1.5 million buys for UFC 100 when you think...........

Discussion in 'MMA Forum' started by 1lehudson, Jul 13, 2009.


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  1. 1lehudson

    1lehudson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You had the heavyweight title of the world and the P4P king on the same card....If boxing would put on a card like that it would do 3 million buys on a wednesdays at 5pm.

    Im a fan of MMA but not as much as I use to be at the start. I think that for me it lost something with all the rule changes, and weight classes. There was nothing better then to watch Garcie making some guy that outweighed him by 100 pounds tap out. I think that Whites war on boxing has really hurt the MMA. many of the fans in the beginning were boxing fans, but once he started to pit it against boxing he started to lose some of those fans.
     
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  2. Ubersteve

    Ubersteve The Main Event Mafia Full Member

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    It didn't do over a million buys back then.
     
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  3. thewoo

    thewoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Considering there has only been 1 boxing card in history to do more buys than this and the last heavyweight championship was completly ignored, I'd have to disagree
     
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  4. québecwarrior

    québecwarrior Georges 'Rush' St-Pierre Full Member

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    Feel better?
     
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  5. eze

    eze Everybody Know Me Full Member

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    That's false.
     
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  6. thewoo

    thewoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    DLH vs Mayweather is the only one that I know of. Which other ones can you name? Maybe Tyson vs Holyfield but I'm almost positive that one was less.
     
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  7. Rico Spadafora

    Rico Spadafora Master of Chins Full Member

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    :nono

    Both of those statements are FALSE. Fedor is THE MMA World Heavyweight Champion and mythical P4P #1 fighter in the World and he does not fight in the UFC.
     
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  8. 1lehudson

    1lehudson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    hey thats how they billed the fight...
     
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  9. C Curran

    C Curran New Member Full Member

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    :goodFedors the man
     
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  10. Boinko

    Boinko Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Even if that were true, boxing would never put on a card like that. It's one of the annoying things about boxing when you compare it to UFC. In boxing, you get once prolific matchup, the main event. Usually the undercards are up and coming fighters against overmatched journeyman.
    If the main event ends up being bad, it's a real waste of time.

    I think the opposite is true. The MMA athletes are considerably more well rounded now, and they're much better athletes overall. And having multiple weight classes has allowed multiple champions which is better than one tournament where winner takes all.
     
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  11. Beebs

    Beebs Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Every mainstream media outlet in the english speaking world talked UFC today, most led with it. Get back to me when that happens with boxing again.
     
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  12. eze

    eze Everybody Know Me Full Member

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    Tyson-Holyfield 2 1.99

    Tyson-Lewis 1.8
     
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  13. codeman99998

    codeman99998 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's stupid to say 3 million people would have bought a similar boxing card. As you add more great fights to a card, like, each ADDITIONAL great fight isn't as likely to pull in as many fans as the previous one.

    For instance, if they would have added Rampage versus Lyoto on the card, it probably wouldn't have gotten a ton more buys, because the card was already so good that anyone who would buy it was going to buy it anyways.

    Also, Mayweather versus ODLH sucked and probably set boxing back a bit, so what's the point about bragging that it made more money when most of the people who watched it felt they got ripped off. Tyson-Lennox and Tyson-Holyfield were in the 90s, so, yeah, I think if it's the most PPV buys since Tyson-Lennox that isn't so bad.
     
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  14. eze

    eze Everybody Know Me Full Member

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    DLH-Mayweather was WAY WAY more entertaining that Lesnar-Mir 2
     
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  15. codeman99998

    codeman99998 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I don't agree that the Mayweather De La Hoya fight was better than Mir/Lesnar, but that isn't my point anyways.

    As an event, UFC100 was better than DLH-PBF. Also, DLH-PBF was considered a letdown by a very significant percentage of the boxing community.
     
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