Quote Originally Posted by Master
I am gutted that I have to subscribe to Setanta. Khan's fights for a year with domestic opposition and by the time he is ready for the world titles he will be ppv, which is the way all decent British fighters are headed. Less and less people will be watching the game it is being killed off.
The MMA shows are ppv and it doesn't hurt them. They're getting the younger demographic and boxing is starting to struggle.

However.

MMA fighters are all failed boxers. Their skill level isn't there compared to the top boxers so all boxing has to do is put the best guys together to compete. We're starting to see that. The problem is the really top guys like Mayweather now make so much money that they can pick their fights. I'd love to see Mayweather vs. Cotto or the winner of the fight on Saturday but Floyd doesn't have to do it.

In a way because the mma guys don't make that kind of money and have to fight who they're told they have a big advantage in punter pulling power because you're guaranteed a competetive bill. Either boxing has to get like mma in terms of overall organisation or mma fighters have to start making big money so they end up alphabetised/picking their fights like boxing for the playing field to even and the punters to get behind boxing again.