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UnderGround Forum >> Boxing is dead, UFC on top
| 1/12/13 4:23 PM | |
12SixElbow
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Member Since: 4/15/09 Posts: 15511 |
To put it in perspective for you... Fox is in 100 million + homes, Showtime is in 20 million homes. HOB 34 Million The UFC clears 2 million views on Fox... Boxing regularly clears 1 million viewers on Showtime and HBO.
I'm a huge fan of both sports, and they're both here to stay. |
| 1/12/13 4:25 PM | |
MachidasStraightLeft
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Edited: 01/12/13 4:28 PM Member Since: 9/16/12 Posts: 494 |
12SixElbow -MachidasStraightLeft -12SixElbow -
It's hard to say if the UFC could put on 16 cards that would do that well on premium cable. I doubt it. You also have to consider that HBO and Showtime, but particularly HBO, have cultivated and established a faithful boxing audience for years now, while the UFC and MMA has not. Any boxing fan knows that HBO is a must if you want to see good fights.
My counter argument would be do you think that every single one of those fights that you listed could do more than 200k PPV buys like every UFC PPV can? I'd say the answer is a resounding no. I doubt more than 2 or 3 could. I agree though, despite boxing's massive PPV discrepancies between Floyd + Manny and everyone else, I don't see it going away any time soon. |
| 1/12/13 4:37 PM | |
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MachidasStraightLeft
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Member Since: 9/16/12 Posts: 496 |
Animal Chin - From: MachidasStraightLeft I'll come back in 4 years and voice my opinion. |
| 1/12/13 4:40 PM | |
SubbedZER0
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Edited: 01/12/13 4:43 PM Member Since: 7/30/12 Posts: 159 |
Says Boxing is dead Posts Joe Rogan arguing Lou DiBella and lovely Hugh, clear difference in IQ TROLL |
| 1/12/13 5:03 PM | |
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St1llWill
Member Since: 10/10/10 Posts: 3 |
MachidasStraightLeft -Animal Chin - From: MachidasStraightLeft if you like machidas straight left than you should see how good sergio martinez's is |
| 1/12/13 5:05 PM | |
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MachidasStraightLeft
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Member Since: 9/16/12 Posts: 498 |
St1llWill -MachidasStraightLeft -Animal Chin - From: MachidasStraightLeft I'm a Paul Williams fan. |
| 1/12/13 5:25 PM | |
Barry_BondsMVP
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Member Since: 1/13/10 Posts: 20783 |
kid ain't lying lol. |
| 1/12/13 5:31 PM | |
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gusto
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 35360 |
kid is funny |
| 1/12/13 5:33 PM | |
Chris27
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Member Since: 10/24/11 Posts: 7797 |
Could this kid be any gayer? He makes two retarded anti mma videos, makes an account on the ug and posts them, lol. |
| 1/12/13 5:54 PM | |
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AK-BJJ
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Member Since: 6/27/02 Posts: 3905 |
I'm gonna just continue to be a fan of both but if you guys don't think that kid is hilarious you're taking things way too seriously... That vid is classic! |
| 1/12/13 6:00 PM | |
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DubsAli
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Member Since: 8/27/12 Posts: 10 |
He has a few valid points, but it wouldnt be Fun to talk about those. It's ironic that he's calling Joe Rogan verbose, while he is Sitting in an empty room shouting at a camera. He also talks about the amount of money boxing makes as opposed to the UFC. For as long of the video I could tolerate watching, He ignores the fact that there are so many different promoters In the sport of boxing. The UFC is one fight promoter in the sport of mixed martial arts. It's equivalent to golden boy or top rank etc. not the monetary value of the sport of as a whole. |
| 1/12/13 7:26 PM | |
fightharder
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Member Since: 1/14/11 Posts: 2209 |
Sure he makes some valid points. But i personally do not think you can really judge the whole MMA vs Boxing in another 50 years or so. Boxing been around for decades. And while i believe it will always be with us i do believe it will get left behind by a lot of people when a younger generation will dominate the airwaves.
Now i certainly believe that with certain countries it is hard to broach the boxing demograph. But if you take a market like Mexico (where the adoration of boxing surpasses most markets) you cannot deny that the potential from MMA has always been there (since there love wrestling over there so much as well).
Anyways eventually i think MMA will surpass boxing simply for the fact that boxing is part of MMA and MMA is not part of boxing.
For now though boxing still draws bigger numbers though the fucked up there own sport so much that they have very little in terms of consistancy for the PPV market apart from the bigger marque fighters (and when Manny and Floyd will retire it will leave them with a big hole).
I also had to smirk about the Kitschko thing. First of all it never did 50 million viewers. And secondly the Kitschko's,even though there great champions, are so boring that they not even attempting to do PPV anymore in the States because the simple do not draw enough compare with what they do in the German market. And while Germany is an decent size country it is hardly the States. Still it always funny to me that people in the boxing world get there panties up in a bunch when it come to MMA (which usually seem to call UFC) while hardly anybody in the MMA world can be bother to say anything about boxing. If you feel the need to defend yourself you are obviously scared hence you yourself perceive the MMA as a threat.If you admit this yourself why would you debate it then? You have to be realistic about these things.
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| 1/13/13 2:35 AM | |
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St1llWill
Edited: 01/13/13 2:46 AM Member Since: 10/10/10 Posts: 4 |
http://boxingsociety.com/allboxing/articles/haye-falls-to-klitschko-loses-wba-belt.html "The match drew a lot of international attention with around 500 mln viewers from 150 countries around the world watching the live telecast." http://wnu-ukraine.com/news/sports/?id=454 "The biggest heavyweight fight since Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson in 2002 had a television audience of 500 million people in 150 countries." http://www.boxingscene.com/david-haye-retire-i-know-if-i-fight-again--41086 "The Haye fight was in over a 150 countries; the unification fight with Wladimir got over 16 million viewers in Germany, which was the highest rating they ever got for a Klitschko fight. It was a phenomenal rating; it’s higher than the German soccer team." http://www.maxboxing.com/news/max-boxing-news/they-may-not-play-in-peoria-but-theyll-play-in-poland "The contest will gross around £30?million and will be aired in 150 countries. Haye and Klitschko, both unbeaten in seven years and on a 50/50 split on revenue, will bank in the region of £10?million pounds apiece. The rest will go to costs and Sky Box Office." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/david-haye/8611562/David-Haye-v-Wladimir-Klitschko-Underdog-ready-to-topple-a-giant-and-shake-up-the-world.html "We are all now looking forward to 2 July when we broadcast the unification bout between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye to over 150 countries.” http://www.rtlgroup.com/www/htm/home_news.aspx?ID=92F9349918834FED94B92B53009CAAC8 |
| 1/13/13 2:48 AM | |
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Barry_BondsMVP
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Member Since: 1/13/10 Posts: 20893 |
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| 1/13/13 3:34 AM | |
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KingOfFighters
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 7093 |
The problem with a 24/7 version the ufc does, is that it's really boring. It's the same shit every post fight, i respect my opponent, ufc picks my fights, i'll fight whoevers in front of me. UFC lacks the emotional dynamic period. |
| 1/13/13 3:38 AM | |
sgotwalks
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Member Since: 8/31/10 Posts: 8017 |
Irritatingly hilarious with many truths, laughs and cringes. |
| 1/13/13 8:48 AM | |
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The Sauce
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Member Since: 10/24/03 Posts: 4849 |
Boxing is doing better today then it has in many years! 
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