Dana White talks about battling Mayweather's PPV on 9/19

[FadeToBlack]

Take 3 MMA fights and 3 boxing fights (with fighters at the same fighting weight) and show them in different rooms. Put 50 random people in the MMA room and 50 random people in the boxing room and I guarantee you there will be a bigger reaction to the action from the viewers in the MMA room. I'm talking about random, off-the-street every day people who don't give a **** one way or the other about either sport.

So for all those boxing purists who think they speak for the majority, you're learning a hard lesson based on how the United States has already replaced boxing with MMA on the popularity scale. MMA hasn't overtaken boxing on worldwide level yet, only because it hasn't had time to. MMA has only been around for 16 years, with only half of those years where the sport was being managed correctly. It's literally just a matter of time, especially with the UFC getting television deals and holding shows overseas in the UK, Germany and eventually Japan.

Call it humping or gay all you want, but a lot of people out there think boxing looks like two guys playing pattycake with pillows in between clinching every 8 seconds, so it goes both ways. If you think MMA is gay, I'm deathly afraid of what you think of professional football. "Blue 42! Set.....hut!"

[neils7147933]

White and Mayweather both bring unpleasant, though legit attention to their sports.

For the most part, though, fans willing to pay for a boxing PPV are not fans willing to pay for an MMA PPV, and if they are, they'll probably purchase both and tivo.

[neils7147933]

Take 3 MMA fights and 3 boxing fights (with fighters at the same fighting weight) and show them in different rooms. Put 50 random people in the MMA room and 50 random people in the boxing room and I guarantee you there will be a bigger reaction to the action from the viewers in the MMA room. I'm talking about random, off-the-street every day people who don't give a **** one way or the other about either sport.

So for all those boxing purists who think they speak for the majority, you're learning a hard lesson based on how the United States has already replaced boxing with MMA on the popularity scale. MMA hasn't overtaken boxing on worldwide level yet, only because it hasn't had time to. MMA has only been around for 16 years, with only half of those years where the sport was being managed correctly. It's literally just a matter of time, especially with the UFC getting television deals and holding shows overseas in the UK, Germany and eventually Japan.

Call it humping or gay all you want, but a lot of people out there think boxing looks like two guys playing pattycake with pillows in between clinching every 8 seconds, so it goes both ways. If you think MMA is gay, I'm deathly afraid of what you think of professional football. "Blue 42! Set.....hut!"

LOL reminds me of this

[Dynamite Kid]

Paint dry >Floyd Mayweather.

[-Mustang-]

Paint dry >Floyd Mayweather.

no way!!!!!!!

Paint dry > Wlad Klitschko

[-Mustang-]

damn i'm going on a bunch of ignore lists again b/c of that quote ^^^

oh well i couldn't resist

[MANGLER]

**** Dana White and **** MMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cosign homey.

[Heru]

Take 3 MMA fights and 3 boxing fights (with fighters at the same fighting weight) and show them in different rooms. Put 50 random people in the MMA room and 50 random people in the boxing room and I guarantee you there will be a bigger reaction to the action from the viewers in the MMA room. I'm talking about random, off-the-street every day people who don't give a **** one way or the other about either sport.

So for all those boxing purists who think they speak for the majority, you're learning a hard lesson based on how the United States has already replaced boxing with MMA on the popularity scale. MMA hasn't overtaken boxing on worldwide level yet, only because it hasn't had time to. MMA has only been around for 16 years, with only half of those years where the sport was being managed correctly. It's literally just a matter of time, especially with the UFC getting television deals and holding shows overseas in the UK, Germany and eventually Japan.

Call it humping or gay all you want, but a lot of people out there think boxing looks like two guys playing pattycake with pillows in between clinching every 8 seconds, so it goes both ways. If you think MMA is gay, I'm deathly afraid of what you think of professional football. "Blue 42! Set.....hut!"

Lol, boxing is a more exciting sport than any other in the worl, let alone MMgay. The most exciting MMgay fight ever is not more exciting than a couple of boxing fights produced these last 2 years alone.

Boxing has had bad management for the better part of 2 decades straight and is still a viable commodity. Pavlik-Abraham and a # of high profile fights involving the sports biggest name and best fighters haven't happened and aren't gonna. When another organization rises and gets their share of top fighters and the Ali Act get enforced on them too. You won't be talking this reckless **** you are now nuthugger.

[TheNegation]

Lol, boxing is a more exciting sport than any other in the worl, let alone MMgay. The most exciting MMgay fight ever is not more exciting than a couple of boxing fights produced these last 2 years alone.

Keep telling yourself that. If that were the case MMA wouldn't be getting sanctioned in countless states and foreign countries, getting TV deals, and fighters being recognized as athletes, being nominated for ESPY awards.

They'd be going under if that was the case.

It's interesting that the boxing hardcores are the only ones who are complaining. Roy Jones Jr held a boxing/MMA event. For ****s sakes even Jim Lampley says he has no problem with it. Of all people.

Get over it.

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

JMM vs Mayweather is much better than alot of the trash Dana has put out this year. If Floyd ain't a superstar don't say **** for his roster. 2.4 million homes. Not of Danas fighters can do half that amount.