Boxing vs. UFC/MMA

Whats up I am back again with another blog this time about the two main combat sports in the world, boxing and MMA/UFC, which is incredibly poignant because next saturday the UFC is putting on a PPV in Dallas while on the same night there will be a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez and although I think the UFC card Saturday is weak for recent standards and that the Mayweather fight will have more buys, I still strongly believe that the UFC and MMA is the fastest growing sport in the world and has surpassed boxing as the most popular fight sport in the world for a variety of reasons. First of all boxing relies on two active guys to have a big PPV Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao while the UFC has had 8 guys main event cards which have gone over a million buys and gets nearly 600,000 buys for almost all of its monthly pay per views.Next is the fact that the UFC is clearly the king of MMA and the champion in the UFC is in all cases but 1 the consensus best fighter at that wieght class, while in Boxing there are like 10 different organizations each with their own champion so the fans have hard time truly knowing who is the best. Also MMA is bigger then boxing and is one of the 2 most popular sports in countries such as Canada, Brazil, England, Japan, Russia and many more. To prove my point a UFC fighter, Georges St. Pierre, was named the most popular athlete in Canada, by the fans, over the likes of Sydney Crosby and Steve Nash while another UFC fighter, Michael Bisping, was named the most popular athlete in the UK by the fans over the likes of Wayne Rooney and David Beckham. Another fact to back up my point is that a UFC event earned the highest gate in Pennsylvania history over any Steelers, Phillies, Eagles, Penguins, or Sixers game. The Last fact that in the fight capital of the world, Las Vegas, UFC 100 holds the record for the fastest sell out in the cities history. So no matter which sport you think is bigger and more popular there is one thing we can agree with and that is the UFC and boxing are here to stay.