Quote Originally Posted by CutMeMick
Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
I got this from another forum,could not find a link but will do so asap. If boxing is dying,then someone forgot to tell all these people that purchased these PPV. Thi has been a VINTAGE year for boxing,with 3 mega fights to come plus 2 excellent less known ones,awesome selling stats AND SOOOO MANY FOTY contenders. I love MMA but all this talk of it overtaking boxing is premature:

In 2006, the UFC broke the all time records with PPV BUYS and Revenue. That year they had 10 events which generated 5.2 million ppv buys and 220 million in total revenue.
This year HBO boxing has answered the bell. Only holding 5 events, they generated 3.6 million ppv buys and 193 million in ppv revenue. They have two events left (Cotto/Mosely, Hatton/Mayweather) and it is expected to destroy the records set by the UFC.

To put it in perspective, UFC's first 5 PPV EVENTS in 2007 equaled Delahoya/Mayweeather in terms of PPV Buys.

Note - hatton/Mayweather has already beaten UFC's all time record gate set by lidell/ortiz 2
CC#2106 Gamo thank you for that....
Been looking for something like that for a while now.
I don't buy MMA PPVs but I do watch some of their replays when their on Spike or when that EliteXC replays their events.
But when I read people say MMA is gonna take over Boxing I laugh.
Something thats already been mentioned here is salaries compare what the Superstar of MMA makes vs. what ODLH makes or PBF or Wladdy makes..
Someone is making money on MMA but it ain't the fighters and until they can fix that they wont come near boxing as a sport.
CC back my friend. I agree the fighters at the lower end don't make as much but the bigger name fighters do. Fedor Emilianenko,the best HW in the world in MMA,signed a contract in the last week for a figure roughly in the region of $2million per fight for 6 fights plus a $1.5million bonus for signing with them!? That's alot of money and I'm not sure if that includes some of the PPV money etc BUT it still pales in comparinson to Oscar/Floyd etc. Shit,how much did Oscar make for the Floyd fight? $15million plus?!