How am I being bias when I say boxing is doing just fine right now? Look at the PPV sales this year, last year, the year prior, etc. Boxing still is putting up big time numbers, despite the fact of MMA's growing popularity. And that's what people need to understand - boxing & mma can and will co-exist. It doesn't matter if MMA sells more PPV's at the end of the year. That's like saying Golf is dead because the NBA has so much higher ratings!
You can't tell me MMA isn't overshadowing boxing right now.
I never said it isn't. But please see my statement above. MMA's rising popularity isn't hurting boxing. Sure, you see more mainstream networks covering MMA now but boxing is still around. I mean Mayweather vs Marquez just a few weeks ago did over 1 million PPV buys and that was on the same night as a major UFC even which did a fraction of those numbers. Pacquiao vs Cotto is expected to do around the same numbers. So again, it's not like the two sports cant & wont co-exist.
If you went up to someone on the street and asked them to name 3 MMA fighters, most could.
Well wait a second, that depends entirely on the demographic. Like someone else mentioned, you ask 10 Mexicans this question, chances are they'll know more boxers than MMA fighters. You ask 10 white males under the age of 25, they'll be all over the MMA fighters for sure & probably wont have a clue about the boxers. Etc.
There have been boxing promoters and experts who have flat out said "boxing is dead".
And there have also been boxing promoters that went into MMA and failed miserably. I mean really, UFC is one of the only organizations that is successful.