MMA is starting to fade, BOXING BACK BABY!

[TR vs. GB]

I remember reading an article that the crossover between these 2 sports fan base is less than 10%. Basically boxing fans dont watch mma (like myself I never watch that stuff) and mma fans dont really watch boxing.

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

Photomane MMA is not fading. Back your statement up. MMA is growing. UFC brings in more money than boxing and wwe combined. Do your homework. I love boxing first but MMA is not going anywhere.

UFC doesn't bring in more money than every promoter worldwide in a calender year in boxing.

[etlux]

UFC PPV only brings in more money than boxing PPV per year. The problem is UFC runs solely on PPV and makes all its money there. Boxing makes only a small percentage of its yearly money on PPV alone. Boxing as a whole world wide dwarfs UFC and makes far more money than UFC.

Boxing PPV is really only one small sector: HBO. HBO is NOT boxing. HBO is just a channel, stop trying to compare UFC PPV to only HBO. Boxing is far bigger than that and literally dwarves MMA world wide in $$$ as I said.

[TR vs. GB]

UFC doesn't bring in more money than every promoter worldwide in a calender year in boxing.

OMG if we are talking about worldwide mma/ufc is nowhere near Boxing's level in generating money.

[CumulousClouds]

Boxing will always be superior in terms of combat sports, it makes the most entertaining bouts and captivating back stories. Reason you can still watch classic fights from over 30 years ago and still feel like you're watching something special. Also notice how all of the best sport movies in cinema have been about boxing (Rocky, Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, The Fighter, ect.)

I like MMA but I always felt like people liked it because it was the "new cool thing" to like, and in that effort decided to crap on boxing. There are some very respectable MMA fans who really love the sport, and then you have the tools and energy drinking ADD crowd. I'm sorry but MMA will never have compelling figures like Duran, Ali, Tyson, De La Hoya, ect. And they will NEVER have fights that can match the passion, intensity and sheer beautiful violence of Gatti - Ward, Ali - Frazier, Hagelr - Hearns, ect.

So true...

Guarantee you if you go around and ask 10 people who any of those guys you named are most of them will know, ask them who Randy couture is they'll be like who the f.uck is that? boxing legends over mma legends

[William Blake]

For boxing, this has been a really good first half for 2011, following a solid end to 2010.

For the UFC and MMA is general, the pay per view cards have not been that great. Both of GSP's fights have been somewhat one-sided and boring. The Rampage-Machida fight was dull. A number of their top fights have been anti-climatic.

However, the Ultimate Fighter on tv, the sheer number of good fighters, and - most significantly, the fact that the big fights get made are some of the reasons boxing is still lagging behind.

[McFearless]

So true...

Guarantee you if you go around and ask 10 people who any of those guys you named are most of them will know, ask them who Randy couture is they'll be like who the f.uck is that? boxing legends over mma legends

^^^^^THIS.
this all day.

tyson, ali, louis, robinson, leonard etc.

and mma... their "legends" are 17-10 WL record.. its just a fad

[-DSG-]

Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos Santos
Nick Diaz vs. GSP

It's starting to regain momentum...

im more pumped for those than most of the boxing fights coming up

In MMA/UFC, they're getting the fights that are suppose to be happnening and the fights that the fans are actually calling for. Cant say the same for boxing. We get fights that are forced upon us and shoved down our throats.

exactly!!!!!!!!!1

[-DSG-]

^^^^^THIS.
this all day.

tyson, ali, louis, robinson, leonard etc.

and mma... their "legends" are 17-10 WL record.. its just a fad

mma has only been around for like 20 years idiot

[Jamel H]

Boxing never went anywhere but I understand where your trying to get at...