Thread: are shows like the contender good 4 boxing?

Originally Posted by Danny_G

Originally Posted by SalTheButcher

i guess its good just for the exposure...

but i never watched it, and it didnt do well in the us

You should have watched it.
Thank's to people like you it failed in the USA. (Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh)
Overall it did great around the world.
100 countries got to watch the Contender. It was shown on all 7 continents.
If this show would have got the support of the so called hard core boxing fans and self procalimed purist (cus there are no purist in this sport) The show would have done great and it would have opened doors that were closed on local channels rather than having to look for a cable network.

well i have NO interest in the whole 'getting inside their personal lives' non-sense, and they didnt show the complete fights, also they cut away to some woman they knew EVERY SINGLE PUNCH THAT LANDED


i DID watch the live finale of the first season tho


i remember a few years ago on howard stern michael buffer said he didnt watch it, and said it was cuz the fights werent shown in entirety

Originally Posted by SweetPea

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know a site that lists the number of people who have purchased each UFC ppv card?

I'm just curious how the best-selling UFC ppv cards match up with boxing ppv buys.

Not sure these figures and numbers are made public.

Yes and no.

I think it is good for boxing because it shows more about the boxers, lets you see them on a somewhat normal basis. It has done good things for the fighters that were on the show. Once the show ended they were able to get themselves more money because they had more of a name draw to them. So it has given the average fighter a chance at better paydays.

And no because of the way the fights are edited. It should be a show to attract more people to boxing than to merely show off some number of fighters. I think the edited fights really hold the show back, I would like them to give time to do both; show the outside the ring part and the full fights.

Originally Posted by porkypara

Anything that creats a positive image and interest for boxing is good.

Exactly. Look at the huge boom that MMA/THe UFC is going through because of their "The Ultimate Fighter" reality show.

Originally Posted by porkypara

Anything that creats a positive image and interest for boxing is good.

I agree

Originally Posted by SweetPea

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know a site that lists the number of people who have purchased each UFC ppv card?

I'm just curious how the best-selling UFC ppv cards match up with boxing ppv buys.

supposedly they did 775,000 buys for UFC 61

you can find the buyrates on wrestling news sites

here is an old article that compares UFC buyrates to WWF buyrates, it lists a bunch of them
http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/...=2359&zoneid=3

I don't like the contender for 1 reason more than any other, It makes every bum off the street look like hes a great fighter. I know its called the contender but this isn't a sport where there is gonna be hundreds of great fighters around at any given time. The heavy weight division has over 1,000 ranked fighters today and in a lot of peoples eyes not 1 of them is worthy of being considered an all time great. Not everybody has the ability to get in the ring with a belt holder and win it just doesn't work that way (this isn't the ufc).