MMA overtaken Boxing 100%

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Those guys would all be champions today. As I said, Joshua had enough problems with 10 years later Klitschko and Povetkin.

The HW division wasn't particularly good 15/20 years ago, but it was far superior to this era.

As I said, I believe Harrison to be a superior fighter to Joshua and he wasn't top 10 material. Wilder is too small for those guys. Fury I just find completely overrated. He too, had enough problems with middle-aged faded Klitschko.

Past prime Wlad and Povetkin are still pretty formidable imo. I'm really not seeing what you see in Audley tbh, he was a complete bust. As far as British HWs go Lennox is obviously at the top but I think AJ vs Bruno, Haye, Hide etc are toss ups and AJ has a better resume than all of them. Fury likely beats them all. I cant recall Fury ever being in any real trouble vs Wlad, it was a boring awful fight but Fury just feinted him out and danced around him all night. Imo Fury is top 10 in most eras, you dont see guys his size with that level of mobility and skill.

As for Wilder, hes lean yeah, but hes also 6'7 which is what really matters. His lack of mass hasnt been a problem so far and hes arguably the biggest puncher ever. I think he'd come unstuck pretty often facing the best guys from previous eras but he'd also have the ultimate punchers chance against anyone, and would likely catch a fair few fighters who were better on paper because of it.

 

[xn7]

nah its true. less and less people are watching boxing. its slipping away with the younger generations.

 

[Lord Beerus]

Ufc is fun.... But boxing is much more exciting and gets all the doe. Reaches more mainstream while only McGregor reached mainstream for the Ufc.

 

[moosaev]

When you have the number 1 boxer in the world Canelo changing his fights time due to UFC Nate vs Masvidal (two guys with 20+ losses combined) you know that MMA has officially overtaken boxing. Trump didnt go to watch Canelo, Deontay or others..

This point was brought to my attention by an interview of Frank Mir.

Yes top boxers make more than top MMA fighters at the moment. Will they still make more in a few years? or a decade?
In boxing its either making everything or making nothing. In mma is more balanced.

Anyway MMA fighters pay is constantly going up. MMA as a whole is moving up way quicker than boxing tbh.

This only makes sense if you think DAZN is the #1 boxing platform (it isn’t). That was a DAZN decision, not a “boxing” decision. Most boxing power brokers (pbc, top rank, etc.) openly mocked the DAZN for what they did. DAZN doesn’t represent boxing. The fact that DAZN has the most popular boxer on their platform is purely incidental.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Canelo vs Kovalev didnt start until Mas vs Nate was over. They literally changed the time to avoid being broadcasted at the same time.

They bent the knee in other words.

So, you 've chosen to ignore my previous post explaining to you what happened regarding that decision? It was made in the days leading up to the event date & the Canelo fight's promoter & DAZN decided to do it as a goodwill gesture to combat sports fans. Plus it brought it many new subscribers because fight fans didn't have to make choice.
So, no one "bent the knee". And claiming that it's what happened is disingenuous & ridiculous.

 

[boss429]

Canelo vs Kovalev didnt start until Mas vs Nate was over. They literally changed the time to avoid being broadcasted at the same time.

They bent the knee in other words.

Lol, the PPV started long before Mas vs Nate started. The fact they could delay the main event because they wanted to watch the fight as well and make the fans wait till they felt like getting in the ring without losing them pretty much tells the exact opposite story of the one you're trying to perpetuate here, lol.

 

[Ying Li]

I actually watched a few Canelo fights on DAZN, he's badass and the production isn't too bad.

 

[Someone88]

MMA is way bigger everyone and they just started in the 90s. Literally every UFC average card is doing more PPV than Boxing super cards.

Khabib vs Iaquinta 350k

Fury vs Wilder 300k

MMA is the PRESENT + the FUTURE. Boxing been dying for years. Only a moron wouldnt recognize a sinking ship.

Wilder and Fury did 325,000 for PPV just in the U.S. In the U.K they did around 420,000 and like others mentioned they both have grown in popularity since. The rematch will do way better. Boxing is doing great.

 

[BJJ_Rage]

Joshua is making a guaranteed $80 million for the fight on Saturday. That covers the entire fighter pay for 10 or 11 full UFC events. Until UFC can pay it's fighters like that then no boxing is the more popular sport. Those are the FACTS

this will never happen, as long as MMA runs on a UFC org model. Fighters make such ridicoulous ammount of money because the promoters made only like 20% of the whole bag... For MMA fighters to make such huge numbers, the whole current MMA model will have to collapse and move towards the boxing model.

 

[EdmundsEmptyBankAccount]

@RNC555 exposed as a troll fraud for filling out the first few pages with childish bullshit then eating popcorn and masturbating with buttery fingers while he takes breaks to lick them clean and click 'like' on other moronic replies

 

[rbenzell01]

I think boxing is still much bigger than mma.

Boxing is very international, mma is yet to be legal in most countries around the world.

 

[TimeToTrain]

I stopped reading when TS said Cabell is the #1 boxer

 

[Bruce Lee666]

Boxing will die when the old generation is over.

95% of teenagers prefer to see MMA, where you can see various martial arts, and the brutality of mma is higher.

Old Man Nostalgia Keeps Boxing Alive.
New generation doesn't care about boxing.

 

[Grapplefest]

Wilder & Fury dwarfs Khabib & Ferguson.

Khabib alone is much more famous than Fury and Wilder combined, in no way does Wilder and Fury "dwarf" Khabib vs Tony in any aspect.

 

[kingjim]

ufc card was stacked as fuck

Exactly..
When was the last stacked boxing card you remember?
Boxing is going down the gurgler

 

[kingmob6]

Boxing losing older fans as well, nobody wants to see fights get decided by promoters behind the scene...crooked commisions, belt organizations, and judges make boxing decline in popularity, which is good for mma long term. MMA is just more exciting anyways.,

 

[weaponzero2k2]

When you have the number 1 boxer in the world Canelo changing his fights time due to UFC Nate vs Masvidal (two guys with 20+ losses combined) you know that MMA has officially overtaken boxing. Trump didnt go to watch Canelo, Deontay or others..

This point was brought to my attention by an interview of Frank Mir.

Yes top boxers make more than top MMA fighters at the moment. Will they still make more in a few years? or a decade?
In boxing its either making everything or making nothing. In mma is more balanced.

Anyway MMA fighters pay is constantly going up. MMA as a whole is moving up way quicker than boxing tbh.

At this rate just based on pay alone the UfC will surpass Boxing in the year 2050...lol

 

[ConorFacts]

@Grapplefest lmfao.

Wilder & Fury are selfmade. The Floyd fight made Conor more popular and Conor is the reason why Khabib is so "popular".

we both know that Wilder & Fury have evrything to become the most popular combat athletes of all time.

Khabib aint shit ... good bless Conor McGregor.

 

[RNC555]

@Grapplefest lmfao.

Wilder & Fury are selfmade. The Floyd fight made Conor more popular and Conor is the reason why Khabib is so "popular".

we both know that Wilder & Fury have evrything to become the most popular combat athletes of all time.

Khabib aint shit ... good bless Conor McGregor.

Khabib has sold shit load more ppv than the guy on your profile pic. LOL, 200k. Even Khabib vs iaquinta did 350k.

1 Mil vs Dustin. 2.5mil with Mctap.

And why did you write Chabib Abdulmanap? Lmfao manipulative bastard.

Khabib is 100% a bigger star than both Fury and Wilder.

@Grapplefest

 

[RNC555]

@RNC555 exposed as a troll fraud for filling out the first few pages with childish bullshit then eating popcorn and masturbating with buttery fingers while he takes breaks to lick them clean and click 'like' on other moronic replies

Boxing is dead. Wilder vs Ortiz 2 doing 200k Lmfao. In 10 years a boxing arena will have 10-15 spectators at most.