Yet for the sake of arguement, if the World Series was on PPV, it would dwarf the amount of buys your UFC competitions have achieved.
I admit it is fashionable to bash baseball and has been for several years. It is also fashionable to bash UFC, as the above dismissals of UFC by talk show hosts prove.
When Barrack Obama throws out the first pitch at the All-Star Game and John McCain calls UFC "human cockfighting," the UFC has a long, long, long way to go before it can be called as popular as baseball.
Didn't a MMA "league" fold last year? Get back to me when the American or the National League fall. There's been only one franchise relocation in the last 38 years!
In fact, get back to me when MMA isn't primarily on PPV and baseball is, get back to me when Presidential candidates embrace MMA and bash baseball (to try and play up the haters of baseball and ignore MMA's mainstream stigma is laughable), and get back to me when talk show callers wanting to speak about MMA don't come off as yahoos.
Looking back at the history of American sports, 100 years ago boxing was struggling to be legalized while baseball's very legitimacy was in jeopardy with gambling scandals and the like.
The feeling of American sportswriters, however, was how anyone of taste would want to embrace a hot, dark, smoke filled gym watching two men, usually of lesser means, attempt to kill each other when they could spend the day in the sunshine and at a park watching a beautiful game of strategy and athleticism.
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
I admit it is fashionable to bash baseball and has been for several years. It is also fashionable to bash UFC, as the above dismissals of UFC by talk show hosts prove.
When Barrack Obama throws out the first pitch at the All-Star Game and John McCain calls UFC "human cockfighting," the UFC has a long, long, long way to go before it can be called as popular as baseball.
Didn't a MMA "league" fold last year? Get back to me when the American or the National League fall. There's been only one franchise relocation in the last 38 years!
In fact, get back to me when MMA isn't primarily on PPV and baseball is, get back to me when Presidential candidates embrace MMA and bash baseball (to try and play up the haters of baseball and ignore MMA's mainstream stigma is laughable), and get back to me when talk show callers wanting to speak about MMA don't come off as yahoos.
Looking back at the history of American sports, 100 years ago boxing was struggling to be legalized while baseball's very legitimacy was in jeopardy with gambling scandals and the like.
The feeling of American sportswriters, however, was how anyone of taste would want to embrace a hot, dark, smoke filled gym watching two men, usually of lesser means, attempt to kill each other when they could spend the day in the sunshine and at a park watching a beautiful game of strategy and athleticism.
The more things change, the more they stay the same!