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June Wrasslin' |OT| Break Out Naan And Do The Needful, It's Time For MaharaJEEEEEZUSS
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sf2fanatic
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FlammableD
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oh my
Sweeney Tom
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WWE needed Mauro more than he ever needed them
Yuuuuuup
Good Lord, he's going all out.
sf2fanatic
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But according to this thread, Omega is a draw and the PPV's are cheap/affordable
Sweeney Tom
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Wrestling's behind boxing and people are finally realizing it
The Network can't meet expectations
New Japan World can't meet expectations
Floyd fights? Always break records
Wrestling is niche. Boxing isn't.
Sweeney Tom
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And yet this and the MMA thread never fail to talk about "boxing's dead". It's been a trend I've seen for years. Wonder how that argument will continue when the best mixed martial artist on the planet retires after having one boxing match that pays him more than the largest MMA company ever paid all its champs combined
MMA and wrestling fans are both idiots.
Boxing is as niche as Wrestling, actually it way nicher .
Lol what? The sheer number of PPV buys for big boxing fights would tell you otherwise I'd think? Wrestling doesn't attract the mass audience anywhere on that level.
I don't know actual numbers though.
SallyIsNow
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How can any of you take Heroman serious after this? I haven't for a while now.
Kenny Omega sold out a 11500+ Arena.
I think people gravitate towards boxing because A) it has a long history, B) it's real, and it's stories are real, C) it's simple. Ain't nothin' more simple than two guys punching each other for a few rounds. Wrestling is fake, we know it and love it, many people can't wrap their heads around watching a fake sport with fake stories. MMA can be real, but it is much more complicated than boxing and hasn't produced as many house hold names that people can universally rally behind. Both have a shaky and carny history.
Tell me one big fight out of the Floyd V Pacquiao fight, that you have heard of?
I'm not a boxing fan. I don't know.
I don't follow sports in general that closely anymore.
Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko.
Put 90,000 in Wembley Stadium and broke the UK PPV record held by Floyd/Pacquiao
BewareTheBatsie
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just kenny?
Kenny wrestled himself.
giancarlo123x
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That makes me extremely happy to hear, fuck wwe for doing what they did to him.
Sweeney Tom
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Mayweather/De La Hoya, in 2002, got 2.4 mil PPV buys and generated 136 million dollars revenue
Both records nothing in sports ever came close to beating until Mayweather/Pacquiao beat it a decade later
The man has been responsible for over 19.5 million PPV purchases and $1.3 billion revenue in his lifetime, and that's not counting the fight coming up. Also records nobody else in any sport, and no other sport, has ever come close to achieving
GAF =/= the world
Sweeney Tom
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Pretty much, but sometimes it's fun to pretend it's worth the discussion. Everyone should feel welcome at the table every now and then
Lol yeah NeoGAF, the site specifically for niche fandom, is the perfect thing to use for measuring world wide popularity.
Jesus Heroman WTF are you doing
Almost every popular sport has at least a thriving community thread, can't say the same about boxing.
sf2fanatic
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Did he get paid good?
Lol, they ended 2 / 3 falls with a double countout? 50 / 50 at it's finest.
Sweeney Tom
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"Niche 3:16 swears any day now Kenny Omega will hold a world title!"
Gonna sound weird in 2030 when it still hasn't happened and also he's 46 and retired
SallyIsNow
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How can any of you take Sweeney Tom seriously after this? I haven't for a while now.
6.25* postlive footage of Heroman
Yea I kinda agree. I'd see random fights or events pop up on ESPN and even the stuff advertised on Showtime and go "meh." Then there's next level big name fights that come up and people are talking about it on FB and people on my twitter timeline are talking about it.
Note that I'm a fairly casual watcher of boxing sooo.
Also there's no question that boxing brings in more money than wrestling ever could.
Sweeney Tom
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Klitschko/Joshua this year had higher attendance in Wembley than any boxing and wrestling event in the country in almost a century, in addition to what you said earlier about the PPV buys (which exceeded by more than double how many have the Network there)
Boxing has been given a place in the American and therefore, Western cultural pantheon. It's had so many incredible pieces of media made about it, a rich history of formalized coverage, era defining moments.
It's clearly not as big as it once was, but cache like that does not evaporate because some guys with awful tattoos thought that Inoki was on to something. It endures because your average man in the street understands the drama and emotion involved in a big boxing fight.
It's clearly not as big as it once was, but cache like that does not evaporate because some guys with awful tattoos thought that Inoki was on to something. It endures because your average man in the street understands the drama and emotion involved in a big boxing fight.
Except Tyson actually got wrestling and did it right.
Remember when Vince had to bring in a boxer to fight at Wrestlemania to try and get boxing PPV money?
I will admit, Floyd got wrestling right too, but still....he was a bit more carny than Tyson.
BewareTheBatsie
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Floyd vs Big Show was carny as fuck and was great.