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Yeah okThe average person has never heard of any of these guys except Conor McGregor and possibly Tyson Fury.
Yeah okThe average person has never heard of any of these guys except Conor McGregor and possibly Tyson Fury.
Do you really think that the average person has heard of Gervonta Davis or Oleksandr Usyk?Yeah ok
Ryan Garcia is not anywhere near the level of Mayweather/pac lilolololRyan Garcia didn't become a star from boxing. He's social media famous like the Pauls. He used to run around with them (maybe still does idk). The others aren't really big stars. Canelo kind of is, but he's not on that Mayweather/Pac level. Ryan Garcia can be on that level now.
And UFC went too global to produce many American stars. Most cards are filled with stoic non English speakers.
Lol man what? I don't follow boxing at all I had no who Garcia was before this whole controversy. He's nowhere near Mcgregor.Everyone in MMA is still impressed by Holloway/Gaethje and Alex Perreira but Ryan Garcia/Devin Haney was the biggest fight of the year.
Ryan Garcia is now bigger than any star in MMA (except McGregor).
Aside from him, there's Tank Davis. Who's also bigger than any star in MMA.
And of course there's Tyson Fury and Usyk.
All these guys are McGregor/Khabib level stars.
Anthony Joshua either both guys on 17m IG followers and doing over 1m PPV buys.How was Canelo Alvarez not even mentioned in the original post??
By that metric, the average person hasn't heard of anybody because no one has 4+ billion followers. Other than maybe 1 or 2 people, there's no one in the world that 50% of the people have heard of.There are 8 billion people in the world. That means that about 0.15% of the population follows him on Instagram. And approximately 99.85% of the population does not. The average person has never heard of him.
Why does Ryan Garcia have a lot of Instagram followers? He's successful, good-looking, and he has Mexican heritage. Boxing is huge in Mexico.
UFC is big business, but it's still ultimately a niche sport, and their business strategy is promoting the UFC brand rather than individual fighters.
The boxing business model is different, with a bunch of rival promoters each trying to create breakout stars.
TLDR; The UFC doesn't give a shit about creating stars. The brand is what matters.
Boxing needs to make stars to generate interest. No one tunes in to watch a random boxing match. Lots of people watch UFC without particularly caring who is fighting.
The amount of people on this planet who can become great at MMA is much smaller than boxing.
Everyone and their mother can train to become a boxer. MMA takes years to learn. Perfect example is Jake Paul and all those Youtube boxers.
Not to mention a lot of these boxers with 30-0 records have a padded record with a bunch of bums.
I'm not ready to say boxing has more stars, but even if it does, we're just talking about a few people. As a sport, MMA is crushing boxing and has been for quite a while. No one even takes boxing seriously these days.
You seem to somehow be confusing "can be" with "is" lilololol.Ryan Garcia is not anywhere near the level of Mayweather/pac lilololol
Other than Garcia what active boxer has that many followers? Izzy has more IG followers than Gervonta Davis or Tyson Fury.Ryan Garcia has 11.6 million instagram followers.
only McGregor and Khabib in the UFC have more than that (and they're both basically retired).
I didn't bring up Instagram. The guy claiming that boxers are crossover stars did.By that metric, the average person hasn't heard of anybody because no one has 4+ billion followers. Other than maybe 1 or 2 people, there's no one in the world that 50% of the people have heard of.
Who are some people that you would say the average person has heard of?
Tom Cruise has 12.1 million followers, Tom Hanks has 9.5 mil, would you say the average person has heard of them?
Nice broI am a simple man. If Rajabzadeh is fighting, I tune in. Good to see him at LHW, even though I was hoping he could pull the upset against Rigters.
But but the Joe Rogan said on The ESPN they’re will be no new stars?mma is still a niche product compared to boxing.