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11-01-2009, 11:21 AM
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Boxing is dead update
Boxing is dead update: The heavyweight fight between Tomasz Adamek and Andrew Golota drew 13 million viewers, more than a quarter of the population of Poland where it aired and greater than the original 10 million estimate. It also was the most-searched for topic on Google Oct. 27, three days after the fight. Boxing is dead, man. Put a fork in that thing...
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11-01-2009, 11:26 AM
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Only 13 million?
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11-01-2009, 02:28 PM
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As if Poland counts. Let me guess, the people in attendance paid a dollar to go to the event and the people on watching on TV were watching ads about this exciting new invention called a "cell phone". Boxing is dying. Who cares what some 3rd world country thinks?
Boxing has got nothing without Floyd and his last fight was so boring nobody will tune in to see him again. Pacquaio/Cotto will do ok, maybe 650K PPV buys but after that... nothing.
Couture/Vera will get over 10 million viewers on free TV and Tito/Forrest will get probably 750-900 buys. With Lesnar and Tito on the same card it would have got maybe 1.2-1.5 million.
Boxing is dying, slowly. MMA is the future. Its evolution.
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11-01-2009, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake Fox
Only 13 million?
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Damn.
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11-01-2009, 02:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Fong
As if Poland counts. Let me guess, the people in attendance paid a dollar to go to the event and the people on watching on TV were watching ads about this exciting new invention called a "cell phone". Boxing is dying. Who cares what some 3rd world country thinks?
Boxing has got nothing without Floyd and his last fight was so boring nobody will tune in to see him again. Pacquaio/Cotto will do ok, maybe 650K PPV buys but after that... nothing.
Couture/Vera will get over 10 million viewers on free TV and Tito/Forrest will get probably 750-900 buys. With Lesnar and Tito on the same card it would have got maybe 1.2-1.5 million.
Boxing is dying, slowly. MMA is the future. Its evolution.
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Put the pipe down
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11-01-2009, 02:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Fong
As if Poland counts. Let me guess, the people in attendance paid a dollar to go to the event and the people on watching on TV were watching ads about this exciting new invention called a "cell phone". Boxing is dying. Who cares what some 3rd world country thinks?
Boxing has got nothing without Floyd and his last fight was so boring nobody will tune in to see him again. Pacquaio/Cotto will do ok, maybe 650K PPV buys but after that... nothing.
Couture/Vera will get over 10 million viewers on free TV and Tito/Forrest will get probably 750-900 buys. With Lesnar and Tito on the same card it would have got maybe 1.2-1.5 million.
Boxing is dying, slowly. MMA is the future. Its evolution.
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The qualifier now is "slowly". Allowing the moron to dance around and deflect criticism because he can always fall back on "slowly".
I like how boxing has nothing left after Floyd.
Because it was these same idiots who were claiming Floyd didn't have it to save it after DLH.
Fong, I really hope you were just kidding around. Because you look like blathering retard with that comment. Who knows, maybe you are that.
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11-01-2009, 03:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Fong
As if Poland counts. Let me guess, the people in attendance paid a dollar to go to the event and the people on watching on TV were watching ads about this exciting new invention called a "cell phone". Boxing is dying. Who cares what some 3rd world country thinks?
Boxing has got nothing without Floyd and his last fight was so boring nobody will tune in to see him again. Pacquaio/Cotto will do ok, maybe 650K PPV buys but after that... nothing.
Couture/Vera will get over 10 million viewers on free TV and Tito/Forrest will get probably 750-900 buys. With Lesnar and Tito on the same card it would have got maybe 1.2-1.5 million.
Boxing is dying, slowly. MMA is the future. Its evolution.
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You have to be trolling. Spike has never had 10 million viewers for any program. The record on Spike is Kimbo vs Nelson with just over 7 million. Couture has a large fan base but he is not getting 10 million viewers even for a free airing.
There are names being built in boxing right now. I do not know the exact number for Showtime's Super Six tournament but it has buzz. I hear more people talk about that than mma events atm. Though the two Americans in that tournament will have a rough go but one or both will emerge stars.
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11-01-2009, 03:30 PM
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Boxing is far from dying, fact is MMA's growth does not mean boxing shrinks, many people watch both.
When MMA started becoming popular in Japan, did K1 die out all of a sudden?
Internationally boxing is much more popular no question about it.
People are too stupid if they think this is the first time boxing & mma coexisted, ancient greeks practiced both.
Ancient Olympics
Dr. Fong is a troll.
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11-01-2009, 03:48 PM
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Why feed the troll?
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