFC card it wouldn't get as much views as a boxing match.

Isn't to many PPV?

There is 14 PPV's a year, and 12 fight nights. Thats the UFC alone. Not including many other Mixed Martial Arts organizations.

Also, the biggest UFC PPV is coming up on the 29th.

Yes boxing has a better year. They had some good cards. Just like MMA had a better year last year.

They are different sports, and MMA is still young. If Anything there is to much MMA on TV and PPV. If they had half the PPV's they normally do and actually had decent time to promote them, they would sell better. However they are still selling well. Averaging around 400k buys this year.

[mrpain81]

Outside of hard core boxing fans nobody knows who 90 percent of those fighters are. The other 10 percent include names that have been around the sport for a long time (mosely, Vargas, Oscar, Pac etc..).

MMA fans represent the part of the public that really don't know much about boxing. So when they say there was only 2 big fights, they might be wrong but it shows you that boxing is just promoting the same names it always does.

In America, boxing is falling off a bit. Nobody is saying MMA is surpassing it, but nobody can deny it is. The big fights normally include fighters from other countries and when Floyd and Oscar retire, the big draws in American boxing are gone with no new ones in sight. I live Williams to death, but he will never be a big draw. With more and more foreign fighters doing well in boxing, and less American fighters drawing the big crowds, many divisions may end up being in the state the HW one is now.

Oscar and Floyd saved boxing this year. MMA forced boxing to step it up and they did. However, the trouble for boxing is not over yet. There challenge is to create the next big American draw or boxing could go the way of Kickboxing in the next decade. Huge in europe/overseas - not so much in America.

That argument can go both ways..Who are the new crop of MMA fighters who will be selling out events?

Tito
Liddell
Couture

Are the big names in MMA, those guys aint spring chickens.

Boxing is a machine in producing new fighters because of all the international amature boxing. MMA has smaller shows that produce fighters and TUF.

MMA had a bad year considering Pride is no longer a working org,IFL hemorrhages money with every show. Zuffa's credit was downgraded in 2 straight quarters for,weaker-than-expected corporate performance.

Boxing has been dying for 100 years now, and it Just had its best year ever revenue wise.

Boxing needs to step it up online, thats one of the reasons MMA has grown so much in the past few years.

[Liaison]

Wow, somebody from sherdog making sense

*looks at the replies in the thread*

That’s more like the sherdog alumni

[SkillspayBills]

WHAT A POST!!! Man 2051 you say some weird **** on this board, but I can give you nothing but positive response and admiration for a well thought out, informative, FACTUAL post. NO fan, MMA or Boxing, can refute a post as factual as that. Great job indeed my friend.

[weepaul]

Great ****ing Post!!!!

Great stats, but I doubt alot of the ignorant fans will even read that much..

Regardless excellent post.

Could not agree more!!

Very well thought out and well written post.

I am a big fan of both sports and hate when one side puts down the other.

Boxing was and always will be my first love.

GREAT POST!!