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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
The TFP is a very north american biased community in terms of its membership. A thread about baseball (a sport taken seriously only in North America) has far more contributions than threads about cricket (which is huge in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England, Australia, etc)
So first of all the perceived increasing popularity of MMA really is in fact only phenomona in the US and Canada.
I appreciate that these are the countries most of you are from - but please try to understand that there is a wider world. MMA is unknown in the UK for example. I guarantee that not 1 in a 1000 people in the UK would have a clue who Randy Coutre is. Probably 75 out of 100 would know who Ricky Hatton was.
Boxing is a global sport, huge in South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Australasia. MMA is really only popular in Eastern Europe, the far eastm and Northern America.
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MMA is global too. Forget North America.
UFC 99 - Cologne, German. Attendance 12,854
UFC 95 - The O2 Arena, London, England. Attendance 13,268
UFC 93 - The O2, Dublin, Ireland. Attendance 9,369
It's also huge in as you said, eastern europe and much of asia. Also don't forget South America.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Let me make it very clear, in a factual way that I think no one cam argue with, the difference between the popularity of boxing and MMA. From Google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 50,500,000 for "boxing" [definition]. (0.85 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 7,500,000 for "mixed martial arts". (0.39 seconds)
There you go. Please go and try for yourself. Absolutely crystal clear, undisputed.
So when people talk about MMA "burying" boxing... I think they should try and remember that the whole world is not two nations of the American contient (by the way, even in America boxing is more popular than MMA... Im not interested in pay for view figures which only the wealthy middle class can afford - why dont you instead ask how ma boxing gyms there are compared to how many MMA training schools...)
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First off, as stated before, how many of those "boxing" results are "kick boxing"? I'd bet a fair number
In fact
Results 1 - 10 of about 12,900,000 for kick boxing. (0.30 seconds)
so lets strike that boxing number down a to 37, 600, 000 shall we.
and when I googled mma I got
Results 1 - 10 of about 27,700,000 for mma.
Again, how many of those boxing results are boxing day?
Results 1 - 10 of about 17,300,000 for boxing day. (0.21 seconds)
Uh oh Boxing doesn't look so good now does it?
Also as far as "affording" PPV if it's only the wealthy middle class that can afford it doesn't that go against your arguement that MMA only appeals to college frat boys?