Comments Thread For: UFC's Dana White Applauds 'Ballsy' Haymon on PBC Move

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boxing owns mma on every front

when they just "look" like they're humping each other we're actually doing it

[ELPacman]

Love him or hate him, he is better for our sport and sees it will need a boost after Pac-May are gone. This can only be a good thing to get more coverage on various channels and more exposure.

While I think UFC and Boxing will always have their own fanbase and don't really harm either because a fan of one will stick to that one or likes both, so neither really is hurt. UFC will stick to it's audience as it knows how, and boxing will continue to operate as it always has.

Unless your talking about young kids growing up watching UFC or boxing, that is another story. In that case, there needs to be more exposure otherwise, the UFC fans will drown out the boxing fans and carry that down to their kids growing up who will no doubt prefer what they grew up and was preached as the better sport.

[sicko]

It is way more money in boxing than it is MMA because Boxing is a sport with a RICH HISTORY, it has it's fans and if done correctly and if the right match ups are made Boxing can grab the attention of Casual Sports Fans like Mayweather vs Pacquiao did!

MMA on the other hand is still trying to build up a consistent fanbase and following. Their Biggest Draw was Brock Lesnar and that wasn't MMA fans that was WWE Fans tuning in to watch Brock Lesnar. MMA is not big internationally either, sure when a guy from a certain country is doing well they go to that country and do an event but they attend for that 1 Fighter, not for the sport In General.

[petero]

Hopefully Haymon will allow deserving up an comers that aren't signed
in long term deals with him to fight his guys. I do like to hear that a guy
like Guerrero is geting 2 million. Has Dana ever paid a guy 2 mil for a fight?
And to all you morons that think UFC is gona "take over" boxing, is like
saying NBA is gona take over the NFL, two different sports.

[petero]

Thank you couldn't have been said any better!

[joseph5620]

White appears to be under the impression Haymon is financing the venture himself when in fact it's being backed by investors.

It's really not that ballsy to spend other people's money. If it fails, you lose nothing, they lose everything.

Are you really that ******? Haymon has a lot to lose if this fails. Financially and in terms of his reputation and future endeavors. You truly think he's not investing his own money as well as the investors?

His name is attached to this. If it fails, he loses. Get Mayweather out of your brain.

[Weebler I]

Are you really that ******? Haymon has a lot to lose if this fails. Financially and in terms of his reputation and future endeavors. You truly think he's not investing his own money as well as the investors?

His name is attached to this. If it fails, he loses. Get Mayweather out of your brain.

I truly believe he is not investing a penny.

If it fails he's left with all the fighters he had to begin with except with them being advanced products having had greater exposure to a national audience.

Win-win for Haymon.

[lutenco]

Who can read this long article with Dana White and AL Haymon inside?????? Please

[joseph5620]

I truly believe he is not investing a penny.

If it fails he's left with all the fighters he had to begin with except with them being advanced products having had greater exposure to a national audience.

Win-win for Haymon.

You are truly ******ed if you believe that. Seriously.

[big_james10]

I predict that, by this time next year, both Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank will secure contracts with a television network using the same time-buy system that Haymon is using.

I also predict that all the clowns on this site who hate Floyd Mayweather and, by proxy, Al Haymon, and who claimed that Haymon's venture would fail, will claim that the contracts that GBP and TR sign are better deals than the ones that Haymon has secured.

How do I know this? When Floyd Mayweather brought up the idea of random drug testing completed by the USADA in 2009 in his negotiation with Pacquaio, all the haters on this site berated him, claiming that extra drug testing was not necessary and that he should "let the commission do its job." Three years later, those same clowns were bitc.....hing and whining on this site about how Juan Manuel Marquez was using PEDs and how he should have gone through random drug testing (through VADA since it is better than USADA) before he KO'd their god.