Boxing beats UFC in PPV's, who said Boxing was dead?

[Gojira]

The UFC didnt have any of there big draws on that card. marquez-mayweather was in the top 5 boxing ppvs of the year.

[Savino]

The UFC did over 2million PPV buys in a monthly period, that's impressive. when was the last time Boxing did over a million for PPV card? was it DLH vs Pac? How much did Hatton and Pac do?

[El 7 Mares V.2]

Wasn't much of a card though either. You have to takethat into account. It's the equivalent to what the Pavlik/Hopkins card was to us.

Exactly, that was a pretty lame card and most likely put together in order to try and compete against Mayweather-Marquez.

[1SILVA]

http://www.faniq.com/article/UFC-103...00000--1810320

The early and unofficial numbers are out, and it looks like the PPV numbers for UFC 103 were somewhere between 400-600K.

According to The Savage Science, these are the numbers for the past few events:
UFC 100: 1.7 million
UFC 101: 1.05 million
UFC 102: 535,000
UFC 103: 400,000-600,000
It's no surprise that their super-card for UFC 100 got the most sales, and fan favorites Anderson Silva and Forrest Griffin highlighted a very successful UFC 101, along with the title fight between Kenny Florian and BJ Penn.

So the UFC is steadily drawing about 500k in PPV buys, and more, when they put huge names on their cards. UFC 103 went up against the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez fight, which reportedly got over 1 million buys. What's your take on all of this?

Imagine the numbers PBF-Pac would put up? I predict 2.5 million buys

[onechance87]

i've always said that when boxing put's it biggest stars against each other that ufc can't compete ppv wise.

The problem is that boxing lacks star power. Ufc is like the nfl where fans watch for the sport. Boxing is like the nba where fans watch the star athletes.

exactly....good post?

[DC Fight Fan]

exactly....good post?

I don't know....was it?

[Rickety Cricket]

The only people that say boxing is dead are dumb ****s like Dana White and other UFC meatheads.

[Savino]

Exactly, that was a pretty lame card and most likely put together in order to try and compete against Mayweather-Marquez.

UFC 103 was already booked and planed prior to the JMM/Mayweather fight was reschedule due to Mayweathers injury.

I watched the UFC and even thought it wasn't star parked they still had some failry decent big named fighters and was a good watch.

[PensionKiller]

http://www.faniq.com/article/UFC-103...00000--1810320

The early and unofficial numbers are out, and it looks like the PPV numbers for UFC 103 were somewhere between 400-600K.

According to The Savage Science, these are the numbers for the past few events:
UFC 100: 1.7 million
UFC 101: 1.05 million
UFC 102: 535,000
UFC 103: 400,000-600,000
It's no surprise that their super-card for UFC 100 got the most sales, and fan favorites Anderson Silva and Forrest Griffin highlighted a very successful UFC 101, along with the title fight between Kenny Florian and BJ Penn.

So the UFC is steadily drawing about 500k in PPV buys, and more, when they put huge names on their cards. UFC 103 went up against the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez fight, which reportedly got over 1 million buys. What's your take on all of this?

It just means they need big names like we do. If boxing has no big names, then it doesn't even become PPV. If we put fighters without good undercards, or unknown fighters, we are ****ed too.

I hope that this causes boxing promoters to put on better cards.

[Junito-Rulez]

I don't care about boxing cards. In MMA i used to watch an event for the Card until the PRIDE vs UFC war was completely over. UFC 84 is the last UFC card i liked. Now i lost interest for MMA. (At least for watching it)

I care more about boxing Main events than anything else so i would even favor a Mayweather vs Berto fight over any stacked MMA card.(ex: Fedor vs Lesnar, GSP vs Silva, Bj Penn vs Diego Sanchez, Rampage vs Machida)