Dana White Blasts Mayweather

[xtremebadass]

Thursday, September 10, 2009
by Jake Rossen (jrossen@sherdog.com)


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The headlining fight the weekend of September 19 isn’t in boxing, and it isn’t Vitor Belfort/Rich Franklin: it’s the hammering that’s going to result over whichever combat sport happens to outdraw the other.

UFC 103, headlined by Belfort’s return in Dallas, will be going nearly hour-for-hour against Floyd Mayweather/Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas. And if UFC President Dana White has it figured correctly, it’s already a no-contest.

“[Boxing fans] show up to see Floyd Mayweather not fight,†White told -- well, I’m not sure who he’s addressing in the video, exactly. “This guy will run around in circles….you’re going to pay $55, $60 to see ‘Dancing with the Stars’ with Mayweather again. On that same night, you can all tune in [to the UFC] to see five great fights for $10 less.â€

I shovel dirt on boxing’s decomposing body so often that now’s as good a time as any to get the Devil’s advocate horns out: for one, Mayweather/Marquez is $49.95, a $5 difference. It has the potential to go 12 rounds, or 36 minutes to Franklin/Belfort’s 15. Better, boxing has shown some surprising ingenuity by offering the fight in over 170 theaters across the country for a highly reasonable fifteen bucks.

But White’s comments about fans preferring to see Manny Pacquiao in action hold up to scrutiny: according to boxingscene.com, the Filipino fighter’s date with Miguel Cotto is nearly sold out for November 14, while plenty of seats at all price points are still available for the Mayweather comeback.

If White’s predictions are right, that’s good news: after next weekend’s box offices are tallied, Floyd may need to sit down.

Dana White lays THAT SHIT DOWN!!!

Here's a video on the same subject, kind of gave me an LOL

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[Klide]

Thursday, September 10, 2009
by Jake Rossen (jrossen@sherdog.com)


19591
The headlining fight the weekend of September 19 isn’t in boxing, and it isn’t Vitor Belfort/Rich Franklin: it’s the hammering that’s going to result over whichever combat sport happens to outdraw the other.

UFC 103, headlined by Belfort’s return in Dallas, will be going nearly hour-for-hour against Floyd Mayweather/Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas. And if UFC President Dana White has it figured correctly, it’s already a no-contest.

“[Boxing fans] show up to see Floyd Mayweather not fight,†White told -- well, I’m not sure who he’s addressing in the video, exactly. “This guy will run around in circles….you’re going to pay $55, $60 to see ‘Dancing with the Stars’ with Mayweather again. On that same night, you can all tune in [to the UFC] to see five great fights for $10 less.â€

I shovel dirt on boxing’s decomposing body so often that now’s as good a time as any to get the Devil’s advocate horns out: for one, Mayweather/Marquez is $49.95, a $5 difference. It has the potential to go 12 rounds, or 36 minutes to Franklin/Belfort’s 15. Better, boxing has shown some surprising ingenuity by offering the fight in over 170 theaters across the country for a highly reasonable fifteen bucks.

But White’s comments about fans preferring to see Manny Pacquiao in action hold up to scrutiny: according to boxingscene.com, the Filipino fighter’s date with Miguel Cotto is nearly sold out for November 14, while plenty of seats at all price points are still available for the Mayweather comeback.

If White’s predictions are right, that’s good news: after next weekend’s box offices are tallied, Floyd may need to sit down.

OHHH yeah Represent.... White is correct id rather watch a card that has great fights all over it instead of just watching for the main event..

 

[xtremebadass]

Dana White is an extremely smart business and continues to see the bigger picture, the dude is my idol

 

[Kaedon]

maybe some people think dancing is more entertaining than 6 minutes of grappling and 10 seconds of action.

 

[J]

...Don't talk shit about Mayweather.

 

[noumenon]

Either way your paying to see two guys back each other into the ropes continually or two guys fidget on the ground.

 

[NinoBrown]

Mayweather's charisma > UFC fighters charisma.

 

[Klide]

I want mayweather to win this. I hate Marquez he can't accept that he lost to Pacquiao.

 

[Dan Contogiannis]

Hahaha, everything Dana White says is true! Although the boxing event will most likely get higher ratings though.

 

[EnterTamed]

oh and we see how well mma fighters(former ufc champs) do against 48 year old boxers in mma fights:/ dana can shut the hell up, the guy has a better KO percentage than Ali did and didnt dana use to box? so whats he bitching about? that mayweather has the ppv record becuase well he's actually a good fighter(yes most of the views come into fact with de la hoya being his opponent)? and if mayweather fought in the ufc he would have a HUGE advantage over anyone in the stand up game and opponents would have to resort to taking him on the ground and wrestling which would be just as entertaining. mayweather uses bigger gloves to get his knockouts with too with the opponent only having to worry about punches.

sorry for mayweather trying to carry a sport on his back, the only reason he is even coming back to boxing is becuase he has trouble with the IRS, and did dana white represent his country in the olympics and win a bronze medal? no he didn't , and theres not 1 mma fight that would top a ppv of pacman/mayweather in buys. and lets not forget that marquez is no scab, he rallied back after a couple knockdowns to get a draw with pacquiao

 

[xtremebadass]

Despite what all you guys think up there, I am sticking with Dana White, Mayweather sucks, he is all about entertaining. Most time, he cares about entertaining more than the boxing aspect. I haven't seen everyone of the guy's fights, but I didn't really see anything too special. I am not trying to ruffle anyone's feathers here, I am just speaking my mind.

 

[J]

Mayweather is the Lesnar of Boxing lmao.

 

[phantomgerald]

oh and we see how well mma fighters(former ufc champs) do against 48 year old boxers in mma fights:/ dana can shut the hell up, the guy has a better KO percentage than Ali did and didnt dana use to box? so whats he bitching about? that mayweather has the ppv record becuase well he's actually a good fighter(yes most of the views come into fact with de la hoya being his opponent)? and if mayweather fought in the ufc he would have a HUGE advantage over anyone in the stand up game and opponents would have to resort to taking him on the ground and wrestling which would be just as entertaining. mayweather uses bigger gloves to get his knockouts with too with the opponent only having to worry about punches.

sorry for mayweather trying to carry a sport on his back, the only reason he is even coming back to boxing is becuase he has trouble with the IRS, and did dana white represent his country in the olympics and win a bronze medal? no he didn't , and theres not 1 mma fight that would top a ppv of pacman/mayweather in buys. and lets not forget that marquez is no scab, he rallied back after a couple knockdowns to get a draw with pacquiao

Mayweather/Pacman would obviously draw alot since it's the biggest fight in boxing today, and there's more of a Worldwide audience for this fight. That being said, I think that if UFC were to put all their eggs into the hat and put as great a card as they can, sort of like UFC100 and throw in another high-profile match, I'm sure that they can be almost as close and even beat boxing in PPV buys in America.

 

[EnterTamed]

^ true, but what if boxing put together their biggest card? pac/mayweather, chavez jr/ de la hoya, klitschko/klitschko, hatton/judah, anything like that besides just 1 fight card for boxing.

but saying theres a lot more worldwide audience for the fight is a bit ridiculous becuase MMA is huge in asian countries and that equals out to the same amount, if you include south america for mma as well

 

[Klide]

Dana White lays THAT SHIT DOWN!!!

Here's a video on the same subject, kind of gave me an LOL

[yt]sVUWLl_AJfs[/yt]

ROFL on the vid