Bugrimmar you don't have a handle on the salary issue at all. Boxers get paid more they are free lance more or less. They can negotiate their pay for each fight. UFC fighters are more like other professional athletes because they are under a specific contract. It part of the reason boxing is in decline. The fighters are essentially mercenaries. MMA title holders can't duck opponents like boxers can. Outside of Fedor in the Heavyweight division. The UFC has just about all of the top talent in each divison. Instead of a champion that may fight someone worthy once a year ala boxing. A MMA title holder fights basically once per quarter, barring injury of course.

Even when a boxer wants to fight the best fighters, their is usually an inordinate amount of red tape to get through. Or the opponent can just flat out duck him. Before his brother unretired Wladimir Klitschko was trying to unify the Heavy Title but between Bob Arum, Don King, and the sanctioning bodies that was made impossible.

No disrespect to Marquez, he's been a top fighter for some time now, but Pacquiao and Mayrunner..er Mayweather should be the next big fight in boxing.

Those figures are all across the net.

For 2006, the UFC earned more revenue for PPV then HBO Boxing. I'm not saying UFC is bigger then boxing, take a look at your original post that I quoted. You stated that one [boxing] fight is almost worth a years UFC's PPV's. That honestly doesn't matter though, if there isnt a string of other fights bringing in revenue.

Boxing rakes in far more due to other forms of revenue then UFC, that's how they can afford to pay their fighters more.

So as far as overall revenue is concerned, Boxing is far more profitable. I was just dispelling the notion that UFC can't compete with Boxing in terms of PPV.

Fedor Emelianenko is the best MMA fighter on the planet.

Mayrunner... jees.

Also they confirmed next year's game on spike

Boxing might still be bigger and has more history and probably most of all more big sponsors. UFC might eventually kick boxing, its more fun to watch and it sells a lot. With big shows and games around the sport its obvious that it is growing and I think it wont be long before the top UFC is going to earn 7 digit numbers.

Even in Holland UFC is getting increasingly popular although most of Europe is still loving K1 more since they dominate there.

i made a thread about it, all of you were ehh about it.

game will be huge.

kid boxing has one fighter that sales ppvs and rest are crap.

UFc ppvs are 3 weeks apart and pull in 500k time and time agian, while most boxing cards dont even get ppv thats how weak boxing has gotten.

In the US Boxing is weak mma is killing it.  On Spike now on showtime and soon enough mma will be back on prime time tv.  Boxing is gettign its ass kicked, one big card a year dones not out do all the UFCs success.

Both are niche markets, but with out DLH US boxing has lost its last big star. 

I was shocked it sold that much first week. I saw several kids around me buying it though.

I guess the positive reviews pushed people over the fence towards buying it. With Fight Night Round 4 coming, Smackdown sales may dwindle.

The reason it has sold so much is because it's more fun than playing a boxing game. Any Boxing game has the standard moves (jab, cross, hook, uppercut) and that's about it (for the most part). I think people have been waiting for a decent fighting game that depicts fights quite realistically (not that Tekken or Soul Caliber type fighting), that isn't boxing. I mean...in UFC you get to absolutely annihilate a player with devastating kicks and knees, and when they are down you get to pummel them some more.

D_Boy said it all, I think that, sport popularity aside, it's still a fighting game, with an added brand (which obviously helps)