In UFC, the fights that go down are usually fights the fans are calling for. Top guys fighting the top guys. In Boxing, the fights that go down are usually fights that are shoved down our throats. Fights that none of us boxing fans are really asking for. Once in a while, we'll get a treat and get to see a matchup that we've been clamoring for, but for the most part its fights that we really have no desire for, yet tune in out of desperation. We the fans did not ask for Pac/Clottey. We the fans did not ask for Jones/Hopkins (10yrs too late) We the fans did not ask for Cotto/Foreman (frankly, I have 0 interest and i'm a big Cotto fan) We the fans did not ask for any of the opponents that either Klit brother has faced for the past 2yrs. etc......
UFC is a company not a sport !!!!!! If all boxers had the same promotor sure then the one promotor could make any match he wanted but the top line boxers wouldnot earn a fraction as they do now
That's because the UFC is company and therefore all of the fighters are subject to the decisions by the company president. Boxing is a sport composed of different sanctioning bodies, different fighter's with different promoters, and different managers. All of the people have to agree in order for fightds to be made which makes it a lot harder to make matches than it is in the UFC.
Boxing was like that before, now its become what it is because fighters get a freehand on whom to fight, they get paid too much and they brag about being the crash cows of the sport. Put a limit to what they earn and we'll probably get better match ups.
Actually the same thing does happen in MMA (UFC is one company within MMA). Fans have been calling for Fedor against Couture for years but because they are promoted by different companies it has never happened.
biggest difference is talent and entertainment I cant watch UFC for more than one round However, very technical boxing matches with very little hitting, intrest me much more than a ufc "war"
Good point but lets try to stay postive we got the Super 6, Marquez-Vasquez IV, Mosley-Mayweather and Martinez-Pavlik.
Not that many good white american boxers in Boxing, Plenty of white american mixed martial artist in UFC/MMA White America, just like every other race, supports their own people. UFC just happens to have more white americans on the scene.
The UFC does make better matchups...who cares if its a business or a sport...still better matchups...
there are seventeen weight divisions with great boxers in each, stop worshiping the small elite and you'll see. the biggest difference is that in boxing a professional wrestler wouldn't get a title fight in his fourth bout.
Who cares? Anyone who wants to see a vaild comparison and can see through comparing apples with oranges for the sake of getting a spurious answer probably cares. Look at it like this: Top Rank is a company. They have/had four world-class welters: Cotto, Clottey, Margarito and (now) Pac. Cotto's fought Clottey, Pac and Margarito. Clottey's fought Cotto, Margarito and Pac. Margarito's fought Clottey and Cotto. Pac's fought Clottey and Cotto. If you were idiotic enough to think that Top Rank was boxing, you'd probably be on some other board claiming that "Top Rank make all the best match-ups". Whereas we all know that three of the very best welters don't even work for Top Rank. See. The point only seems to make sense when you start excluding all the valid information that contradicts the argument.
Has nothing to do with race. It has to do with quality matchups, and in boxing, they are too far and in between.
This and this alone is the biggest thing hurting boxing. Everyone wants to see Pac-Floyd. No one pays attention to the other fights that are just as good with fighters that are just as dynamic.