Hellllllllllllllllllllllll no.

You make some good points for once troy. I dont know bout Marquez being a "tune up
' fight. Thats one hell of a tune up fight. Probably the best fighters Floyd has face in his career. Wouldn't it be something that the only real competition Floyd faces in his career are the two fights after his retirement.Real fans of both sports will watch them both somehow anyways. I will.
As far as UFC mimicking boxing in how they run their business, its inevitable, the sports both feature two combatants and a ranking system. But I think where UFC really excels in learning from boxing is by not making their mistakes. It may seem tyrannical, but you fight who they tell you to, no ducking contenders like boxers constantly do. No padding your record against stiffs and journeyman. For all the hate on Brock Lesner's early title shot, he didnt get to fight a bunch of hacks to make him look good, his first 5 fights feature 3 fights against former champs and Heath Herring, who is a least respectable in MMA. Don't take this the wrong way I am not a Lesner fan, and I agree he shouldn't have been fighting Couture for the title in his 4th fight, but $HIT, he won. When will you see the next big thing in boxing have 3 of his first 5 fights against Hopkins, RJJ and Pavlik, never thats when. He will fight small club fighters with little to no experience and safe journeymen with a history of losing for a 20-0 record before ever stepping up to fight a top 10, even top 25 guy.
" The boxing guys are so stupid and small minded." Good job Nut and July, you finally got Dana Whites attention. Regardless of who brings in bigger numbers, this is a bad move for both parties business-wise. Neither Pay-per-view will hit its max possible numbers. One of them should go to free TV to put a real hurting on the competition.

Ah, people it is obvious that White is trying to downplay the Mayweather PPV so that people won't watch it. He has a PPV at the same time and is worried, maybe not about crossover fans but the fact that a boxing card kills the UFC PPV. He is a big proponent of the "boxing is dead" myth and a loss would shatter that. Bad mouthing boxing is his meal ticket and all you are falling right into his trap.

Maybe PBF can stop by any high school in america and get slammed on his back by 9th graders, repeatedly at will. And Marquez is a great fighter, yes he could have better drawing power, but in combination with PBF they should be just fine

Agent, "you all" are falling in his trap? By all of you do you mean poopoo, who is the only person in here who seems to agree with Dana White.

With a name's like Pretty Boy and Nutcracker, I wouldn't be making those comments.

Anyways you claim to have trained in grappling yourself, I guess like your boxing training that too was BS.

Marquez has no chance to win this decision, with the big money PBF/Pac fight looming in the horizon, the decision will go to PBF deserved or not. I predict a very close fight going either way by 1 or 2 rounds, yet PBF wins the decision 117-111, 116-112, 116-112, just to be safe and ensure the mega fight.

How many super fight does boxing show each year?...1 maybe 2?
How many boxing fighters can bring in ppv money?..1 maybe 2?
How many super fights does mma show each year?..every month.
Boxing isnt what it use to be. Also Dana needs to step back and let promoters and sponsers advertise mma just like in basketball or football (especially showing free fights on espn). Dana white is gonna run down mma just like don king did to boxing. Mma is far from being a top sport as long as you have one guy pulling all the strings. Mma could be so much bigger. And i dont think bestest is a word ^^ but it sounds funner to use.

Mayweather runs the risk of being upset in a gimme tune up fight, and then his big payday and the fight fans want to see with Pacquiao is flushed down the toilet. Yeah, Mayweather 'should' win his tune up fight, but is it worth the risk? Then again there are more cans and padded records even in high level boxing then there are in high level MMA, so the risk is calculated.
Also boxers make more money because the promoters don't handle any of the marketing or production costs, and they do nothing themselves in-house. Instead someone like HBO covers the costs, but at the same time they dictate the production, they put their own analysts in on commentary (no matter how old or clueless) and it becomes there show when it's time to broadcast.
Plus as mentioned, the undercard is going to completely suck and there's a good chance the main event won't deliver. It's not worth wasting money on Mayweather unless he's in a fight with Pacman.

ok here's what we've got for ufc 103so far, franca/t.griffin and then koshcheck/trigg. wake me up when its over please. that main event better be something big because the undercard is looking a little mediocre already. franca is inconsistant. koshcheck cant seem to get it done when it matters, and trigg... well trigg in all honesty is washed up. griffin is the only real attraction so far.... that mayweather/marquez fight is starting to look a little more appealing.

The dumbest thing about White's statement is the assumption that Mayweather can even fight Pacquiao right now if he wanted to. Ummm, doesn't ge realize that Arum has no intention of pitting PacMan in with Mayweather at this point right now. PacMan is likely fighting Cotto first, and then, perhaps Mayweather. So it's not even possible.

If Anderson is not jacking around, it should be a very quick KO, first round; just as with James Irvine

Hey you Mayweather fanatics your Idol is a hoax!!!! Watch all his a fight and you will see a coward running away from all his opponents. He still claims that he is still the Pound for Pound champ but nobody believes in him anymore. Incase the fight between Pacquiao-Mayweather pushes through even if it is a boring fight because all Mayweather will have to do is run and run and run away from the true PFP King, just leave a message for me and I will assure you guys that the Pacman will knock-out Mayweather.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in MMA!
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in MMA!
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in MMA!
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in MMA!
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in MMA!
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in MMA!

Floyd-JMM?i dont think they can make 400,00 buys on ppv.

Dana whites Schtick on putting down fighters and other Orginizations is getting old.I consider UFC the top of the totem pole but I find that when i watch strikeforce/wec, ect. i see more action and the fans are usually not booing they are cheering and yelling constantly. Maybe its the smaller ring that entices the guys to fight and not dance around the ring.AND Boxing &MMA are diff. Sports,there is not one mma fighter could go 12rounds w/Mayweather

I have a hard time listening to a guy named dana, and a failed "boxing guy" to boot. He needs to stick to all things ufc (or is it kfc?). dana, get a new name and stick to what you know, keep out of the boxing business, since you already proved that you couldn't make money out of it. And we all know how you make money from ufc-by NOT paying your fighters what they deserve.

UFC is already missing out on some great possible womens mma fights going on elsewhere ,another one Dana boggled

dana is right you always want to fight the best option first you idiot because what he was saying is that if one of them gets beat then the big fight wont be worth as much!

PBF would be smart to not go against the UFC.
But Dana shouldn't be talking about how Arum was going up against Don King back in the day, and that was bad for boxing.
Dana's hypocrite ass is doing the same thing by putting something up against every MMA competitor's show.
By not letting Strikeforce, Affliction, EliteXC, etc. shine when they have a big show, he's simply doing the same thing Arum and King did back in the day.
I like Dana, but that was veeerrryyy hypocritical.

Man Mayweather is over rated,Pacman is the true PFP king in boxing hands down. I would love to see Pacman in the UFC at 155,with his hand skill level he would be force ro be reckoned with. People need to realize that boxing has been around longer thats why it pays more. Give mma another 5 to 6 years ,and I guarantee the UFC will be paying as much if not more than boxing. Thats when you will probably see alot of the top name boxer cross over to mma,and I can not wait.