UFC head to head against Pac - Marg

[check hook]

It looks like the UFC drew pretty huge numbers against Pac and Marg (2 million) especially in the male 18-50 market, I wonder how this will effect the PPV buys.

http://www.mmamania.com/2010/11/16/1818287/ufc-122-ratings-on-****e-tv-reach-2-2-million-for-marquardt-vs-okami

replace **** in the url with s p i k (without the spaces). Or just google:

ufc 122 rating

research conducted by HBO suggests there is a 10-15% overlap in audience. Basically it means the overwhelming majority who watch MMA do not watch boxing and vice versa. How many Filipinos and Mexi fans you think would have watched MMA in favoutr of Pac vs Marg? I'd say not many.

[Sweet Jesus]

UFC is bigger than boxing in America. Wayyy bigger.

[VoodooChild]

research conducted by HBO suggests there is a 10-15% overlap in audience. Basically it means the overwhelming majority who watch MMA do not watch boxing and vice versa. How many Filipinos and Mexi fans you think would have watched MMA in favoutr of Pac vs Marg? I'd say not many.

That's interesting, Do you have a citation for that figure? Also if this is true, Pac and Floyd are the exception. They are the only fighters known to the mainstream and have a lot of cross over popularity. A counter program like the UFC would effect PPV numbers.

[ThePrince]

UFC 105 aired on the same night as Pacquiao-Cotto.

UFC 105 on ****e TV drew a 1.9 HH rating for an average 2.9 million viewers last Saturday night. The event also fared well in the M18-34 and M18-49 demographics with a 3.45 and 2.84, respectively.

The telecast's stellar M 18-34 rating and delivery (994,000 viewers) outperformed anything else on television, broadcast or cable on November 14, including heavy sports competition from college football. The telecast peaked at 3.7 million viewers during the main event, a light heavyweight bout between Couture, the UFC® Hall of Famer, and his opponent, Brandon "The Truth" Vera.

http://www.watchkalibrun.com/2009/11/18/1163562/ufc-105-ratings

[prinzemanspopa]

Why do people continue to compare the two? There is absolutely no comparison.Boxing fans are boxing fans,and closet ****sexuals are MMGAY fans.Can't we just leave it at that?



If a couple of guys want to sit around,pants down to their ankles,nuts in each other's faces,watching a couple of juice heads roll around in their undies then leave them to it them.

[[ DUBBZZ ]]

UFC was free so I was switching back and forth.

[Ether]

UFC is bigger than boxing in America. Wayyy bigger.

More popular maybe, the highest paid fighter in the UFC will get around 65-75K. Which is great, but compared to our top boxers.. chump change, and not even Dana White is fucking with WWE's Vince Mcmahon, Vince is a billionaire.

I would say MMA has more of a Tool following, if anything, i love MMA btw.

[Toe Injury]

i watched UFC instead on TV and just left pac/marg streaming on the pc

1. free
2. already knew pac would win
3. wont pay to watch cheato

[Toe Injury]

More popular maybe, the highest paid fighter in the UFC will get around 65-75K. Which is great, but compared to our top boxers.. chump change, and not even Dana White is fucking with WWE's Vince Mcmahon, Vince is a billionaire.

I would say MMA has more of a Tool following, if anything, i love MMA btw.

they dont make as much as the top boxers but trust me they make a hell of a lot more than 75k... Lesnar's unconditional "base pay" not counting bonus crap was around 500k vs carwin + + lesnar recieves a portion of PPV revenue which isn't published in his "base salary". Probably higher VS Valasquez. Plus MMA fighters make a **** load off of all the trendy "gear' they endorse.

in other words hes making easily over a million per fight, whether its 1.5 mil or 2 mil plus is speculation. He's making more than a lot of known-name boxers per fight.

The thing is that it drops off really steep and you will see a guy on the same card making like 30k base pay without a PPV share. But in boxing that same guy wouldn't even be on a huge PPV or TV card and would be lucky just to get a friday night fights bout.

Both sports are quite cruel to the guy who hasn't made a "breakthrough" but they're just different models. In boxing its harder to make that breakthrough but once you do you're one of the highest paid athletes in the world. In MMA you get exposure on big cards everyone sees but the upper echelon pay if you do make it isn't as high (yet).

[boxer2k5]

it was on free tv. jersey shore prob do 10 million lol,.
its free so im sure alot of people knew they can watch margirito the week after or stream