Short version: UFC fighters are highly inactive compared with boxers. Basically boxing fans get 4 more fights a year with the P4P best boxers. Even though MMA fighters get paid way less, they also fight way less. It's why we have to watch bums fight every weekend instead of fighters we have heard of.
Long version: I did some number crunching and it shows how sad the UFC has become. This was a sport that originated with people having to fight 3 times in a night.
I looked at the top 15 UFC fighters P4P vs the top 15 boxers. For the boxers, I chose the Ring top 10, added in the next highest 3 from boxrec and then put in Wilder and Fury (because they should be up there and people on here have heard of them. Also one of them is the equal least active boxer, so it hurts my point rather than helps it).
Boxers have fought on average 13.3 times since the beginning of 2014. MMA fighters have fought on average 11.2 times. Now before some spastic goes crying about 'outliers', if you get rid of the three least active MMA fighters and boxers as well as the the three most active - and let's be clear, the 3 least active MMA fighters are the sport's 3 biggest stars, which is kind of the point - you get left with the exact same average for both sports.
Top 15 UFC Fighters - Fights Since 2014
Jones 7
Khabib 7
Cejudo 12
Miocic 11
Nunes 10
Cormier 12
Holloway 15
Ferguson 11
Usman 13
Adesanya 15
Shevchenko 11
Poirier 14
Whittaker 11
McGregor 9
Woodley 10
Top 15 boxers - Fights Since 2014
Canelo 12
Inoue 14
Lomachenko 14
Crawford 14
Spence 16
Golovkin 14
Estrada 13
Beterbiev 12
Pacquiao 9
Usyk 15
Smith 17
Berchelt 17
Wilder 13
Fury 9
Porter 10
Long version: I did some number crunching and it shows how sad the UFC has become. This was a sport that originated with people having to fight 3 times in a night.
I looked at the top 15 UFC fighters P4P vs the top 15 boxers. For the boxers, I chose the Ring top 10, added in the next highest 3 from boxrec and then put in Wilder and Fury (because they should be up there and people on here have heard of them. Also one of them is the equal least active boxer, so it hurts my point rather than helps it).
Boxers have fought on average 13.3 times since the beginning of 2014. MMA fighters have fought on average 11.2 times. Now before some spastic goes crying about 'outliers', if you get rid of the three least active MMA fighters and boxers as well as the the three most active - and let's be clear, the 3 least active MMA fighters are the sport's 3 biggest stars, which is kind of the point - you get left with the exact same average for both sports.
Top 15 UFC Fighters - Fights Since 2014
Jones 7
Khabib 7
Cejudo 12
Miocic 11
Nunes 10
Cormier 12
Holloway 15
Ferguson 11
Usman 13
Adesanya 15
Shevchenko 11
Poirier 14
Whittaker 11
McGregor 9
Woodley 10
Top 15 boxers - Fights Since 2014
Canelo 12
Inoue 14
Lomachenko 14
Crawford 14
Spence 16
Golovkin 14
Estrada 13
Beterbiev 12
Pacquiao 9
Usyk 15
Smith 17
Berchelt 17
Wilder 13
Fury 9
Porter 10