Dana White on the Business of Boxing

I **** on Dana White,he is no better than de la Hoya.

 

A few things.

1. How long had boxing been an established sport since 1980? How long has MMA been established?

2. If you notice, the UFC is thriving... yet every other company that starts up and starts paying out those huge paydays crashes down within months.

3. The UFC helps the fighters get huge paydays from advertisements as well. The top fighters are WELL taken care of. 99% of boxers don't make anything close to what the top MMA guys make.

 

yes the top 3 or 4 guys are making money. You don't even have to be a decent boxer to make 1 mil anymore. Hell Rahman just made a million going over to Germany to get KOed.

The percentage of Boxers making at least 1 million a fight is much higher than the 3 or 4 MMA guys that make that much money. White is just as greedy if not greedier than your boy Oscar.

 

White is right.
Many boxing fans who post on ESB are afraid of the truth. There HAS to be changes in boxing. Just like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, General Motors the "way its always been" is defective.
Stacking cards has to happen if PPV is to survive. Without PPV boxing is dead in the U.S. because there are NO sponsors willing to pay a dime to support the sport.
Get your heads out of the sand!!

 

I stoped caring about what Dana White has to say about boxing, even when and if he is correct. It is just his way of promoting his bussnesss. In this case MMA and his compony The UFC. For the record while I am not a"fan" of MMA I have nothing against it.

 

I wouldn't call a former undisputed heavyweight champion "not a decent boxer". Also, it isn't common that a boxer not at the top of his division makes 1 million either. It may seem that way... because we judge them off of fights in which they are televised on HBO against World Champion who are a big draw.

Dana White only owns 10% of the UFC, I don't know why people act like he is keeping all of the money. In reality, they can show a loss every year because they put so much money back into the Organization. Of course they are making money, and they should. Should they pay outrageous purses and collapse like the other orgs? How happy do you think that the fighters would be then? They would either have to get a job, or fight in minor events for a couple hundred dollars. I know plenty of MMA fighters and all of them would cut off their nuts to fight in the UFC for those paydays.

I especially like how he gives bonuses for winning, knockout of the night, submission of the night, fight of the night, ect... As it clearly leads to fighters fighting harder and giving the fans better fights. Not only that, but they let you watch so many fights on the card, that are usually always competitive.

 

dana is a ***

 

This is what i was saying looong before Brock won the title. It hardly adds any legitmacy when they have a former WWE wrestler as the best heavy on the planet. Outside of the UFC there has always been more depth at heavy. The old PRIDE heavy ranks were ridiculously deep.

 

well that and White said he is using Boxing as an example of what NOT to do in the UFC yet the clown has an "interim" champion for christ sakes. He loses all credibility right there.

I do not hate MMA I bought the first Affliction PPV and might buy the one later next month. I also like watching K-1 and some of the other organizations I just don't care for White or the UFC.

 

People keep talking about how great and deep Pride was at heavyweight... yet all of the greats, outside of Fedor, came over the UFC and got their dicks knocked in the dirt. Other greats from Pride like Barnett were even knocked out in the UFC before they went over to pride. You couldn't find a list that didn't have NOG and Cro Cop in the top 3 of the heavyweight division when they came over to the UFC. Nog gets owned by Mir, and Cro Cop gets owned by Gonzaga and Kongo. It's a little bit of smoke in mirrors in pride... along with the fact that fighters have already came out and admitted about that rabid drug use over in Pride. I personally know a fighter who fought in Pride, and he told me that they actually handed you a paper letting you know every drug that would NOT be tested for. Do you know what happens at that point? Fighters over there were hoped up on everything. You almost had to be, because if you weren't... the guy that you were fighting was. Why do you think that so many pride fighters came into the UFC and "didn't look the same"?

Also, people who label Brock by his WWE days clearly aren't knowledgable for many reasons. I will name 2.

1. What does it matter that he was in the WWE, when we all know that he was such a successful NCAA Champion wrestler?

2. Did you happen to notice how many Pride fighters participated in Japan's Pro wrestling circuit?

 

I have to go Coach my little guy's youth wrestling practice... I will be back later to chat with you guys.