silentassasin Posted July 10, 2009 Report Posted July 10, 2009 I was listening to the radio while running errands and put on Carl Dukes' show on 97.5 The Ticket. He was talking about mma and asking if, since UFC 100 is tomorrow, the sport was officially mainstream or not and you should have heard some of the idiots on both sides calling in. First you had the boxing fans who can't admit that another fight sport is taking some of their glory, not replacing it but definitely pushing it hard. Then you have some guys call in and rip Dana and say he is why the UFC will not last much longer because he ran off Tito. You had a couple of seemingly knowledgeable guys call in but it started bugging me because Dukes is not a fan of mma and while he was respectful to a point it seems a bit fake on his part. One thing I will say that is keeping mma from going completely mainstream is the idiots out there who say they watch UFC fights for the violence because they love the violence. I for one believe, and most of the true mma fighters I have seen back this up, that real mma fans are not the brooding neanderthals watching two guys who bludgen their opponents to death like in the gladiator days. I know for a fact that these guys for the most part are not really walking around looking for a fight outside the ring. For crying out loud, even Wanderlei "The Ax Murderer" Silva seems like a big pussycat in the real world. I really think that this image is the last barrier that Dana and other promoters are trying to dismantle so that mma will continue to grow and not become stagnant.
Guest baseball25 Posted July 10, 2009 Report Posted July 10, 2009 UFC if doing great but once boxing has a good heavyweight divison again then it will never pass Boxing, rightnow boxing still makes better money than UFC in pview buys and revenue and etc, so just think if Boxing had a heavyweight divison, I love UFC and Boxing but like boxing a lil better but people think BOXING is dying and my buddy told me that and I was like if its dying so bad then why is it doing better numbers than the ufc and making more money without a heavyweight divison and he did his research and goes you are right and UFC does more pviews during a year span and boxing still pulling in better pview numbers and revenue, but don't get me wrong UFC is getting big I mean really big,but remember cotto vs pacman will do million buys, pacman vs mayweather will do over a million buys, mosley vs pacman or mayweather will do close to a million buys, and mayweather vs cotto will do a million buys, and whatever fight hatton is in does over 500,000 buys, so has long has those guys are in the boxing game then boxing will still be number 1, if you had pacman vs mayweather this sat against the UFC boxing would do better overall and that tells you there that its still the best..
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