I think Its a Good Time to be Getting Into MMA

As I talked about in a previous post one of our big projects this year is working on fighters.com. I was pleased to see these numbers from the wrestling observer magazine covering the top PPV events of 2007 with the UFC being 9 of the top 15. Being there was 2 of the biggest boxing bouts in 5 years in 2007 (Hoya vs Mayweather, Mayweather vs Hatton) I think we can expect the MMA world to dominate PPV sporting events in 2008. Also now that Mayweather is training MMA it will being a lot more legitimacy to the sport. TOP 15 PPV AMERICAN BUY RATES, 2007* 1. Boxing: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather, May 5: 2,400,000 2. Boxing: Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton, Dec. 8: 850,000 3. WWE: Wrestlemania, April 1: 760,000 4. UFC: Chuck Liddell vs. Quinton Jackson, May 26: 675,000 5. UFC: Tim Sylvia vs. Randy Couture, March 3: 540,000 6. UFC: Couture vs. Gabriel Gonzaga, Aug. 24: 520,000 7. UFC: Liddell vs. Keith Jardine, Sept. 22: 475,000 8. UFC: Tito Ortiz vs. Rashad Evans, July 7: 425,000 9. UFC: Anderson Silva vs. Travis Lutter, Feb. 2: 400,000 10. UFC: Georges St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra, April 7: 400,000 11. Boxing: Manny Pacquiao vs. Marco Antonio Barrera, Oct. 6: 350,000 12. WWE: Summerslam, Aug. 26: 344,000 13. Boxing: Miguel Cotto vs. Shane Mosley, Nov. 10: 340,000 14. UFC: Anderson Silva vs. Rich Franklin, Oct. 20: 325,000 15. WWE: Royal Rumble, Jan. 28: 314,000 *Numbers not yet available for UFC 78 and 79, which are expected to crack the Top 15.