Floyd Mayweather Trashes MMA on CBS Sportsline (video)

An interesting statistics project – if I were a student now I would totally run with this as a class project – would be to poll people at random to name as many boxers currently fighting and name as many MMA / UFC fighters they can think of. It would be interesting to see how many of each people can name off the top of their heads and tally up the amount of times each fighters name is mentioned. You could then see what people really are paying attention to. My guess is that the curve for boxing would be very, very steep; meaning most people would name the same few boxers and couldn’t think of any more; whereas they would like mention more MMA fighers and the curve would be more rounded. The point being that boxing does a terrible job promoting fighers/people/personalities outside of the usual suspects. This is why there are only a few good boxing matches a year. MMA promotes and builds more fighters profiles which allows them to run compelling events more frequently.

Juan Manuel Marquez is not charismatic outside of the ring. He’s not flashy, his English isn’t so great.

Umm, reality check. Most of the people buying this PPV because of Marquez, not Mayweather. Believe it! He’s not flashy but damn do Mexicans and Mexican-Americans support their boxers. Especially one of JMM’s calibur. Dude is bascially the only guy who beat Pacman. I’d be watching this over UFC 103 if I wasn’t attending it for sure. But since I know UFC wont be coming anyweher near me for a while I have to go. :) JMM is one of my favs. He deserves some huge paydays and glory. I hope he shuts that Mouth Mayweather, I can’t stand his ass.

most mexican boxing fans will tune in to this fight. it will do as much, if not more ppv than Hatton-Mayweather here in the states. Mayweather has disrespected mexicans and our culture way too many times, and i would love to see his face get smashed in by JMM.

ufc 103 should not even be on ppv… it should be free on spike

All the grey hairs and people who like pretend fighting will go boxing, real fight fans will watch the UFC, the UFC dosn’t really care about boxing, they sell their product, let boxing sell their running around in circles and hugging product.

Money Mayweather is a promotional machine though. He’s the guest host of Monday Night Raw next week!

I’ll watch the UFC live, but I love Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The Mayweather fight will outsell the UFC by a decent margin, but it won’t do half the buys 100 did and Money better be thanking his lucky stars that Zuffa didn’t get ahold of Fedro in which case he would have been royally fucked.

This isn’t a great comparison. The real question would be how would a guy like Lesnar draw against Pacman.
If a guy like Mayweather who is arguably the most talented fighter in the sport and potentially its #3 draw can’t beat this card then it will prove that boxing has fallen way behind the UFC in terms of PPV clout.

If it means anything, for the first time in probably ever a huge boxing fight is getting shown on delay down here (Australia) so that they can show UFC 103 live.

I’m not sure if thats because they think the UFC is surpassing boxing or simply because they fucked us around by putting UFC 91 on delay (ANDRE RIEU) and UFC 100 (Some boxing fight…Darchynian i think which is understandableish).

Wasn’t this fight originally supposed to go head to head with UFC 100?

Then we will have to deal with the Mayweathers and Lampley’s of boxing acting like the comparison of 1 stacked boxing card (or at least that is what I am taking from the comments here, I have no idea) verse 1 average UFC card shows how much better boxing is, etc….all while the ignore the fact that on a year long basis the UFC destroy’s boxing by putting on regular, strong cards that accumulate much much more and are continously growing.

Boxing will win this little comparison and then pat itself on the back and return to ignoring what it is doing wrong because “it showed MMA who is boss!”…