ESPN doesn't think MMA is better than Women Soccer. They award MMA fighters @ Red Carpet LMFAO!!!!!!

Pathetic as fuk to have to accept an award on the red carpet.

Are you telling me they couldn't afford DC 2 mins of air time to accept it? Sad. They gave Roman Reigns air time for fuk sakes lol.
 
MMA wasn't shown or even mentioned in any advertising for the ESPYs. Bush-league "sport" confirmed <45>
 
Do you live in America?
Nobody gives a damn about MMA anymore. I never hear it talked about except on Sherdog.
 
MMA4Life said:
I mean Murica is gonna Murica. They played in a US jersey let them have their moment. That being said https://www.90min.com/posts/4833646...ional-team-were-apparently-beaten-by-u15-boys They lost to a U-15 MLS developmental team. Not be a hater I watched the games and now there are more than one 'Mia Hamm's" now. Tobin Heath actually has some skills lacks in the finishing/decision making department but she has skills on the ball. Women's soccer is more niche than MMA it's only when they suit up in the red white and blue people tune in. Alex Morgan is just a poacher she just get's a push because she isn't well....you know.
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How is women's soccer a niche sport when girls start playing in preschool?
There is millions of girls playing soccer, MMA not so much.
 
Fuck ESPN, and fuck Disney.
 
fenway926 said:
Well, winning the World Cup is a great accomplishment. Surprised they could rebound from the 5-2 beatdown put on em by that U15 buys squad.
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This is like when idiots talk about whether someone "wins" when sparring. A scrimmage that no one cares about, where all the scrubs are getting equal time, and no official score is being kept.... because it's a scrimmage..... yeah, that's meaningful.

Can't believe my favorite team didn't win the Super Bowl last year, their 5th string scrubs that didn't make the roster owned the Patriots' scrubs when they played in the pre-season!
 
dissectingaorticaneurysm said:
Despite its early start time (especially on the West Coast), Sunday’s dramatic showdown between Team USA and the Netherlands in the FIFA Women’s World Cup final drew a massive audience for Fox Sports and Telemundo. Per Nielsen, the American victory was seen by 14 million viewers on the Fox broadcast net, outperforming last year’s men’s World Cup final by more than 20 percent (11.4 million) to rank as the biggest Stateside soccer match since 2015 — the last time the women’s team brought home the trophy. As Ad Age reporter Anthony Crupinoted on Twitter, that 14 million viewer figure beats most of this year’s World Series and NBA Finals games and every edition of ESPN’s Monday Night Football — an amazing feat given the match aired on a Sunday morning during a holiday weekend, with West Coast viewers having to get up by 8 a.m. to watch.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/womens-world-cup-soccer-final-scores-14-million-viewers.html

MMA can't even match PGA viewership- and that's WITHOUT Tiger. With Tiger competing they double their ratings and UFC isnt even in the conversation.

To give you an idea of how far down the list UFC is- NASCAR is panicking right now as everyone declares it dying, yet its ratings are still higher than UFC's free TV cards. lol. UFC is on par with minor league baseball at best.
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Ridiculous. The Men's World cup generates roughly 54x as much revenue as the Women's World Cup. The only reason Americans care more about the WC Finals is because our girls were in it. Our men never are.

Only a troll would argue that women's soccer is a powerhouse sport in the USA.
USWNT TV viewership declines 20% in 2018
The debut game drew less than 100k viewers. Meanwhile, they only scheduled 14 games for television; the league only has nine teams. They also barely average over 6,000 fans in attendance per live game, so they aren't drawing some passionate base who can't watch them on TV:
https://deadline.com/2019/07/nwsl-tv-deal-espn-womens-pro-soccer-1202642209/
Here's some stats back in 2015 when the league was fresh:
https://equalizersoccer.com/2015/09/16/nwsl-semifinal-playoffs-tv-ratings/
The semifinal matches notched 48K viewers.

The MLS is far more popular, and it's way, way, way down at the bottom of major sports in the States in terms of revenue and viewership.

MMA is massively more popular in the USA than women's soccer.
The final drew more viewers than the NBA Finals and Monday Night Football. Women's soccer isnt huge globally yet, but it's a powerhouse in the US. And way more popular than MMA both nationally and abroad.
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No it didn't, dilettante.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Finals_television_ratings

The WWC just drew 14.3m television viewers. The NBA Finals drew a peak of 18.34m viewers in the last two games. Viewership was down ~20% from last year, and ~30% from two years ago, but despite this, every single game virtually averaged what the Women's World Cup Finals managed for a single game.

Women's soccer is something we care about every four years because they win. Then we go back to not giving a shit. It's not a major sport. It's not a major draw. It generates no revenue. MMA, conversely, is incredibly popular in the states, and has risen to become a Top 15 sport globally:
https://www.totalsportek.com/most-popular-sports/

Notice you if go to ESPN's own website MMA is one of the shortlisted sports along the top: NFL --> NBA --> MLB ---> Soccer (MLS) ---> MMA

That's telling you what the most popular sports are in the USA. MMA has become a top 5 viewed sport, here.
 
dissectingaorticaneurysm said:
lol the comments in that second tweet. Holy shit, they all have Rapinoe Derangement Syndrome. She's the new Kaepernick.
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I looked at the comments and somewhat wish I hadn’t.

It is disheartening how divided people are these days. People have completely lost the ability to politely disagree, to exchange ideas with someone with a different perspective, it’s sad. It seems like no matter what happens 50% (or a very vocal subgroup) will attack.
 
Madmick said:
Ridiculous. The Men's World cup generates roughly 54x as much revenue as the Women's World Cup. The only reason Americans care more about the WC Finals is because our girls were in it. Our men never are.

Only a troll would argue that women's soccer is a powerhouse sport in the USA.
USWNT TV viewership declines 20% in 2018
The debut game drew less than 100k viewers. Meanwhile, they only scheduled 14 games for television; the league only has nine teams. They also barely average over 6,000 fans in attendance per live game, so they aren't drawing some passionate base who can't watch them on TV:
https://deadline.com/2019/07/nwsl-tv-deal-espn-womens-pro-soccer-1202642209/
Here's some stats back in 2015 when the league was fresh:
https://equalizersoccer.com/2015/09/16/nwsl-semifinal-playoffs-tv-ratings/
The semifinal matches notched 48K viewers.

The MLS is far more popular, and it's way, way, way down at the bottom of major sports in the States in terms of revenue and viewership.

MMA is massively more popular in the USA than women's soccer.

No it didn't, dilettante.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Finals_television_ratings

The WWC just drew 14.3m television viewers. The NBA Finals drew a peak of 18.34m viewers in the last two games. Viewership was down ~20% from last year, and ~30% from two years ago, but despite this, every single game virtually averaged what the Women's World Cup Finals managed for a single game.

Women's soccer is something we care about every four years because they win. Then we go back to not giving a shit. It's not a major sport. It's not a major draw. It generates no revenue. MMA, conversely, is incredibly popular in the states, and has risen to become a Top 15 sport globally:
https://www.totalsportek.com/most-popular-sports/

Notice you if go to ESPN's own website MMA is one of the shortlisted sports along the top: NFL --> NBA --> MLB ---> Soccer (MLS) ---> MMA

That's telling you what the most popular sports are in the USA. MMA has become a top 5 viewed sport, here.
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If you click Soccer on the espn page, it's soccer in general not the MLS.
 
justblaze717 said:
Whose the biggest women's mma star right now?
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Nunes probably, but 99% of people could atleast name Rousey. I couldn't name a womens footballer without looking them up first, it's an embarrassing excuse for a sport
 
Mr_Hodge said:
Nunes probably, but 99% of people could atleast name Rousey. I couldn't name a womens footballer without looking them up first, it's an embarrassing excuse for a sport
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Oh you're still clinging to Rousey...
Morgan and Rapinoe both more popular than Nunes bro.
 
justblaze717 said:
Oh you're still clinging to Rousey...
Morgan and Rapinoe both more popular than Nunes bro.
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Fact stands that she was a worldwide superstar, as I say, WFB is a fucking joke, no skill level whatsoever and the womens team diving about, taking the only good part of their sport out of it is an embarrassment, I literally watch better football in the Conference week in, week out
 
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