The older generation used to prefer boxing all day everyday and dismiss MMA. As you can see nowadays everyone and their mama is into MMA. It's actually a damn shame, but what can we do????
what about those who enjoy both? for e.g. boxing has a much richer history and more endurance since it goes 12 round and used to go 15 rounds and require more training and preperation but also UFC/MMA is more mixed and can be harder in its own way such as submissions etc but can finish earlier and is more likely to succeed in for e.g. a street fight...i dont really follow ufc/mma it is interesting to watch even though i love watching boxing why cant people enjoy watching both? oh because some little kid rivalry over which one is better or the competition?