Floyd Mayweather Goes Head to Head With UFC 113

[MindSpin]

Let's face it. Despite what Dana White or anybody else with a microphone has to say about boxing and mixed martial arts being able to peacefully coexist in the sporting world, the two forms of combat will never play nice with each other. There's too much history and ego in the way.

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Boxing, though, looks like it is shooting for a late-round comeback. Fanhouse breaks the news that a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley has been verbally agreed upon for May 1st. Yes, the same date as UFC 113. A card with the highly anticipated rematch for the UFC Light Heavyweight title between Lyoto Machida and Shogun Rua, and a grudge match that in itself could headline a Pay-per-view with Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans. Not to mention the rumored appearance of Kimbo Slice, who despite lacking actual fighting skills, seems to be kinda popular with fans.

Of course, this will not be the first time Mayweather and the UFC have gone head-to-head for PPV numbers. On September 19 of last year, UFC 103, a card headlined by a meaningless catchweight fight bewtween Rich Franklin and Vitor Belfort was thoroughly beat down by a bout between Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez to the tune of 1 million buys to 400,000 buys.

This is a very in your face move by Mayweather. The last time he was going up against a very weak UFC 103 card headlined by a catchweight bout between Vitor Belfort and Rich Franklin.

This time he's throwing down the gauntlet against one of the UFC's "come back" cards, featuring the Lightheavyweight Title Fight rematch between Machida and Shogun.

The brutal reality is that Floyd Mayweather sells PPV's like no one in MMA except Brock Lesnar. He should win this next head-to-head contest as well.

[mame09]

finally a boxing match worth buying and watching

[JaggyShortBuff]

Let's face it. Despite what Dana White or anybody else with a microphone has to say about boxing and mixed martial arts being able to peacefully coexist in the sporting world, the two forms of combat will never play nice with each other. There's too much history and ego in the way.

...

Boxing, though, looks like it is shooting for a late-round comeback. Fanhouse breaks the news that a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley has been verbally agreed upon for May 1st. Yes, the same date as UFC 113. A card with the highly anticipated rematch for the UFC Light Heavyweight title between Lyoto Machida and Shogun Rua, and a grudge match that in itself could headline a Pay-per-view with Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans. Not to mention the rumored appearance of Kimbo Slice, who despite lacking actual fighting skills, seems to be kinda popular with fans.

Of course, this will not be the first time Mayweather and the UFC have gone head-to-head for PPV numbers. On September 19 of last year, UFC 103, a card headlined by a meaningless catchweight fight bewtween Rich Franklin and Vitor Belfort was thoroughly beat down by a bout between Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez to the tune of 1 million buys to 400,000 buys.

This is a very in your face move by Mayweather. The last time he was going up against a very weak UFC 103 card headlined by a catchweight bout between Vitor Belfort and Rich Franklin.

This time he's throwing down the gauntlet against one of the UFC's "come back" cards, featuring the Lightheavyweight Title Fight rematch between Machida and Shogun.

The brutal reality is that Floyd Mayweather sells PPV's like no one in MMA except Brock Lesnar. He should win this next head-to-head contest as well.

Well lets really put this into perspective... How many ppv boxing matches are there every year compared to ppv MMA fights?? Also, how much ppv money do those ppv boxing matches bring in compared to ppv MMA fights every year??? Those are the realistic comparisons.

[UPINTHEMGUTS]

Curious to see if Floyd makes Shane undergo the same blood testing requirements he was asking of Pacman.

If he doesn't, then it's blantantly obiovus that Floyd never wanted any part of Pacman. He is seriously afraid of losing his first match and erasing his dominant legacy.

Shane will give him problems, though.

[Stapleton]

Curious to see if Floyd makes Shane undergo the same blood testing requirements he was asking of Pacman.

If he doesn't, then it's blantantly obiovus that Floyd never wanted any part of Pacman. He is seriously afraid of losing his first match and erasing his dominant legacy.

Shane will give him problems, though.

absolutely

[mame09]

Curious to see if Floyd makes Shane undergo the same blood testing requirements he was asking of Pacman.

If he doesn't, then it's blantantly obiovus that Floyd never wanted any part of Pacman. He is seriously afraid of losing his first match and erasing his dominant legacy.

Shane will give him problems, though.

shane agreed to any kind of testing floyd wanted

[marty31672]

is he mexican?

[*ChuteBoxe*]

Well lets really put this into perspective... How many ppv boxing matches are there every year compared to ppv MMA fights?? Also, how much ppv money do those ppv boxing matches bring in compared to ppv MMA fights every year??? Those are the realistic comparisons.

Dana white and Zuffa, aren't required to actually to release the exact PPV numbers like boxing is, since they (the UFC) are privately owned.  The CEO of golden boy made a publing challenge to Dana White for him to use the same firm that boxing has to use to crunch the numbers to which he declined.  All of the UFC's PPV buys are pretty known to be inflated and uneducated estimations.  There is know way to actually know until Dana puts his money where his mouth is and takes the bet.  I know the UFC is threatened by this fight because they actually are moving the date for this specific PPV to another date.

[big man]

Floyd had every right to question Pac. That man wasn't bulldozing opponents like that 5 years ago.

Oh yea.. Mayweather wins against Ufc.

[JaggyShortBuff]

Dana white and Zuffa, aren't required to actually to release the exact PPV numbers like boxing is, since they (the UFC) are privately owned.  The CEO of golden boy made a publing challenge to Dana White for him to use the same firm that boxing has to use to crunch the numbers to which he declined.  All of the UFC's PPV buys are pretty known to be inflated and uneducated estimations.  There is know way to actually know until Dana puts his money where his mouth is and takes the bet.  I know the UFC is threatened by this fight because they actually are moving the date for this specific PPV to another date.

Your missing the point. How many PPV fights does boxing have every year compared to the UFC? Everyone knows that a Mayweather fight can outsell UFC, but in the grand scheme of things the UFC is pulling in some serious amounts of money year to year. Plus, the UFC pays their fighters alot less compared to boxing.

[gracie bjj]

the ufc is still fairly new to the general public, everyone knows who mike tyson is but not everyone knows who machida or bj penn is. the ufc will eventually be the big dog on the block, maybe 5 or 7 more years though

[George Whorewell]

gracie long time no see bro-- welcome back.

[marty31672]

the ufc is still fairly new to the general public, everyone knows who mike tyson is but not everyone knows who machida or bj penn is. the ufc will eventually be the big dog on the block, maybe 5 or 7 more years though

most people no about the ufc but some of the fake fights in the past have kept people from watching...
they dont think its a real sport and they dont no just how good the athletes really are
plus with all the blood and curse words its not family friendly and most people want to bring they kids

[gracie bjj]

gracie long time no see bro-- welcome back.

thanks brother, ive always been here watching the boards but i just havent posted