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MMA in the U.S. Is Far from Its Peak
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MMAcca
Heavyweight Champ
Career record: 944-552
Season: 20-4 (#104)
Location: North East of England
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By way of Leland Roling of MMA Analyst I found Dave Meltzer's list of the top 10 most viewed MMA fights in Japan -- all of which had more viewers than Kimbo/Thompson. Here's the list:
1. Akebono vs. Sapp (K-1 2003): 42.5 rating, 54 million viewers
2. Masato vs. Kid Yamamoto (K-1 2004): 31.5 rating
3. Lebanner vs. Sapp (K-1 2004): 28.6 rating
4. Ologun vs. Abidi (K-1 2004): 28.1 rating
5. Kaneko vs. Bennett (PRIDE 2005): 27.7 rating
6. Rulon Gardner vs. Yoshida (K-1 2004): 25.9 rating
7. Ologun vs. Akebono (K-1 2005): 25.8 rating
8. Yoshida vs. Ogawa (PRIDE 2005): 25.5 rating
9. Sakuraba vs. Akiyama (K-1 2006): 25.0 rating
10. Kid Yamamoto vs. Majoros (K-1 2006): 25.0 rating
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Post #1 6/5/08 1:02:30AM
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mrsmiley
Heavyweight Champ
Career record: 911-532
Season: 21-3 (#55)
Location: Middletown,OH
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MMA in Japan has always been bigger than it is in america.I'm mean a crowd of 20,000 was considered a bad turnout for a PRIDE event.That's a crazy amount of people!
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Post #2 6/5/08 7:01:56AM
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AchillesHeel
Heavyweight Champ
Career record: 594-345
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: In the cheap seats.
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Posted by mrsmiley
MMA in Japan has always been bigger than it is in america.I'm mean a crowd of 20,000 was considered a bad turnout for a PRIDE event.That's a crazy amount of people!
Wikipedia says that the Saitama Super Arena seats 22,500 for most sports events. By comparison, Madison Square Garden and the Staples Center seat less than 20,000 for basketball games.
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Post #3 6/5/08 11:02:28AM
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thatfedorsohotrightnow
banned
Career record: 96-75
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: Joe Rogan's couch rolling a fatty
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But fans that aren't casual American fans don't matter, didn't you hear? Thats why Zuffa paid 65 million for Pride. Just like Dream and Sengoku are no threat to UFC and will never have good fighters. They will go bankrupt with out selling PPV's in USA.
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Post #4 6/5/08 12:09:57PM
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