2017 and the paradigm shift in Combat Sports

Didn't read.

 

UFC competes a lot more with WWE than boxing, exact same model.
We should be comparing those two.

 

Is PPV really the means of saying what is move popular?
Far more boxing on free TV.

But yes MMA is gaining and thats just a fact.

 

Excellent post.

 

Thanks for providing the figures.

You said "PPV has to go". To be replaced with what? Where is the boxing revenue going to come from without PPV?

 

Well researched but I do agree with like a boss, what is the solution

Boxing may just find itself moving further toward obscurity. It's odd people panicked when rousey and conor lost but it seems the sport moves on. Jon Jones goes away sport moves on.

Maybe the buy out and the next few moves change ufcs trajectory but it seems on an up swing as boxing dwindles

 

Boxing doesn't capture our imaginations, anymore. It's not pushed by promotion companies to make it RELEVANT and important.
Eddie Hearn is doing an amazing job because he's tying British culture with boxing, for us Brits. An Anthony Joshua fight isn't simply something we watch, it's an event we 'do' (if that makes sense). Before Conor McGregor bursted onto the scene, UFC hasn't even been properly 'introduced' into our culture, we didn't see ourselves relating to UFC.
That is lost with boxing in USA. Promoters are lazy and rely on mechanisms that worked for them many decades ago, but they're not pro-actively leading anymore. There's nothing cutting edge.

 

I agree with you regarding Hearn. People can disrespect or hate him all they like, but he is a walking talking publicity machine for his fighters.

As for the UFC, they had the disadvantage of boxing having about 200 years head start on them. But the UFC saw how and why boxing was in such a bloody mess and were able to exploit that to their advantage.

 

Interesting you mentioned that. We may see a virtually cyclical re-emergence of boxing because we're starting to see UFC fall into boxing's patterns of corruptions increasingly. It may clean up its act. I would like Boxing to reinforce the rule of forcing boxers to fight more. UFC will increasingly operate with fighters point scoring more, as they've been shifting towards much more.

 

I see no visible evidence of boxing improving so far. Boxing appears to be too far up its own rear end to do anything about it, even if it wanted to. The reality is it needs to.

 

I see no evidence either, but they could find an opportunity once UFC falls deeper into corruption.

 

If the UFC, one way or the other, forces boxing to re-access, great. But the greedy, greedy minority who run boxing are far, far more concerned about their bank balances than the sport that makes them rich.

 

UFC is ****, don't even mention it. It's an American niche obscurity, it's not even a proper sport and no one outside of USA cares about it or even knows what it is.

I'm actually glad boxing is dying in America, if you want a legit, global marquee sport like football and formula one you need to keep it as far away from USA as possible. America and American boxing fans are the biggest problem here, they're the ones who have kept financing the corruption in boxing for decades by buying PPVs and supporting this model, if Americans decide that they'd rather follow the UFC this would be the best thing for boxing. American sport model favors capitalist entertainment and exploitation over competition.

As Europeans dominate boxing more and more we will hopefully see boxing transform into a real sport with Europe as its base.

PPV model is complete crap and it shouldn't exist in boxing. It was only made because of Mike Tyson and then it got carried on by these huge mainstream stars like De La Hoya, Mayweather and Pacquiao. Unless you have these type of stars and fights it's useless and I don't know why American people buy this.

Sports should be widely available and free to watch on free TV. This is how you introduce the sport to the masses. This is how Klitschko was making huge money and became famous all over Europe. His fights were available for free, I could watch all of his fights as part of my regular internet + TV package that costs me 20€ a month.

A lot of regular European sport fans would watch and follow boxing but can't because of PPV models and also the time difference. All boxing fights should be put on regular sport channels that everyone can watch just like everyone can watch European football leagues, tennis grand slams and formula one without paying anything extra. If you made boxing available for free the sport would absolutely boom and everyone would watch it, the money would pour in from sponsorships and TV deals.


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The money has to come from somewhere. I'm keen to know WHERE boxing is going to find the money it generates from PPV from other sources??