How Can UFC Compete With This

[Zarco]

What does that have to do with anything? Do you assume Schaeffer or Oscar would hand over anything having to do with their company's information just to say, "Hahaha we make more than you!!!"

I think you can take a step back and easily say the UFC makes MILLIONS of dollars every year, just as GBP does.

They do. Every one knows their numbers are true. HBO is a publicly traded company, they cant release any numbers they'd like, UFC can.

[RL_GMA]

They do. Every one knows their numbers are true. HBO is a publicly traded company, they cant release any numbers they'd like, UFC can.

Are you saying that just because it's HBO? A company that's NEVER inflated their ratings or earnings?

[Zarco]

Are you saying that just because it's HBO? A company that's NEVER inflated their ratings or earnings?

Have you any idea what the fed's would do to HBO if that happened? Do you know what a public traded company is? Do you know what a privately held company is? As long as Zuffa is a private company, we will never really know how accurate the pay-per view numbers for UFC are.

[hateinyaeyes32]

Proof? I've always read the opposite.

Google it lol, its not opposite at all, UFC beats out boxing every time in term of numbers, its the most bought of anything on PPV besides ****. Not in just overall numbers but individual events. Whoever told you its the opposite doesnt know what they are talking about. Dana White talks about it all the time.. The only PPV last year that beat boxing beat UFC was on the same day, UFC 103 and the boxing PPV was Mayweather-Marquez, and the Main event for UFC's card was Rich Franklin-Vitor Belfort (a horrible main event). And as for the UFC stacking there cards, well whats wrong with that? Don King and Bob Arum and guys like that need to start stacking there cards as well, why do you think so many people buy the UFC over boxing?

[hateinyaeyes32]

I remember when Richard Shafer offered to pay a top 3 accounting firm for an audit of UFC's PPV numbers since the UFC is a private promotional company and can release any figures they like as oppossed to a publicly traded company such as HBO. The UFC declined the invitation.

proof? because I think youre lieng

[Zarco]

proof? because I think youre lieng

While UFC boasts PPV sales in the six-digit neighborhood, most industry observers believe the numbers fall quite short of these figures given that UFC refuses to allow a third-party audit their books. Following a head-to-head competition in September between the Mayweather/Marquez boxing match and UFC 103, Golden Boy Promotions President Rich Schaefer challenged UFC to an audit of PPV sales after Dana White said the UFC would outsell them that night. The UFC declined the invitation as rumors circled that sales were less than 20% of the boxing card.
http://www.benchwarmersunited.com/wo...n-ppv-pirates/

[shadeyfizzle]

The simple answer is that the ufc cannot compete with that.

But you would have to be completely ******ed to not be impressed by a fledgling sport that is not yet even 20years old to have risen in popularity the way it has.

What they have in the UFC or mma in general may not be as polished as boxing but if they continue their trends when their sport becomes 200years old it will be far more popular than boxing.

[Zarco]

The simple answer is that the ufc cannot compete with that.

But you would have to be completely ******ed to not be impressed by a fledgling sport that is not yet even 20years old to have risen in popularity the way it has.

What they have in the UFC or mma in general may not be as polished as boxing but if they continue their trends when their sport becomes 200years old it will be far more popular than boxing.

Why be impressed? We live in advanced times. Technological times. Tons of revolutionized marketing resources.

Boxing is the NBA of combat sports, MMA is the NHL. MMA will never surpass Boxing, no matter how old it gets.

[Rolling Stone]

Why be impressed? We live in advanced times. Technological times. Tons of revolutionized marketing resources.

Boxing is the NBA of combat sports, MMA is the NHL. MMA will never surpass Boxing, no matter how old it gets.

i agree with this post^^^^^^ we live in an advanged age where average joes can turn into worldwide sensations overnight.......UFC is just a fad, Boxing is older than civilisation itself and still going strong

[shadeyfizzle]

Why be impressed? We live in advanced times. Technological times. Tons of revolutionized marketing resources.

Boxing is the NBA of combat sports, MMA is the NHL. MMA will never surpass Boxing, no matter how old it gets.

nhl is older than the nba. both are older than the nfl. but the nfl is biggest sport in the US.