UFC putting on pre- lims to steal from Boxing

I am a HUGE boxing fan......and....you are a moronic idiot.

 

UFC 103 isnt free.

 

Its all hype. For the most part the best fight the best in the UFC NOT MMA. And even in the UFC there are plenty of handpicked garbage that we see in boxing. Lesnar got a free ride to the championship.

And the boxing card you mentioned is 10x better than any MMA card in its history. Many thought UFC 100 was a great card but in reality it only had 2 elite fighters on the card.

In terms of Mayweather/Marquez, I dont think it does that well on PPV. Its just not a great fight for casual fans. It will certainly bring in some buys with the Mexican community and Mayweather fans but I dont see many casual fans buying this fight. However, the undercard is pretty damn good.

 

You actually werent stating facts at all.

Man, you're just another one of those sheep. UFC hype machine has gotten to you. You need to relax.

UFC is more popular than boxing in NORTH AMERICA. Boxing is more popular, FAR more popular outside of it.

People care about the MAIN EVENT. I could care less about watching Kurt Pellegrino battle Josh Neer on the main card. At the end of the day they are 2 mid level fighters being hyped to **** by the UFC brass. And you're taking the bait.

Belts are actually meaningless in boxing. Sometimes I dont even know if there is a title on the line in boxing. Whereas in MMA, that literally is a HUGE selling point.

 

Please dont tell me you think thats a good fight?

This just justifies what I said about you. Tito Ortiz is arguably not even a top 10 LHW, Coleman is average at best and is like 50,000 years old. The fact that its a main card fight is PATHETIC.

 

I could find more technical fights at a bar.

 

Hawaii is in America.

 

Bingo, boxing is losing the PR battle to MMA.

MMA seems to get off easy.

 

Of corse you don't care about belts in boxing it seems like some guys have armfulls of them and everyfight a belt is on the line.

The UFC has between 250-300 guys and has only 5 belts......don't you think a fight for a belt is a big deal?

 

You're right. But they will pay for 1-0 Lesnar to headline a card against Frank Mir.

At least the fighters Tyson fought were experienced fighters.

 

Well, I dont think there are that many fighters on their roster. Probably around 100 are under contract. But I could be wrong.

Im not saying its not a big deal, and i'd actually agree that its slightly more meaningful than some of the belts boxing fights for. However, its not about the belts in boxing, its about making big fights. Thats why people drop their belts in boxing so frequently.

 

So would it have been better for Lesnar to fight 20 cans who he would have demolished? In case you havn't noticed Lesnar is freak athlete and has developed faster then anybody in the sports history. He could have fought every week in lower orgs starting out building his record to make some people happy but he's not a youngster and no need to waste time.

He has already proven what he is capable of.

 

Should the UFC kick Boxing's ass on this date(which I believe they will),Boxing has know one to blame but itself.The UFC had the date first and GBP's arrogance and disrespect for the UFC has landed him into a world of financial hurt.

 

The problem is that the multiple belts sometimes prevent big fights from happening. It a guy has a WBO belt for example, he can fight the mandatories (which is never any of the other champs), and float for years on his status as "champ".
If there was only one champ per division, bigger fights would get made more consistently. A fighter would never be content unless he had the sole title.
This is where boxing has been ****ed up for years. Luckily big fights still get made, but not as consistently as they would.

Now, I'm not saying that the UFC has created a perfect system that boxing should emulate. Far from it. They are a single organization, and as we've seen with the Fedor situation, contracts can prevent the best fighters from facing each other. That's a major problem in it's own way.
But, within the UFC you can always be sure the best fighters are going to face each other, and ever title shot is going to be meaningful in that regard.

 

But the problem is UFC is only ONE organization in MMA. In MMA, no champs are unified. Fedor wont fight Lesnar, Shields wont fight GSP, Aoki wont fight Penn, some of the top BW's in Japan wont fight Bowles or Torres.

Im not saying the guys I mentioned would beat the UFC champions but the problem is we likely will never know. And thats bad for the sport. Fortunately very few actually care about MMA, they just care about the UFC.

In boxing, you can theoretically do what you mentioned but if you do, you're going to get ripped to shreds by the media. Its pretty unlikely do something like that especially if you want to make money. You wont make much money fighting mandatories but you will make money fighting other title holders.

Boxing is far from perfect, but MMA really is not much better if at all. It just seems better because one ORG has a stranglehold on the market and nobody really even knows who the best is nor do they really care.