Quote Originally Posted by VanChilds
Quote Originally Posted by Punisher136
Again where is your basis that boxing is in a state of dispairity? You do know how popular it is over seas right? So what if sports bars don't play boxing matches, it's their loss. This thing survived the great depression and two world wars but some upstart bs organisation (who isnt a monopoly and will soon be in huge business trouble) is gonna take it down? Next thing your gonna tell me is that we can actually effect the planets climate....
I think disparity is the wrong word. I'm 29 and have been a boxing fan since I was 12. I can say that there has been a definate drop in popularity in the US in the past 17 years, but i wouldn't call it disparity. The thing is boxing could fix its self easily. Have a federal commision, get rid of the ABC's, have singular champs in each weight division and a single raintg system, force champs to defend against the #1 contender at least once a year, put together better fight cards, put more fights on free TV. All of these things would do wonders. I love both boxing and MMA, I just feel more satisfied with the MMA product right now and that I get more bang for my buck. Why do you think UFC will be in financial trouble by the way?
People are still making money so their view is "If WE'RE not broke, why fix it?".

The UFC right now is doing its best job to be a monopoly in the mma market. After pride merged with them, there really isn't another mma branch that threatens them as far as ticket sales, ppv numbers, or fan base. However, there are many branches of mma promotional orgs being formed because they all want a piece of the money. Now if this thing stays as popular as it is down the road, it's inevitable that there will be another company that will rise in popularity that rivals the UFC (don't believe me just look at how many different brands are on tv now and this thing is in its birth stage of being mainstream).

Now if this brand pulls a pride and just joins up with the UFC this won't be a problem, however, if that group is just in it for the money they would want to try and overrun the UFC so they could be known as the dominant brand of mma. Remember the UFC isn't the sport itself, its a sanctioning body/promoter of the sport (like the ibf/wba but because of its monopoly like hold, atleast for now, you could probably compare it to the nfl/nba). The reason the nfl and other major sports outlets have stayed in business so long is because they only way you would be able to rival them is to come up with several hundred skilled athletes that have similar skills and can put on just as entertaining a show. You don't need nearly as many people to start an mma promotional organization and if one of these branches got a hold of a fighter who wins a few matches between orgs and then backs out and says "this brand isn't worthy of me" or some shit like that, you'd have a problem.

The UFC has done a great job of monopolizing the mma front so far, they've even coined mma as Ultimate fighting. I'm only suggesting this as a possibility because of how early mma is in developement and how money hungry america is as compared to the days when the nfl was formed (nobody wanted to watch the nfl back in the day so alot of investors didn't see a purpose to it).