2013 Off Topic Thread

[Luke]

A ghost town.

IWS has been a ghost town for a few days.

Bol, got ya .


reeped

[Luke]

UFC 158...the biggest PPV so far this year: $3.71 million gate, 900k buys

Canelo-Mayweather in Sept : Sold out , $18.6 million gate, projected 2.5 million PPV buys


UFC is dead

[Mr. IWS]

UFC 158...the biggest PPV so far this year: $3.71 million gate, 900k buys

Canelo-Mayweather in Sept : Sold out , $18.6 million gate, projected 2.5 million PPV buys


UFC is dead

The UFC is in a billion countries on 9 planets. Dana said so.

[Mr. IWS]

UFC 158...the biggest PPV so far this year: $3.71 million gate, 900k buys

Canelo-Mayweather in Sept : Sold out , $18.6 million gate, projected 2.5 million PPV buys


UFC is dead

Floyd gonna make like 50 mil, Anderson gonna make 1 mil. Seems legit.

[edman5555]

UFC 158...the biggest PPV so far this year: $3.71 million gate, 900k buys

Canelo-Mayweather in Sept : Sold out , $18.6 million gate, projected 2.5 million PPV buys


UFC is dead

There are a lot fewer boxing PPV's each year. UFC has greatly increased the volume of shows over the past two years. I bet if you took the peak UFC years when Brock was out there getting 1.5 million buys and added up total PPV sales for the year and compared it to total ppv buys for 2013 you would see close numbers. Then throw in the fact that the ufc is getting 90 million a year from FOX and expanding worldwide and I think it would be fair to say the UFC is on the up swing overall. I read that something like 50 million people tuned in for one UFC in brazil alone. The UFC is growing at a crazy rate IMO.

[Mr. IWS]

There are a lot fewer boxing PPV's each year. UFC has greatly increased the volume of shows over the past two years. I bet if you took the peak UFC years when Brock was out there getting 1.5 million buys and added up total PPV sales for the year and compared it to total ppv buys for 2013 you would see close numbers. Then throw in the fact that the ufc is getting 90 million a year from FOX and expanding worldwide and I think it would be fair to say the UFC is on the up swing overall. I read that something like 50 million people tuned in for one UFC in brazil alone. The UFC is growing at a crazy rate IMO.

Would be cool if they paid their fighters with some of that money.

[Luke]

There are a lot fewer boxing PPV's each year. UFC has greatly increased the volume of shows over the past two years. I bet if you took the peak UFC years when Brock was out there getting 1.5 million buys and added up total PPV sales for the year and compared it to total ppv buys for 2013 you would see close numbers. Then throw in the fact that the ufc is getting 90 million a year from FOX and expanding worldwide and I think it would be fair to say the UFC is on the up swing overall. I read that something like 50 million people tuned in for one UFC in brazil alone. The UFC is growing at a crazy rate IMO.

I agree that the UFC is expanding and doing great, but boxing still surpasses it . The UFC does 12-15 PPV's a year (I'm guessing) and boxing does close to the same, you just dont hear about the ones that dont include Mayweather or Manny. Fights like Chavez Jr-Martinez that no MMA fan even knew about still did 500k PPV sales, which is just as many as most UFC PPV's . If Manny, Floyd, Cotto, Marquez , Klit , Canelo,and Chavez Jr. fight twice a year thats almost as many PPVs alone as the UFC does in a year. The Mexican fans will buy almost any PPV in boxing. Then dont forget that boxing makes a lot of money on HBO and Showtime. Even if boxing put on fewer PPV's it takes 2-3 UFC PPV's and 4-6 gates to match one Manny or Mayweather fight. I'd lay money down if you added the top 10 UFC PPV's and gates and compared them against the top 10 boxing PPV's and gates , boxing makes more money at the end of this year.

Now if you want to talk about overall money the UFC probably does more thanks to merchandising , TUF, etc. Boxing does very little , if any ,merchandising.

My point is people just sound idiotic when they say "boxing is dead." (not saying you say that, edmann) That's like saying soccer is dead because you dont watch it . Any sport that the top two athletes make 40-50 million per fight is doing fine

[Luke]

Would be cool if they paid their fighters with some of that money.

It would be but its never going to change as long as they fight for the UFC. Like you said, Mayweather makes 50 million and Anderson makes a couple million per fight .....which is bs. UFC fighters need to leave the UFC and put on cards like boxing does.....on their own....if they ever want to make big money. GSP-Silva could easily make them 25 million a piece if it wasnt under the UFC banner

[Luke]

Inb4XsaysBoxingISdead




































edmann

[roundhouse tommy]

haha! I actually did do that. My homie was texing me like Chris Hansen was gonna be up in here.

He's a shit sniffer and mami don't like 'em.

[edman5555]

It would be but its never going to change as long as they fight for the UFC. Like you said, Mayweather makes 50 million and Anderson makes a couple million per fight .....which is bs. UFC fighters need to leave the UFC and put on cards like boxing does.....on their own....if they ever want to make big money. GSP-Silva could easily make them 25 million a piece if it wasnt under the UFC banner

Thats a good point about gsp and anderson. Im sure they cant leave the ufc due to contract stipulations.

[Mr. IWS]

He's a shit sniffer and mami don't like 'em.

[Luke]

^^^^^^^^^Ric Flair


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

[MMA_scientist]

Anyone ever use a versa-climber?

[edman5555]

Greg jackson uses it for his workouts.