The Boxing equivalent of today's UFC card

[mrpain81]

Rampage is coming off a loss
Silva is 1-3 in his last four
Rashad vs Griffin should be good
Frank Mir hasn't really done **** to get a title shot
Nogueira is fun to watch but this ain't no fight for the heavyweight title, Fedor smashed Nog twice.

Card looks good on paper, I won't pay for it but will watch a few of the fights.

[Easy-E]

The UFC markets very well.
Having a unified body to force and create matchups between marquee fighters also helps their cause.

[Addition]

Not bad, but I doubt i'll be staying up to watch it.

[mrpain81]

The UFC markets very well.
Having a unified body to force and create matchups between marquee fighters also helps their cause.

Unified promoter, you can find as many belt holder in MMA as in Boxing. It's just the media doesn't give two ****s about MMA and will recognize the UFC title holders as the best in the world in their division.

The UFC does what Don King used to do only giving title shots to fighters under his promotion and if you wanted a shot you had to sign with him. After the Ali act was passed in Boxing that practice was made illegal but MMA doesn't fall into the same laws as Boxing.

[venerablefist]

actually the ufc is geting better the fighters are becoming well rounded wrestlers can strike now and there is less of one guy just laying on another they move very fast when there on the mat

[MOREBASS]

Boxing will never have a card like UFC 92's because of the ridiculously high purses the main card fighters demand, as well as the greed of the promoters and other behind the scenes movers and shakers.


Thats why even these 'MegaFights' have undercards that completely suck ass.


I won't even address the pure ignorance in some of the responses in here regarding the sport of MMA.

Although I do understand that for the most part, this hatred comes from boxing elitists and purists who see their beloved sport being threatened by an up and coming sport that is everything that boxing is supposed to be.

Worry not elitists...the demographic that MMA has in a chokehold is not interested in boxing, for the most part. The two sports can and will coexist.

[-Swizzy-]

I honestly don't recognize any of the names on the card other then rampage and silva.
My friend invited me over the house to watch it.. I'm gonna go but for the BBQ and beer.
While they are watching grown men play grab ass.. I'll be watching Marvin Hagler videos on the iPhone

thats fine, but in the same token, non-boxing fans can't recognize the names Calzaghe, Vitali Klitschko, Chagaev, Glen Johnson and Chad Dawson.

[Danny Gunz]

the reason UFC can put on these cards is because they don't have to pay fighters as much..
When you say boxers should get payed less then people get angry but then they want better cards.
You can't have both.. it's one or the other.

you act like its a bad thing fighters get paid less in ufc...

[potatoes]

This is a boxing website. Why don't they ban these **** ufc threads?

[-Swizzy-]

the reason UFC can put on these cards is because they don't have to pay fighters as much..
When you say boxers should get payed less then people get angry but then they want better cards.
You can't have both.. it's one or the other.

wrong. the main event fighters get paid less but thats because the UFC spreads the pay more evenly throughout the undercard fights. the main event fighters still get paid the most of course, but they don't get 95% of the total revenue share like in boxing.