UFC killing boxing and taking all the remaining fans

[TheCell8]

Should be noted that UFC 256 pulled 675K buys despite main event having a 3PM EST start time. Which makes it even more impressive.

[TMLT87]

I’m sure more people would crap on MMA too if both Conor and Khabib held titles in the same division and waited to fight each other until 2024 because it needed to marinate.

Crazy isnt it when you really think about it. Imagine Conor is a champ, Khabib is a champ, Poirier is a champ and Gaethje is a champ. Then they talk a bunch of **** to each other from a distance for years while defending their belts against guys like Beneil Dariush.

Thats basically what boxing does to itself.

[BodyBagz]

If boxing did away with rules and allowed kicking and wrestling.......

Meh. Those who want to switch sides, no one is holding you back.

[SplitSecond]

The UFC has become to MMA what the NFL is to football or the NBA is to basketball.

Boxing still is a bunch of mice scurrying in the dark for cheese instead of becoming the monolith sport it could be if it leaned into putting boxing on a pedestal instead of trying to cash in to maximum potential with each big fight.

This is what PBC is trying to do. Although it’s handled by morons, with no fate in their fighters, creating a dragged out cold war instead.

[TMLT87]

Meh. Those who want to switch sides, no one is holding you back.

Does there even need to be sides though? You can be a general combat sports fan who prefers the UFC but still follows boxing intently.

[Mushroom]

I’m a fan of both

[OctoberRed]

Should be noted that UFC 256 pulled 675K buys despite main event having a 3PM EST start time. Which makes it even more impressive.

That's the combined number, domestic and foreign. It did 500K domestic and 175K international.

Per the UFC, it did well below expectations. They were predicting well over a million buys just in domestic sales alone.

[TMLT87]

That's the combined number, domestic and foreign. It did 500K domestic and 175K international.

Per the UFC, it did well below expectations. They were predicting well over a million buys just in domestic sales alone.

Its definitely well below projections. Khabib while clearly being well known hasnt shown himself to be a proper tangible PPV draw other than when hes facing Conor. On the other hand though, outside of North America and the UK where was it even on PPV? i'm guessing not in Russia or the vast majority of countries.

I’m a fan of both

Yeah, I was a boxing fan first like a lot of MMA fans. Then I got into MMA and K-1 in the 00s. K-1 was actually my favourite at times, its a shame it never blew up like it deserved to.

[LacedUp]

As expected, all the insecure children from the new boxing fan group call UFC gay.

That's why the UFC are crapping all over boxing, their fans aren't insecure little *****es.

[LacedUp]

Its definitely well below projections. Khabib while clearly being well known hasnt shown himself to be a proper tangible PPV draw other than when hes facing Conor. On the other hand though, outside of North America and the UK where was it even on PPV? i'm guessing not in Russia or the vast majority of countries.



Yeah, I was a boxing fan first like a lot of MMA fans. Then I got into MMA and K-1 in the 00s. K-1 was actually my favourite at times, its a shame it never blew up like it deserved to.

Brother Khabib is possibly the biggest star in the UFC and has done incredible numbers all over the world and smashed conor in the biggest PPV fight of all times

He's a draw.

He just did what Fury and Wilder did in an afternoon