Is Boxing currently more popular than UFC in America?

[El_Mero]

No, unfortunately. Look at their numbers on their free and ppv fights. They're constantly doing good if not great.

[FinitoxDinamita]

No, unfortunately. Look at their numbers on their free and ppv fights. They're constantly doing good if not great.

There are always those delusional Boxing heads who will come and say that the sport has been around for over 100 years and that it’s more popular globally yada yada but it’s really not anymore.

Most people dont care about Boxing and most people dont know sht about Boxing.

[tomhawq]

As soon as my grandpa bought a tv with more than 100 channels and a remote for my dad and uncles, that's when boxing's popularity went downhill for us at least, according to my dad. There wasn't even any internet back then. The remote became the answer to skip commercials or when boring fights are in progress.

Let alone nowadays in this social media era, people can't focus on one thing anymore. I have 3 brothers who I used to watch with in their homes. Now I'm all alone watching. Their kids didn't inherit our love for boxing. They are their bosses who love watching kiddie shows with their dads.

[TMLT87]

It fluctuates too frequently to be able to solidly put one ahead of the other. It pretty much comes down to whatever fights/cards each has booked that month.

[El_Mero]

I used to have fight night get togethers every month and big fcukin parties for major ppvs. Now its pretty much never. Its sad af tbh. Hell, I was up in Reno a last year in a casino and no sportsbook had any fights on. Ended up going to one of the bars, which was dead af, and asked the bartender if i could cast to one of his tvs. He reluctantly said yes after i slipped him a few $. Next thing you know theres a crowd around me watching the fight. Bartender ended up giving me free drinks the rest of the time cause I brought him business.

Boxing will continue but its hanging by a thread imo. The big fights arent happening enough and the belt orgs and judging are a plague.
Until we get a federal commission like former U.S. Senators Reid and McCain were trying to create, boxing will never be what it once was.

[Sheikh]

UFC has more household names than boxing. There is very few American boxing household names. Some top boxing fights can do bigger pay-per-view numbers than UFC though.

[jqSide]

People talk about this subject as if Boxing and UFC are the only contact sports. There's BKFC gaining popularity, there's the traditional Thai or Kickboxing, not to mention age-old fake wrestling. These are what I mostly see in my cable on Fight channels.

[Willow The Wisp]

It’s not even close, the UFC is much more popular

Average American man ages 16 - 50 know very little about boxing, and a lot about MMA

Hell I went to Mexico a little while ago and outside of Canelo most Mexican men I talked about fighting were into the UFC

And the UFC gym in Mexico City is super expensive and always full, but most of the boxing gyms around Centro are cheap and empty

Every country I go to I go on a tour of the gyms and work out

Boxing is much bigger than Mixed Martial Arts according to the statistics, both in the US, and outside of the US.
This is established by the standard measures.
The demographics inside the US where it is most popular will somewhat mirror the ethnicities of the athletes who participate.

https://thesporting.blog/blog/the-10...orts-in-the-us

Overall, the trends certainly indicate that MMA has seen better days, and it's decline is evident.
MMA, to it's credit, remains brilliantly marketed of course.

MMA is quite dormant now in Brazil, Japan; it's former centers.

Kickboxing has gone comparatively dormant again, though still somewhat popular in sections of Europe.

What many people such as the MMA fan posting above are seeing, while trying to support their own opinion, is that 1970s strip mall Karate Schools have in this century become strip mall "MMA Training Centers".
Very little professional level fighting coming out of either. Both old and new sign on the door, there, is the promise that you can feel like a fighting machine without ever getting your nose broken. Very 1st world.
As a professional sport, its a longer conversation required.

[2fast2strong]

Boxing is much bigger than Mixed Martial Arts according to the statistics, both in the US, and outside of the US.
This is established by the standard measures.
The demographics inside the US where it is most popular will somewhat mirror the ethnicities of the athletes who participate.

https://thesporting.blog/blog/the-10...orts-in-the-us

Overall, the trends certainly indicate that MMA has seen better days, and it's decline is evident.
MMA, to it's credit, remains brilliantly marketed of course.

MMA is quite dormant now in Brazil, Japan; it's former centers.

Kickboxing has gone comparatively dormant again, though still somewhat popular in sections of Europe.

What many people such as the MMA fan posting above are seeing, while trying to support their own opinion, is that 1970s strip mall Karate Schools have in this century become strip mall "MMA Training Centers".
Very little professional level fighting coming out of either. Both old and new sign on the door, there, is the promise that you can feel like a fighting machine without ever getting your nose broken. Very 1st world.
As a professional sport, its a longer conversation required.

While the statistics are interesting I can only go off of my personal interactions and conversations

And those conversations overwhelmingly favor mma

But as you stated the popularity will differ between demographics and obviously I must fit in the category reflected by the majority of the ethnicity of the fighters in said discipline

Even though I have a wide range of people I interact with and ethnicity is not a factor in my choice

I personally prefer boxing, I was a boxing fan way before mma was a thing in North America

[rickJen]

I have to wonder why this question keeps popping up every month or so.
Can't you do your own surveys and take every chance to ask people at random?
I mean we're not living in caves are we? I for example worked in multicultural workplaces.
I have live and worked in Saudi Arabia as well years ago where there's a huge expatriate community,
British, Americans, Europeans, Indians, Pakistanis, Filipinos, Lebanese, Egyptians, Somalis, Yemenis, etc.
You could tell when the national team won the soccer match when in the middle of the night people
on the streets are blowing horns, honking cars, ****ing drums and empty tin containers...
Most times you don't have to ask.