BOXING isn't Dead its still Over MMA-Floyd-Marquez: 1 million buys

[Guest baseball25]

HBO Sports reported today that one million pay-per-view buys were generated from last Saturday’s welterweight fight between Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The fight was promoted by Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions. The one million buy total represents the highest performing boxing pay-per-view event in 2009 and generated $52 million in pay-per-view revenue. The million buys include 525,000 from cable homes and 475,000 from satellite homes. It is only the fifth time in boxing pay-per-view history that a non-heavyweight event has attained the one million buy mark.

“I am truly humbled by the numbers, and I appreciate all of the sports fans who either came to the fight or bought it on pay-per-view,†said Mayweather. “It felt great to be back in the ring and next time I will be even better.â€

[hughesfan]

Still trying to beat a dead horse I see. Noone on here has ever said MMA out sells boxing, and yet you just keep trying to stir up arguements.

[Guest baseball25]

thats right because about a couple of months ago people were saying MMA is taking over...

[hughesfan]

That is because it is, it is not going to be complete for quite some time but it is happening.  This is still the arguement I made with you the last time. Boxing is still a great sport, MMA is another great sport. If you take into account the marketing and other items that fans can get about their favorite MMA guy then MMA is starting to edge out boxing in fan recognition and popularity.

Boxing will never be replaced, but I do feel that as the years go on that MMA will take its place right next to it in popularity, which has already started to take place.

Both are great sports and boxing has a huge past that MMA does not have yet. Boxing as a sport has been around for centuries whereas MMA has only existed in any form since the late 80's early 90's. The fighting arts of the eastern world were used as just that, fighting and protection and not as much as competition to see which style is better other than on the street level where you may have guys from individual styles testing each other out. But for the most part, martial arts competitions were about seeing who the best in that specific discipline was.  The current model of MMA is still an infant compared to boxing.

There is more than enough attention for both to go around without all of us continually arguing about which is better. It is an opinion which are like butts, all of us have one. Your opinion is no more valid than mine is or vice versa.