WWE/UFC is a Joke

[Sitting Down]

Most watched games in history of sports:

NFL: 162 million (Superbowl 46)
NBA: 70 million (Games 6 1998 Finals)
MLB: N/A
Golf: 40 million (1997 Masters)

WWE: 25-30 million (1999 six man tag)
UFC: 6.51 million (2008 Kimbo)

Boxing vs. WWE/UFC (PPV buys):

1. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather, May 2007 - 2.4 million PPV buys

2. Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield (rematch), June 1997 - 1.99 million PPV buys

3. Mike Tyson vs Lennox Lewis, June 2002 - 1.97 million PPV buys

4. Mike Tyson vs Holyfield (1st match), November 1996 - 1.59 million PPV buys

5. Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley, August 1995 - 1.55 million PPV buys

6. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad, September 1999 - 1.41 million PPV

7. Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman, April 1991 - 1.40 million PPV buys

8. Mike Tyson vs. Frank Bruno, March 1996 - 1.37 million PPV buys

9. Pacquiao vs. De la Hoya, December 6, 2008 – 1.26 million PPV buys

10. Pacquiao vs. Cotto, November 14, 2009 – 1.25 million PPV buys

2011 (both Manny and Floyd had matches that sold 1.2 million+)

WWE/UFC:

WWE:

Wrestlemania 27: 1 million

2011:

1. UFC 129: GSP Vs Shields – 800,000 PPV Buys

2. UFC 141: Lesnar Vs Overeem – 750-810,000 PPV Buys

3. UFC 127: Silva Vs Belfort – 725,000 PPV Buys

4. UFC 135: Jones Vs Rampage – 520,000 PPV Buys

I think the bottomline is this...WWE/UFC is a joke. No one watches it and no one cares about.

[// / yardo]

Speak for yourself. MMA is the fastest growing sport in probably the world. I'm in a town of just over 80,000 and there's around eight MMA gyms and zero boxing gyms. TV deals, movie deals, exercise equipment and workout programs. Boxing has kept its popularity simply because there's a marquee fight once every ... what ... two years? At just about every gym I've had memberships there's some form of cardiovascular MMA mixture classes.

Try looking beyond just ppv sales because that's probably a very small fraction of the sports following.

I can't speak for WWE stuff. Never followed it.

[StoneyRedneck]

I would be curious to see what the PPV totals for all fights were between Boxing vs UFC in 2011. I have always thought the UFC makes their fighters fight too often, and they obviously have way more scheduled events than boxing does. I would gander these numbers would be a great deal closer and UFC may have actually had more total PPV purchases than boxing did in 2011.

I am a fan of both, but think the UFC is on an upward trend while boxing is on the decline.

[shawinkerpoppin]

i thought the ufc was more popular than boxing these days. maybe its just the folks i hang with.

[Sitting Down]

i thought the ufc was more popular than boxing these days. maybe its just the folks i hang with.

It's a thing the UFC says to hype itself up. In all reality all of Manny and Floyd's fights last year sold more than any UFC in history.

[shawinkerpoppin]

It's a thing the UFC says to hype itself up. In all reality all of Manny and Floyd's fights last year sold more than any UFC in history.

its crazy becuase its all over tv i see people with mma shirts on every where i go there are always aspiring mma fighters everywhere and i could instantly have a convo with someone about a random mma fight. boxing? not so much. people have no clue who i talk about half the time which makes me lose interet in it becuase im watching it by myself. i think its really odd that the numbers dont match up.

[Silent-Assassin]

Boxing is almost dead. And that's pretty sad to say but it's true. The fights always seem fixed and the best fights never happen or are a huge let down. Other than mayweather and PAC man there's really no other polarizing boxers. They are all old. UFC is more intriguing than boxing. Probably because Dana white owns the fighters. There aren't managers and promoters than hinder or control the fight. At least with the UFC it is corrupted... And I hope it never does but money changes alot of things.

[Sitting Down]

Boxing is almost dead. And that's pretty sad to say but it's true. The fights always seem fixed and the best fights never happen or are a huge let down. Other than mayweather and PAC man there's really no other polarizing boxers. They are all old. UFC is more intriguing than boxing. Probably because Dana white owns the fighters. There aren't managers and promoters than hinder or control the fight. At least with the UFC it is corrupted... And I hope it never does but money changes alot of things.

Boxing is only dying in America. Outside of America that's another story....

[// / yardo]

Boxing is only dying in America. Outside of America that's another story....

If you want to include out of us sports you're forgetting the most popular of them all, soccer.

Boxing is irrelevant. I remember when you could catch a fight once or twice a week especially on Friday Night Fights (I'd watch with my grandfather) and they were reasonably good fights. Now there's nothing. The product sucks overall. It's not exciting. I'd be willing to bet there's a local MMA fight near me within a reasonable driving distance that's happening this weekend or at least within the next couple of weeks. I can't say the same about boxing.

[Silent-Assassin]

Boxing is only dying in America. Outside of America that's another story....

Same could be said about soccer. But everyone knows that football is a whole lot better than soccer. But then again it's what you prefer. Now I love fighting. Boxing is fundamentally essential when learning to fight. Yet 90% of all real fights end up on the ground. That's why I converted to BJJ. That's what's great about MMA. I would rather be good at many disciplines than great at one. Now there's fighters I know are great strikers, Which I'm not by any stretch. But if I take them down they are in trouble. The UFC has the potential of becoming an amazing organization. As long as it doesnt become corrupted like boxing.

[Sitting Down]

Same could be said about soccer. But everyone knows that football is a whole lot better than soccer. But then again it's what you prefer. Now I love fighting. Boxing is fundamentally essential when learning to fight. Yet 90% of all real fights end up on the ground. That's why I converted to BJJ. That's what's great about MMA. I would rather be good at many disciplines than great at one. Now there's fighters I know are great strikers, Which I'm not by any stretch. But if I take them down they are in trouble. The UFC has the potential of becoming an amazing organization. As long as it doesnt become corrupted like boxing.

Soccer...I used to hate it but then I started watching Madrid games and now I love it. Not mas much as Football but it's good.

Anyways UFS will NEVER even get to Tennis status.

[Silent-Assassin]

Soccer...I used to hate it but then I started watching Madrid games and now I love it. Not mas much as Football but it's good.

Anyways UFS will NEVER even get to Tennis status.

That's only because I would take girls in short skirts over sweaty dudes beating the crap out of each other. But honestly why would you watch it otherwise. But men playing tennis? It's almost like men playing softball professionally. Now the world cup is very exciting. But I'll take watching Anderson Silva kicking dudes in the face twice a year.

[// / yardo]

Soccer...I used to hate it but then I started watching Madrid games and now I love it. Not mas much as Football but it's good.

Anyways UFS will NEVER even get to Tennis status.

Funny you say that because Tennis has +30,000,000 (per month) keyword searches globally compared to MMA AND Boxing's shared 30,000,000.

Global Monthly Searches on Desktop Devices/Browsers:

Tennis
30,400,000

Boxing
11,100,000

UFC/MMA
18,580,000

Global Monthly Searches on Mobile Devices/Browsers:

Tennis
5,000,000

Boxing
2,740,000

UFC/MMA
4,850,000

[Sitting Down]

its crazy becuase its all over tv i see people with mma shirts on every where i go there are always aspiring mma fighters everywhere and i could instantly have a convo with someone about a random mma fight. boxing? not so much. people have no clue who i talk about half the time which makes me lose interet in it becuase im watching it by myself. i think its really odd that the numbers dont match up.

It is odd but think of it like this. In ratings NFL is 1#, MLB is 2# and the NBA is 3#. The NFL leads by a SIGNIFICANT margin. It's all about marketing. The NFL and MLB don't have to do nearly as much hyping or marketing as the NBA because their fanbase is already set in stone.

Would you believe it if I told you that Golf has better ratings than the WWE would you believe me? Yet Golf DOES have more viewers and has better ratings.

Tennis has better ratings than the WWE/UFC as well.

[Sitting Down]

Funny you say that because Tennis has +30,000,000 (per month) keyword searches globally compared to MMA AND Boxing's shared 22,000,000 (11,000,000 each).

Global Monthly Searches on Desktop Devices/Browsers:

Tennis
30,400,000

Boxing
11,100,000

UFC/MMA
18,580,000

Global Monthly Searches on Mobile Devices/Browsers:

Tennis
5,000,000

Boxing
2,740,000

UFC/MMA
4,850,000

And yet Manny and Floyd had matches last year that sold more than any fight in UFC history.