Originally Posted by COYS:
“Just thought i'd start a thread about UFC, it will probably sink without a trace but what the hell.
I think it will wipe boxing off the map over the next decade.”
Originally Posted by Tenacious G:
“Never going to happen.”
The sport's popularity was noticed by the sports betting community as BodogLife.com, an online gambling site, stated in July 2007 that in 2007 UFC would surpass boxing for the first time in terms of betting revenues.
In fact, the UFC had
already broken the pay-per-view industry's all-time records for a single year of business, generating over $222,766,000 in revenue in 2006, surpassing both WWE and boxing.