UFC remains king of PPV hill

[Jimmy G-Force]

Dana White is a self confessed boxing fan, and the way he runs the UFC is by learning by boxings mistakes. He ensures that there is no bullshit, and he always looks to pit the best fighters against the best fighters. There is no protected fighters in the UFC, and there isnt any bullshit politics to stop all the big fights. The best fight the best, thats it. Perfect. Limited weight divisions ensure that everybody knows who the No.1 fighter is within each division. With the exception of Fedor in the HW division, the UFC hold all the PFP fighters holding their titles in their respective divisions.

It's just a shame boxing will never be able to compete with regards White's philosophy. I'm a boxing fan of 25 years, but I'm also an MMA fanatic, and actually much prefer to watch any MMA undercard than any boxing undercard. And 10 years ago, I never thought I'd be saying that.

Exactly. I'm a big follower of both sports. Each have their pros and cons. Of course, like you say in UFC there are no protected guys, and no bullshit politics to stop the big fights from happening when they are under the UFC umbrella. However, unlike in boxing, fighters under two different umbrellas can't come together and negotiate a fight. MMA fans are robbed of seeing great fighters OUTSIDE of the UFC fight the champs of UFC. Guys like Fedor and Aoki.

I'm glad the UFC is giving boxing a run for its money. Compedition is a great thing for the consumer. The UFC's big PPV draws are going to force boxing promoters to step up the quality of their shows, and pressure them to make the BIG fights that the public wants to see. On the other side, it forces Dana White (who really has no serious compedition in terms of MMA in North America) to put on great cards to compete with the big money events in boxing. So for us fans (especially those who love both sports), its WIN/WIN imo.

Exactly, in fact, the UFC certainly had a huge impact on forcing some of the Superfights in boxing in recent times due to their incredible growth in popularity. Bob Arum and Oscar patched up their differences realising the competition from the UFC was preventing boxings superfights, and subsquently damaging the sport. Good call on Shinya as well, I meant to put him in my initial post as he is the only threat to BJ's premier lightweight accolade.

[HattonTheHammer]

UFC/WWE have the sense and knowledge to know the hardcore fan is much more likely to pay 50bucks to see his favourite fighter/fighters over an entire night and they both dont segregate themselves to showing 1 fight cards.

If you dont particularly enjoy a UFC/WWF main event no biggy, the rest of the night is full of world class matchups, scantily clad women, theatrical entrances etc who cares if the sport in general is either gay or fake.

If you dont happen to be a particular fan of floyd mayweather you dont buy the card end of story.

The day a mayweather-pacquiao card is backed up with jones-hopkins, hatton-marquez etc is the very day boxing takes both showhorse sports to the cleaners.

[InTheNeutralCorner]

UFC/WWE have the sense and knowledge to know the hardcore fan is much more likely to pay 50bucks to see his favourite fighter/fighters over an entire night and they both dont segregate themselves to showing 1 fight cards.

If you dont particularly enjoy a UFC/WWF main event no biggy, the rest of the night is full of world class matchups, scantily clad women, theatrical entrances etc who cares if the sport in general is either gay or fake.

If you dont happen to be a particular fan of floyd mayweather you dont buy the card end of story.

The day a mayweather-pacquiao card is backed up with jones-hopkins, hatton-marquez etc is the very day boxing takes both showhorse sports to the cleaners.

Could this be the reason why UFC remains king of PPV hill?

[rjj tszyu]

UFC/WWE have the sense and knowledge to know the hardcore fan is much more likely to pay 50bucks to see his favourite fighter/fighters over an entire night and they both dont segregate themselves to showing 1 fight cards.

If you dont particularly enjoy a UFC/WWF main event no biggy, the rest of the night is full of world class matchups, scantily clad women, theatrical entrances etc who cares if the sport in general is either gay or fake.

If you dont happen to be a particular fan of floyd mayweather you dont buy the card end of story.

The day a mayweather-pacquiao card is backed up with jones-hopkins, hatton-marquez etc is the very day boxing takes both showhorse sports to the cleaners.

Great post here Hammer. I always remember paying for Judgement night on Sky. It had Benn Vs Collins, Naz Vs Molina, Winky was on the card and then the main event was Evander Vs Tyson now that was worth the tenner. (My Dad actually paid as I was only a little squirt)

Just checked out the whole American card and that had Michael Moorer Vs Botha , Henry Akinwande and Ricardo Lopez on the undercard. Now that would sell big time right now!!