Last UFC card outsold Canelo PPV numbers.

[jmrf4435]

"Boxing is dead in USA."

Starting to look like it. Luis ortiz may have made a wise choice signing with matchroom, he will get rich and headline great cards. British fans are fight freaks

[hayZ]

How about the fact it was, like most boxing cards these days, a total mismatch. Look, boxing has made its own greedy bed and has to lie in it. Meanwhile the UFC is putting on killer cards with intriguing, competitve, fight-friendly matches. UFC 205 will be the first card ever in New York at MSG and it's completely stacked.

Boxing needs a real shakeup and reset in order to become viable again. It's a goddamn mess.

Very good point.

The UFC has honestly done AMAZING this year. This has really been a pitiful year for Boxing imo. Outside of a handful of decent fights.

End of 2013 with The One PPV, I thought it's the start of a boom period for Boxing. End of last year with Fury winning the title, I thought the same for HW Boxing. Seems like it's all gone backward. GGG getting older and not having that career defining fight, Canelo not wanting the GGG fight, Al Haymon not making the fights people want to see, US Boxers thinking they're worth more than they are and other fighters just not fighting often enough like Khan, Lomachenko, Rigo etc.

With the talent that is out there right now, it's truly a travesty that they aren't fights happening. It's hurting the Sport big time. This is honestly the best HW has looked for almost 2 decades imo. Young fighters, in their prime, in shape and with great, entertaining styles in that division. Yet no one is fighting anyone. Wilder hasn't beaten a live body since he won the title v Stiverne in Jan 2015. Fury is having a break down, Klitschko is a year older and inactive due to Fury, Povetkin v Wilder isn't happening, Wilder is injured too, Joshua isn't fighting people his level.

Lomachenko is arguably the most talented boxer in the Sport and he isn't marketed and barely fights. I'm happy he is fighting Walters next, that's an excellent fight to be fair. There needs to be more promotion for him and that fight. Top Rank has no presence online.

[KillaCamNZ]

The UFC has parity, therefore unpredictability.

Boxing, does not.

Fans get bored and move away.

Boxing is dying.

[TheCell8]

I find it funny. 300K buys for probably the biggest name in the sport is considered a success.

If McGregor ever put up those kind of numbers it would be considered an absolute disaster and huge failure.

Boxing did this to themselves though. They just focus on one big mega fight and put all their advertising into that fight, and all the other fights become irrelevant.

The talk is now about Canelo vs. GGG, all the other good fights will be overshadowed and ignored.

I'll be surprised if Kovalev vs. Ward does 200K buys.

[All in]

Boxing is dead in USA.

It's definitely on life support and everyone wants more money.

[krazyn8tive]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comment...t_300000_buys/


300k Buys for a card in UK with old guys headlining and a weak under-card. Compared to Canelo fighting on a holiday in the United States.


Bisping is a bigger star than Canelo.

Face of the sport doe

[krazyn8tive]

The UFC has parity, therefore unpredictability.

Boxing, does not.

Fans get bored and move away.

Boxing is dying.

100% accurate

[Scipio2009]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comment...t_300000_buys/


300k Buys for a card in UK with old guys headlining and a weak under-card. Compared to Canelo fighting on a holiday in the United States.


Bisping is a bigger star than Canelo.

^^^lol, look at this fool.

The UFC took Michael Bisping home to ****ing Manchester, to make his first defense of his middleweight title (the first Brit to be UFc champion), in a return fight of a match that he loss. If you want to call that a little fight, you're a ****ing idiot.

gtfoh with that bull****.

[SeekDaGreat]

That was a tune up Canelo fight. I watched it for free a week later. LOL@ comparing a televised Canelo sparring match against two guys in the biggest fight of their lives...

LOL@300,000 people who paid to watch Canelo Smith on PPV.

Fools, all around. The comparer and the purchasers. Bunch of fools.

[KLockard23]

The UFC has parity, therefore unpredictability.

Boxing, does not.

Fans get bored and move away.

Boxing is dying.

That never mattered before, no reason to think it does now. Boxing is just in a slump at the moment.