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Originally Posted by travrosty
mma isn't killing boxing, boxing declined on its own and its resurgence wont really depend on mma.
mma doesnt really have anything to do with it. I don't know any of my friends that are big boxing fans who have scrapped boxing altogether to watch mma instead.
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Yup. MMA hasn't stolen any of the boxing audience. If anything they've eaten into the WWE crowd who have grown out of that phase and are looking for something a bit more realistic, legitimate and competitive they can hang their hat on.
It's no coincidence that Dana White has patterned his business template to be more like the business and marketing monopoly of Vince McMahan and the WWE, and less like the competitive hagglings of King, Arum, Golden Boy, Kushner and others.
Dana leaves himself a much bigger piece of the pie, and not to be over-looked, a much smaller piece for his fighters then top boxers are used to, in comparison to the revenues being brought in.