GRRRREAT IDEA!!!

I love MMA but hate boxing.

This concludes with one person who would have ordered all affliction cards now ordering zero.

Good job guys (not!).

any way to give xposure to mma is a plus at this point.

i think the way to go is to make a number of smaller local competitions, ex. for every city, or gym against gym.

also, they should try harder to involve local businesses, ex. gyms, clothing, nutrients, etc.

also we could tie it with strength/ performance competition: lifting, arm-wrestling, pure grappling, kick-boxing. maybe a mini-olimpics?

KOuch, you forgot to mention De la hoya’s Not so #1 dance hit album.

Dana promised us a Mexico PPV in 2007. I would enjoy watching that live, instead of a UK PPV at 3pm or a free tape delay. We need a more pure Mexican bad-a$$ MMA fighter to come to America. Basically a Mexican born and bred GSP. And when he gets his title shot, hold it Mexico City. Also have Tito and Roger on the card wouldn’t hurt.

UFC 99 Mexico vs USA

What do you think? I’ll pay 45 pesos for that.

Older boxing fans are not going to change their opinions on MMA. I’ve gone round for round in debates and conversation online/offline every which way I could. Boxing has been around for over a hundred years and MMA is a barely developed fetus at this point. I feel something being missed with the PPV numbers is the amount of events. Sure, the UFC does not get all the big PPV buys in comparison to boxing but the UFC does deliver great fight cards every month….sometimes twice….and they have a great reality competition show that shows fighters working their way up in the promotion. Far better than The Contender in ratings. Boxing has one or two decent fights a year and people still do not know who Kelly Pavlik is. For those of you who don’t, he is the USA’s greatest boxer at the moment. Pacquio is without a doubt or argument a badass dude. De La Hoya on the other hand is trying to make his last bit of moey before retirement, moving onto f-ing Affliction over and attempting an assualt on MMA. Seriously, I am waiting to hear a dumb ass remark from De La Hoya that flips the F out of MMA fans. De La Hoya is a homo. Boring to watch and lady like. In my opinion, it is pathetic that this is the best the world of boxing could present and this fight says a WHOLE lot about the current state of boxing. I think I will be attending a SJ Sharks game that evening instead of sitting bored watcing two men dance. Nothing against Paq……De La Hoya is my problem. This match up is worse than Tito vs Ken 3 in my opinion. I don’t want to talk boxing though. Just making a comparison. I’d rather watch mediocre MMA fight cards every month than a hyped up boxing card that fails miserably and bores me once or twice a year.

As for ppv buys Yes, Floyd did great in those 2 fights. But last week inside MMA had the figures for the year in total PPV buy’s for MMA, wrestling, and boxing as a whole. MMA was way ahead with 3 mil total wrestling had 2 mil and boxing had a mil. So once again the market is in love with MMA, and adding 25 to 30K buys of possible boxing fans won’t mean much. affliction just went about this business the wrong way and continue to dig a hole they won’t get out of.

In regards to the hispanic market, boxing is something that is a cultural thing. You can’t just change that with a few PPV’s. if MMA really wants to reach the latino market they need a real latino fighter to market to them. No Roger Huerta will not sell, he’s to american to be embraced by mexico (just like Oscar). Hell I have a 17 year old kid that works for me 6 ft 155lbs. He’s mexican and has a ameture boxing record of 6 and 2. I’ve been trying to sell him on learning MMA at this local gym, but he’s not really into it cause he was raised to appreciate it. There is a reason Bisping is on every UK card and a reason they never go to canada without GSP or atleast a few canadian born fighters on the card.