Boxing Is Losing Out To UFC No Matter What The Promoters Claim

[D-MiZe]

What do you want me to research it? lol

Yeah.

[karrapato]

I don't like UFC and i don't like MMA. I hate watching those street like fights...

Boxing

I just don't care if UFC will get bigger and more $$ than boxer. I'll just watch boxing.

[rape]

i don't see ufc ever going away at this point. but boxing will always be here.

[FreshPrince]

I don't know. The main****** media doesn't really follow mma. I like mma a lot and follow it. Dana White always claims super high ppv numbers and sold out arenas. In reality none of the ppv numbers released by him are official, and some numbers have proven to be false. Also I kept hearing him say UFC 98 (the last ppv) was sold out, and then read a few days later only 12,000 came, and 3,000 of those tickets were given away for free.

[mrpain81]

I don't know. The main****** media doesn't really follow mma. I like mma a lot and follow it. Dana White always claims super high ppv numbers and sold out arenas. In reality none of the ppv numbers released by him are official, and some numbers have proven to be false. Also I kept hearing him say UFC 98 (the last ppv) was sold out, and then read a few days later only 12,000 came, and 3,000 of those tickets were given away for free.

[knn]

You can make much more money in pro boxing if you are good.

Thus anyone (like Kimbo etc) who wants to be at the top at UFC instead of boxing knows that he couldn't win in boxing matches.

Or loves to roll around with men on the floor.

[d9rat]

I really do think boxing shoudl be taking MMA more seriously.

I live in Canada and for people between 18-30 UFC trumps boxing. I had no trouble finding a group of people to go in on a UFC PPV if it has a big name like St. Pierre, Lesnar, or Silva. However, I could not find a single person to even go to a bar to watch Pacquiao vs. Hatton.

Part of this is name recognition: Lesnar had the WWE hype machine, St. Pierre is Canadian so gets an automatic following here.

Part of this is caused by all the boxing governing bodies. Silva is a world champ and everyone knows this. There are other MMA promotions but for a North American audience Silva is champ.

There are multiple champs over multiple weight divisions which just devalues things for the true champ.

MMA also has a number of shows on essentially basic cable hyping new up and coming fighters as well current fighters. Boxing has very little like that in Canada and few highlights are shown on the sports networks when compared with MMA.

When I was growing up the only boxing I could watch was replays of Lewis fights (because he grew up in Canada) and in the national newspaper there was very little coverage of boxing. They had, and still have, arguably the most gifted boxing writer in Canada (Stephen Brunt) but he was limited to writing articles on Lewis, Tyson, and even then only when it was fight week involving those two. During the latter half of the 90s I only remember reading one article about Roy Jones Jr. which is shocking considering how big a name he was.

Boxing needs some way to promote itself to young people otherwise it will continue shrinking.

I love boxing and MMA but most those under 30 seem to be choosing the latter to watch or only have the option of watching the latter because that is what is accessible.

[2nd Round KO]

People have short attention spans.

Getting shorter and shorter.

Notice most movies lack a plot and are explosions only.

People like action.

UFC brings that action.

Not everyone is into calculated battles.

Some people like all out war.

[d9rat]

I just re-read my post and I hope I didn't make it seem like boxing is going to die. It certainly isn't because it offers something MMA can't which is pure stand-up fighting. But boxing's market share will continue to drop in North America and Japan and other areas (probbaly South America and parts of Europe).

And it is possible that MMA is the new kickboxing. A sport that seemed like it was going to takeoff but never did outside of certain regions. However, MMA is already more popular than kickboxing ever was and only seems to be growing.

[Ravishing]

Does UFC sell 60,000 tickets for a fight?

Pride Events in Japan filled about 60-70,000 people SEVERAL times.