It's been touched on a bit here, but the big thing that I'll admit that UFC has over Boxing is that UFC has a middle class.

This is incredibly healthy for the sport, and you get better fights as a result, as middle class fighters, earning middle class wages, are willing to fight other, equally skilled middle class fighters.

Boxing has a very disparate distribution of money, with the .01% like Floyd and Pacquiao... and that's about it at the top. A few Al Haymon HBO fighters might clear some million dollar pay days, but the reality is that 99.9% of boxers can't quit their day job. This is unfortunate.

We must recognize, though, that UFC is not a sport. It's an organization (like the WBC, or WBA, or WBO, etc) that just so happens to have a near monopoly on the mixed martial arts arena. One corporation acts as promoter, sanctioning body, and match maker. It's been good for the sport so far, as it has a key entity that is interested in the long term health of the sport, rather than short term profits (like Bob Arum is with Pacquiao, etc).

Can Boxing have this, too? I'm not sure. And I'm also not sure if I want it. As much as we all complain and hate, boxing (when blatant corruption is avoided) obviously runs itself well enough to keep us entertained. And, although Pac-May isn't happening, and we never saw Khan-Bradley, we are getting plenty of spectacular fights and important match-ups. Why? Because boxing fans hold the real power.

Boxing fans subscribe to HBO, and in doing so, it's a vote of confidence saying "we trust you (HBO) to make the right fights." It's a more capitalist, natural construction as opposed to UFC, and while it can run amok, like it seems to be recently, it also can surprise us magnificently.