Boxing's Bob Arum: "The Future Success of the UFC Is Limited"

Top Rank boxing promoter, Bob Arum had some choice words for the UFC. He says the UFC's growth will be limited because the demographic is limited to white males. He talked to Sergio Non about it:

"I don't want to demean UFC, because they've done a marvelous job of marketing. But it's the same audience over and over. It's white males, and they have never been able to expand their demographic."
"The Hispanics don't care anything for it. Most African-Americans don't watch it. Hey, this country is becoming more and more Hispanic, and it's growing African-American (in the) audience. So the future success of UFC is limited. The success of boxing is not, because boxing reaches those groups. The only demographic that boxing has lost is the white, young males, period."

This isn't the first time the 79-year-old boxing promoter criticized the sport. Back in 2009, he talked to Ariel Helwani and called MMA fans "a bunch of skinhead white guys", and said the sport looks like "guys rolling around like homosexuals on the ground".

Reported by: Bloody Elbow