Last UFC card outsold Canelo PPV numbers.

[krazyn8tive]

^^^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****.

^^^this idiot thinks there are zero messicans in Texas lmao

[( . Y . )]

The only things Conner has that Canelo doesn't have is 3 losses, a pair of mutilated ears and a much smaller net worth.

Conor has TWO non-title fights. Fights that had NOTHING on the line that sold over 1.6 million PPVS this year.

[Straight Up]

stay SALTY boxing fans.

the sport has turned to shit and instagram dramas!

enjoy it very well.

[A.K]

Canelo smith was supposed to flop, and ufc is a much bigger brand than they were 4 years ago .

[JmH Reborn]

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

It's the biggest fight of the year for boxing...

and ZERO promotion at all. I haven't seen not one mention of it on ESPN, FS1, cable ads or anything.

This is crazy. I really don't even know what the point of a promoter is these days. They don't do anything

[jmrf4435]

"ROFL boxing is dead, thats why may pac did over 600 million."

And people felt like they were literally scammed of their money. For whatever reasons this fight drew out 10 years to long and even casual fans could see that. That was a horrible display of very anticipated boxing event and the entire public saw it. The fight was a dagger for the sport of boxing.

Boxing may not be dead, but at this rate it will be a way less popular sport than MMA in due time.

[jmrf4435]

"It's the biggest fight of the year for boxing...

and ZERO promotion at all. I haven't seen not one mention of it on ESPN, FS1, cable ads or anything.

This is crazy. I really don't even know what the point of a promoter is these days. They don't do anything "

Seriously, watch this fight get cancelled for some bat **** reason.

[RespekonMyName]

UFC hypes fighters like WWE. I was at the press conference for McGregor-Diaz 1 in March. Every fight had a quick video segment that promoted each fighter as the "best" at doing a particular thing. They called every fighter "the best grappler" or "one of the best strikers" in the world. They hyped EVERYBODY.

Boxing only hypes a few guys at the top. Everybody else sc****s for beans.

[KLockard23]

It never mattered before because there was no real alternative to boxing. It wasn't until Pride etc established itself, and the UFC went "mainstream", that there was real competition.

Unless MMA suddenly disappears, then I don't see how boxing can bounce back - the landscape is completely different than when it was a monopoly.

Unfortunately, boxing hasn't really helped itself, with the watering down of titles, PPV's etc, and greed rotting the sport from the inside out.

lol Pride? That went under while boxing has remained alive. The idea that people mainly only liked boxing because it was "all they had" is incredibly short-sighted. Boxing is in a slump right now but it's nowhere near dead. The next big megastar just hasn't come along yet.

[KillaCamNZ]

lol Pride? That went under while boxing has remained alive. The idea that people mainly only liked boxing because it was "all they had" is incredibly short-sighted. Boxing is in a slump right now but it's nowhere near dead. The next big megastar just hasn't come along yet.

The point clearly went over your head. I'm referring to the surge in MMA and Pride being part of that - irrespective of existing today, they were a part of creating a viable alternative to boxing. Pride is one organization in a sport, not the sport itself.

What we do see today - is MMA having a massive chunk of the pie. To the tune of 5 events in the last 12 months alone with PPV numbers of over 1 million.

I've never said boxing is dead - I've doubted their ability to bounce back. What is incredibly short sighted, is not looking at the trends - and coming to the conclusion that boxing isn't in serious trouble.