Comments on: TUF 9 Finale Peaks With 2.8 Million Viewers For Sanchez-Guida

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:01:23 +0000

Nice. It has become a general rule for me that I keep all UFC events on my DVR and watch them again either Wednesday or Thursday.

By: carls

carls — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:33:48 +0000

Although I think it will take a long long time, maybe even longer than 2020. I just realy sea MMA becoming monumentally huge. i look at it like this, were not all born to like kicking a ball or passing a ball or skating on ice or whatever were just not, but if their is one thing that 90% of the world likes, is to see a fight one way or another. Some coutires prefer sumo wrestling, some boxing, but over time espeacially if great fighters can develop from all over the world MMA will be accepted and honored behond our wildest dreams. Its just going to take some time to showcase it to the entire world.

By: marvelknight4

marvelknight4 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:52:14 +0000

you have a great point,

i feel that soccer fans are more loyal, i hate to say this, but MMA has lots of “fan” who are truly not “real” fans. There are a lot of people out there that just know the big names and don’t really understand and appreciate the sport of MMA. Soccer on the other hand, i would say that 99% of soccer fans would die for their teams and kill for their teams, soccer fans are truly die hard.

MMA fans are also die hard, but we are still growing in numbers in terms of those of us who are truly loyal fans and not just those people who only know Chuck Liddell because ESPN always talks about him.

The sport of MMA is growing and can overtake and problably already has overtaken a lot of sports, but Soccer, like i said before has the more loyal following and their fans are truly insane for their sport.

By: fr702

fr702 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:32:34 +0000

Good number’s forsure… I’m going to re watch the card tonight, people who didn’t see it are asking how good it was… Might as well show them..

By: jcohl

jcohl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:04:48 +0000

Excellent points, carls.
Hard to argue with any or all of them, especially number 10…

By: jcohl

jcohl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:03:34 +0000

As much as I hate to admit it, mk4, your’e probably right about the triangle choke that soccer has on the global sports world, although I do think that MMA could share that stage by crossing borders, boundries, and conventional mindsets about how a sport is promoted and marketed.
This might be a bit of devil’s advocate, as it relates to the world sports scene, but I will say a friend of mine recently traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil on business and mentioned that he saw as many BJJ, Vale Tudo, and MMA signs and paraphenalia as he did for soccer. I also know that in Thailand that Thai boxing is bigger than soccer, in Japan wrestling and martial arts of all types are bigger than soccer, in Canada hockey is bigger than soccer, in many Latin American countries baseball and boxing are bigger than soccer, and here in the US of course football, and most anything else, is bigger than soccer.
I mention this only to point out that maybe, just maybe, soccer isn’t as untouchable as it once was for the hearts and minds of the planet’s sports fans…

By: marvelknight4

marvelknight4 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:47:01 +0000

I’m a huge MMA fan, BUT i honeslty don’t think anything can ever even begin to challenge the popularity of Soccer worldwide, their fans are too die hard and passionate and Soccer is just waaaayyyy too huge to be overtaken, here in the USA, it can be believable that MMA can overtake Football, but not anytime soon, Football is also way too popular and a way of life for a great amount of people and worldwide Soccer is all that people care about, Soccer is too big.

By: carls

carls — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:21:38 +0000

I think for it to become the worlds biggest sport a few things are going to need to happen.
1.eventually a womens division in the UFC
2.a free show on once a week with relatively unknown fighters.
3.1 free fight night style show every month with fairly popular fighters
4.hopefully a great mix of cultures and nationalities fighting, more so than right now.
5.Although it is stale TUF is great for the UFC in drawing in new fans
6.a video game very year(which is to be expected)
7.a major t.v. deal
8.more mainstream coverage from radio stations and sports networks newspaper ect.
9.Dana Whit doesnt die.
10.no decisions ever again. jk (that was for you and you know who you are)

By: GarRule

GarRule — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:05:14 +0000

Diego + Guida = ratings! I would love to see a rematch someday!

ALSO…at work my computer is filtered from posting on the forums…I just wanted to say that I agree with all of the nice things that were said on the “top 5 reasons mmafrenzy is the best mma website on the net” forum.

I would also like an XL t-shirt.

Sweet.

By: jcohl

jcohl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:59:12 +0000

Numbers like this are why Dana White is believable [at least to me] when he says that MMA can be the worlds biggest sport by 2020…