Dana white talks about ufc vs boxing / floyd vs pacman

[JudeTheObscure]

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These figures aren't even the entire year's numbers. The UFC already broke its own PPV record for most revenue in a year, in any sport...IN HISTORY.


I'm a boxing fans, but facts are facts man. Pay these guys their dues, they are doing something right.

Well, I'd argue they appeal to a certain audience more than their groundbreaking athletic ability attracted people in an awe-inducing manner... more than 1 million people are glued to trash tv, media-manufactured "singers" and the like... if alot of slow-attention span drunk people are into something, doesn't exactly constitute 100% effort on the UFC's part. the fanbase was already there. "these are people in a cage trying to murder the other." how hard is it to promote that?

[mrpain81]

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These figures aren't even the entire year's numbers. The UFC already broke its own PPV record for most revenue in a year, in any sport...IN HISTORY.


I'm a boxing fans, but facts are facts man. Pay these guys their dues, they are doing something right.

You said they outsold both Boxing and WWE combined, you won't be able to back that up so STFU.

Boxing beat out the UFC/MMA in 2007 by the way **** stick.


Boxing/MMA PPV Buys/Gates

Total PPV buyrates

MMA

5,057,000

Boxing -

5,530,000

Note these numbers are only in North America Hatton vs Mayweather sold another 1.2 Million in the UK

Biggest Gates of 2007

MMA

1. Hughes vs GSP 3 - $4.9 million
2. Liddell Vs Rampage 2 - $4,304,740

Boxing

1. Delahoya VS Mayweather - $ 18,419,200
2. Mayweather Vs Hatton - $ 10,393,950

Great year for both sports

Boxing PPV's

2,400,000 DLH Mayweather
915,000 Mayweather Hatton
350,000 Pacquiao Barrera
340,000 Cotto Mosely
305,000 Hopkins Wright
300,000 Vargas Mayorga
225,000 Cotto Judah
225,000 Barrera Marquez
200,000 Pacquiao Solis
100,000 Morales Diaz
75,000 Holyfield Ibragimov
70,000 Chavez Jr. Sanchez
25,000 Jones Jr Hanshaw

MMA PPVs

700,000 St-Pierre Hughes
675,000 Liddell Jackson
534,000 Sylvia Couture
485,000 Couture Gonzaga
475,000 Liddell Jardine
425,000 Ortiz Evans
400,000 Bispin Evans
400,000 GSP Serra
350,000 A.Silva Lutter Mirko and Rampage debut
325,000 A.Silva Franklin
200,000 Franklin Okami
40,000 Pride Second Coming-Henderson W. Silva
35,000 K-1 Dynamite Lesnar Gracie Saku Morton et al
13,000 BodogFight Fedor lindland

[JudeTheObscure]

come on. there is nothing groundbreaking about UFC. their roster *is* limited, with minimal levels of different personalities, etc.. I'm just saying, in comparison to boxing, since thats all people like to do anymore.

these guys and their hitting the other guy in the head while they are sitting on their chest, or back with their ass in the air, its got a built in fanbase of drunk, loud, tough guys- it isn't rocket science to promote. i'd presume neither is "girls gone wild".

someone wrote recently the "problem" (!!) with boxing and MMA is that MMA has its own "culture"- he said "at a MMA event, they all dress alike, they all look alike, they wear the same fashions" (yeah, this guy made it easy for me..) and that, at boxing, "you see guys in street clothes, but you also see guys in suits"

and he meant that like it was a *bad* thing. i think thats part of boxing's appeal. its true- UFC appeals to one broad demographic- for the most part- and they like to wear Affliction shirts. (damn, that ****s ugly. sorry, Affliction fans. you might as well wear 1980s heavy metal band t-shirts.. i mean.. really?) boxing appeals to a much broader range, personalities, social class, race, and so forth. so there is really no comparison. does that make boxing 'better'? not really- it just makes it different. and thats all i'm saying.

[Fulcrum29]

What are you talking about, Racist?

Whats wrong skinhead, go get some more tattos and roll around cuddling some sweaty men, that'll cheer you up