The Boxing equivalent of today's UFC card

[MOREBASS]

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

Obviously the administrators of this website are a lot more open minded than people like you.

There is a Mixed Martial Arts forum on this BOXING site as well.

[FreshPrince]

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.

No, the total payouts for UFC 91 was only $1,956,000. I believe Couture and Lesnar were the only ones to get a share of the PPV.


Brock Lesnar: $450,000 (includes $200,000 win bonus)
Randy Couture: $250,000
Gabriel Gonzaga: $110,000 (includes $55,000 win bonus)
Dustin Hazelett: $88,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus, $60,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
Kenny Florian: $80,000 (includes $40,000 win bonus)
Jeremy Stephens: $76,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus, $60,000 Knockout of the Night bonus)
Jorge Gurgel: $70,000 (includes $60,000 Fight of the Night Bonus)
Aaron Riley: $68,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus, $60,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Demian Maia: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus)
Joe Stevenson: $35,000
Nate Quarry: $25,000
Mark Bocek: $18,000 (includes $9,000 win bonus)
Matt Brown: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
Tamdan McCrory: $10,000
Alvin Robinson: $7,000
Josh Hendricks: $8,000
Rafael dos Anjos: $4,000
Ryan Thomas: $3,000
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[deevel79]

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

Why should we care what the fighters make. That's not our job, nor should it be our concern. As long as they provide entertaining fights, i can care less if they make $100million, or $10k. What's with these boxing snobs giving boxing a pass on its lack of quality ppv's, due to the amount of money they have to pay the fighters. Its as if they are accepting these b.s cards.

[Check]

Why should we care what the fighters make. That's not our job, nor should it be our concern. As long as they provide entertaining fights, i can care less if they make $100million, or $10k. .

You should somewhat care about what the fighters make. Money is everything to majority of athletes. If you can make a ton more in boxing it will always steer the best athletes into the sport of boxing over MMA. I'd rather see the best athletes, then a watered down product.

[Check]

Anyways, boxing is a far different business than MMA so a card like this would never happen unless people just stop watching. Right now boxing is doing pretty well and theres high enough demand for just main events that boxing promoters couldn't give two ****s about the fan. If I am a promoter and there is a demand for Juan Manuel Lopez where he could fight infront of 7000 people by himself why would I put him on an undercard against a tough fighter where he risks defeat and makes **** for money. Its all about making money plus its not just one company, boxing is like many companies it just doesnt work like that.

MMA runs their company well and all boxing fans wish we had the matchups they do, less weight divisions, and less belts. If the demand drops or MMA keeps it up boxing will change their ways. We already see that in the 2009 matchups and HBO rejecting poor matchups.

[deevel79]

You should somewhat care about what the fighters make. Money is everything to majority of athletes. If you can make a ton more in boxing it will always steer the best athletes into the sport of boxing over MMA. I'd rather see the best athletes, then a watered down product.

But what good is it, when in boxing the best athletes usually look for low risk/high reward fights.

[Check]

But what good is it, when in boxing the best athletes usually look for low risk/high reward fights.

I don't really know, I really haven't thought about it that much. I think in the next 5 years boxing will be changed in a positive way because of MMA. Like I was saying HBO has been saying no to mismatch fights and if you look at what ESPN and Versus have been doing with the quality of fights shown its starting to halfway watchable. I know ESPN canceled WNF but now that they only have FNF they have a little bit bigger budget to get bigger names and legit title fights on their stations. I think in 5 years like UFC has done people that only get basic cable will be able to tune into ESPN and see some top notch fighters on that station. Boxing does need to think about going back on NBC or one of those stations which would probably drive down a fighters pay and will probably start to trickle its way down.

I am not sure if all this would be a good thing because it would basically pit boxing and MMA on the same playing field. Young fighters will then just have the choice between MMA or training in boxing and it won't have a money factor if boxers have to adjust to the times and take less for fighting.

[truthseeker1]

I only checked the card today and I have to say I was very surprised. They've got three mega fights on one card. All these fights are major fights and they could all easily have been on a separate card.

[bukakke]

I like the way UFC pays its fighters, huge pay days have been ruining boxing for years. The UFC pays fighters a percentage of the buyrate they draw, so if you draw you'll get paid and if you don't you won't.

Also they have incentives to finish and have exciting fights. They have bonuses for fight of the night, KO of the night, and submission of the night.

[warp1432]

Here is what a boxing version of today's UFC card would look like:

Calzaghe vs Dawson = Griffin vs Evans
Tarver vs Johnson III = Rampage vs Silva
Valuev vs Chagaev II = Mir vs Nogueira

all on the same night. That is why UFC is growing so fast.

That's more reasonable imo. Chagev vs Vitali is just unrealistic and Hopkins vs Johnson is a pointless rematch, but Rampage vs Silva's actually has some point