UFC putting on pre- lims to steal from Boxing

Its certainly marketed better. Can you imagine how Dana White and Joe Rogan would promote the Mayweather-Marquez undercard?

"This is a STACKED undercard, you have the two best f-ing featherweights in the WORLD (!!!) rematching each other after a WAR earlier this year. Chris John is one of the best P4P fighters in the world!!! UNDEFEATED!!! Rocky Juarez, an American OLYMPIAN, has his LAST chance EVA at the big stage...ITS DO OR DIE. Katsidis is the new Arturo Gatti, he is the most exciting fighter in the world!!! Escobedo is another OLYMPIAN...thats right TWO Olympians on the same stacked undercard...will Escobedo become the new big superstar or will new human highlight reel KO him?...this will be FOTY!!!! Zab SUUUUUPPPPPPEEEEEEERRRRR Judah, always controversial, looks to bounce and get a future title shot against a tough rugged veteran.....THIS IS THE GREATEST UNDERCARD OF ALL TIME!!! and we haven't even mentioned the main event yet!"

- Dana White

ETC ETC, just add a lot more swear words and screaming from Joe Rogan

Off course the media eats all this stuff up and types up verbatim what Dana White says without questioning anything and the fans on the forums go ape s*it, proclaiming this to be the card of the year and convincing every casual fan that this is a must watch event (MMA fans are gullible and extremely enthusiastic).

Now lets see how the boxing world reacts:

"Well its an ok card because they needed to boost up Floyd's PPV numbers, therefore Floyd and the card is a joke"

Media reaction to boxing card:

"Boxing has realized that it must beef up their shows, but this not a special undercard and its too little too late, boxing is dead"

 

Somehow those monthly HBO and Showtime events don't count? Not to mention that they are free too and HBO has stepped up their matchmaking.

Typical boxing is dying wha wha wha, I wonder if in ten-twenty years if we will hear the same rehtoric.

 

:rofl It just shows the intelligence between the 2 fan bases. As Mayweather said, guys who pound beers watch UFC.

 

the truth is that Fedor vs Lesnar would not even outsell Pac vs Cotto, forget about Pac vs PBF.

 

He didnt say white people cant box. He said that there is no dominate white American champions.

And its not hard to see what demographic UFC is targetting. 18-24 white males who like generic rock and tattoos.

 

This is turning into a what is better MMA or boxing pissing contest. Which it seems only the ones bashing the UFC are engaging in. WHY? Noone is talking about that but you guys.

The point is, they put on 100x better PPVs and if boxing took notice, it would be GIGANTIC. What is so hard about that to grasp?

(and RSBonos, last time I looked at my DirectTv bill, Showtime and HBO were far from free...just sayin')

 

Boxing has to pay their fighters. What did Lesnar earn in his last fight? A couple hundred thousand? Its easy to put on better cards when you dont have to spread the wealth as much. Floyd had to finance this card out of his own purse.

 

That is not the argument.

I love boxing...a hell of alot more than MMA. How much they make doesnt make a difference.

This wasnt an MMA > Boxing post...because noone in the post thinks that way. It was a post about one sport being run better than the other.

 

Four HBO championship boxing shows this year got nearly 2 million viewers, one UFC PPV show got 1.5 million + viewers. Were you happy to pay $45 for Jardine-Rampage or Franklin vs Silva/Henderson? How do those match ups compare to non-PPV Margarito-Shane, Cotto-Clottey, Diaz-Marquez?

Outside of the Carano-Cyborg MMA Showtime card, their ratings have been ok but nothing spectacular.

I'm not debating the popularity of MMA here, but boxing gets destroyed in the media while MMA gets a free ride.