Can boxing compete with UFC 92?

[The Future]

I think not is the right answer. In short they will have 3 MAIN EVENT type of fights on a single card, two of them championship fights!!! It's like putting Hopkins vs Pavlik with Floyd Mayaweather vs Ricky Hatton AND Pacquiao vs Marquez, all in the same card!!! Jesus it's insane. Only Affliction put on a bigger show in the after Pride era and that was a once in a lifetime kind of event. Boxing better watch out! We can't compete with these cards!

the UFC have a awesome card every end of the year new years show, its nothing new.

Boxing does have to put on some better cards, but to say can boxing compete with ufc 92 is kinda crazy, being its only a once a year thing to have a card like that..........

[-MAKAVELLI-]

UFC 92 is on December 27th eh? That’s too bad…perhaps Dana White should have put that card on for last week against the DLH-PAC fight to prove a point….


Same when DLH-PBF, he could have put the Chuck-Tito fight on but he didn’t….yet he releases press interviews on how UFC is lapping boxing in popularity

[D.C.]

Stop comparing the sports, period. You don't see people going, "LOL Football is more popular than baseball!", because they both throw balls. People understand the differences in the two sports.

[Shadow boxer 3]

I think not is the right answer. In short they will have 3 MAIN EVENT type of fights on a single card, two of them championship fights!!! It's like putting Hopkins vs Pavlik with Floyd Mayaweather vs Ricky Hatton AND Pacquiao vs Marquez, all in the same card!!! Jesus it's insane. Only Affliction put on a bigger show in the after Pride era and that was a once in a lifetime kind of event. Boxing better watch out! We can't compete with these cards!

who gives a ****. u must feel threaten by boxing thats why u made this thread

[Shadow boxer 3]

everyone give thread starter red K

[Chups]

Stop comparing the sports, period. You don't see people going, "LOL Football is more popular than baseball!", because they both throw balls. People understand the differences in the two sports.

Well the football ball isn't really round.

[RL_GMA]

UFC 92 is on December 27th eh? That’s too bad…perhaps Dana White should have put that card on for last week against the DLH-PAC fight to prove a point….


Same when DLH-PBF, he could have put the Chuck-Tito fight on but he didn’t….yet he releases press interviews on how UFC is lapping boxing in popularity

If I were a promoter, I wouldn't put on an expensive ass PPV on the same night as an already established cash cow like De La Hoya just to say "MMA is better than Boxing".

This is where I get lost with some people here lol

[D.C.]

Well the football ball isn't really round.

lol

Would you prefer water polo or something?

[MOREBASS]

The UFC 92 is a stacked card, probably their best ever, as a whole event.


Boxing will probably never be able to have an event like this, simply because top tier fighters and promoters demand so much money, they can only really pay these big purses to the main event fighters, which is why you'll often have up and coming fighters on undercards, as opposed to established fighters.


At the notion that the UFC would have to sell 2 million PPVs to be on the level of boxing.


It doesn't have to.

They have monthly PPV events that generate pretty consistent numbers. They have got a stronghold on the younger male demographic, and its only growing stronger.

Couple that with the fact that the UFC pays their fighters like ****, and they've got a pretty efficient company running.

The UFC is the pinnacle of the sport, so the fighters don't have much say in their salaries, and other things like that, so its either the UFC's way or the highway.

[johnkraus]

It is a great card, but 2 days after Christmas doesn't translate to big numbers. Boxing can't put on a card like that with it's current big names because they are a bit spoiled. Floyd's never going to take a pay cut, and less of the spotlight just to make a better card for the fans.