These paydays are weak. Imagine what a guy as popular as Machida could make if he were a boxer. He could maybe have pulled 1 million.

@ostl1

Seriously? I LOVE boxing, and I've love MMA, I've been watching since UFC 1 (was only available at the video store back then, no ppv for it in most areas). Likely both sports just about equally I just don't understand how anyone can really say boxing is dead. Heavy weight boxing, just like heavy weight MMA, isn' always the purest or most exciting form of the sport. A lot of heavy guys in BOTH sports are slow, lumbering giants that, when compared to their lighter weight counterparts, seem somewhat unskilled. Most of the entertainment for me in both sports is with the lighter guys, Anderson Silva, GSP, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather etc. Though I have to admit 205 in UFC is a decent division also.

Point being that both sports have a deficiency in heavy weight talent and both sports have their Don Kings, Dana White is MMA's version. How can I say that about White? How about looking at how much money he and the Frettita bros rake in compared to their fighters (the guys that put themselves in harms way? Millions vs maybe 100k. And it's not just White, it's like that all across MMA. It was big news when Arlovksy fought Fedor for $1 million. Those are two heavy weights at the top of the game at the time and only Arlovsky broke 1mill, Fedor had to do with something like $300k or so. Sounds good until you look sport wide and see that the champions in MMA NEVER get those kinds of paydays. It looks even worse for MMA when you compare what boxers earn. Juan Manuel Marquez got $2million for fighting Floyd Mayweather, $2 million. Floyd got $10million. Pacquiao, Cotto, Mosley, Hatton, Hopkins, etc can usually pull a couple million easy. That's the fighters take home money, not the promoters money.

So until guys at the top of boxing like Pacquiao, Mosley, Mayweather have to start settling for a crap $200k payday, as the champion(that's what Machida got paid, a guy who was widely considered the next great thing in MMA and current UFC LH Champ) then you might be able to say boxing is dying. Right now, there is no comparison between what top guys in UFC and Boxing take home.

Heard of David Tua? Maybe not, he's a hevyweight boxer, he's decent but nothing to write home about. Tua just got $500,000 for boxing Shane Cameron, another guy people don't know. Heard of Cain Velasquez, Ben Rothwell, Chael Sonnen or Yushin Okami? I bet you have, all of those guys are recognizable names in MMA and they all just fought in UFC 104. Sadly for them, but great for Dana White, their combined take home totals just $192,000. That's pathetic, David Tua boxed a nobody and took home $500,000 ($300k more than Machida). Now tell me boxing is dead.

@gillygodfried

Exactly right man.

Or maybe you ass hats could just go ahead and recognize that Silva is rightfully in the top 3 pound for pound as he has been for months now and that Griffin is just average, as HE has been for months now.

I can't stand either Carano or Cyborg after their "failing" to make weight BS. Which one of them comes in with too fat of an ass on 8/15? My guess is both.

"As great as St. Pierre is, I have a very hard time seeing him moving up and beating Silva, who would have a huge reach advantage over St. Pierre and probably walks around at about 25 pounds heavier than St. Pierre. A battle with Silva would be a very, very tough fight for GSP."

Yeah, maybe then GSP will then know what it's like to be BJ Penn. Time for GSP to man up like Penn always does and go for it.

Sad that guys with only 5 or 6 fights in their ENTIRE CAREER get to be on a world wide list of top 10 in their weight class. Sad.

MDS, totally agree with you. Thought Rogan had maybe had too much to drink already.

Not to mention that the guy who does the post fight interview is clearly in he pocket of Dibs promoters. Any interviewer worth his salt would have been rockin Dib's for that, how pathetic. They guy just keeps talking like it didn't even happen.

Was hoping someone could comment on their hall probe itself. Considering that it's supposed to replace a gaussmeter AND hall probe combo (not sure how they do that but their web site claims to) it looks like it's bargain priced, compared to ... http://www.gaussmeter.co.uk/hall-probes.html They ain't cheap. No electrical engineers on here today that can enlighten us?