Can boxing compete with UFC 92?

[Kastrioti]

You're lucky if one out of ten people in Norway even know what UFC is.

When they ask, I tell them it's a teenage gay-gathering were they watch gay men in trousers hump eachother.

Very true, in USA it's pretty well known, but in Europe I didn't find one person that knew what UFC was.

[mrpain81]

That card will not do very well in sales and no boxing can not even put two stars on one card. The demand is way to high and the greed is even higher. ****** post, ****** poster, and UFC should be taken to the MMA section. Boxing fans don't care, its really just an annoyance at this point. Go watch your MMA and we will watch boxing.

Troof again

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

i agree 100%...now as far as UFC 92 goes.. if UFC 91 had the "biggest fight in mma history" and dana was still 400,000 buys off, i dont see ANY evidence of how ufc 92 is gonna hit a million..c'mon u guys they ALWAYS have strong cards..and yet they still hover around 600,000 buys and sometimes go more than that..griffin/evans, nog/mir, jackson/silva IMO WILL NOT eclipse 750,000 buys..lets say it does..its ONLY cause they just had brock/couture..UFC90 headlined by Anderson Silva [mma's PFP #1] did 300,000 PEOPLE!!! Hell Pac vs diaz did 400,000!! again..even coming off of brock/couture i'll be surprised if it does over 750,000.

Meltzer from Yahoo annouced it was 1.01 mill.

UFC has not made a public announcement of the buys for UFC 91, but privately, Dana White has told people the number is right at the 1 million mark. Two others have confirmed that at least this is the number UFC is talking about internally, with the actual figure being pegged at 1,010,000 buys. It was stated that if they do well in late reported buys, they have a solid to good shot at beating the 1,050,000 mark set in 2006 by Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz, and are not publicly saying anything because they want to announce it was the biggest ever, which at this point, is something they can’t say. Keep in mind our trending patterns came in at 800,000 to 850,000 buys. Lesnar seems to be the one person whose drawing power never gets fully reflected in early trending patterns.

[Danny Gunz]

Its ridiculous how people make fun of UFC for not paying their fighters enough when the whole reason boxing is in a decline right now is because of the insane money.

[Soda Popinski]

Thought this would be interesting.

Top 10 North American PPV buy rates, 2008

1. Boxing: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao, Dec. 6, 1,250,000

2. UFC: Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture, Nov. 15, 1,010,000

3. Wrestling: WrestleMania, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Paul “Big Show” Wight, March 30, 670,000

4. UFC: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jon Fitch/Lesnar vs. Heath Herring, Aug. 9, 625,000

5. UFC: Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, Feb. 2, 600,000

6. UFC: Quinton Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin, July 5, 540,000

7. UFC: St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra, April 19, 530,000

8. Boxing: Felix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr., Jan. 19, 500,000

9. UFC: Chuck Liddell vs. Rashad Evans, Sept. 6, 480,000

10. UFC: B.J. Penn vs. Sean Sherk/Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida, May 24, 475,000

Obviously yahoo sports is all over MMA's collective nuts these days, but the numbers don't lie.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dm-ppvbuys121208&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[Peterp]

The future for boxing in terms of PPV buys is not looking good

Oscar is just about ready for retirement

I can't see anyone else even hatton getting over a million buys

maybe pac v floyd

we already know pac on his own isn't enough to generate mega ppv buyrates

there are no young fighters on the scene right now that Joe Public know and are excited about

[EL HANDSOME]

UFC 92. Cant wait for this ****. Poppin OFF!

[johnkraus]

I don't think UFC can put a card like this out a few years from now. I think MMA will become sort of like boxing. Guys will leave the ufc for more money. The UFC is getting some competition from Affliction and a few other companies. This is still the first generation of mma fighters. Forrest Griffin was a police officer, I don't think he is upset with the money he's making. Most of these guys didn't grow up saying I want to be a fighter. The next generation will be training from the time they're kids, dreaming of fame and fortune, similar to the way Floyd is with boxing.

[bsrizpac]

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!

Whoooooo cares?

UFC is for ****** tattooed trailer trash. Are you trailer trash? if not who cares.

[Allucard]

What was the line-up again? This is the December 27 fight right?
Looking forward to it.

Nogueira - Mir (5x rounds title fight)
Evans - Griffin (5x rounds title fight)
Rampage - Wand Silva
Aoki is also fighting as is Kongo.

All in all a great event wouldn't you think? and Before the year ends we still will see GSP vs BJ Penn