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the biggest reason is that the cards are usually stacked, sometimes the main event isn't even the fight I'm most interested in, the other reason is that matchups are done by one organization, therefore there is no ducking and avoiding. I think this is why 3 of their last 4 PPVs (not including this saturday) had 1+ million PPV buys
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MMA is more unified. The promoters of UFC (which is defacto MMA Sport itself)are making decisions and doing things for the good of the UFC and therefore for the good of the Sport in a concise, unilateral and focused way.
Boxing has a fragmented approach where individual promoters and Alphabet Belt Companies are doing whats best for themselves. The only difference is that they are fragmented and lack a concise unilateral game plan.
The most popular fighters in UFC will always fight each other and you don't have to wait that long. In Boxing the top guys might never fight each other or if they do it might take years.
Look at Darchinyan vs Arce.........CalzvsJones they took place years after it would've been a very good matchup.
We never got to see Hatton vs Witter (at least when it mattered) or Nonito vs Anyone.
I like MMA and watch it often but Boxing is a superior product with inferior promoting.Comment
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because theres so many trailer trash and rednecks hereComment
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Cause they don't make any more funny episodes of JackassComment
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Ehh, they can co-exist. But don't tell me a Manny-Mayweather fight wouldn't pull over a million PPV. (No Domain.)Comment
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The UFC in particular seems to marketed toward really young and/or dumb people. They ask all the cell-phone crazy kids to text in whether or not they think Joe Dingleberry will land the sweet chin music to win the title, they make a super-wide shot to show off all the logos at the Harley Davidson prep point. And that isn't me talking ****, it is really called the Harley Davidson prep point. They stop in the middle of a PAY PER VIEW to be like "OMG Kevin Bacon is in a new, action packed thrillride that will make all you meatheads cum on yourselves!!Now watch this ****ing teaser!!" and then they go to Kevin Bacon in the audience and he's like "ah Chuck Liddell will knack him out because we did coke at the Mirage last weekend!" and him and everyone in the audience is shaking their fist and sneering at the camera. More and more guys are getting into the "cage" and having scripted tussles at the end of fights. In 5 years they will have laser light shows and gorillas going around on rollerskates revving chainsawsComment
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I'm a boxing guy through and through but I have to admit, boxing can learn something from MMA. I think the biggest difference is the main complaint that boxing fans have had for decades now, make the best fighters fight each other.
It's that simple. In mma, the best fighters are constantly fighting each other. That's why it's so popular. On every fight card you can expect a big time match up, not like in boxing where they cheat you half the time.
Boxing needs to get it's act together, I think this is where DLH and Golden Boy really step up to the plate and change boxing's future. I think DLH can have abigger impact as a promotor, than he did even as a fighter.Comment
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The meatheaded, simple minded, uncivilized fans are what makes MMA successfully viewed. No offense of course.
I've been around the MMA since its genesis and i have never been enthusiastic the way i am about boxing. The UFC sounded cool and intersting, but the first time i watched it was like "boring." In the 90s there was no such thing as MMA. It was just the UFC.
In fact, i'm an OG mixed martial artist, before there even was mixed martial arts. And i've never been interested in cage fighting. I prefer watching street fights or boxing. IMO, that's all.
(for all my Cannucks out there)
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