Why UFC Undercards Are Better Than Boxing Undercards

[Eff Pandas]

The UFC has 400 or so of the best fighters & prospects or entertaining personalities in the game. Any boxing promoter with that sorta roster could do the same. Most boxing promoters we talk about might have a couple to a dozen such guys max & the biggest players in boxing might have 40 or so such guys.

Also the culture of boxing is different. In most MMA leagues, of which the UFC is the biggest & best, the goal is to make evenly matched fights from fight 1 of a guys career more often than not. You'll see a few heavily promoted guys or guys with drawing power or potential drawing power be matched more cleverly (Michael Venom Page being one of the best examples these days). But in boxing the goal seems to be to make a sellable or talented guy as big as you can with 15-30 basically setup fights to start his career & than gradually match him tougher from there til he'll win a title or get a title shot. If you aren't a guy deemed sellable or talented in boxing you'll more often than not be over matched from day 1 vs put in more evenly matched fights in MMA to entertain the audience.

That's why guys in MMA can be created more organically & often have some L's when they reach the world class level. In boxing it's almost a novelty for a world class guy to enter that level with a few L's & much more common for them to enter as a undefeated prospect with questions on him & lil proven about his abilities.

[nubianpiye]

Because in ufc someone with a racked of 15 - 7 fighting someone with a record of 24-3 can be considered a good fight might even be considered a main event but in boxing even if that fight was exciting the fans would bash it.

[TMLT87]

You guys haven't been watching the UFC undercards lately. They are full of trash WMMA fights.

It's a great myth that their undercards are great. Myths > Reality.

They're definitely watered down from what they were 10+ years ago, but they stil usually have like 4-5 cards a year that are stacked. You just dont see cards like 249 in boxing

If there was only 1 belt and one organisation, boxing would be masterpiece. Nobody would even watch UFC.

Imagine: world welterweight champion Crawford and contenders Pacquiao, Thurman, Spence, Porter..

Its crazy to think that boxing doesnt even come close to fulfilling its potential at any point for various reasons (politics, the scene being so fragmented etc etc). The sport pretty much coasts along at 50% effort at all times and still gets by fine on that. If all the potential fights out there actually got made (and in a timely fashion) things would be booming.