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Here is some information i found on some paperview buys for both boxing and mma
I think the whole thing is boxing is still a great sport and fans still love it, bottom line is as the years go by mma continues to grow bigger and bigger.
At this point i dont think any sport is bigger than the other because both has die hard fans and also casual fans, although mma has been steadily growing year by yhear bigger and bigger, boxing is not really declining its just not growing in popularity with casual watchers like mma is
all die hard fans are gonna continue to watch the sport they love but its the casual fans that make the bigger numbers and most casual fans are starting to watch mma rather than boxing its been shown heres something from back in 2006 and mma has even grown bigger since then
350,00 was an expected number since Pac-Morales 1 and 3 turned in nearly the same figures. The question was would their third fight lose viewers since there was a very good MMA card on the same night at the same time? The answer is no. They didn’t lose any viewers to UFC 65.
But MMA has nothing to worry about. If the rumors are true (and Meltzer’s numbers are usually correct) the UFC added another event to their list of PPV successes this year. From Dave Doyle’s MMA Blog on the Fox Sports Website:
According to the Nov. 27 Wrestling Observer, an anonymous cable industry insider pegged the buy rate for UFC 63, featuring Hughes vs. B.J. Penn, at 700,000 buys. If accurate, that would place it second behind UFC 61 as the most purchased show in UFC history. And UFC 63 didn’t have nearly the mainstream buzz UFC 65 garnered. It could well be that Hughes is at least as big a draw as Ortiz and Liddell, even if fans are buying because they want to see him lose.
This makes UFC 63 the second most purchased event in their history. And they did it without a Gracie or a Shamrock competing. The UFC, like HBO PPV is enjoying a record year. But it’s clear that MMA has grown leaps and bounds faster than Boxing has. Although Boxing’s rating are up, it still remains a niche sport. MMA appears to breaking out of its niche and well into the mainstream.
Take a look at the most purchased Boxing and MMA PPV events for 2006. Boxing is in blue, MMA is in red. (UFC PPV figures from Ivan Trembow’s blog)
De La Hoya-Mayorga - 900,000
UFC 61 Shamrock-Ortiz 2, Sylvia-Arlovski 2 - 775,000
UFC 63 Hughes-Penn 2 - 700,000
UFC 60 Gracie-Hughes - 620,000
UFC 59 Ortiz-Griffin, Sylvia-Arlovski 1 - 425,000
UFC 57 Liddell-Couture 3 - 405,000
Vargas-Mosley - 400,000
Keep in mind that many of these events were priced differently. MMA PPV’s are usually cheaper than Boxing PPV’s. Also, aside from ****e’s Ultimate Fight Night series, live MMA can only be seen on PPV while live boxing has many outlets. Nevertheless it’s still interesting to see how the top MMA PPV’s match up with the top Boxing PPV’s.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s a great time to be a fan of both sportsComment
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the problem is when a a boxing show is big in genral it tends to be realy special, but when its ya average show more often than not it tends to be realy bad realy borring genraly in a place where there is no atmosphere, where as MMA is consistently ok and watchable whether you know who is fighting or notComment
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MMA has nothing on boxing,end ofComment
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