Please don't compare WMMA with WNBA...

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Everyone saw those kinds of replies in a bunch of threads.

That is not a valid comparison and i have one point to support that:

Point being a lot of people would turn on their TVs and probably pay to watch some fine girls beating each other with technical striking and grappling, a lot of those wouldn't turn on their TVs to watch girls throwing balls around playing basketball. It is as simple as that really, and that was proved by the sucess of UFC 157.

Not to mention that being an individual sports bring a lot of personality aspects to the table that help to attract media attention, and therefore public interest. People like badass girls with personality punching each other for real.

Sorry to bring you these facts, WMMA haters.

That's it, thank you for your time
 
Well to be fair we heard the same spill about WNBA which was huge its first season. You heard a lot of "its a more pure game, it relies on basics and fundamentals and teamwork"

It wound up being a fad at best. People covered it and liked it the first season then it has just bled money ever since.

Womens boxing was similar, lot of hype and curiosity at first (mostly because of Ali) but it wound up being a fad as well.
 
People watch wnba too. There wouldn't be a league if they didn't.
 
Im not hating on WMMA, just saying the comparisons are valid at this point
 
itll also never be like figure skating where women are more popular than men.
 
Team sports vs individual sports isn't a great comparison.

In a one-on-one sport such as MMA, you have a better chance to get invested in personalities of fighters than in team sports.
 
Women's mma is as entertaining as men's mma, even more so in many cases. I think men's mma is more interesting because it's at a higher level, skill wise, than womens mma, but in terms of pure excitement... women's mma is on par with men's mma.
 
WMMA is comparable to women's tennis IMO. The general attitude towards it is similar, it's a 1-on-1 sport and I think it will be stay a success.

And yes the sex appeal thing has been big in women's tennis too.
 
They're nowhere near the same. In WMMA women aren't limited to the things that a man can do like they are in WNBA. A man can do a triangle choke, KO, armbar, etc. and a women can do those things too.

In WNBA a women isn't going to throw a alley-oop from half court, no 360 dunks, etc. (things may have changed now, haven't seen a WNBA game in like 12 years lol)

Perfect example:

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If I wanted to watch two terrible strikers fight I would go on youtube and watch free fights of clowns who upload fights of themselves or their friends. I wouldnt pay $54 for it.


And yes it is as bad as the WNBA or even worse skilled wise. Lets see these girls headline a card without an epic match like Machida vs. Dan. Then watch it bomb.
 
Women's basketball (College & Pro) probably has more fans than MMA.
 
edco76 said:
Well to be fair we heard the same spill about WNBA which was huge its first season. You heard a lot of "its a more pure game, it relies on basics and fundamentals and teamwork"

It wound up being a fad at best. People covered it and liked it the first season then it has just bled money ever since.

Womens boxing was similar, lot of hype and curiosity at first (mostly because of Ali) but it wound up being a fad as well.
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This. Thank you.
 
They are both spinoffs from a male sport. I think it isn't a far fetched comparison.
 
effedup said:
They're nowhere near the same. In WMMA women aren't limited to the things that a man can do like they are in WNBA. A man can do a triangle choke, KO, armbar, etc. and a women can do those things too.

In WNBA a women isn't going to throw a alley-oop from half court, no 360 dunks, etc. (things may have changed now, haven't seen a WNBA game in like 12 years lol)
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What are you talking about? Did you even see the Rousey vs. Liz fight? Their striking HORRIBLE. It looked like they never trained striking in their lifes. All they did was swing wildly and throw wild haymakers. They dont have 1/10 the striking skills that the man do and I might be a little generous on 1/10 the skills.
 
SODACKER said:
People watch wnba too. There wouldn't be a league if they didn't.
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The WNBA is subsidized by Stern/NBA, they HEMORRHAGE money every year:

More to the point, it’s possible to blame the WNBA for money the NBA isn’t making. An illustrative example can be found in the the ESPN oral history These Guys Have All the Fun. The book covers a tense 2002 NBA TV rights negotiation and former ESPN executive Mark Shapiro colorfully recounts how the women’s league factored into the negotiations:

“I told (David Stern) the WNBA stinks, it doesn’t rate, and I didn’t want it. Men don’t watch it. Women don’t watch it!”

Though the WNBA was a major negotiating stumbling block, executives above Shapiro eventually shepherded the deal through at Stern’s (angry) insistence. But this is quite the message to prospective TV rights buyers: Purchase the NBA and you’ll have to take on a poison ratings pill. There is a cost to running an unwatched nationally televised women’s league as an adjunct to a heavily-watched national men’s league–a cost that the NFL and MLB never have to grapple with.


http://hoopspeak.com/2011/09/wnba-failure-and-the-nba/
 
WNBA games average higher attendance than all MMA events except the biggest UFC arena shows.
 
Its the same thing.

Dont judge this event's numbers by the long-term probability of success or failure of WMMA. People were psyched about WNBA at first too. And this was a historical match where everyone had to see how it would play out, etc. Every event wont be like that.
 
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