Why Not Have a BoxFC: An Idea for Reform in Boxing

[PhillyG]

Tyson vs Hollyfield 2 sold around 2 million PPVs and that's the highest ever in boxing. UFC 100 sold around 1.6-1.7 million PPVs and considering the fact boxing has a 100 year advantage compared to MMA which is a very young sport, that's quite impressive.

PRIDE Shockwave 2002, btw, had 91,108 spectators, and PRIDE Final Conflict 2003 had over 67,450 people in the audience. I think that's well over 50 000, wouldn't you agree?

Well the highest PPV ever was actually Floyd vs Oscar at 2.3 million.. I'll take your word on the other figures. Theres no doubt its catching up in popularity. Much more real and damning to me is seeing the effect first hand, several of my friends have switched from my boxing gym to MMA recently. That's more down to the ease of getting pro fights in MMA than boxing.

[doomrider7]

It's funny to see all these hardcore boxing fanatics living in so much denial about the current state of their sport thriller91 and tomtsatas being the prime examples. Ok so Mayweather vs Marquez beat a weak UFC card that had no big names or championships...BIG ****ING DEAL!!! Nobody not even Dana White expected the card to garner more buys, and the Mayweather fight did so well was because they had Mexico's p4p best fighting on Mexican independence day(yes they changed the date to coincide with this to get more money out of it). Individually Boxing still does bigger numbers, but collectively the UFC is crushing Boxing in PPV buys.

[Heru]

MMA is catching up to Boxing? LOL.LMAO.Haha.Hehe. The Sears center sold out(13,000) for a guy from Siberia, Russia who does not speak English. ON CBS. Don King sold 1,200 tix for a World Championship fight in the same Arena.

Don King fights now? at using Don King as a comparison. The man is barely a promoter anymore, he gets the venues a month in advance. He's like the Elitefc of boxing now.

You should hope your #1 P4P and the supposed greatest heavyweight ever can sell out an arena where the one of the largest population of Eastern Europeans is in the US at an average of $50 dollars. Our lightweights (Juan Diaz) can draw that and more. Step your game up.

Tyson vs Hollyfield 2 sold around 2 million PPVs and that's the highest ever in boxing. UFC 100 sold around 1.6-1.7 million PPVs and considering the fact boxing has a 100 year advantage compared to MMA which is a very young sport, that's quite impressive.

PRIDE Shockwave 2002, btw, had 91,108 spectators, and PRIDE Final Conflict 2003 had over 67,450 people in the audience. I think that's well over 50 000, wouldn't you agree?

Your first sentence is wrong, so your post is automatically trash and misinformed. Go look at the De La Hoya-Mayweather buys to correct yourself. Can't even believe your ****ty numbers because the UFShe doesn't even release that info.

Both Pride events were in Japan, so counting internationally Boxing spanks MMGay.

20000 to watch a Haitian and a Romanian fight in Canada (Pascal-Diaconu).

A Romanian consistently draws 16000 in Canada (Lucian Bute).

The Klitschko brothers get half of Germany to tune into their fight and Wlad sold 50000 tickets in a week when he was going to fight Haye. They're Ukranian btw.

Koki Kameda drew 37000 last time out and his brother had 2/3 of Japan watching him fight.

1/4 of Poland (10 million viewers out of 40 million people) watched Adamek fight a shot Golota.

Chavez-Haugen was only 16 years ago and drew 136,274. Catch up .

The Mayweather-Marquez mismatch got more buys than 98% (Only ppv's involving Brock Lesnar and one Lidell-Ortiz broke a million) of your ppv's. And that was while competing against one of your ****ty shows with one of your most popular fighters . Now go back to sherdog and tell them you got owned on boxingscene.

[Ch@mpBox@PR]

**** UFC, MMA and all this Gay fom of fighting. ****em all!!!!

[marino218]

Your first sentence is wrong, so your post is automatically trash and misinformed. Go look at the De La Hoya-Mayweather buys to correct yourself. Can't even believe your ****ty numbers because the UFShe doesn't even release that info.

Both Pride events were in Japan, so counting internationally Boxing spanks MMGay.

20000 to watch a Haitian and a Romanian fight in Canada (Pascal-Diaconu).

A Romanian consistently draws 16000 in Canada (Lucian Bute).

The Klitschko brothers get half of Germany to tune into their fight and Wlad sold 50000 tickets in a week when he was going to fight Haye. They're Ukranian btw.

Koki Kameda drew 37000 last time out and his brother had 2/3 of Japan watching him fight.

1/4 of Poland (10 million viewers out of 40 million people) watched Adamek fight a shot Golota.

Chavez-Haugen was only 16 years ago and drew 136,274. Catch up .

The Mayweather-Marquez mismatch got more buys than 98% (Only ppv's involving Brock Lesnar and one Lidell-Ortiz broke a million) of your ppv's. And that was while competing against one of your ****ty shows with one of your most popular fighters . Now go back to sherdog and tell them you got owned on boxingscene.

Ok, so it was 2.3 million instead of 2 million, so that huge mistake makes my whole post trash? And yes, those numbers are correct, UFC 100 sold between 1.6 and 1.7 million PPVs, you have that information in plenty of articles.

You named a bunch of fights that drew between 16 000 and 50 000 people, I named you 2 events that drew 70 000 - 90 000 people, what's your point dude?

Ok, the 136 000 fight is impressive, but I wasn't trying to say MMA beats boxing in popularity, are you blind or what, read my post again, then reply again, this time, think before you do it. I don't feel like writing it all over again