Is Boxing currently more popular than UFC in America?

[Floyd is TBE]

MMA has never at any point been more popular than boxing. How many times are people gonna ask this question

[TMLT87]

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.

Boxing and MMA are the only major combat sports. There is a gigantic drop off after that.

[TMLT87]

MMA has never at any point been more popular than boxing.

Late 2015 through 2016 when the UFC had Conor and Ronda and 7 PPVs that broke a million buys while boxing had zero?

2018 when Conor/Khabib did more buys than Canelo/GGG 1+2 combined?

This weekend even tbh. The biggest boxing match involves an MMA fighter in the main event, while the UFC has a major PPV that will likely outdraw it. Any given weekend one might be bigger than the other, totally depends on whats booked. Thats how its been for ages, ever since they started getting comparable exposure.

[Sheikh]

How many boxers are household names today? In America maybe one Canelo and that's all. There's at least a handful of UFC fighters that are household names. Like Connor John Jones khabib Etc

[TMLT87]

How many boxers are household names today? In America maybe one Canelo and that's all. There's at least a handful of UFC fighters that are household names. Like Connor John Jones khabib Etc

Khabib has been retired for over 3 years. Jones has fought twice this decade. Conor hasnt fought since mid 2021 and is 1-3 since he came back from the Floyd fight.

The UFC right now is kind of lacking in full time star power tbh. The biggest stars are guys like Izzy, Khamzat, Poatan, Volk, Poirier, Gaethje, Islam, Usman, O'Malley, Paddy, Holloway, Gane, Strickland, Colby, a badly declined Tony Ferguson etc. Not really any household names there. I would say boxing actually has more star power at the top end right now. AJ, Canelo and Fury are bigger than any UFC names other than Conor, and unlike Conor they actually fight sometimes.

[henrykk123456]

This is not even a debate anymore.

UFC makes more money than all other MMA promotions and all boxing promotions combined.

UFC gets billion dollar broadcasting deals. Boxing can't keep broadcasters, never mind get billion dollar deals.

UFC prelims featuring nobodies do better ratings than boxing stars like Shakur, Beterbiev, Ortiz, etc on the same network.

There's no observable metric that boxing does better in other than maybe 2-3 gates a year.

[Willow The Wisp]

This is not even a debate anymore.

UFC makes more money than all other MMA promotions and all boxing promotions combined.

UFC gets billion dollar broadcasting deals. Boxing can't keep broadcasters, never mind get billion dollar deals.

UFC prelims featuring nobodies do better ratings than boxing stars like Shakur, Beterbiev, Ortiz, etc on the same network.

There's no observable metric that boxing does better in other than maybe 2-3 gates a year.

Hmmmmm

[Bullrider]

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?

Hmmm..... good question.

[jaded]

Most people will think of only UFC when it comes to MMA, but in fact MMA has many other organizations worldwide, so I'm not sure if boxing really is bigger.

[WillieWild114]

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.

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