That's how u promote a sport!!!!!! $55K for best fight and $55K for best KO!!!!!

No not really... You need Mayorga to promote a fight.. now get the F*** out..

 

UFC is getting out there posting ads and stuff making a name like microsoft or any other company and boxing doesnt get out there enough to promote there fights

 

That's a stupid gimmick that might work on a local level but when you're pulling down hundreds of thousands (or millions) at the top level you don't need that crap. Also from what I heard the most recent UFC was a bit of a flop both attendance and PPV purchase-wise

 

What UFC is they have a system. Fighters fight in the UFC for the UFC title. Now we have 4 major sanction bodies with many titles and "champions" with many more promotional companies. UFC can just promote the brand and people will see the fights.

 

They have basically one large promotional company that allows so much to happen so easily. It means no stifling competition between rival promoters preventing match-ups, less difficult negotiations between stubborn or scared champions and contenders, 1 defined champion for each division, and the ability to make substantially large advertisement deals with business brands, television companies, and merchandising. It's central planning of the sport that makes it grow like it has been.

Who knows how it would work in boxing; UFC fighters have to hand over their likeness and sell their souls to the company more or less, but with more money coming in and fighters being used to more independence from binding organizations in the sport of boxing, maybe they could establish a more fighter-friendly version of a unified organizational body.

Whatever they do, boxing should reach out to the consciousness of the general public more.

 

That's fine for prison fighting UFC bums, but REAL talent must be rewarded properly.
The fighters get $50K while Dana White gets $50M.
Boxing ain't that kind of party. atsch

 

The concept of a bonus for the fighters involved in the best fight of the night isn't a bad one at all, especially for something like Friday Night Fights or BAD where there's not a huge budget in the first place. I wouldn't want it to the extent of the UFC where the bonus is 100 times what some of them make (sadly, that's no exaggeration), though.

 

UFC is also a product of its own hype, every KO is the KO of the century to them, ever submission is the slickest submission in human history. The talent level is too high in boxing too, if you get a guy trying to head hunt he's just going to get outboxed.

 

For anyone who hate on Dana and that includes alot of people and I cant stand him somewhat. He is where he is in life (better than most of us) not because he has a brilliant mind but he relates to the very basic wants and needs of the common person be it fighters or the fans.

You want more money? well then do this. Simple universal, perennial and effective concept.

 

you can do that when your paying fighters pennys in the first place, why not throw in a bonusx url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZzzQwdlAyQ&feature=player_embedded[/url][/QUOTE]

 

UFC is doing a lot of the things boxing should be doing. Dismissing skill levels and saying the payouts are relative peanuts to boxing is missing the point.

A few top level boxers taking the big money at the top is not going to help sustain or grow the sport. The one thing that is happening in UFC is people are fighting each other. I can't think of many other sports where you would get a Pac/mayweather situation. People want to see the best fight each other which seems simple, but ufc seems to have tuned into this better than boxing does now.

 

MMA is monopolized by the UFC.